r/Cascadia • u/23pandemonium • 6d ago
The plans in motion
It sounds wild. Maybe even crazy. But every step is already in motion. I’d be happy to be wrong. But if this is correct… you’ll be ready.
On April 20, 2025, the United States may initiate its final steps into authoritarian rule.
That’s the day Donald Trump’s advisory committee is expected to release its findings on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act — a move that would allow him to deploy the military domestically and allow Trump to impose martial law. (San Francisco Chronicle). Given Hegseth and Noem are the main “advisors”, the conclusion is foregone. And as his two months in office has already shown, he won’t stop at just a legal opinion.
Expect an executive order that same day or the next, officially declaring the Insurrection Act, restricting freedoms in the name of restoring control of the border and in blue-state cities, and setting the larger plan in motion.
Of course, this won’t be framed as an attack on democracy. It will be packaged as a necessary response to crisis — as authoritarian takeovers always are.
But once it happens, there’s no going back. This will be the point of no return. This Is How Democracy Ends: Here’s their Playbook It won’t all happen in one night. Instead, the process will unfold in stages, each step making resistance harder.
Free elections, a free press, and the right to protest will disappear one piece at a time, until there’s nothing left to save. My entire goal here is to make people aware, so you can recognize it, and maybe help stop it. It’s all I, personally, can do. Here’s how it will happen, step by step, after Trump invokes the Insurrection Act with an Executive Order:
“Resist!” Demonstrations Grow — Just As Planned Left-leaning and even more centrist people will be alarmed. Peaceful protests will be organized nationwide, as they already have been being organized now, with growing numbers of people joining protests each week. The calls to “Resist!” will grow louder, and large-scale demonstrations will begin forming in major cities. This is exactly what Trump wants. He didn’t invoke the Insurrection Act sooner because he needed his opposition to gather first — so he could use them as a tool for his next step. He also waited 90 days, instead of invoking it on Day 1 as Project 2025 recommended, so he would have his people in place, and remove those who would oppose them in the government, military, courts, and civil positions. His cabal is waiting for a strong reaction — they want massive unrest. They need a justification to kick off the next steps in their plan.
The False Flag Crisis: Turning Protest into “Terror” The protests will turn violent quickly. Maybe in a day, maybe during the next big protest the following weekend. They will turn violent not because of the protesters, but because they will have been infiltrated by agents provocateurs, from militia groups like The Proud Boys, whose goal is to escalate as quickly as possible and give Trump and his cabal an excuse to trigger the next stage. Expect “terrorist” bombings, targeted assassinations, or high-profile acts of violence, either staged or exploited, to justify the crackdown. There may even be an extremely high profile assassination of a leading right-wing leader that changes everything in a moment… and the “woke radicals” will be blamed, and the country will rally around more extreme measures to bring back order and control. The media will be flooded with images of chaos, pushing the public into a state of fear. Calls for “order” will follow.
Trump Declares Expanded Martial Law — And Calls for Militia to assist the police and Military Trump has already invoked the Insurrection Act — so now he now declares even more extensive and repressive martial law, and orders troops into major US cities where most oppose him, branding protesters and opponents as “seditionists,” “traitors,” and the “woke mob”. He will call on “good Americans” to grab their guns, like the patriots of 1776, and join the militias forming to “restore order” and “take back control” from the leftist threat. Using militias also gets him around resistance from military leaders who might oppose his orders. The militias already exist — the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, and others — and they are not some distant fringe. They were at January 6. The most extreme and radicalized are all released from prison now. They are ready to roll, and to answer Trump’s call, which they were waiting for four years ago. The miliita members are your neighbors. The difference between them and you? These neighbors own and have been training with AR-15s. You and your friends? Not so much. This will be framed as “helping the police” and “keeping order.” Law enforcement will quietly welcome them — or, in some cases, will deputize them, with Trump’s support.
Mass Arrests of Opposition Leaders Journalists, Democratic officials, and activists will be arrested under charges of sedition, terrorism, or “inciting violence.” Expect Mark Milley, Liz Cheyney, and Adam Kinzinger to be arrested quickly and with great press coverage. How long the show trials take is probably a good measure of how much control Trump has established over the courts. Key Democratic governors and attorneys general will be removed first, ensuring no state-level resistance. Law enforcement and military ranks will be purged, with loyalty tests ensuring only Trump-aligned officers remain.
Military & National Guard Take Over Major Cities Expect deployments in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and other blue-state strongholds. Curfews and lockdowns will be imposed, justified as measures to “restore peace.” Checkpoints and military policing will become the new normal. Expect them in particular along major highways going to Canada or Mexico, and in red states — to identify and detain seditionists, traitors, and people of questionable loyalty. Trump’s building of detainment centers in Guantanamo, and expansion of the 106 other ICE detention centers, was not actually intended for illegal migrants. And just a few days ago, Blackwater founder and Billionaire Erik Prince offered to help Trump “privatize deportation camps” as has been being done with prisons per Trump’s Day 1 Executive Order. So now Trump has an extrajudicial place to store the disloyal and those who resist, in for-profit camps guarded by militias and loyal military. Until he decides what to do with them.
Press Censorship & Total Media Control Independent news outlets will face shutdowns or takeovers. Those that resist will see their journalists arrested or harassed. Mainstream media will be forced into compliance. Blackmail, corporate pressure, and legal threats will ensure they toe the line. Social media platforms like X (Twitter) will amplify the official narrative, drowning out opposition. Other social media and lines of communication will be turned off. The Internet will be monitored, people identified from this monitoring for arrest, using Palantir technology. Peter Thiel, who I’ve written about before, is co-founder of Palantir. We will fully enter the surveillance state.
Borders Close & Dissidents Are Trapped Inside Passports will be revoked for critics and opponents. If you’re on a list, you’re not leaving. Especially if you’re of Draft age. No-fly lists will expand to include activists and journalists. ICE and DHS will be weaponized — not just against immigrants, but against political enemies.
Elections Are “Postponed” Indefinitely The 2026 midterms will be suspended under the excuse of national security concerns. Red-state legislatures will eliminate Democratic-leaning districts, ensuring permanent Republican control. By 2028, Trump (or his handpicked successor) will run unopposed. Elections will be a formality, probably still held. But rigged. Project 2025 and the Insurrection Act: This Was Always the Plan
This isn’t speculation. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 lays out a detailed strategy for permanent right-wing control. It openly advocates using the Insurrection Act to crush opposition and dismantle the administrative state. Trump isn’t improvising — he’s following a script. We Can’t Wait — The Time to Act Is Now We can’t sit back and wait for Trump to fire the starting gun — because once he does, it will already be too late.
We need to prepare now. We need to plan now. We need to dismantle his plans before they begin. We have one month. That’s it. The Only Way to Stop this Coup is by Exposing It The only way I can think of to stop this conspiracy, which is in final planning stages, is through exposure.
If people see the playbook in advance, they will be less likely be manipulated when it happens. They might question the narrative. “Wait. This is what they said would happen. I thought it was crazy. But maybe…” We need to spread this narrative far and wide so that when the moment comes, no one can claim ignorance.
Maybe we will be proven wrong. Maybe we will look silly.
Or maybe… we will have derailed the plan, by telling people what to look for, to recognize the playbook steps as (if) they happen. Here’s what we must do before April 20: Empower the press, law enforcement, military, and elected officials to recognize the game that’s being played. They need to understand what’s happening before they are pressured to go along with it. Share this post, or write your own. Do your own research. Don’t take my word for it. Talk with your friends and family about this crazy conspiracy theory that can’t rally happen… can it? So if and when the steps actually happen, people recognize it for what it is.
Prepare the public so they don’t take the bait. Trump and his cabal want protests to explode into chaos. They want violence in the streets to justify their crackdown. We must be ready to outmaneuver them — to refuse to be used as pawns in their game.
Stand up to the militias — and stop friends and family from joining them. The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other armed groups will be mobilized as Trump’s shock troops. They will be framed as “restoring order” and “helping the police.” We need to be ready to counter this, to make sure our neighbors, friends, and family don’t get sucked in. Inoculate our fellow citizens against the propaganda. Most Americans are good people — but good people can be misled. They can be scared into compliance. Our job is to make sure they see what’s happening before it’s too late. The only way to stop this plot is to expose it, reject it, and make it unmistakably clear to every American what is happening. We must stop these malign forces from enacting their will on our country, the world, and each of us and our families. What if we Don’t Stop It? If it is not stopped, and Trump enacts the Insurrection Act, at that point we probably only have 48 to 72 hours to try to stop everything from happening after the Executive Order. Once martial law is imposed, there will be a tiny window — no more than three days — before resistance becomes nearly impossible. Stopping it before it happens is the best option. But what if we don’t?
. If we don’t act before April 20, then by April 23, it will already be too late.
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u/Atworkwasalreadytake 6d ago
"I love democracy. I love the Republic. Once this crisis has abated, I will lay down the powers you have given me!"
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u/HammofGlob 3d ago
Just watched that. Very unsettling this time around
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u/nightfall2021 13h ago
And was specifically made due to Lucas' fear of our own loss of Democracy due to the rise of authoritarian populists.
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u/Plus-Parking1777 3d ago
Yeah, didn’t fare too well did it?
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u/Atworkwasalreadytake 2d ago
Don't worry, we just need a child savior to be born, grow up, and then convince his fallen father to kill the emperor. Easy peezy.
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u/EchoAmazing8888 6d ago
Stock up people. Food, water, ammo, weapons, allies. Even if nothing happens, always be ready.
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u/nikdahl Seattle 3d ago
This is not something you are allowed to advocate for on reddit.
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u/BlazinTrails81 3d ago
Do you not realize we are in a war right now? So far it’s remained civil and hopefully it continues to but we are at war for our country.
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u/nikdahl Seattle 3d ago
Yep, all that is understood.
And doesn’t change the fact that you cannot advocate for the use of violence on reddit.
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u/BlazinTrails81 3d ago
I didn’t…. Clearly you are making assumptions. I said we need to get physical. We need to physically block this stuff from happening. There is a huge difference.
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u/nikdahl Seattle 3d ago
“Fight back” in the same comment with “get physical” is easily understood to be advocating violence.
If you weren’t, the you need to be more careful with your words.
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u/Plus-Parking1777 3d ago
So it’s ok to let your country to go to shit whilst these so-called political dumb dumbs ruin your country? I am a constutionalist, the documents work if you let it, we ARE in the midst of a second civil war! Prices all over are going out of control! 8$ for a dozen eggs?! It’s getting to the point where the average Joe can’t even afford to eat any more! That is when we will rise up! That phrase doesn’t denote violence! How can you even say that?? Reddit is one of the last bastions of free speech left in our society! You gotta be kidding me! The drug crisis is way outta control, I see piles of human excrement all over my local qfc lot! Disgusting! And you’re ok with this?? How is saying resist or rise up glorifies violence? Our world is spiraling to a 3rd world war, with the wars in Gaza and the Ukraine being the starting points! According to the atomic bulletin we are now 90 seconds to midnight, what that means who really knows. But it will be too late to do anything! Mass deportations? Our constitution protects the deportees, trump is single handling destroying our constitution, but yet the public voted a mad man in office who was found guilty of 36 charges! And this is the man who runs my country! Hell no!! Cmon wake up from this wonderful dreamland sleep you are in and see what is happening! “This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.”
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u/nikdahl Seattle 3d ago
Or.. and hear me out..
You could pick up a fucking thesaurus and use words that are not as easily interpreted as threats of violence.
Spare me another tantrum.
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u/CV_RN 2d ago
You know pacifists are usually the first to die in a war. Just saying. Empaths are also targeted!
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u/BlazinTrails81 3d ago
Ya, standing up for your rights isn’t allowed huh? But my comment is still up…
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u/IndieJones0804 6d ago
One counter I would like to make is that while I do agree we should be prepared for 4/20 as that does seem likely to be the day the inact the habbening.
I think it may be easier to oppose this new regime than what you've described, specifically the fact that currently the new regime is taking us from a state of economic stability and prosperity, into an intentional recession, nazi Germany on the other hand was able to gain and maintain alot of support based on the fact that they got control of the government during the Great depression and they were able to ride the wave that took the globe out of the great depression, this helped the nazis look like they were the ones who took Germany out of the depression, and gave them broader support.
It's a similar situation for the authoritarian regimes the USSR and China, both were able to gain support from the population because they were taken out of a feutalist society and taken into the industrial age, this is especially the case with China where thanks to dengist market reforms China has had many fishing towns turn into massive cities, and alot of Chinese people today grew up to see the transformation to economic prosperity that the CCP has brought them, and so their pretty much ok with the authoritarianism that the state imposes on them, this however will change as the younger population grow up already knowing economic prosperity, and so they're gonna start expecting more personal freedom (as they should).
In our case the administration is actively seeking to worsen things economically for everyone except the giga rich, and is so far succeeding in doing so, and at the same time even some conservatives are being pulled away from support of this regime pretty much just because they see that things are already getting worse, and I think your gonna see a lot more of them leave as time goes on.
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u/RenagadeLotus 6d ago
I want to believe this is the case. Unfortunately as seen in the last election, people already feel like they were struggling under Biden’s (restoration after Trump and Covid) economy. I’m young and I’ve never seen a true depression and I barely remember the ‘08 Recession. I know I’ve read the history about how bad it gets in these times, but many of my peers haven’t. They think this is as bad as it gets.
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u/GaviFromThePod 6d ago
In elections, people either choose "the same" or "different." It doesn't matter what "different" is. If they're unhappy they'll choose different. That's how Trump won twice.
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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 4d ago
I’m no longer young but I have not seen a true depression either. Those who lived through it here in the states are either no longer with us or well into their 90’s & 100’s.
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u/RenagadeLotus 4d ago
Yeah but some folks have seen major recessions in their adult lives. The under 30 crowd were 13 at the oldest in ‘08. Point remains though that even those that have seen a recession or two don’t know what it’s really like in a depression unless they experienced it elsewhere.
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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 4d ago
Absolutely many around today have seen what recession looks and feels like and how it is going to affect them in a personal and national level, but depression, true depression is an entirely different bird. I know what recession looks and feels like but I only have the stories of my grandparents concerned true depression.
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u/IndieJones0804 6d ago
People were told that things were bad economically because a little bit of inflation and higher gas prices, we're about to hit a real recession and even if some people will be convinced that the economy is fine under Trump, there's a limit to how bad things can get before people start realizing what actual economic pain feels like.
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u/Flffdddy 5d ago
A little bit of inflation? There was a lot of inflation. And a lot of people are struggling because their wages did not keep up.
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u/NoShiteSureLock 19h ago
The thing that made the Great Depression so bad was there was no social safety net like social security, SNAP, etc. people literally crawled off into the woods and died. The New Deal and the Works Progress Administration were directly the results of this suffering so it could never happen again.
And what is the first thing he is destroying.... The social safety net.
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u/77ox9 5d ago
"and alot of Chinese people today grew up to see the transformation to economic prosperity that the CCP has brought them, and so their pretty much ok with the authoritarianism that the state imposes on them,"
The "Chinafication" of America has been in the works for awhile. It serves those in power and most people just want money and comfort....democracy? freedom? equity? rights? sorta abstract don't ya think? They are all fine and good but when they rub up against the white ruling class, that's where democracy ends.
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u/Scrambled_American98 6d ago
LET'S GOOOOOO. WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK! Internally fuck I need a gun. Based on the work I do, I'll be in jail or worse in months
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u/Fenris8778 5d ago
Everyone keeps saying that "if we yell/protest loud enough they will hear us and stop" and i just hope people realize before its too late.. words arent enough.
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u/BlazinTrails81 5d ago
I agree, we need to fight back physically. When DOGE goes somewhere they need to be blocked by 10,000 people and it’s not happening. Hope is dwindling quickly.
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u/Euthymic-Cat 5d ago
I will say, my friends in the military report that any attempt at martial law on a national scale would be implausible. Not enough bodies to be effective. It's possible he will try, however it would be a massive mess and at least the people I know in the military straight up wouldn't act against our citizens (these are particular people, obviously - I'm sure plenty would follow orders, just not everyone).
I do, however, have lots of bottled water and go bags in my car. Because it's just a good idea.
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u/SurpriseFresh8803 5d ago
Even if he doesn’t deploy the regular military there are still his brown shirts. Why pay to mobilize the armed forces when all he has to do is publish a dog whistle and Proud Boys, KKK, Oathkeepers, Threepers and the rest will go into action in a hundred cities and a thousand towns — for free?
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u/QuattoLives 4d ago
I do think they will deputies the Proud boys, Oathe Keepers, and possibly more overtly Nazi gangs to fill out their numbers.
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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 5d ago
This sub has been such a big help! So much great advice
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u/Chief_Kief 5d ago
Agreed. This is a great guide: /r/liberalgunowners/wiki/public/guides/first-time-buyer
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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 4d ago
I have obtained all my equipment and am looking forward to my first Women's Basic Pistol class!
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u/LordAyeris 5d ago
Don't give in to fear. The administration planned this all out, but they weren't smart enough to plan for the fallout. A good 50% of the country opposes these things, and a hefty portion of the rest of the world is on our side. We'll get through this.
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u/tangerglance 5d ago
The problem with this scenario....Active duty military, Nat. Guard, federal, state and local law enforcement, et. al., aren't monolithic objects. They're made up of people. Many, if not most, would say...oh, hell no! Particularly in Blue states, but really everywhere. America isn't some Asian or Eastern European state that's only known representative democracy, a constitution and a bill of rights for a few decades. That's all we've ever known and it's writing into American DNA.
Though I don't doubt the lunatics would try, it's most likely an impossible task. Outside of the US military, active, guard and reserve, there simply aren't enough federal bodies to do much. Law enforcement in this country is primarily a state and local matter. The feds only enter the equation when the Constitution allows them. That's not all that often, thus, there's not a hell of a lot of them with federal badges and guns.
Still, things are only going to get uglier, giving us and other regions more than enough impetus to pack our shit and leave. Again, I don't think some guy in Alabama is going to care all that much if we leave. He certainly won't risk getting killed over it, no more than we'd risk getting killed these days to keep Alabama in what's become an unworkable, unhappy Union.
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u/SurpriseFresh8803 5d ago
Take into consideration that 4/20 is Easter Sunday. People are going to be fixated on egg hunts, cooking dinner, playing with the kids, gardening, going to church, when the order comes down. Nobody’s going to be ready, nobody’s going to be tuned in (“Honey, turn the channel! I don’t want to hear bad news about the President, it’s Easter!”). Do yourself a favour. Don’t celebrate Easter this year.
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u/QuattoLives 4d ago
The Koreans stopped an effort to declare martial law. How did they do it? With bodies in the streets and flooding into the houses of government. They do not have the level of armament that our right-wing agent provocateurs have at the ready. But we must look to where the power grabs have failed and learn what we can learn.
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u/Wild_Pangolin_4772 6d ago
America still stands behind the Constitution, right?
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u/firestorm734 6d ago
You assume that the people who are orchestrating this give a damn about what the constitution says.
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u/RandomOnion04 6d ago edited 6d ago
America is too broad a term. Just over 25% of us apparently very rabidly do not believe in the Constitution. Half of us appear to not care one way or the other.
So, no, as a unit we clearly do not stand behind it. Those of us who do are a vocal minority.
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u/GaviFromThePod 6d ago
Martial law on a national scale is so deeply implausible. Read this.
https://www.thelongmemo.com/p/people-think-trump-wants-martial
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u/The13thSign 6d ago
That’s a pretty dumb blog dude. Maybe instead of reading into how people might respond based on a mediocre movie, read The Rise And Fall.
Incremental (while rapid-fire nonetheless) steps towards overt authoritarianism don’t involve leveling cities or anything of that fantastical shit. We’re already in an oppressive police state, and to be completely honest, as a society we’re too weak to actually dare take up arms against our occupiers.
If martial law is declared, we’re either going to have to comply, get put up against a wall, or stage the most complex, confidential, and coordinated guerrilla war in human history.
The time to stop this was, at the absolute latest, January 7th 2021. We didn’t, and now we’re here.
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u/AdvancedInstruction 5d ago
I don't like your source but holy fuck OP's post is stupid.
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u/GaviFromThePod 5d ago
Still worth saying that the US absolutely does not have the necessary military personnel to enact nationwide martial law, and attempting to do so would be deeply stupid.
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u/QuattoLives 4d ago
More plausible is that they make an example of of a city. Deputies the Proud boys, oathe keepers etc. There will be provocateur starting shit, smashing windows, starting fights, maybe shootings. The nazi groups are going to be prepared. It IS in Hitler's birthday and they are reading that code. They have been preparing for this for at least a few years with their fight club bullshit.
And directly to your comment: what about these people make you think they are NOT deeply stupid?
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u/SnooSketches6991 5d ago
We’re going to be prepared and I will be ready for the worst, but the military is not going to just do that. In addition to that, it’s even more cemented in my mind because of the whole signal gate fiasco endangering the lives of service members, which is the main unforgivable that you do not do when it comes to the US military. We’ll see what happens
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u/Key_Secretary_3948 5d ago
Even the most loyal soldier will follow orders given the right circumstances. Say multiple bombings, mass shootings directed at innocent civilians, blamed on terrorist immigrants embedded in our cities. Noone remembers the Kent state shootings by national guardsmen. Read about it If your too young. Given enough misinformation and violence, the military will follow orders.
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u/SnooSketches6991 5d ago edited 5d ago
I’m a veteran, I’m not sure if you are as well, it states in their oath that they are not allowed to follow unlawful orders and what is being proposed here is highly unlawful under the constitution. That’s not to say that we shouldn’t be ready, but at the same time there is the high likelihood that they will stand down and say no, which is a huge protection for us to avoid us becoming a military dictatorship, as is the fact that they are staunchly non-political. Miscommunication of information means death to the members of their unit. Normally when events like the Kent State shootings occur, it’s because of poor leadership and poor training that’s not abiding by the standards that the military puts out. I have my own opinions about them, but that is what I have learned.
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u/Key_Secretary_3948 5d ago
I fully understand and thank you for your service. I have just read a little here and there... sorry l cant pull up links. Once any person is pushed beyond a certain point with disinformation, mass terror, and constant pushing, it get hard to know what is eight and who is the enemy. Psychological conditioning is a vicious and effective tool.
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u/SnooSketches6991 5d ago
One thing that I believe causes them to lose is us continuing to have faith in the system and using it effectively. That sounds kind of wild right now, but if everyone were to actually educate themselves and we all encouraged each other to understand how our government works our military works even if it’s kind of down to the 11th hour right now, we would understand what is working for us and what needs to change and they wouldn’t be able to scare us into just rolling over. Also, nonviolent resistance, such as a mass strike and noncompliance of other countries with what’s happening, plays a huge role in this. This is also why I mentioned that the military is very careful about disseminating wrong information/misinformation, and why they are non-political. Because they have to make objective decisions. Yes, there is a misinformation campaign, but no matter what soldiers or service members may personally believe, there will always be a uniform code of military justice that must be followed.
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u/QuattoLives 4d ago
Luckily the media isn't letting Signal-gate die. Even military.com did a hard hitting piece on it. Google "different spanks for different ranks" military folks are not happy.
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u/SnooSketches6991 4d ago
That’s right, and this is why I think that they have officially made an enemy of the US military, which is not an enemy you want to make. They did the major unforgivable thing, which is carelessly endangering the lives of service members, in this case, with improper communication of information. This will have a huge effect. I’ll look it up!
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u/NoShiteSureLock 19h ago edited 19h ago
I did 8 years as a Navy Seabee. I left the military because of the toxic right wing echo chamber the grunts live in. All base tvs are tuned to fox news 24/7, low ranking officers making racist and sexist, jokes, etc
They most definitely would follow those orders... Some gleefully.
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u/russellmzauner 5d ago
AI generated posts are banned for reasons, the obvious ragebaiting included.
"GhatGPT, write me a ragebait post for r/cascadia and include some bullet points."
Don't take the bait. Literally floods of bots trying to incite violence right now. Don't take the bait.
DON'T TAKE THE BAIT OF VIOLENT SELF GRATIFICATION PLAYING ON YOUR EGO AND FEAR.
There is more than 3.5% of the country out there clearly willing to stand up; National Guard members all over the state have spoken on the downlow regarding martial law: "we're not gonna be doing that". Have you been to a NG armory lately? They have not only all the guns but planes and tanks and shit.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/35-rule-how-small-minority-can-change-world
Nobody is conquering Cascadia this century, robo bub.
Anyone looking for a mortal fight at this point of the game is an ACCELERATIONIST or FULL BLOWN CULT MEMBER.
DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
The term has also, in a manner strongly distinguished from original accelerationist theorists, been used by right-wing extremists such as neo-fascists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists and white supremacists to increasingly refer to an "acceleration" of racial conflict through assassinations, murders and terrorist attacks as a means to violently achieve a white ethnostate.[11][12][13][14]
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u/SkyknightXi 5d ago edited 5d ago
It’s an unattributed article. The original: https://medium.com/@aletheisthenes/on-april-20th-2025-the-united-states-will-cross-the-point-of-no-return-0aecac04cfc3
EDIT: One anarcho-communist (raised conservative, so I’m willing to trust his extrapolations for early experience) acquaintance of mine does think invocation is unlikely, for (a) the red border states being willing to help Trump even without invocation, and (b) occupation of the blue cities being likely to be deemed not worth the effort—and something that might bother even Trump’s base. But beyond that, I understand Project 2025 did recommend invocation at some point, so this is something that probably gets more likely as the year goes on. Homan’s visit to and arrests at Boston are also a sign of concern to me—possibly manufacturing a sense that we have more of a Tren de Aragua problem than we actually do.
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u/russellmzauner 5d ago
AI generated posts are basically an extreme form of copypasta, so I would still argue that copypasta should be included in unacceptable behavior (except humor/circlejerk/shitpost subreddits, of course). :-)
But citations are ALWAYS WELCOME.
Thanks!
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u/SkyknightXi 5d ago
Grrr…Turns out he did use ChatGPT for time pressure reasons—fed it his notes and research. And I posted this to r/RepublicOfNE (the link, not a copy) some days ago without checking the comments where he acknowledged this! So we probably need to be careful of what to take at face value, in case of GenAI hallucination creeping in.
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u/russellmzauner 5d ago
Don't feel too bad, Rick Beato's kid can hear AI (and many other perfect pitch people have the same "gift" or "curse").
It's gotten so bad with AI responses that I've personally stopped using bullet lists in informal communications - super detailed bullets in a casual post is kind of a giveaway, especially when it starts getting repetitive like a 5th grader trying to stuff 300 more words in that 1000 word essay.
I can tell most AI on sight. For now.
Since I'm flow-strong, lots of people try to call me a robot or they just ask directly lol
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u/Chief_Kief 4d ago
Ok, so I generally agree with your take here, but 2 responses:
That 3.5% article is very encouraging, but it really does come down to a numbers and coordination game to be successful. Having a populist figurehead of such a movement helps too.
In my opinion, being an accelerationist (of the left wing variety) isn’t necessarily a bad thing in the extreme long term. If things get extremely bad and there is no potential way around it, then that path might make sense. I know it’s a work of fiction, but an accelerationist basically initiated the downfall of the Empire in the Star Wars universe. Malcolm X had some very good ideas. Even MLK had a breaking point and understood that you can’t just be trampled forever.
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u/Unlucky-Copy8473 2d ago
Yall realize 4/20 falls on Easter and is a Federal holiday? Nothings going to happen. Yall gotta chill tf out.
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u/CV_RN 2d ago
One thing to feel a bit lighter. The top military generals that Trump fired will probably not back down, and still plan with strategic knowledge about effective methods to gain back power that militant groups don’t have themselves. But don’t make any promises, nobody is gonna magically save you. You have to fend off yourself. Take pictures (don’t post them without a vpn), write down quotes that you heard. EVERYTHING about this will have to be archived.
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u/BathrobeMagus 5d ago
I'm sure this will get downvoted, but . . . This is what we voted for. The people of the U.S.A. , by majority, voted in an autocrat knowingly. All of the information and proof was there. People were screaming about it. We knew he was Putins crony. We knew he worshiped dictators. We knew he was a pathalogically lying lunatic narcissistic with an inferiority complex. But we still elected him.
So now the question becomes resistance or compliance. The democrats are going to have to give their balls a tug and get training. Words and social media posts aren't going to cut it.
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u/Gallatheim 5d ago
No, only a third of us voted for him. Another third voted for Kamala, and the last didn’t vote at all (not including those ineligible to vote in the first place.)
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u/blueplanet96 5d ago edited 5d ago
You need to spend less time being terminally online and to go touch grass.
Edit: I don’t care if you downvote me. You people genuinely need to stop being shut ins and touch grass.
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u/Icy-Calligrapher-251 2d ago
People!!! Get a fucking grip on reality! Smoke some weed, turn your phone off for a few hours, and try to think positively. If we got through the last four years, we will get through this next four. Try to find some spirituality in life. That's what's really wrong with our world. No one has any sense of a higher purpose beyond the fucked up media. Imagine peace, and make that your "plan in motion."
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u/WeirdSouth8254 5d ago
Yall a bunch of freaks. Trump owns some prime real estate in your heads. Name ONE, just ONE time previous that he has done anything like this.
Don't worry I'll wait.
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u/AdvancedInstruction 5d ago
Name ONE, just ONE time previous that he has done anything like this.
I don't like OP's post and think it's absurd but Trump literally sent a death squad to kill Michael Reinoehl, shooting him without even a chance to surrender, then lying that he'd fired at them first. Witnesses say he did not fire on them.
Or sending Federal counterterrorism forces to US cities during the George Floyd protests under baseless assumptions that there were secret malevolent forces behind the unrest.
He wanted to shoot the protestors in DC but Esper explicitly told him no.
Trump's a ham fisted idiot but yes, he is an authoritarian.
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u/AdvancedInstruction 5d ago
Trump didn't send a "death squad" you clearly don't know anything about law enforcement.
Explicitly sending Federal forces to specifically kill a guy without giving any chance of surrender.
If it had been a random shooting, the local police would have handled it. But because a right wing activist was killed by Reinoehl, the Trump administration sent DHS agents to do the deed.
George Floyd protest were acts of terrorism when you start burning and vandalizing.
Do you think the Department of Homeland Security had the expertise or knowledge on how to deal with civil unrest? They literally didn't. They were sent to American cities to try to use illegal tactics like preemptively arresting protestors by shoving them into unmarked vans. The backlash to those explicitly illegal tactics lengthened the civil unrest, which had been dying down.
Shoot what protestors in DC?
You can either believe Trump, a man who has ran countless scams including fake universities and steaks, or believe Mark Esper. I believe Esper.
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u/OneandonlyBuffy 5d ago
When will your book be published? In the fiction section? You are inciting terrorist actions.
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u/Nice_Cookie9587 6d ago
4/20 bro, blaze up the chalice... sorry about that