• billwashere
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    2411 months ago

    Please Donald piss off the wrong people. I double dog dare you.

    • @Telorand@reddthat.com
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      1411 months ago

      If the Internet goes off, it means most of the US will be pissed off at him. Cellphones would be basically useless.

      His followers wouldn’t be able to access their favorite propaganda and conspiracy theories, either, so maybe they’d sober up a bit. Either way, it would not be good for him.

      • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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        1411 months ago

        I mean, he can’t. Even if he claims to have the executive power, even if he found a bunch of lackeys willing to try to do it for him, he can’t do it. Whatever he did would be unenforceable. You can’t just turn off the Internet. That’s literally the reason we invented it in the first place, it’s a communication network resilient against nuclear strikes and war and bad-faith governance all at once.

        He could probably make it very hard to use, given a lot of time, but he’d be eaten alive by the angry populace long before it ever reached that point.

    • Doc Avid Mornington
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      811 months ago

      Who are the wrong people? Have people similar to them offered significant resistance to past fascist regimes?

        • Doc Avid Mornington
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          111 months ago

          I’m not sure you’re talking about the same thing billwashere was talking about, but I’d like to hear more of your thoughts.