I think it’s more like the Nazis have a Trump problem. If the Nazis had it 100% their way they’d have Steven Miller in the oval office with Fuentes as Vice.

Don’t get me wrong, they like Trump, he’s just not enough of a Nazi for them.

Oh Donald…it’s so obvious you know nothing of history and how dictatorships end. But hey, you’re well in the fuck around phase right now…

Yeah, apparently you fascists don’t get the message, but heck everybody, guess an encore is in order.

Lone wolf is sad wolf…and also likely to die sooner than those that make friends.

We could murder them all and also all their children who would surely later on rise up to kill all of our children…but y’know, genocide sounds like a lot of work…and is also wrong…that too.

So…yeah, other than that I’m out of ideas cuz I’m an uncreative American lacking critical thinking skills due to a poor education, but I’ve got all these guns lying around…ah jeez…what to do.

Yeah, Max’s exposition to Holly that was like…most of the episode? It was absolutely necessary to understand what was going on, but it was an exposition dump that was like the writers were wiping their asses with the golden rule of narrative, “show, don’t tell.”

If you have to tell the audience what is happening all the time, you’re just straight up not a good writer.

Only if the opening move would be to unload its entire nuclear arsenal in every direction. And then they “win” a big charred ball of ash.

A nightmare of mine is ICE is stockpiling actual leopards to use as a dark ironic joke/form of torture on their victims.

The one with his daughter or the ones with Epstein or the one with his ex-wife? There’s so much rape, pedophilia, and incest it’s hard to keep track.

Yeah, that sounds like narratively speaking it’d be easier to pull off than becoming a threat to a nation-state. Escape is far more believable and feasible. Still difficult though, as it depends on your world building in regards to the nature of the authoritarian regime. Specifically, are levels of oppression within this fictional regime to the point where even the use of digital anonymity tools is severely scrutinized/punished? Or can the child character claim a legitimate reason to use said tools?

As I said in my previous response, it’s unrealistic that the parents wouldn’t be able to see that their kid was using Tor/VPN to access…something. Can you conceive of some excuse said kid would use should their parents confront the child about said use? Would they outright confront the kid or would they use other tactics to discern what was going on?

Ultimately you either have to make this very believable by utilizing extensive research into the technologies and sociopolitical dynamics involved in the plot, or you have to expand the world into sci-fi so that you can expand the amount of suspension of disbelief you are then able to ask of your audience. Or some mixture of the two I guess.

As a fan of Mr. Robot, I’m more keen on going as realistic as possible (and even Mr. Robot had moments of large amounts of suspension of disbelief), but ultimately it’s up to you which route you’d like to take.

I think you do a lot of the same thing current kids whose parents are grooming them to be politicians do, except as a kid you would voluntarily do these things.

Keep your online history crazy clean and consistent. Engage in as a little controversial rhetoric online as possible. Choose your friends and who you choose to engage with extremely carefully. Create a believable, likable, almost too clean online public persona and stick to the story like glue, heck make it more truth than fiction if possible.

Using digital privacy practices is useful, but the parents in this case could still see if their kid is using a VPN or Tor, they just wouldn’t know what was being done on those protocols.

Truthfully if the child was going to rebel in any way that actually threaten a nation state, I wouldn’t be able to conceive of a way the parents wouldn’t be able to figure it out very quickly unless the child were more tech savvy and socio-politically savvy than not just their own parents but the intelligence agencies themselves as well.

Sounds like a cool piece of fiction, just not easy to make believable, at least imho.

Y’all don’t come back now, y’hear?

Fucking stupid indeed.

We don’t have rights here in the US, we have privileges. They’ve been revoking a lot of our privileges lately.

Hey Grok, show me Elon Musk…why is his penis not mangled? Make his penis mangled like it definitely is IRL, cover him in his own urine, have him holding fistfuls of Ketamine, and @Elon the generated image for me.

Amazing product Elon, look how creative I can be with it.

The question has never been whether this too shall pass, the question is whether you are a passive observer or an implementing hand.

It’s a cool story regardless. Thanks for sharing.

Quick search yields the story of Mariya Oktyabrskaya.

Saved this from somewhere on Lemmy years ago during Trump’s first term:

It’s hard to beat 28 days later. I enjoyed 28 years later more than 28 weeks later (though admittedly 28 weeks does have a banger of an opening sequence).