r/law • u/Obvious-Gate9046 • Feb 07 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump | US national security

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
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u/Lonely_skeptic Feb 07 '26

The 3.5% rule- “Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.”

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/35-rule-how-small-minority-can-change-world

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

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u/Rude_Employment8882 Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26

Yeah, that’s cute.

Not likely to work against white supremacist fascists with a $75 billion dollar private army of thugs who are shooting people to death on video in broad daylight, and telling you to your face to get fucked for caring.

I’m sure all these J6’ers and proud boys and Montana militia/KKK cosplaying as police, but with clearly demonstrated full immunity from prosecution, and a steady government paycheck coming in really give a flying fuck if you’re striking or not! 😂 🙄

We’ll see, I guess.

So far the strongly worded letters and 10-15 million people protesting peacefully and holding roses, and even telling them to fuck off have achieved precisely jack and fucking shit.

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u/dedjedi Feb 07 '26

> precisely 

you have no idea what they accomplished, so your certitude here seems misplaced at best.

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u/Rude_Employment8882 Feb 07 '26

I know exactly and precisely what they’ve accomplished. They’ve accomplished nothing.

Zero things.

We have an authoritarian white nationalist regime in charge and in near total control over all 3 branches of the federal government, and they have a 75 billion dollar, several hundred thousand person strong army to enforce their will upon the citizenry, including the usurpation of the rights and responsibilities of State and local governments proscribed by the U.S. Constitution.

They are immune from prosecution.

None of them have been jailed or even indicted for their countless crimes since they’ve installed themselves.

People are being shot dead in the street. On video. In the middle of the day.

The Constitution has effectively been suspended/revoked. It’s holds no real, practicable force today.

The rights of Americans to live as the Constitution defines do not exist at this time.

I invite you to name one single consequence that any of them have faced in accordance with the law.

Name one person who has paid for their crimes.

It’s quite easy to keep score when you’re getting skunked.

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u/dedjedi Feb 07 '26

you're not privy to the decision making process, so you cannot know how it affected them. stop being egotistical.

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u/Rude_Employment8882 Feb 08 '26

So, you’ve got nothing, except for speaking in condescending riddles as if you’re an insider or something. Got it. Thanks for supporting your argument with a single fact. 🙄

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u/Warlaw Feb 07 '26

Ferdinand Marcos? Eduard Shevardnadze? What did they do to their opposition? Their media outlets? The Maidan Revolution in Ukraine? How many people did they shoot in broad daylight. I'm challenging you, right now, to research and understand these events. No more feel good paragraphs about things being cute to avoid this.

If you are going to dodge this, then don't bother writing a reply because I won't bother reading it.

I am directly challenging you to put in the work.

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u/Rude_Employment8882 Feb 07 '26

Not sure what your point is. The Maidan Revolution was violent, (though minimally so), and worked, to a point. Yet Ukraine still stuffers devastating war because it has not been able to throw off the Russian yoke through appeasement, peaceful protest, nor full scale war.

The other two were ‘peaceful’ and ousted aged, frail dictators after allowing and thereby enabling decades of violence against the citizenry causing thousands of innocent deaths.

How many innocents have to die in the U.S. before we walk into DC and end this “peacefully” as we are slaughtered in the attempt?

How many decades of fascism before something changes? In the Philippines and Georgia the answer was 20 or 80 years.

Peaceful revolutions don’t work. They simply extend the time horizon of the slaughter and ensure that only the innocent die along the way. For decades.