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> ...decent people who have to accept to live under their rule...

On one hand, there's the option of voting with one's feet, which Zweig describes in "Die Welt von Gestern" (1942)

On the other hand, another alternative is "inner emigration", eg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innere_Emigration

On the gripping hand, there might be the possibility of ignoring wanna-be authoritarian leaders but convincing people not to follow them, à la https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786278

Maybe there are more possibilities of which I am unaware; of these three, I chose the first.


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gsf_emergency_6last Monday at 4:17 AM

Maybe you've been outside for too long.

Both those who voted for Trump or abstained from Harris believed they were acting _against_ authoritarians.

(BB was kinda fiction-in-a-fiction and would have provided no clue either for Harris and against Trump-- and 1984 (/Schachnovelle) didn't give a clue on how you might recognise an inner party-goer if you ran into one? Maybe Animal Farm would be better?)

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