And there's no way to go back to "the way it was before." There will be revolution. The only questions are when and what it's going to look like on the other side.
When I was a kid, my dad used to tell me to "go up by the fence line and find some asparagus." Him being my dad, I always thought he was just trying to play a joke on me, so I would just brush it off and go on my way.
It wasn't until I was a Full Ass Adult that I realized that the people walking by the farm fence along the highway nearby carrying grocery bags were ... going up by the fence line and finding some asparagus.
I just bought a Reolink camera, as opposed to the cloud-only ones. It's quite nice, requires no account anywhere for it to work including person/pet/vehicle detection. Has FTP configuration so you can have the device upload footage to an FTP server of your choosing, or just leave it on the MicroSD card.
While I don't have a home assistant center, I'm sure this one has those capabilities.
Violence works, otherwise there wouldn't be any. We've put up a whole system of laws and police and investigators and courts and prisons in order to provide an alternative to violence. And even then, that system is itself backed up with a real threat of violence as well as its occasional localized deployment.
Yesterday's "pep rally" where none of the military leaders dragged in had anything good to say about it suggests that there is not the overwhelming military support that Trump wants there to be. There are plenty of examples of far less powerful local forces successfully standing up to superpowers. Afghanistan is one. Wallachia is another.
When the entire federal government and many state governments have wholly abandoned the systems put together to avoid violence, and are in fact using the husks of those systems to apply violence to their opponents, we've already crossed the Rubicon.
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