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Re:After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists... by fwip on Sunday April 06, 2025 @11:09PM (#43607237)
What kind of protest do you imagine could stop Trump from being Trump? His own staff tried that for four years (2016-2020) and made next to no progress.

Now he's surrounded himself with enablers, and the Dems won't even make a real effort to oppose the stuff he's doing.

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Re:After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists... by kurthr on Sunday April 06, 2025 @11:13PM (#43607266)
He'd love to call in the National Guard and gun down a few hundred "terrorists". Send a few thousand more of them to El Salvador and MAGA will celebrate.
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Re:After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists... by duped on Sunday April 06, 2025 @11:35PM (#43607381)
The kind where he is forced to leave office and/or the country.

Like sedition is a crime still so I'm not going to advocate for the downfall of the US government, but if you're asking "what kind of protest can stop Trump" then there are dozens of examples over the last twenty years to look at for "protests that result in the head of state no longer being the head of state."

We're just not there, yet.

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Re:After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists... by shadowgovt on Monday April 07, 2025 @12:44AM (#43607787)
The revolution will not be planned on Hacker News.
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Re:After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists... by fwip on Monday April 07, 2025 @12:49PM (#43613430)
I agree - there's not much leverage that "we the people" have at this point, without the threat of a violent revolution.
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