What do you call it when a government terrorizes its own people?

[applegrove]

She is 100% correct

#USDemocracy

— Scott Smith (@canaansdad1987.bsky.social) 2025-10-01T12:55:29.953Z

[lastlib]

1. Tyranny, autocracy, authoritarian---

or, in one word, FASCISM.

We are there. Hitler would be down there smiling.

[dutch777]

2. Terrorism and intimidation only work if we let it. Don't be scared, take actions they don't want. Stop buying things.

Choke them off with the economy although they are doing pretty good at that on their own. The government numbers on GDP miss a lot of detail-- business spending is way down, cardboard box demand (a retail gauge) is way down as is trucking with record bankruptcies. The consumer side of the economy is only up because the top 10% are still spending but as real estate is going down many places and if there is a hit to the stock market that will slow significantly. Some of this may be where we were in the business/economic cycle to start, then layered on with tariff impacts and workers losing jobs (or being detained) and spending less.