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[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm absolutely willing to go to jail. Many human rights have been won thanks to people who went to jail to defend them. And in any case we're already in jail. It may be a spacious jail now, but they'll shrink it more and more.

Asking others to do so? By no means no. If they don't want a democracy, then good for them. They only need to bow their head down and obey. And later on, maybe, they must even watch out not to protest, because that won't be allowed by the law either.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 0 points 17 hours ago

I’m absolutely willing to go to jail.

It would be interesting if most US citizens were actually trying to get into jail... free room and board and probably the collapse of the US penal system.