this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
318 points (96.8% liked)

No Stupid Questions

46141 readers
875 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

So, lets say we get to August or some summer month, and 4,000,000 people are protesting right out front the white house.

Do they send in the tanks? Do they kill 1,000,000 people? Would republican civilians see empathy for the dead americans who were democrats? Or would it unite the nation like 9/11 did, except this time against the government?

(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Do they send in the tanks?

You don't use tanks in a city. You use machine guns.

Do they kill 1,000,000 people?

If they can, probably

Would republican civilians see empathy for the dead americans who were democrats?

Ask yourself how many people in the US showed empathy for the Gazans.

Or would it unite the nation like 9/11 did, except this time against the government?

Lol no, the US is a terminally propagandised country. Iraq has WMDs, Venezuela has drugs, free healthcare is bad somehow, Israel is not genociding the Palestinians, etc. etc.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 8 points 3 days ago

We did already, when MacArthur razed the Bonus Army. FDR was elected the next election and bought some guillotine insurance in the form of taxes and social programs.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

They don't bother with such things, America uses other means to squash such protests long before organization.

The means of organizing (the internet) is also the surveillance state. "grass roots" organizing has been dead for a very long time.

See the Patriot Act and history of CIA for further details. Recommend "Legacy of Ashes" by former CIA spook regarding history since 1950s or so. The people in charge then have been replaced by far worse, worse every term.

We only know a tiny bit, and what we do know is truly staggering and frankly when I've repeated actual facts online I've been told I'm a conspiracy theorist and booted, so I'll skip that part. The truth sounds ridiculous.

This is all publicly available information, they don't even bother hiding it any longer.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Sure they killed 1,000,000 protestors in the streets of DC, but at least they would never nuke an American city!

Suddenly, a flash in the distance turns into an angry, boiling glow. At least getting knocked back to the stone age means not having to see thousands of versions of "I told you so" afterward.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

The other night, I was eating lunch at my desk, in our small open office. The IT guy and one of the robot techs were debating whether the summary execution of Alex Pretti was justified. IT guy believes the government’s version of events, suggesting that Alex brandished his firearm (which is patently false). They openly support the state’s murder, and further, encourage it. It might be a bit difficult to get them to go along with a massacre, but they’ve already been walked through 2 murders, and are primed for more.

Would something like this ever happen? Hope not. But if it does, god help us all.

I’ve checked out from trying to advocate for the truth. You cannot reason with someone who is arguing in bad faith. The blatant disregard for the live’s lost, instead focusing on proving a point to justify the theft of those live’s. It’s gross. How anyone can look at the system that has been fully exposed in front of them and say More of that! blows my mind. But those are the people that will backup Trump if such a thing happened.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Yes this administration would in a heartbeat.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm still surprised that all of the January 6 insurrectionists could just storm the capitol building without being shot. They were breaking into the main building that had all of our lawmakers in it at the time, and only one of those morons was shot. Only the stupidest one. The queen of morons.

And did you notice what happened after that idiot was shot and killed? Nobody else tried to go through that window.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 13 points 4 days ago

Don't underestimate this administration's cruelty.

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 20 points 4 days ago

Kent State says yes

What risk? It worked out great for the regime in China, it would work here too.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (9 children)

They can't risk it. Too many people could record it so they couldn't control the narrative.

[–] Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Do you think they care? Dude they’re shooting unarmed women in the face in broad daylight in front of thousands of witnesses and on video.

And just imagine, the heartless coward that did it isn’t facing charges and gets to lie down in his own bed every night and walk up the next day.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yep

No consequences so far

Civil wars have started over less than this

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)
[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This thread is actually really depressing.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sometimes depression is a natural and healthy reaction to the world around us.

No one liked the nonviolent solution, no one will like the violent solution.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›