(November 16, 2024 at 9:13 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: I guess you need to remove certain people from power positions, such as police forces, the army and replace them with your friends.
Eventually, you can use the police force and army to eliminate citizens you don't like.
That's the end-game. Seizing the media is one of the first orders of bidness in a takeover. I think that's why Trump has been explicit in labelling the media "the enemy of the people", precisely to lay the groundwork for prosecuting and persecuting the infosphere. Doesn't hurt that he allied himself with an owner of a major online infoshitter.