They are snatching people off the streets and disappearing them to gulags for having said the wrong things. There is no looking away from current events.<p>I am sorry if you're the kind of person who wants to just keep your head down and build things (and who isn't?), but individual freedom is a necessary part of what is required to even have a startup ecosystem. There is no vibrant independent innovation under autocratic authoritarianism. Only minding your own business to avoid attracting the ire of anyone with power, as the consequences grow ever-greater and the line to fall into grows ever-more regimented. The main thing we need to be building now are the means of resistance.<p>And to anyone still in denial about this anti-American reign of terror: wake the fuck up! This is not political - I <i>share</i> many or even most of your political frustrations. This is the outright destruction of our country by a senile old man with a persecution complex, egged on by foreign social media campaigns, and facilitated by domestic enablers lured by power and falling in line to deny the plain reality. It's time to admit your mistake, take responsibility for the monster you've been enabling, and start fighting back.