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Those who voted for him are happy and his approval rating is still high 47%, when I last looked.
If we revolt the cops will shoot us.
They already are
They'll shoot the upper middle class white people too though.
I agree that apathy is really fucking shitty, but you guys abroad have to realize that there are groups of people who genuinely are trying to get things to change.
By pissing on these people who are celebrating protests, you're weakening the will of the people to fight back. People aren't going to want to change when they don't feel like it'll do anything.
If you want a fire to grow, the best thing you can do is throw some lighter fluid on it instead of water
Protests are like throwing snowballs at a snow plow thinking it will make it stop.
I tried to go to the recent protest but my job made it impossible. Sadge.
Just a slight edit.
I like it. I don’t get it, but I like it.
The bottom is John Walker, the replacement Captain America from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, who went crazy on off-brand super soldier serum and decapitated a man with Cap's shield.
I mean, I'm American and if I had to pick one, we're definitely that latter. It's just that I grew up here, so it's more readily apparent to me that the conservatives who screamed about muh guns muh constitution were always operating in bad faith. Kinda like how the conservatives you guys are about to elect are operating in bad faith when they talk about how very worried they are about immigration.
100%
The gun-totin, "don't tread on me," larping persona crowd have always been first in line to bend the knee and lick the boot of the weakest strongman.
Uvalde's tragedy is a complete example: 400 armed, "trained," professionals, all too cowardly and incompetent and deficient in character to actual do the job they thump their chests over.
Every Conservative boast about strength and power is performative nonsense to mask their deep and unabiding fears and insecurities.
I see my name, I upvote
See, now i have this rule also. I see your name, i upvote.
I upvoted it too.
Well actually, the americans see themselves correctly
Relevant video, Defenders of the Status quo
So who in the united States will revolt? The liberals who live in city's who are mostly unarmed and can't survive without a Starbucks or will it be the conservatives who own around 400 million guns and approx 8 billion rounds of ammo? I'm just curious. Let's be realistic here if the gun owners of the united states rose up in revolt the world would know. But in my experience most gun owners pray they never have to use those guns to defend themselves or use them against human beings. Oh there are the nut jobs who think they are "barney bad ass" but typically you only see those people on YouTube. But please tell me which group of people should revolt.
The "average" American, much like the average human, is driven by "feels" rather than facts.
They will rail against "socialized medicine" because they live paycheck to paycheck, don't manage their finances in any meaningful way, and have no idea how much their healthcare is actually costing them. Spoiler: it's A LOT.
They will demonize immigrants because it's easier to blame random brown people for "stealing our jobs" than it is to hold giant corporations accountable for closing the plant and moving jobs somewhere cheaper.
They will gladly feed women's rights into a wood chipper over the idea of "saving babies", until that baby starts to make demands (on day one of it's life). Then it's an "entitled taker."
They will brag about America being the "greatest country in the world" and in the same breath, complain that we need to "make America great again", while completely missing the irony.
They will happily drink up as much propaganda as possible because it gives them someone to blame for their problems and allows them to believe that constant manufactured outrage is a solution, even though it's really just a distraction.
They spent so much of their time believing and repeating the lie that the United States is comprised of "rugged individuals" and that if things have gone poorly for you, that is somehow entirely and unquestionably your own fault. Upon finding that things have gone poorly for them, they can't reconcile this incorrect belief with the fact thar they didn't necessarily do anything wrong. This is incredibly and understandably demoralizing.
I'm painting with a broad brush here. Not every American thinks this way but a lot of them do. I don't really know what it's going to take to get us back on the right path but I think a good place to start is by taking notes from John Donne, the English preacher and poet who wrote, "No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent. A part of the main."
I don't and will never sympathize with Nazis and fascists. I do understand some of the things they're frustrated about. The only way forward is for them to accept that in order for things to get better, it has to get better for all of us. Shooting holes in the someone else's corner of the ship only makes their corner sink a little faster than yours. I just hope they figure that out before we're all completely under water.
You described MAGAts not Americans.
One of those is reeeeally making the other look bad. I grew up in the time before Germany really started leading the free world, when holo tropes had them in a really negative light. It's like mistakes made by Germans 2 generations ago hurt their image still.
I worry magats have created a shitty image that all yanks will get to wear for 40+ years. And people I know in America who are really great people who don't deserve that.
Lack of job protection
Lack of healthcare protection
Inability to miss or reduce even a single paycheck due to cost of living
It's winter, and most major cities North of Texas have had below freezing temps with brutal wind chill for the past several weeks
The recognition that no protest in the last 20 years has accomplished anything in the US.
Put that all together, and is it any surprise people aren't protesting?
We had what I call the Derek Chavin moment. Cities burned. We haven’t seen another one of those. Go ahead and research that — we shutdown several cities and we stopped that shit!
Stopped what shit? At the end of the day, what did it accomplish? Cops still kill black people, and most face very little repercussions.
I’m not sure what you are talking about.
The George Floyd assassination was an unprecedented cold blooded murder on video for the propagandizement of racial violence. We have not had another one of those. It took cities on flame, but we have not had another one of those. In fact, please link to a video of another Derek Chavin moment.
Because it wasnt caught on video or didnt go viral it doesnt matter? Your police blatantly murder people all the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unarmed_African_Americans_killed_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States
And being 4 times the distance from Washington DC as London is from Berlin.
If I were to protest at my governors office, he'd just be agreeing with me in my blue state. And even my governors office is over 600km away.
I agree with your point but as another blue state resident I will be protesting in hopes that the blue states will collectively secede
Massive protests are happening here across all 50 states. Unity is happening. Momentum is building.
I was at one that I wouldn’t call massive but yes— it is hard to let our non-American friends know what’s happening because the President day protests went almost ignored in the media.
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