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- 21 days
Look what your inaction has gotten you, Americans.
You deserve every bit of it and will 100% allow it to continue escalating far beyond this. Watch.
At this point the best case scenario is that you implode so horrifically that you become a really good cautionary tale for the rest of the world’s countries who keep flirting with legitimizing MAGA wanna-bes.
- 21 days
I’m a queer, trans person married to a first generation Latina with a disabled child. What exactly do you think my family did to deserve this? Voted in every election I’ve been eligible to for years, protested whenever I can, I donate to food banks and bail funds, donate to people in other countries in need, trained myself with self defense, shit, I even lost a DAMNED good job by standing up for my rights and got blacklisted from my last industry, live in fucking fear of my passport getting revoked because I’ve got the “wrong” marker for my gender and I DARE to use the toilet in public. I cannot apply for asylum from quite a few countries and even if I could then not without giving up my home, MY home, my family, my friends, my community. Fun fact, most countries won’t touch a queer asylum case from the US with a ten foot pole.
What, EXACTLY, did I do to deserve this? What did my DISABLED CHILD do to deserve this? What, pray tell, did my community, my immigrant in-laws, DO to deserve what’s going on right now?
Or are you just saying a country of over 300 million people with literally millions facing down oppression and fascism that we just deserve to get murdered in the street?
- 21 days
They’re just mad they might have to get up off their ass and deal with fascism knocking on their door. They don’t know their privilege, nor how it dwindles daily. It’s easy to scoff at the suffering of strangers.
- 21 days
Enjoy being part of the problem. What is it about Americans and the inability to self-reflect? Always desperate for a face-saving narrative to shield yourself from a little bit of honesty.
- 21 days
What the fuck do you think the average person has the ability to change in America? Corporate America knows this because they own the politicians and have enough of a monopoly that they don’t really care if their viewers leave for some other channel or product. They own part of that too!
Fight them and you will have to deal with all their lawyers and bullshit.
- 21 days
the 19th century people in Europe were in the same situation. They managed to protest, riot and eventually change things. They also had to work, had families, faced violent law enforcement. We’ve been enjoying the results of their bravery for over a century now. Americans only have excuses and believe bravery is shooting someone who can’t fight back.
- 21 days
America is not 19th Century Europe. It’s a whole fucking continent. Look what the “No Kings” protests accomplished. Absolutely nothing.
- 21 days
It accomplished absolutely nothing because you did absolutely nothing. Just one day of protesting and then going home after isn’t what it’s going to take. (Not that I’m saying it’s easy)
- 21 days
It’s not just not-easy. It’s not financially or logistically feasible for most of us. And then what would we hope to accomplish without resorting to armed violence? I’d rather lay down and die than take another person’s life, no matter what they did to earn it. You say I did absolutely nothing, but only because I didn’t start shooting people. What I did was resolve to not let these nazis change me and my morals, to continue fighting ideologically, making the world better through my actions, and refusing to accept any justification for taking up the enemy’s toxic weapons.
- 21 days
I’d rather lay down and die than take another person’s life, no matter what they did to earn it.
OH. Wait. 😅 okay, I really need to start reading posts completely before I respond.
I thought you were just a fucking coward.
I did not properly understand that you’re a fully complicit goddamn moron. Please. Keep doing whatever you’re doing. I cannot wait for you to just… congratulate yourself on your moral superiority all the way to the camps. Only one thing EVER stopped Nazis.
- 21 days
No Kings were cute little parades scheduled in advance once every 4 months. You brought your little kids, had live music and barbecues.
“Look at what our adorable milquetoast bare-minimum performative bullshit accomplished. Nothing.”
It accomplished SOMETHING- it emboldened the fascists who now how little they have to fear from you and it helped white liberals congratulate themselves, satisfied that they sufficiently signaled that they’re the “good ones.”
- 21 days
No populace in history has ever been in a better position to fight a domestic oppressor.
You’re armed to the teeth, fucking act like it.
- JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish21 days
Not even Americans out gun the police. Never mind if the army got involved. Plus, most of the gun nuts love being under a fascist boot for some reason.
