You were so proud of your opposition to tyranny. You’ve been screaming “land of the free!” For a couple hundred years now.
It’s time to put up, or shut up.
All that privilege that came with “land of the free”? Your house, your full time job, access to education, freedom of speech, etc? Time to drop it all and FIGHT - like you’ve always bragged about! Always bragging about how great your country was, weren’t you? Then BE GREAT! Get 20 million in the streets of Washington, something might change. Yup, some people gonna die. Or they can disappear forever; dragged screaming and crying never to be seen again.
Give up your privilidge, and FIGHT FOR IT!
You slept while this beast crept into your home.
Put your dog down, and quit whining to the rest of the world.
The loud ones are the ones with their tongues on the boot. The rest of us have to figure out who each other are without the bootlickers finding and ratting us out. Some of us have been fighting for decades. You are not helping.
P.S. fascists are laying groundwork in your country too. What are you doing about that besides criticizing the US?
We’re doing a “don’t elect a multiple felon rapist pedophile” for president.
Also, not giving any single person the power of a king.
If the USA had the right checks and balances, like most EU countries, the POTUS would not have been able to pardon his fellow criminals, would not have been able to delay Epstein files, and would not have been able to invade other countries.
If you think the US is just some anomaly and not the canary in the coalmine of a global rise of fascism, you’re in for a rude awakening. The US absolutely fucked it up, no question about it, and it’s up to Americans to fix that mess, but pretending it’s somehow contained and isolated is very shortsighted. “Fuck you, I got mine” is the exact type of attitude that leads to fascism. Nationalism is a problem even when your country isn’t objectively fucked up.
To be fair, comparing people trying to do fascism in other countries to Americans hits more viscerally than comparing them to nazis at this point.
So, honestly, being critical of the US and calling out fascism and calling it “Like America” is extremely persuasive. Having Trump like you, as a political figure in the west, is a massive liability. Being seen as similar in any way is a massive liability.
Whatever fucking works. Don’t let the bastards win. I just don’t want anyone feeling secure in this being a US isolated problem, because it sure fucking isn’t.
You’re right, it isn’t. I think there are a lot of cerebral dissections of fascism as a populist movement in the USA, but it’s important to understand that cerebral dissections are an ineffective counter to any populist movement.
Populist movements need a simple hook. An effective counter needs a similarity simple hook. The USA has provided one.
I acknowledge it must suck to BE the simple hook : “This sounds like you wanna turn this country into the USA (everyone barfs)”
Once upon a time, not even that long ago, that same simple hook could motivate positive change. For right or wrong, the cultural dominance of the USA made it an easily accessible shared point of reference.
But, it is what it is. Work within the bounds of the reality that exists.
What weird image of us do you have that you think we have good jobs, nice houses, and access to education?
60% of us live paycheck to paycheck, sometimes while working more than 1 full time job.
Education is -$50k at base. A basic shitty (prone to mold and problems in a few years) new build house or nice old house in need of work (like a new $20k roof) costs on average a half a million. Rent is $2-3k/mo. And healthcare can bankrupt you.
We have no good mass transit outside of major cities and vehicles now cost $30k to start.
Minimum wage is still $7.50.
As such most people came into this regime hanging by a thread, already fearful for their capacity to provide for themselves or their kids.
All the more reason to fight for a better future, doncha think?
They’re pushing the buttons for revolution, I hope for the best for the American people, against the tyranny of their leaders. The precipice of the future is laid bare on the stage, it’s time for the people to wake up and wrestle their lives back from the greediest motherfuckers we’ve ever witnessed.
Part by design, but also, hard to admit that we already lived through the good times, and that we have to fight to have them again.
And yes, I’m one of those anxious people waxing poetic, I just hope my words are encouragement to someone who needs it, in the mean time just try to be a good member of your community, that’s all any one of us can do, and it does really help at the end of the day.
Not many people are even in a good position to be an effective white knight, and the ones that are have spent their whole life trying to be in those places and don’t want to jeopardize it.
Like, I’m Canadian, and not near the border, best I can do for the most part is keep apprised, encourage, and engage with my local community.
I encountered an exchange a year or so ago where someone was encouraged to riot. They gave a very definitive, honest reply: “I don’t know how.”
Like it or not, like that whole Fight Club scene about how difficult it is to start a fight, I think the statement is middle of the bell curve defining. Only now, we have a younger generation crippled by internal shit, lack of unmoderated interaction experience, unable to even pick up the phone, so they’re not going to go outside to where people are. Just sit at home and hope someone else takes care of it.
General strike is likely the way. Less interactive. But it would take bank/mortgage and landlord support to not break the people doing it. An all in general strike.
Dear America,
You were so proud of your opposition to tyranny. You’ve been screaming “land of the free!” For a couple hundred years now.
It’s time to put up, or shut up.
All that privilege that came with “land of the free”? Your house, your full time job, access to education, freedom of speech, etc? Time to drop it all and FIGHT - like you’ve always bragged about! Always bragging about how great your country was, weren’t you? Then BE GREAT! Get 20 million in the streets of Washington, something might change. Yup, some people gonna die. Or they can disappear forever; dragged screaming and crying never to be seen again.
Give up your privilidge, and FIGHT FOR IT!
You slept while this beast crept into your home.
Put your dog down, and quit whining to the rest of the world.
The loud ones are the ones with their tongues on the boot. The rest of us have to figure out who each other are without the bootlickers finding and ratting us out. Some of us have been fighting for decades. You are not helping.
P.S. fascists are laying groundwork in your country too. What are you doing about that besides criticizing the US?
We’re doing a “don’t elect a multiple felon rapist pedophile” for president.
Also, not giving any single person the power of a king.
If the USA had the right checks and balances, like most EU countries, the POTUS would not have been able to pardon his fellow criminals, would not have been able to delay Epstein files, and would not have been able to invade other countries.
If you think the US is just some anomaly and not the canary in the coalmine of a global rise of fascism, you’re in for a rude awakening. The US absolutely fucked it up, no question about it, and it’s up to Americans to fix that mess, but pretending it’s somehow contained and isolated is very shortsighted. “Fuck you, I got mine” is the exact type of attitude that leads to fascism. Nationalism is a problem even when your country isn’t objectively fucked up.
The Nazis executed my Grandpa for refusing to continue fighting in a war they forced him to participate in, in 1944.
At the time, you could be beheaded simply for saying you didn’t believe the war could be won anymore. They called it “Wehrkraftzersetzung”.
You can still resist without immediately forfeiting your life. You might regret not having done it when it is too late.
To be fair, comparing people trying to do fascism in other countries to Americans hits more viscerally than comparing them to nazis at this point.
So, honestly, being critical of the US and calling out fascism and calling it “Like America” is extremely persuasive. Having Trump like you, as a political figure in the west, is a massive liability. Being seen as similar in any way is a massive liability.
Whatever fucking works. Don’t let the bastards win. I just don’t want anyone feeling secure in this being a US isolated problem, because it sure fucking isn’t.
You’re right, it isn’t. I think there are a lot of cerebral dissections of fascism as a populist movement in the USA, but it’s important to understand that cerebral dissections are an ineffective counter to any populist movement.
Populist movements need a simple hook. An effective counter needs a similarity simple hook. The USA has provided one.
I acknowledge it must suck to BE the simple hook : “This sounds like you wanna turn this country into the USA (everyone barfs)”
Once upon a time, not even that long ago, that same simple hook could motivate positive change. For right or wrong, the cultural dominance of the USA made it an easily accessible shared point of reference.
But, it is what it is. Work within the bounds of the reality that exists.
What weird image of us do you have that you think we have good jobs, nice houses, and access to education?
60% of us live paycheck to paycheck, sometimes while working more than 1 full time job.
Education is -$50k at base. A basic shitty (prone to mold and problems in a few years) new build house or nice old house in need of work (like a new $20k roof) costs on average a half a million. Rent is $2-3k/mo. And healthcare can bankrupt you.
We have no good mass transit outside of major cities and vehicles now cost $30k to start.
Minimum wage is still $7.50.
As such most people came into this regime hanging by a thread, already fearful for their capacity to provide for themselves or their kids.
All the more reason to fight for a better future, doncha think?
They’re pushing the buttons for revolution, I hope for the best for the American people, against the tyranny of their leaders. The precipice of the future is laid bare on the stage, it’s time for the people to wake up and wrestle their lives back from the greediest motherfuckers we’ve ever witnessed.
I don’t disagree. Strangely we have an entire generation of self crippled young people who cower behind screens and wax poetic about personal anxiety.
Part by design, but also, hard to admit that we already lived through the good times, and that we have to fight to have them again.
And yes, I’m one of those anxious people waxing poetic, I just hope my words are encouragement to someone who needs it, in the mean time just try to be a good member of your community, that’s all any one of us can do, and it does really help at the end of the day.
Therein is the main problem. Everyone expects someone else to ride in to the rescue. And there is no white knight.
Not many people are even in a good position to be an effective white knight, and the ones that are have spent their whole life trying to be in those places and don’t want to jeopardize it.
Like, I’m Canadian, and not near the border, best I can do for the most part is keep apprised, encourage, and engage with my local community.
I encountered an exchange a year or so ago where someone was encouraged to riot. They gave a very definitive, honest reply: “I don’t know how.”
Like it or not, like that whole Fight Club scene about how difficult it is to start a fight, I think the statement is middle of the bell curve defining. Only now, we have a younger generation crippled by internal shit, lack of unmoderated interaction experience, unable to even pick up the phone, so they’re not going to go outside to where people are. Just sit at home and hope someone else takes care of it.
General strike is likely the way. Less interactive. But it would take bank/mortgage and landlord support to not break the people doing it. An all in general strike.
Then you have nothing to lose. Boo hoo hoo.
Cowards. Fucking fight already.
So start rioting.
Did you think the rest of us got our rights because the powers that be were especially pleased with the way we fellated them that morning?
What America have you been watching, because I’d sure like to live in the one where we get those things.
you are angry at a caricature of america thats been sold to you and you bought it
US propaganda came from the US, and now the US is bitching about it. Beautiful
Ok keyboard warrior.
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