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Trump 'losing his mind' as he'd 'like to meet' Ayatollah despite killing family
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All of America, lol.
Correct.
It's far, far, far past the point that all the "we didn't vote for Trump" Americans take on some responsibility for this mess.
Your (overall) complacency is collectively your fault now. You have a babbling pedophile as a president who is actively destroying the world as we know it, and the best you can do is scoff at the suggestion you bear any responsibility for this.
How very American.
Wrong.
I'm working as hard as I can to undermine him, but I'm a disabled photographer five thousand kilometers away. What, exactly, am I supposed to do to fix this, that I'm not already doing? I'm too weak to use a gun, I'm shit at rallying forces, and besides, America is far too distributed to amass people at a single point. Even if I did somehow summon up the motor skills to outwit the Secret Service and be the best assassin in the world, I'd have to be okay with losing my wife and my friends, as I'm executed basically on the spot. I can't lose that. Trump will die before I do, and it will likely be by his own ragged mind.
Goddamm I need to get this phrase hotkeyed on my keyboard with how often I need to say it to people online who don't know how spread out the US is.
Our 5 largest cities have a nighttime pop of 1:20 of the total population. In Germany that figure is over 1:10 and in France and UK it's more like 1:5.
The largest city in the US is NYC with a nighttime population of 2.5% of the total US population, that same figure for France is 3.1%, in Germany, almost 1:20 Germans live in Berlin alone and in the UK 135:1,000 live in just London.
The US has a very small urban population for its size. This isn't to mention that the two largest cities are separated by a 2,000 mile desert and border two different oceans. The only way to congregate most Americans is through the Herculean task of mobilizing the suburbs, which has had some success (No Kings Day is the largest nonviolent protest in history), but is still much harder than rallying in more urbanocentric European countries.
Then you good.
Each according to thier ability.
The thing that drives the world nuts is when people in the US are like "not my responsibility".
Where are you from?
This is a common circle for people like us to run around in.
Yes, there are many individuals who are doing a lot, punching far above their weight class.
My point is when I boycott American products, advocate for the US to be punished politically and economically, when I spread the message loud and clear where I am that "America is the enemy", that necessitates putting YOU in the crosshairs of my actions.
Do I love that? No, we're on the same team. Is that going to stop me? Absolutely not.
The best analogy I can think of is sports. I'm gonna hate your hockey team because they're our rival, they play dirty on the ice, etc. One of your players might feed the hungry and use their money to build orphanages, but that doesn't change the fact that I'll be cheering for your team to fail.
Maybe there's nothing else you can possibly do. Truly. Life's not fair. But you and I both know that the average American citizen is doing basically nothing. That's the "person" I'm talking to when I post things like this. I can't individually judge 350 million people, so I have to address your average. Your average sucks.
I am prepared to die in this country.
I do not deserve to die in this country, I don’t choose to live here.
But because I am transgender, my federal government explicitly wants me dead.
And the populations of other countries do not care for my survival, because I was born on an overseas American military base, and then brought here as a child, means I am a citizen of this evil empire.
And I understand that even though I myself am not evil, I am a member of an evil empire, and my government and large portions of the outside world want me injured or dead in some way.
But I am scrappy and I have a heart full of love and beauty.
And I outlived Charlie Kirk.
Fuck off and learn how democracies work
Like this?
Oh I'm sorry, is your working democracy in the room with us right now?