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Trump Is Reportedly Sending Israel $2.8 Billion in Bombs. You're Paying for Them
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The fuck do you expect us to do? Most of us are one missed paycheck away from homelessness.
What have you tried so far?
What have you tried so far?
Not my country.
...but in my country I'm a member of a few human right organisations and I lend some time to local political efforts. It's not much, but it's more than most.
There have been protests all over the country all summer.
Yes, I've been to some. Why do you care?
I'm not genociding anyone and have no say over what the nut in the Whitehouse does. I find it odd that your username is a King of the Hill character though. Don't come at me for shit I have no control over.
Do what you can to fight back. Trying to survive is how they want you kept busy. Stop buying consumerist things. Stop shopping at Walmart and target and Amazon. Join community groups. Vote. Attend rallies.
You personally may already do that bit most don't. Union membership is down globally. Big tech is taking control and hasn't had a useful product in a generation.
How do you propose we get a significant amount of people to do that? Hell, there's a lot of places where Walmart might be the only choice, and if there is another choice it's Dollar General, which is in some ways even worse than Walmart.
I can't even really afford "consumerist things" (whatever that means, in my house we're barely treading water with just the essentials at this point.
Something tells me the people who participated in the Civil Rights Movement weren't exactly swimming in money either.
Protests have been going on non-stop since day one of the administration.
These "protests" are almost all weekend parades. If the Civil Rights Movement was like this it would've ended up a footnote in history. You should look up what MLK and crew actually did to get where they ended up. And of course, the Civil Rights Movement did employ wasn't as peaceful as the textbooks would have you believe. So I guess what I want to say is: Do what MLK did then you can say you tried.
Fash put people in cages for 30 years just for having zines.
Let's be clear about what we're dealing with.
Yes, let's riot under an administration that's itching to call for nation wide marshal law.
You don't live here, do you? If that's the case, then I forgive your ignorance on the situation we're in. Otherwise, what are you doing?
I don't, in fact, live in America, but also the problem here is that your democracy has no future unless you do something. The time where this could be resolved without significant personal risk is long past. If you think the risk of regime retaliation is worse than the risk of living under MAGA for the next two decades, then sure, but know that those are the options you're looking at here.
I don't think you understand the likelihood of what you want resulting in our deaths. They've already killed numerous protesters. I live 1,100 Miles from DC. Hell, the closest real city is a hundred miles from me. I feel like you don't understand the size and how spread out the country is. You seem to have this idea that we can just flip the do something switch and things magically happen.
You want to believe that you're just better than us and that it can't happen in your country, when it has likely already begun.
Lol. This guy thinks I can afford McDonald's.
So you're choosing option 2. In that case better look up how to avoid being disappeared by an authoritarian regime.
No, the opposite in fact. My country is already by an authoritarian regime, and it's seriously not a fun experience.
It's not an option if you don't really have a choice.
And what are you doing about that?