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It’s almost like the American “resistance” is a bunch of fucking cowards.
“But I have a family! But I have a job”
Go fuck yourself, so did literally everyone else who ever fought against great odds, you absolute clown.
All while still being very proud that "they" did something in ww2
Most people subconsciously know that they would get Charlie Kirk'd five minutes into their career as resistance fighters.
Maybe you muppets shouldn’t have dined out on “give me liberty or give me death” for two centuries if you just thought it sounded cool but didn’t really mean it.
Or all those guns that so regularly end up in school shootings, yet are supposedly essential for their freedom™ and for “fighting an unjust government.”
Especially considering that people have already shot at government forces over issues like fair wages and workers’ rights.
Have you served or been involved in armed conflict before? Ever conducted or been involved with combat operations in any theater of asymmetrical warfare?
Edit: @WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca that was an earnest question. If it was you, I take it that down-vote means "no". However, I suppose there's nothing stopping you from saying "yes", and just lying about it.
First of all, you can call "muppet" someone irl and see what the consequences are.
Secondly, you come off as nothing more than a keyboard warrior.
Thirdly, educate yourself.
Dude's got a point tho.
Just so I understand properly, are you saying Americans are better than Canadians because your president is so appalling that he requires armed resistance?
Genuinely, I don't understand what the argument is here. How is having "something to resist" a good thing?
Canada showed up to both world wars on day one, Muppet.
While you cowards snivelled on the sidelines, profiteering on it, before jumping in on the last ten minutes. Canada isn’t fucking stupid enough to vote in an absolute lunatic. We aren’t dumb enough to have created an electoral college system, and be tied in to a system that doesn’t allow for government removal between election cycles. We know better than to let the head of state and the head of government be the same orange dipshit. We know that the head of state needs to be apolitical.
America didn’t win the wars, you putz, lol. If anything, you cowards ( and you’ve always been cowards) caused them to go on longer than they otherwise would have. And we don’t fight for the King. We fight in his name, and have never answered to him. He answers to us. You dipshits wouldn’t know about that, though because you’re too busy bending the knee to a madman, pretending that you ever have or would ever scrounge up the guts to fight tyranny And here’s a history lesson for you and your likewise illiterate brethren. 1776 wasn’t about freedom or democracy. If it were, there would have been built in protections that could be properly utilized in a crises. Both Britain and the Commonwealth realms had and have far superior systems. You muppets are falling apart from the inside out, and have no one to blame but yourselves. You fucked up from the Reagan era on, so couldn’t even manage a half century as a superpower before you were already in decline. Pathetic little muppets.
Weak, MAGA level ad hominem. It’s interesting how many of you sound the same and resort to the same boring, tired lines when you’re reminded that your good intentions on their own mean fuck all. Defensive in the same way an 8 year old (or Trump supporter) gets defensive. Way to have ChatGPT help you out with that last paragraph, though. Really drives the point home.
If you can't see how at this point in time 'America bad' is extremely accurate, you are hopelessly lost.
Calm down.