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Yeah, cuz Nepal is known for it's military.
Yeah, it’s not like your country has based its entire identity for two centuries on its spirit of violently resisting tyranny against great odds
That's not the countries identity, that's a propaganda line.
This person is obviously not immune to propaganda.
Resisting foreign tyranny, specifically. The US certainly doesn't have that identity anymore.
Yeah they've haven't. Maybe you're drinking the koolaid. But only a fool would believe this.
This line is so perfect it needs to be a meme.
People really love criticizing the US and fair enough, but man it's tiring seeing people lambasting the US for not violently resisting when we actively are and it's just being suppressed by the media. Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch we can't storm congress, but we're doing a whole fuckload despite that...
We cannot protest the government without support from the government.
Examples?
Protests against the second Trump administration
Gaza war protests in the United States
2025 United States protests against mass deportation
United States abortion protests (2022–present)
United States racial unrest (2020–2023)
These are just the protests. Note that all these links list multiple, recent protests, which actually get media attention on things.
If you want the stuff that the media doesn't tend to cover as well, you have to look hard (and maybe deal with a paywall and local reporting and realizing that what makes the news isn't all that's happening): ICE raid in Rochester stymied as 2 workers evade arrest, 200 residents protest
Well since local media aren't covering them and many foreign ones step in line to not upset lord trump, the only way to get examples is to attend them.
The cities he sent military to were the cities that had largest protests.
Protests? So no, not violently resisting.
So, guaranteed death? USA will not use billy clubs and shields to knock down protesters. They will SHOOT and kill.
I'm not dying because we have 80 million retarded cunts here.
People are already DYING, what bodycount can your conscience hold?
Oh and did you miss all the students who were shot and killed in Nepal? You can find videos of them bleeding out in the streets with people desperately trying to save them, kids dying in school uniforms as they protest, but sure billy clubs.
Dude, there's no way you can argue your way into making someone feel bad for not wanting to risk their life in a violent resistance against their own government.
That's a choice every person have to make for themselves. You don't know them. You don't know their situation.
You seriously need to take a step back and sit down.
Are you just going for a shock reaction, or are you seriously trying to neg other people into dying for you?
I'm trying to convince Americans to do something to stop their fascists from killing people. I'm not there, I can't support in any other way.
So you're the very definition of a keyboard warrior, but for some reason you get to decide that things like 'protesting' aren't doing enough, and to demand accountability for us not dying in your place.
No a keyboard warrior would be someone trying to act tough by threatening or abusing you, the whole "I'd kick your arse if you were here saying that to my face" shtick.
And to demand Americans stop America from killing innocent people? Yeah the fucking audacity of me right.
I suppose I should have used 'slacktivist' or 'armchair anarchist', but I felt the implication that you'd be doing what you're demanding of americans (were the political situations reversed) was enough to muddy the distinction between the three incredibly important terms. I also felt those two were more directly insulting, and liable to be wrong (you might be involved in your local politics IRL), so I chose to avoid using them. Please, let us litigate further this topic I'm sure we both care about instead of talking about something like: how easy it is to demand other people die for a cause when you can't be asked to do the same.
For context: I've been shot while protesting for Palestine once already, and the IDF ripped out my babysitter's spine with a bulldozer and left her to drown in her own blood while she was protesting. What've you done in in your time, exactly, that's putting your body on the line?
(okay)
it was probably just a flesh wound from shrapnel, but there were still bullets.^edit:^ ^bulldozer,^ ^not^ ^backhoe^
How many American protesters have been killed since January 2025?
Give me your source. Otherwise, STFU.
When you say violently resisting, what specifically do you mean?
Setting things in fire, erecting barricades, actively fighting authorities and creating chaos, making it impossible to ignore. For examples see the Maiden revolution in Ukraine, Hong Kong protests a few years ago, or any Tuesday afternoon in France.
Orange revolution and Euromaidan in Ukraine were peaceful protests the government responded violently to them which energized more people.
In Poland Solidarity also was peaceful and the one that created violence was the government.
Historically peaceful protests like the above are more effective, because more people are willing to join them.
Please give examples
It's a little difficult to provide specific novel examples without doxxing myself (the whole "suppression by the media" thing), but heck there's plenty of examples even just from what's in the news media.
You say "plenty" but the LA June protests were for the most part the exception rather than the rule. Can we get something recent and/or from outside LA?
Sure, but man, it's kinda exhausting having a bunch of people jump on "sources please" when the initial comment was about how the lack of easily available reporting on this is a real problem.
I mean, even if they're not covered by most media someone somewhere has to be talking about them. At the very least leftwing media should be frothing at the mouth to cover these things. I guess your link ticks the "outside LA" box so this isn't/wasn't a LA-exclusive thing, but still I'd expect even a little reporting to filter through this information blackhole you're talking about if the resistance is on the scale you're suggesting. I looked up "anti ice protests violent" and most results were from June with the rest from early July.
Wow all the way back in June before the protests fizzled after accomplishing next to nothing
Just keep on shifting those goalposts, you'll get there eventually.
Whatever you gotta say to convince yourself I guess
But... you were the one that asked for convincing, I'm already convinced. I'm just choosing not to engage in a discussion about this topic because you're clearly not willing to approach it in good faith. I know it's kinda wounding to the ego when someone says "Nah I'm not doing this with you" but you're just going to have to accept that that's what's happening.
K
Thank you! I'm genuinely grateful you're being mature about it and moving on.
^edit:^ ^Nevermind^ ^:(^
No your not. Your volunteering to go into the street to be rounded up by the cops. It's the stupidest fucking thing. You literally have the equivalent of the printing Press giving to every person and you all think it's easier to organize people to publicly show up in a town three states over then it is to use get those people to use the propaganda machine to spread a message.
Thank you, this is a wonderful example of exactly the kind of ignorance I was talking about. I appreciate the support!
And they all clapped
Just know you're no different than r/the_donald users
you're*
Yes, for example the Gurkhas are from Nepal.
Or did you mean the regular army? They put down a major Maoist insurgency over the decade of 1996-2006, and have remained a significant force in Nepal. Historically they've played a major role in power transitions, such as the Rana era from 1846-1951 when military officer Jung Bahadur Rana overthrew the monarchy and established a hereditary prime ministership, and then again in King Mahendra’s 1960 coup when the monarchy took power until the 1990s.
But fortunately they've not been as prominently involved at playing "kingmaker" as the militaries of many other South Asian countries. They tend to act as a stabilizing force for whoever gets power by other means. I guess we'll see if that pattern continues to the current unrest.
Well yeah the gurkhas