Political Memes

The funny part to me is the people who actually support Trump are laughing their asses off that the euros are mad. They love it more than they love owning the libs. Hate is what they based their entire personality around, you cannot out-hate a fascist.

Currently adult Americans had like ten different elections that allowed them to not end up in this mess. They failed like 8 of those, so here we are.
The amount of blame is directly proportional to the amount of agency people had. US was, until very recently, a democracy. A bit shitty one, but still, so everyone who was of a voting age share some of that responsibility.

The post from yesterday about the Greenland subreddit was very telling. Greenland and by extension Europe is threatened by America, Americans that don't share the blame, sure, go to a subreddit and flood it with "sorry" posts. That pisses people actually from the subreddit because it's counter productive, so they complain.

Suddenly Americans on Lemmy are pissed at them because how dare they get pissed at us "showing empathy"! Nah, empathy would. Be to shut the fuck up, empathy would be to recognise that flooding a subreddit with "I'm sorry" posts is annoying at best. The gall of those people to say "how date Greenland era not want us having empathy" when their actions don't actually show it... Sickening.

Then there's all of them that seem hurt by us outsiders lumping them all together. I get that, I get that y'all didn't really have a choice, really. Y'all need to get that when tensions are this high, people are not gonna use the most correct wording and as the ones in risk of being invaded, they reserve the right for being impolite to all the other Americans by generalising.

The entitlement that Americans in general have that we outsiders need to consider their personal situation before generalising them when the situation is this fucking critical... No. Grow some skin and get used to be generalised if your government is the one invading, even if you didn't have a choice. Sorry to say but bad luck, you are gonna catch some strays.

I say this as a man that has to read generalised hate towards men by women and the LGBT community because they don't have the energy to use the most proper wording. It's fine. Energies are high, people are venting. We are not talking about you personally.

Complaining that you catching stray shots from potential invadees makes y'all looks so much worse.

Btw, sorry if I used a lot of "you" when referring to Americans in this reply, while not referring to you, Voroxpete. I hope my wording was clear.

I have to constantly remind myself that this is what people in this country voted for

*What they accepted. There are a lot of ways to help fascists that don't involve voting for them and aren't mutually exclusive with voting against them. Fascism takes a lot more work on both sides of the aisle than just winning an election, and I for one am not letting the DNC apologists off the hook.

I'm a rich straight white American man and I'm out here protesting too. You're not alone, that's how they want you to feel so you give up.

But yeah, most Americans are out here being damned slugs unwilling to slightly inconvenience themselves for the future of the country.

The harder part isn't that I didn't vote for it, but the sheer numbers that support it. It represents more of this country than I ever would have imagined. And I've gotten to listen to people in person use completely psychotic taking points that are fed to them. It's so disheartening how stupid so many people are

Man I was hoping someone in the comments would translate that insanity, but damn 😂

Thought that was a clip from a kids show at first. Nope!

How the fuck did I help? I gathered signatures for the 2020 primaries in Mississippi. I moved from Mississippi to Washington to get out of the cesspool. I got involved in my local elections. I canvassed for my local progressive politicians. I went to protests to be a part of one of the largest American protests of my generation. It’s not my fault that I wasn’t born in Africa to an emerald mine family to be able to buy large media corporations and spew bullshit and buy elections. It’s not my fault that people are corrupt up top.

This is giving major “yet you participate in society” vibes.

Yeah, it's been a slow decline over many years, and it's been painful to watch, but it's also very hard to turn a ship as big as the US.

I think it's unfair to blame present-day Americans for the current state of affairs, when millions of Americans in 2003 protested the Iraq War and didn't get any result, when the DHS was already cracking down on peaceful protests in 2012 and since then it's been 4 years of an openly fascist government who'd never be swayed by protest, followed by 4 years of "healing" (but mostly pandemic). And I wouldn't say the Americans have been complacent in the last year, it's the most chaotic shit I've ever seen, with already 2 political assassinations and a string of massive protests.

It's easy to think people did more in the past, but we only get the highlights in the history books. An assassination defines a decade. It takes years of organizing to get a victory.

So don't blame the current generation, America's been pretty fascist for 25+ years and very resistant to change. I just hope this is their opportunity to change it for the better.

I also get swamped with downvotes when I tell people the objective fact that far, far more of us are responsible for the state of things than anyone wants to admit.

The chief sin we all carry is lack of involvement with our local and state governing, or even just basic community-building. We ignored warning signs, we set the problems aside in our every-day life. We didn't organize ahead of time when we saw redpill kids rising in numbers across online spaces and Donald Trump memes growing in popularity. We didn't push in a real-world way to mitigate the harm being done by outside influences, misinformation and online grifting of our feelings.

Imagine if more of us volunteered to serve on school boards and had a voice in those spaces and said "Hey, I'm seeing a LOT of young guys right now online saying they just hate women and dating and hate themselves, like, it's growing, we really need to get ahead of this and start talking to the students here, maybe some after-school reach out and structured life-coaching before these young guys start going to washed-out British kickboxers for help."

Would it have changed the world? Probably not, but it all adds up, every thing we can do helps towards making a better future, it doesn't have to be a singular action that shakes up the status-quo.