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It's easy for you to talk on the Internet from your armchair of job protections and privilege, where you've probably never had to resist anything in your life. Most people are 1-2 months from homelessness without an income. This isn't a hypothetical situation. It's a cold fact. And if you are homeless, your kids get taken away. Do you think people are able to protest more effectively in that kind of situation? Which single protest is going to make the immediate difference to bring about change.
And our labor protections were already eroded several generations before I was born. Almost nobody has union representation. It is illegal for a union to require members to pay membership fees. It is illegal for a union to require a company to hire only union members. It is illegal for a union to require its members to participate in collective bargaining. And it is illegal for unions to take action on anything not directly involving the company its members specifically work for, including general, solidarity, and political strikes. Furthermore, the executive branch can obtain injunctions to declare any strike illegal if it is ruled to be a threat to national health or safety. While there have been attempts as recent as this year, there hasn't been a single successful general strike in the United States since the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947 passed.
And WE ARE protesting. There are people are protesting EVERY SINGLE DAY all over the country. But you will never see that on the news. Many other people and I have attended numerous protests when we are able to. Have you ever stood in 40+°C heat all day weakly holding a sign while trying not to black out from heat exhaustion at a protest? I have. What have you done? You might not live here, but you are affected by some US actions too. You have politicians too, which could be doing more for your people. Your rights could be slowly getting eroded away right now. And if there are any billionaires that exist in your country at all, I guarantee they are. It's easy to talk shit, but the impactful thing is to stand in solidarity and do what you can from your side of the pond. There are a lot of things you need to be pushing for. Like what the people in Albania are doing right now. You are in a good place to be making a difference. You don't have to live in fear of the stuff we're dealing with. You don't have to continually worry every single day about whether any of your friends are going to get murdered by ICE or a cop.
And please, almost nobody has used Twitter since it went to shit (I've never even had an account), only boomers have used Facebook for the past decade, and everyone is pissed about the AI stuff. You love to make generalizations. I get that you're frustrated. What do you think the frustration is like here?
They're doing about as much as what Americans are doing to help themselves.
I do think there's a lot of eyes opening now.
There's definitely a rise of the far right happening all over that's very alarming. One of the things that makes it scary is how low key all of it can be. It's easy for people not to notice until all of the cards are in place, and then everyone is completely caught off guard. Like consider France - despite how frequent, powerful, and progressive all of the protests have always been in France, Le Pen got scary close to getting into actual power. All of the oligarchs have their tentacles spread throughout the planet. Albania is protesting stuff involving Jared Kushner. It's really got me thinking that there's some very specific things that need to happen in countries all over the world while there's still time, otherwise they'll inevitably turn into authoritarian hellholes. But right now, the cards aren't in place for a lot of countries. What just happened in Hungary inspires hope.
But billionaires need to get taxed out of existence, large companies need to be broken up or nationalized, money needs to be kept out of politics in every way possible, and the world needs to move completely off of US based technology as well as fossil fuels. I know a lot of people are trying in Europe, and I hope that even if my country turns into a hellish nightmare, that it opens enough people's eyes that they can at least save their own. Climate change is coming, and it's going to cause civil unrest like we cannot even comprehend. Nobody anywhere is going to escape it unscarred. Hopefully some of us can at least make it. But that will require societies working as societies and leaving nobody behind, and everywhere is very far from that point.
wow, the victim complex is strong with this one... you are right, you are the real precious creature suffering, not the thousands being starved, tortured or slaughtered because of what your country is doing around the world
do us all a favour a take a nap, because when you are sleeping, the world stops and nothing else matters
And what country do you live in? What are you doing to help? You never answered.
Why does that matter at all?
because they'll say something bad about my country and go "ha! see? your country is not perfect and therefore mine doesn't evenhave to be good"
they argue like spoiled kids
No, because I'd almost certainly get to point out that your government is still closely allied and largely supportive of the US government, both economically and politically, up to and including the aggression in Iran, and odds in favor of supporting our genocide in Palestine too. And that the outcry of Europeans to detach from our nascent reich pales in comparison to it's resistance from domestic Americans, to a degree that suggests you're all but comfortable and complicit with that alliance. And you're angry at yourself and feeling guilty that you're afraid to demand forcefully from your own government that they drop support for us, so you redirect that guilt and anger toward actual Americans on the internet. Pull your weight, do your part. Quit barking at me like a vassal dog while I pull mine.
lol I'm from Canada… we stopped going to your country, stopped buying anything you make and bush our shitty politicians to stop paying attention to your pedophile in chief
Canada has reacted and pressured the USA economically harder than you with your weekend protests
Get off your ass and do something that matters while you still can… you are NOT the victim here
Your government is still our closest economic and political ally, save for maybe the UK and Israel.
While your government has official abstained from participating publicly in the invasion of Iran, your prime minister's statement on the matter is not condemnation of US aggression, but the following:
You have not ceased trade or travel with the US. As of a few days ago your government was enthusiastically promoting renewal of the USMCA while Trump was the only one arguing against it, and I myself was in Vancouver just a few months ago. Lots of trucks coming and going through customs.
While I appreciate anything you're personally doing to pressure your leaders, I really do, you too have a lot more to do before I think you're justified haraunging random anti-Trump Americans on the internet. Canada's international image is not anti-Trump, it's one of accommodation through non confrontation.
I wish you the best of luck in your protests, I hope you wish me well in mine.
as expected… all you did was find something to pin on my country in a childish attempt to dilute your country's guilt
congrats…