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Not sure how much Americans are aware they are despised as a collective about electing this twice, doing fuckall about it, blaming everything and everyone else and now pushing it onto the rest of us.
Doing fuck all about it? The people doing something about it you won't hear about.
You won't hear about any local resistance in another country. You won't hear about any local organization in another country. Hell even if someone was planning another assassination attempt, you wouldn't be hearing about it unless they were really stupid.
The thing that has been most shocking to me about this entire thing is how much foreigners have sided with Trump over the American people. Blaming Americans for Trump completely, even while knowing he is a dictator who ignores the wishes of his own people, and then inviting Trump to their countries to shake hands and make deals. Unbelievable.
I've seen foreign nationals say that we "deserve" to be raided by ICE for "voting for" Trump... the dictator who ignores the popular vote. They're on Trump's side, they want the same things he wants, they just want to feel morally superior.
We’ll hear about it if it’s a complete peaceful shutdown. You’re wrong about protests too, we see news on those quite often.
Yeah we do, we do all the time. They actually do it properly though.
Hey, guess what, people have been trying to organize a peaceful shut down but that's hard to do for a country about the size of a continent, and when people are already working three jobs to have enough money to survive and worried they will be homeless if they take a day off.
And no, sorry, you don't hear about everything people are doing, because a lot of those changes happen locally. You hear about the new mayor of New York, but you don't hear about a new progressive DEI program in a smaller town in Alabama. You don't hear about a local neighborhood ice watch in Minnesota. You don't hear about a petition going around in Ohio to reform voting on a local level.
You don't hear about people starting phone trees, ride shares, food banks. Hell even people in the area might not know about them.
So sorry that what people are doing isn't sensationalist enough to make international headlines, but it's the sand in the gears and the level people on the ground level can actually do.
Also if you think your country's media doesn't have bias, then you're ripe for indoctrination and propaganda.
You're a total moron and there is no point explaining anything to you or arguing with you, but I'm confident that you'd tell victims of the Holocaust that they deserved it, because that's pretty much what you're doing now. Except unlike in Germany, the majority of the country's population is on the list to die, rather than a relatively small group of people. The majority of Americans share characteristics that the regime wants to eliminate, and the number of hated traits are numerous, not tied only to race or religion.
It’s okay, I understand. You’re lashing out.
And you’re calling me a moron.
If you get another fair chance, just get out and vote, in both the primary and the main election. Beyond that I don’t care and I don’t care what you think of me, just get out and do it regardless who the candidate ends up being, and get your friends and family to do the same. Help anyone who can’t.
Do you genuinely believe "get out and vote" is a viable solution in the US, or is this ragebait?
Again, this is really really for real fascism, not like the kind on TV or in fiction. This is real life.
Do you know what the Electoral College is and why it exists?
Yes. The evidence suggests it’s true. So, yes.
Yes, and it didn’t stop Biden or Clinton being elected when they got enough votes did it? Yes I know what it is and I know it’s a problem. Unfortunately for the w3 cAnTd0 aNaThAng argument, it has put Democrats in as well.
Honestly, only Americans get away with this ay…continuing to make disproven arguments valid. Anyone else tried this, it’d be out of line.
.... no they were not elected because of votes. I'm sure that the media made a big deal about the votes. It doesn't actually matter, they could have just picked someone else. Democrats are the same as Republicans in terms of impact on real people. The only difference is the PR. Obama did the whole prison camp for immigrants thing too.
I didn't say we can't do anything.
Well, yeah you are saying you can’t do anything.
Seriously if Americans were as committed to the electoral process as they are finding excuses for the government they elected they’d have the most progressive government in the world. Being tribal about your politics isn’t committing to the electoral process either.
I didn't say we can't do anything, I said we can't do it alone.
You’re gonna have to.
Not only is it not our responsibility, we can’t help. Believe me, us sanctioning the US will only turn your government against us. All we can do is what we are…ride it out, be as friendly as we can (the reason Australia goes above and beyond is because of who we are and a little debt from WW2 but the citizenry patience is being tested) and try not to poke the bear too much.
But it’s your job and your responsibility, not ours. We were told to mind our own business for years when we warned US citizens this was coming during the Obama tenure, when Ryan and Gingrich started their obstructionist crap.
The sooner you all get together on a peaceful shutdown the better off you’ll be.
I hate to break it to you but American fascism will probably turn against you regardless, and cannot be appeased. You won't be saved by refusing to side with American citizens. Appeasement will not win you safety.
What?
Yeah, we know, unless their citizens stop it.
Mam, your argument is dogshit. Just let it be. Take the L.
Oh, that's why you've been so disrespectful and refuse to follow up on what I'm saying to you. You think I'm a woman.
Yeah that’s pathetic
It’s a typo
Keep going though you’re just embarrassing yourself now
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/about
People are getting in ICE's face and filming their crimes at risk to ther lives for people they've never met.
Good. They need to.
Peaceful shutdown from at least 60% of the population in the metro areas would be better.
When stuff like this happens, which it occasionally does, you're not going to know about it, because you do not live here. Our press is not going to report it, because we live under real fascism, not pretend fascism from TV.
Again, not exactly true. I’ve seen some good protests. I saw ICE shoot people.
So someone’s producing news. Not that it matters, we can’t change it, only US citizens can.
Well, no, actually, we probably can't. Hitler fell because of the Allied Forces, not because Jews and Poles banded together to beat him up.
The thing with Hitler is that there’s a template to learn from.
Hitler should have been dealt with a lot earlier than what he was. Hitler also governed a very different population and situation at the time. America isn’t where it is because it was held hostage by taxing war agreements and governed by oppressive outside influence…it’s a bunch of over indulgent and privileged arseholes being exploited.
The Germans didn’t know what was coming really. American do, and not only that they gave it a trial run.
The only similarities are the political ideology, not the countries themselves. Americans can still stop this if they want.
Trump won because the Electoral College thought a "strong Republican President" was "what the country needed." There is absolutely nothing I or anyone in my social class could have done to influence this decision.
The difference between the Third Reich and America is that Germans had some small influence over who they elected in the form of votes that were actually counted.
No, Americans in general cannot decide who the president is. Our presidential elections are theater and have been since slavery was abolished.
So if that’s the case, how did Biden manage to win? Did the Republicans let him?
Did they let Clinton win?
Nope, if enough turn out to vote, the US will get the president they want.
Biden won because the electoral college wanted him to win. He belongs to the same social class as Trump.
Yes, they let Clinton win.
No, it doesn't matter who we vote for. The only options are their people, and then they get to disregard which of their people that we pick if they want to.
"Voting won't help" isn't the same thing as giving up, but it is an acknowledgment of our reality.
Yeah honestly, this is just sad to watch. They won because they were elected. Like Mamdani.
This is just snivelling stuff.
Mamdani wasn't running for president, what does the Electoral College have to do with Mamdani?
Mamdani proves that voting works.
You know damn well I’m aware that he’s not a federal rep and you’re also aware of why I’m using him as an example. Stop trying to fudge the conversation because your argument is weak.
Voting for mayor or for local elections is a completely different process as opposed to voting for president. If you're voting for a mayoral or local election, your vote is directly counted (allegedly). That isn't the case for presidential elections.
No, I have no idea why you're using Mamdani as an example. You clearly know less about how our government works than the average American. Please do some googling before returning to this conversation, I will not reply until you know what I'm talking about and can respond to what I'm actually saying to you.
It’s the same principle which still ends the same way.
So you don’t know what you’re talking about?
I can do a crayon picture if you like…he won the primary based on getting more votes and did the same to win his election.
Piss around with semantics all you want, the principle is the same and so is the process pretty much.
You don’t want him used as an example because he disproves your point. That he’s not a federal rep makes no difference to that point, because it works for them too. As Biden proved.
I couldn’t give a fuck if you don’t reply. Good, fuck off. One less Seppo bothering my day.
I understand that you cannot and will not help the American people defeat fascism, you will not lead or follow, my only hope is that you will get out of the way. And stop allowing your government to appease our dictator. In all likelihood the only thing you will ever do is be angry at Americans online.
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/about
Yeah now you’re just arguing in bad faith
I’m done here.
If you get another shot, get out and vote, encourage your friends to do the same, help anyone you can that can’t.
You're gonna keep inviting Trump into your country, he's gonna keep shaking hands with your leaders, and even if he kills all of us American citizens all at once in a state-sponsored massacre and you hear about it on the news, your country will not impose sanctions, and you'll see your leader shaking hands with him on television the following month.