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[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah they’re lashing out.

They want someone, anyone, other than themselves taking care of it so they can Netflix and chill. That’s why straight up, they refer to the problems their PACs are bringing to our countries, and what we are doing about that.

These are people who think electing Trump should qualify them asylum in other countries and they get very nasty when that is argued down.

They will avoid whatever responsibility they can and push that onto others.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world -2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah let me go get myself shot and leave my family with no means of support because some armchair badass on the internet said I'm chicken and they totally would have kicked Trump's ass if it had happened there

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 3 points 11 hours ago

Sooner or later they will have to do something as a collective or some will just get dragged out of their own homes and shot anyway. Isn’t that actually happening?

Never once did I say you were a chicken so stop making shit up and stop making it about one person.

What I would be doing if I was American would be voting every single election I could, participating in any protests I can, writing to the progressive reps who are the only ones likely to listen and linking up with like any minded people at the protests and elsewhere that I can. That’s what you can do and if enough did, you’d probably have enough to pull off a national shutdown. There’s people out there trying to string something together and you can find them if you look.

Here’s some facts on it though: they elected Trump (twice) democratically, so we can’t help. They told us to mind our own business across several platforms before 2016, now they expect us not just to help out or even take care of the entire thing, but to welcome them with open arms in asylum from…an elected government. The increased problems with right wing lunacy we’re suffering are brought to us and financially backed by their political scene. They are where they are because of years of neglecting the vote and that includes institutionalising the oppressive systems they now deal with. They cannot use the 2nd Amendment, the thing they used to remind us for years how oppressed we were when they weren’t, to get out of it. The excuses they expect us to accept for it, they don’t offer other nations. They, like Churchill said, will take every other option but the correct one until they’re left with no option.

You got no alternative anyway outside of pure luck. You’ll either have to or there’ll be authorities dragging you out of your houses anyway. We’ve seen how it ends. The sooner you all get together and do it the easier it’ll be.