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Real question is - will Americans find balls to finally raise hell and get into streets and protest for real (or do general strikes) or will they keep posting "Why doesn't someone arrest Trump/Hegseth/etc?" on social media all day long, fearing loss of any comfort or convenience if they are asked to fight for their freedoms?
I can't tell you the number of times that Americans and citizens of other moral-high-ground countries insisted how I had to fight against my tyrannical regime, decades ago. And we did, and I fought fucking police on the streets.
And here we are, they need to put their money where their mouth is and all we hear is - crickets.
Don't get me wrong, I still prefer Western culture and countries, I would not change it for anything but I am so fucking tired of watching all those loud cunts not having any balls while telling others what they should do (or should have done).
How do all the people suggesting Iranians should have fought the regime feel now, eh?
In case it is not clear, there is 0% chance Trump and billionaires will give away what they hold, peacefully. It is still surreal that there are so many naive people even though they could just glance at history and see how it will play out.
Good luck.
The people are fighting, the problem is the media stomps out coverage of it in an attempt to cull the movement. Not our fault u believe the propaganda, the media has been bought by the people we rebel against. I have to ask, how long did your people have to fight? How long did it take to see results? How big is your country? It's not that the people aren't trying, that's what they want you to think. It's that we are a big country and change takes time. Maybe instead of walking around with your nose above your ears, you can relate to our struggle and help us out by telling us what worked instead of spouting some sexist bullshit about "growing balls". Way to tell us where you stand on sexism and how much u gobble up corporate propaganda.
yea some of us can't afford to risk that, it's not all just comfort it's survival. it's a police state
And it will stay that way till you grow a pair of balls.
This exact mindset is how you end up under the yoke and frankly you deserve it for not fighting against it.
Depending on the ethnicity of the person you replied to, drawing attention to themselves in any form of protest may very well bring an immediate life or death situation. Us pale folk need to be stepping up, and good on those that already are.
You think fighting for your rights is risk free? Bloodless? it has never been that way.
If you want change, you have to save yourselves, resist and fight for that freedom, just like your great grand parents and older did during union riots or veteran rallys. You think the people under nazi occupation often threw them bloodlessly, no. But I'm sure you expect others to do it for you.
This user wants left leaning people getting shot and bombed until there's no one left to push back against Trump (and US fascism) in any form. That's what Trump wants, he'd love for the opportunity to finally declare nation wide martial law, get rid of any sense of term limits, and kill all who rise against him. There's a reason mass deportation of citizens is part of Project 2025 - it's to get rid of the opposition entirely.
Their comment vastly underestimates the depravity of the modern US government, who has already bombed and disappeared citizens. A huge, violent uprising might make the fascist government flinch for a moment, but then they'd remember that they have the most funded military in the world multiple times over and just go to town with reaper drones.
The only chance US residents have is through subtle, quiet sabotage, something that wouldn't be reported on internationally until the damage was already done. Or, a military coup, which most US residents wouldn't be able to initate themselves.
If this user wants a bunch of asylum seeking US residents escaping to Canada, along with whatever left leaning opposition remains dead, then their comment makes sense.
I wonder why this user isn't rising up against their own government who most definitely trades and supports the US in certain ways. I wonder why they aren't violently fighting the rise of global fascism, which is certainly affecting their country. I wonder if they are blind to what's happening with fascism in their own country because they are hyperfixated on shitting on the oppressed for "not doing anything" elsewhere. I wonder if they are counting on billionaire-owned media organizations to tell them what's happening in the US, missing the fact that those organizations intentionally avoid reporting on resistance movements.
This article was an eye-opener for me :
https://edgnts.substack.com/p/why-americans-dont-just-do-something?r=99ug36
Odd strategy wishing death on the oppressed but go off or whatever. How does it look from that "moral highground" of yours?
Your wishing death upon yourselves for not fighting for your right to live the way you had been, waving a no king sign around and pretending like you did something is not fighting, that performative bull rap is just that.
Also, "moral highground" are you fucking stupid, your debating morals while your rights are getting stripped away and you sit their thinking "look at this guy with the soapbox" when I'm telling you if you don't fight for yourselves, why should anybody help you.
Actually explain it, why should I help someone who won't help themselves, and no, going out and "protesting" is not fighting for your rights, the federal Gove doesn't give a shit so this action is POINTLESS.
I say "moral highground" because its easy to sit behind your cpu screen and say people just need to "grow a pair" as if it's just that easy. As if chastizing people at a no kings protest is any more effective than holding a sign at one. Extremely naive and simplistic view of the world if you think its that easy to just overthrow the government with the biggest military industrial complex in the world.
Im assuming youre not American? Why dont you come over and show us how its done then? You make it sound so easy you should be to get it all done in just a few days, a week max.
This article was an eye-opener for me :
https://edgnts.substack.com/p/why-americans-dont-just-do-something?r=99ug36
You know the answer. It's the same reason that you don't raise hell and do a general strike against your simp-for-the-USA government.
Odds are very good that your country uses the US dollar to trade and that you're part of the US-led International Monetary Fund, and that your government trains with the US Armed Forces, follows their military dictates, and buys US weapons. Why do you just watch your government openly serve the USA?
You can buy a plane ticket and start the rebellion any day now, just like Americans, or you can at least stop your own country from serving the USA's interests and feeding the beast.
But you don't. Sad.
They won't, theyll protest then nothing, just like every one of their stupid no kings protests, nothing changes after them but they keep doing this performative nonsense to make themselves feel better.
So you'll stop usimg Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and other corps that fund fascism right? Your gov will stop sharing private info with the US right?
alternatives croping up everydays, you guys seem to being a lot of excuses for facists btw
That's because the NoKings protests have been purchased by the elite and defanged. The original catalystic members were pushed out when they spoke for actually being disruptive.
So, when is your country going to leave the US banking system?
Just wondering how you can live with yourself.
What US banking system? The one with the paper cheques?
You do realize many country's are backing away from American systems right? Soon as America trys anything, the country will move. Also notice how your trying to leaver your countrys 'position' over others when your being criticized? Sounding a lot like a MAGAt to me.
Why are you still using US-backed services? Why are you allowing your government to support fascism in any way? America has already tried something. Shouldn't you be fighting for your freedom from the US?
sorry you cant read. incase it wasn't obvious my country is moving away as well.
I can read just fine. Backing away implies that they haven't completely backed away yet. Why aren't you doing anything about it?
Also, if you're going to start up the personal insults about reading, for some reason, I'm sorry that you can't write:
Don't throw stones in glass houses, and all that.
Just takes one Molotov cocktail to get the revolution started.