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it's a wake up call the same way your alarm is a wake up call two hours after it initially went off and you've been hitting snooze every five minutes
Start shooting ice agents
One of ours. All of theirs.
There's a lot fewer ICE agents than there are American workers. They're just starting with the dayworkers, cleaners, and nurses because its more palatable for the white right-wing. Next, they'll come for other groups of dark Americans.
This always was and always will be a class war. No war but the class war.
One of my earliest wake up calls was when a certain president didn't outright dismantle the Patriot Act, allowing illegal privacy invasion policies on American citizens to continue and have now made the life of ICE officers a lot easier.
I wonder who that president was...
Yes Obama was part of the problem too. Refusing to acknowledge the surveillance and rights to authorities as soon as they claimed terrorism were way beyond what's healthy for a democracy. Unfortunately Obama too was very "American" in that regard.
There have been sooo many wake up calls. The alarm has been blaring for a decade, and most people keep hitting snooze. The bus is long gone, and you’ve missed so many days, you’re going to be expelled. Final exams are today. Try not to show up in your underpants.
No one really cares until the victims look like them. Now that it's 2 white people it's the time to care
You’re right, and that’s fucking disgusting.
I’ll take it, though. It’s better than never.
People still don’t care. Jack shit is being done about any of this.
There’s a general strike, but we gotta get the billionaires scared (or get rid of them) if we want change.
I'd argue in this situation waking up yesterday would be a lot better than waking up today, but also better next week then next year. The more people get awake the bigger the critical mass needed to turn this shit around.
Obama used drones to murder innocent people. He helped throw the boomerang. Fuck him
They were American citizens, but I don't think anyone believes they were innocent
But they were brown people.
Phone's been ringing off the hook since 2016
We are literally on the last stanza of First The Came, but now is the wakeup call? Him and his party paved the way to where we are right now. The chickens have come home to roost.
He can go fuck himself.
Wake-up call for who?
The people who already knew and voted against Trump? Or the people who voted for him, and also knew he is a fascist sociopath? Or the people who don't care?
There is no way this should be a wake-up call for anybody. This was to be expected. We knew already before his inauguration that he would destroy democracy and put USA at the very least to the brink of civil war doing it.
How is this in any way surprising?
Even the infamously slow moving EU reacted in less than a month to Trump, and began to work on independence from USA.
The world has clearly reacted, but has neither right or power to remove Trump.
The ones that have power to remove Trump are the Americans, and for some reason they don't.
What would you have us do?
This is such a tired response at this point. If you really have no idea, go take a nap. Your country is better off without your help. When Americans do finally act, they’re not going to want you underfoot asking for directions.
But let’s be real- you already know full well.
What you’re really asking is “what would you have us do that requires very little work and doesn’t put me at any risk?”
I've been warning about this since before Trump won the election.
But to be honest IDK what to do at this point, except occupy white house and congress.
It seems more and more like either give Trump his way, or prepare for civil war. 😬
I hope your fellow Americans have better ideas. The time to act was before Trump had everything stacked on his side. But maybe he doesn't have that quite yet. And some of the services will side with the people if they act now.
But apparently all the services are now ready to do Trumps bidding. And if true, that means that USA is already a dictatorship.
Yeah. Agreed. The time to act was when we had the option to vote against tyranny. But too many people felt it necessary to protest shit happening in a country they couldn’t have pointed to on a map months before, and the rest of the clowns felt that “good” was the mortal enemy of perfect. So much so that it seems they’re willing to repeat their mistakes in 2028.
Still, everyone wasn’t to believe there’s a way out of this- and no one wants to hear the truth. And yet- the truth is what drives everyone to do nothing about it.
I guess it’s better to just whine about everything while doing nothing as opposed to calling it out.
the truth is what drives everyone to do nothing about it.
The truth is that if Trump wins, USA is a dictatorship, and Americans have in effect lost a lot of the rights and freedoms they used to take for granted.
I think the truth should make people want to fight for democracy and their rights. The longer people wait, the harder it gets. Because the administration is systematically turning all the agencies into fascist wagging tails of the administration.
News flash: trump won.
It looks like it, but he hasn't quite won yet.
Voting against Trump wasnt the solution, he's a cog in the machine. Replace the cog and the machine still functions the same. Opposing and fighting the entire system will be the only way to create a difference.
"They should have used drones instead"
I’m sorry Americans but there were many wake up calls before this, Renee Good should have been a fucking wake up call! You need to go to your state capitals or to DC and demand the removal of Donald the Cunt.
Just for a frame of reference for my European friends, the Whitehouse is a 42 hour drive through 11 states for me right now. Each one of those 11 states is politically unique. Organizing this country is not nearly as simple as everyone else on the planet seems to think. Furthermore, preventing us from organizing is one third of the planets billionaires, who's interests lie definitively in our being fragmented, over worked, and exploitable.
You have senators and congressmen, you have mayors and district politicians, you have state capitals.
You go the the first in the chain, their homes and offices with enough people they cannot say no, and you take them with you to the next in the chain with more people.
It’s like you don’t realise what is happening, that you are about to become prisoners at the whims of a string of dictators. To me that would be worth a 42 hour drive and some car camping, but at the very least a ring around and a visit to my district politicians with some friends.
That looks SO good in writing.
We’re still writing books about the alternative option after ~85 years.
You honestly think gong to the houses of politicians is going to stop trump? He OWNS them. They are his possessions.
You don’t appeal to satan by addressing his demons.
When you outnumber their demons 1 million to 1 you’d be surprised what you can do.
lol…. Their demons can turn you into pink mist from space without losing a man. Not only that, if it came to a ground war- they’d destroy us.
What do you think the military trains for exactly? Swimming? LMAO!
senators and congressmen, you have mayors and district politicians, you have state capitals.
None of them care, they are in those positions to feed the current system, a system they benefit too much from.
They’ll care if they have a thousand of their constituents chanting at them day and night how much they suck and how you want them out.
Yeah, everyone seems to think it’s the 1800’s still.
What would be the difference? Much easier travel to your state representative? Easier to find them? Easier to set up a chat group and organise your friends and family?
And what will that do exactly?
You want someone to slow walk protesting your government??? No wonder you’re inviting a dictatorship.
What America needs is the ability to do presidential recalls and no confidence votes like the Europeans.
With fascism on the rise we all need to be a little more ‘French’ with our public officials. Those MFers still had the Guillotine until 1981
After all the "wake up calls" one would assume the metaphorical person's deaf or just plain dead already.
Philando Castile should have been the wake up call.