I'm going to get downvoted to shit for this, but its worth saying. If they're not afraid of shoot people in broad daylight in the name of self-defense, you bet, they're going to lay down LETHAL suppressing fire when the crowds start marching. They wont use water cannons or tear gas, LETHAL.. TACTICS... to protect their false prophet/golden calf they worship.
See, what people don't give is the context. Where the military there is all but paramilitary in how well they are equipped and trained. Also a good portion of them also supported what the people were doing and simply didnt take violent action against them. And that's not talking about population density ect. Nepal is barely bigger than AL while also having like 5x the population density.
Alright I want to organize 100k people to go march on DC, we're going to picket congress, the white house, all the major stops. i also want to organize coalitions to match the same time on red state capitals and any capital that have officials that are enabling magats. Plus I want 50k to picket each of the top billionaires and their companies. Who have created this class war and we're gonna tear it down. I'll start a go fund me and we are gonna organize.
This is why I get upset when ppl say all we can do is protest and vote. Turns out you can ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING if you don't limit yourself to working within the system that is designed to oppress you. Anything an oppressor permits you to do is not a solution, or they would not permit it. If you aren't willing to fight, then at least make sure you aren't doing the job of the fascists by condemning it.
Are Americans soft? Maybe. But fighting the government of Nepal vs the strongest military/spy network on planet earth are not the same animal. This type of rebellion would be crushed instantly, and I say this as a bleeding heart lefty. Different tactics for different situations. This is not a video game.
How long had the government been corrupt before it finally boiled over into this level of resistance? I remember this happening but I don't know how long it took to get to that point.
Politicians produce a lot of smoke, if it's not released regularly, it builds to an unhealthy level so be sure to help your political entities stay healthy XD
I wonder if every revolution had a buncha of douchebags that don't help but run their mouth about what needs to be done. Probably. Seems historically accurate.
Regardless how long it takes to start, when it starts... nobody will remember you running your mouth. They'll just remember the brave ones who do something.
There are more guns than people in this country and liberal gun ownership is on the rise. There are only 750,000 cops in the US and most of them are in major cities.
Half of the American government has no conscience. And the other half refuses to act because they don't want to be confrontational. It doesn't matter how much proof there is or how much people talk or warrants are issued and impeachments made. The ruling party will simply respond: "make me leave" because they know nothing will happen. The only thing that is going to shake the status quo is when one of the protest rallies turns violent and mob mentality takes over.
Despite the painful decline in the American standard of living, our material wealth is still the envy of the world - Americans are too coddled to revolt. Revolution is for the desperate.
American Gen z is still too busy blaming trans people and women for all their problems because some manosphere Epstein adjacent billionaire backed internet influencer told them so.
The problem isnt any one generation. The problem is Americas entire culture and socitey. Its how the whole contry thinks and acts. The fundament for this shit show was always there, look at how other countries steriotype americans, and think about WHY. WHY are american portrayed as they are in media? Maybe becuase it has *SOME* truth to it.
People in america is brought up pledging alligence to their flag, beliving in the american dream, being lied to about their history, etc..
Fuck you! My gen z boyfriend IS Trans, and I'm watching the people around him, friend and enemy. The problem is with uneducated wildly ignorant people like you who try to do exactly what you are accusing others of! Busy blaming a generation for actions that you provide no hard evidence of!
I don't know, or care, if you are farming points, trolling, or simply being ignorant online, and I don't care. Provide evidence, or shut up!
It's always so funny to see the generational debate shift. Now we have millennials talking about gen z in the exact way they were so angry about being talked about by boomers.
Full fucking circle, and you don't see the irony at all.
Thats not gen z, thats the boomers and religious morons making baseless claims. Almost all of that is just fox and friends spreading misinformation and hate to keep the rabble fighting eachother while they loot and pillage
They are a product of the previous generation so what does that say about Americans in general? Turns out the “land of the free and home of the brave” is actually the land of “someone’s going do something about that right, ‘cause I’m going home for a cheeseburger”.
tell me you haven't talked to Gen Z without saying you haven't talked to them... Don't buy in to the culture wars and generation wars. We're more similar than different and all need to take down these billionaires
I've heard plenty of people make that claim without anyone really explaining what they're basing it off of or citing any meaningful evidence. It also really doesn't match my own experiences interacting with Gen Z.
We are apparently phasing out blaming the millennials for everything, and move on to the next generation. As a millennial, I’d say it’s nice to be ending, but it’s not ending, it’s still the same bs hanging over the same age bracket. “Just blame those damned youths”
I saw the exit poll graphs. Gen x and gen z were the majority votes for trump. Even boomers wised up this time around and voted harris. I'm not forgiving their treason out of some false idea of kinship with them when they want to kill me for being trans.
Most nations would have had riots after the shit he pulled in the first week of last January. The US has allowed the fascists to take root. They're not coming out with protests and votes.
You have « de-facto » lobbying groups acting on behalf of corporations against the greater good of the population.
So it’s clear politics will be tainted with corruption and laws that doesn’t make sense.
After that when people realize that the American dream was a lie all along that just works one way, there might be radical changes for the best I hope. But it’s gonna get bad before it gets better.
"Think" ... man, ICE is going to have a field trip when you will actually start taking back your democracy and they are coming at you with tanks and warheads.
As an outsider looking in there's no evidence of that happening, Trump is just taking the piss out of his country at this point he's gone beyond reproach
Also they spent 20 years fighting two wars that were the exact kind of war we would have to wage against them to do this. Make no mistakes terrorists are what it takes to fight a rebellion against a formal military. We could never stand toe to toe with them. But with prices raising like they are 2 to 3 year might be right before enough people go hungry to start a fight.
Yeah the rest of the world wants it as badly as we do as quickly as we do. And because body counts and family aren’t on the line for them (at least as directly) they don’t care how ugly it would get for us to find out how much the military and our oligarchs have planned to mass murder civilians. We’re all hoping for the same thing, however naive (only the future will tell), that the orange fuck will die and his MAGAt followers will fall to end fighting. After that, people will fall, if they hold
I don't like this excuse but I grew up in Northern Ireland surrounded by a very militarized police state backed by one of the worlds largest and best funded military. I wasn't running around with a gun or planting bombs but I was out throwing bricks and bottles at armored vehicles full of armed soldiers with other people in my neighborhood, I won't be in any history books but I did my part.
And if they decide to shoot back? I appreciate the effort, but without an organized force it's basically standing in the road daring the car to hit you as you kick the bumper. I'm not saying it isn't possible, but there is also half of the country that seems to support this bs and they tend to be the ones hoarding guns. They also seem to have a hard on at the idea of "just taking out the damn socialists"
oh okay you downvoted me without saying anything thats okay I can say something for you. Fuck your comfortable life, the one you built on the back of everyone around you not afforded one, including my own. Fuck you.
Hey, I'm sure the Democrats are already forming a committee, to draft a letter, to send to Chuck Schumer to ask him to form a committee to draft a sternly worded letter, to then read on the new while shaking his fist, about how anyone who says what you just said does not represent the left and that we are a peace loving group who doesn't believe in violence even if it means stopping literal fascism.
Not sure if you could tell in this video, but it wasnt anyone in government stepping up to do anything. The people stepped up and burned their government the fuck down.
I did. I'm just remarking on the ineptitude and spinelessness of the, so called, opposition, in the hopes that the people might FINALLY understand that no one is coming to save us, and that no amount of vigils, dildos, or placards are going to stop this.
Burt first chuck will have to let us know what his imaginary couple on Long Island think about it and carefully weigh their opinion before making a decision.
I know it was a spelling error, but I love that it said "Burt" instead of "But" because now I'm picturing Ernie going, "Burt, first Chuck will have to let us know..."
Man, now I wish his imaginary couple was Burt and Ernie. They'd be much better influences than some shithead yuppie fucks with country club memberships.
And how many years did it take to get to that point? I'm really sick of people pretending this was their government doing one bad thing and they all got together and ended it on day 1, no this was YEARS in the making. Revolution takes TIME. Hope to see a lot of you out there on the 28th.
Y'all had about 8 years to prepare - but during the orange menace's first term all of us who warned you this would happen if he went for a 2nd term were accused of fearmongering. We warned you again in the lead-up to the last elections, and again, we were fearmongering, and nahhh it wouldn't happen. Push comes to shove, and it's happening and now? Now you're going to be "oh no it takes time". Alright, guess y'all will be ready by the time the next elections happen then... if they happen?
You're saying that like I voted the orange shit stain into office- or like any of us were in charge of the various legal battles to jail his ass, or that any of us have any political power or authority to have stopped this beyond voting. So unless you're suggesting one of us should have shot him- which, by ALL MEANS, practice what you preach before bitching about other's inaction- so everyone HERE already said "no thx" and a great deal of us are protesting against all of this. See ya the 28th.
There's also the fact that these countries that are propped up as examples of strong civic engagement are a fraction of the size of the US geographically. We don't have the public transportation infrastructure like other countries. So to get from one side of the country to the other to get everyone to the capital is a near impossible task. That's why there's been a steady stream of protests across the country rather than one massive one in one location.
How much more time do you need? It's not just the US, countries around the world are still dealing with this sort of bullshit. The US is just the biggest and most hated. Italy, openly fascist overlords. France, their right and left came together for no other reason than to ensure their own growing fascist party didnt get any more political momentum.
Endless amounts of it because a third of the country is too dumb to understand what's happening (and is responsible for it, really); another third wants an end to things but *pearl clutch* not if there's a risk to life and limb, and another third is just fine licking a fascist boot as long as their status quo remains the same.
By my guestimate of how this tends to play out? 5-10 years. Go read a history book, dude. Unless technology fast-tracks all the community building- but from what I'm encountering? We still have a lot of shit heels going "Oh PEACEFUL PROTEST doesn't WORK" and "Violent protest is just SUICIDE" so, we're still in the "Worse shit has to happen to them personally" before a lot of Americans grow some fuckin ovaries and getting off their asses.
Please bear in mind- this was a SHARP turn- we went from business as usual- which still sucked compared to other first world countries, no doubt but not the point- to one dude giving the thumbs up for armed masked men to kick in doors. I sincerely doubt anyone thought it sincerely WOULD happen let alone within 1 year of the election. So kindly, stfu, give it some time, we'll get there when we get there. Revolution. does. not. happen. over. night. We literally JUST started it THIS YEAR.
Look it took roughly 30 years of corruption to get to that point, and you're correct in that, but I'm not sure if you're saying the world will have to endure 29 more years of the Epstein administration, or that the corruption only started a year ago and not, oh let's say, Reagan?
America's corruption, greed, and evil has been a problem for the country and the world for a long time. The world is allowed to be sick of this shit.
I'm not disagreeing that we've been going downhill since Reagan (which is years before I was born mind you) but it's been significantly faster and more dangerous so only now are Americans actually having to confront more than the basic BS of "being poor" in a country where that means a lot less than it does in many other place.
*Sorry hit enter not shift. To me, growing up poor in the US meant having a fan instead of AC, having to go to the park instead of summer camp, and- yes- having food stamps or even going without lunch- which is a lot better than places where poorness means no food, walking miles away or no water, a house made of scrap wood/metal cobbled together. Even POOR we lived in relative comfort and safety. Now masked thugs might break in our houses and ship us off to be tortured on a senile lunatic's word
Thank you. You're exactly right, and not enough people are willing to acknowledge that we can't just fix everything overnight. Hell, someone could do the thing tomorrow, and they'd probably bitch about how that person used the wrong caliber gun, because bad stuff would keep happening. I'm doing what I can in my community to keep people safe, informed, fed, and alive, and I think I'm starting to see people waking up to the idea that we're in this for a long haul, but it's slow going.
The Russians had a revolution in a country twice as big before electricity was even invented. The lenghs at which some Americans will go to look for excuses is mind boggling.
I'd wager that the first half million people to revolt in America will be shot dead by our very heavily militarized police and the most powerful military the world has ever known.. while the professional army and Marines are unlikely to fire on American civilians, the weekend warriors, national guard reserves, would probably have no issue doing so.
Until things are bad enough that death is an acceptable consequence for a huge number of people, things are unlikely to change.
Yeah cuz everyone can afford to take days off of work, the gas it costs to drive 1500+ miles, and hotel accommodations. Big brain energy you got there, bud!
Not being able to overthrow a fascist regime because you can't take days off work is the most american thing ever. I wish you all good luck. I pity your fatalism.
Tell that to the people of Minnesota. It was also one of the colder and snowier winters in recent history for the east coast, so people couldn't get out unless they needed to.
The people in Minnesota who have so far failed to close the Whipple, stop the deportations and raids, and all they did was cause ICE to disperse to the suburbs and do their shit lower key to avoid the optics? The same people who think fighting fascism is throwing dildos? Those people? They failed when they didn't burn that mother fucker down after Pretti and Good.
Given that Deland Florida doesn't even show up on the population density list, I would say that you're not making the cut for the kind of areas I'm talking about. However, being in a deeply red state that is doing some of the most damaging shit and the home of Alligator Alcatraz, I feel like you guys have a responsibility to do more than "show [your] discontent, and draw attention to things."
as long as the voting is free, fair, and accurately counted, violence will not solve anything. However, the GOP has been fucking with elections for some time now and this is a very dangerous game.
my County has very well-tracked paper mail-in ballots and Trump won, having lost in 2016 and 2020.. It was a fair election at the Presidential level at least, there's just too many idiots running around.
cite please? If my purple-ish county flipped it's plausible to me that every other one did, too. Most people in this country just all that smart, that's all.
Come on people. I don't mind downvotes but att least have the testicular girth to explain how I'm wrong. Or is it just recognizing I'm right and being pissed?
dannne
Usually if the country is corrupt they have 10 other people in line taking over. It's just more than burning down a building.
stonerhino
I'm going to get downvoted to shit for this, but its worth saying. If they're not afraid of shoot people in broad daylight in the name of self-defense, you bet, they're going to lay down LETHAL suppressing fire when the crowds start marching. They wont use water cannons or tear gas, LETHAL.. TACTICS... to protect their false prophet/golden calf they worship.
unluckyandbored
Song: Exit Music (for a film) - Radiohead
IncognitoEnthusiast
See, what people don't give is the context. Where the military there is all but paramilitary in how well they are equipped and trained. Also a good portion of them also supported what the people were doing and simply didnt take violent action against them. And that's not talking about population density ect. Nepal is barely bigger than AL while also having like 5x the population density.
lezgetfukkinreal
Alright I want to organize 100k people to go march on DC, we're going to picket congress, the white house, all the major stops. i also want to organize coalitions to match the same time on red state capitals and any capital that have officials that are enabling magats. Plus I want 50k to picket each of the top billionaires and their companies. Who have created this class war and we're gonna tear it down. I'll start a go fund me and we are gonna organize.
boredgunner
The right way. Like what the French did
doctorId
It's hard to see other people living your dreams
archon325
This is why I get upset when ppl say all we can do is protest and vote. Turns out you can ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING if you don't limit yourself to working within the system that is designed to oppress you. Anything an oppressor permits you to do is not a solution, or they would not permit it. If you aren't willing to fight, then at least make sure you aren't doing the job of the fascists by condemning it.
torokunai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan too
bubblestarmetallica
Are Americans soft? Maybe. But fighting the government of Nepal vs the strongest military/spy network on planet earth are not the same animal. This type of rebellion would be crushed instantly, and I say this as a bleeding heart lefty. Different tactics for different situations. This is not a video game.
L00kinSpiffy
Why are people downvoting this?
TerminalInterface
I mean, the Whitehouse is already partially destroyed. we need a new house for a new age anyway. when we reset it all.
yallmfsneedjesus
This is what the Jan. 6 rioters thought they were doing. People of the US are extremely uneducated. Be careful promoting actions like this.
stonerhino
Correct, because they've learned a LOT from this event and how to handle a repeat.
JJohnston94
The Jan 6 rioters will tell you that they tried!
iusedtodream
Let the Whitehouse burn to the ground. It is perverse and tainted. Build a new one and call it The People's House.
tzahtman
How long had the government been corrupt before it finally boiled over into this level of resistance? I remember this happening but I don't know how long it took to get to that point.
squillis
Politicians produce a lot of smoke, if it's not released regularly, it builds to an unhealthy level so be sure to help your political entities stay healthy XD
Bundalicious
Too bad Americans are now weaklings, they will let the pedophile do whatever he wants until it's too late to stop him. Might be too late already.
RyanH42
Americans would never do this because it requires them to get off their asses and do something.
Emjayen
Americans evidently will only 'fight' when they're sitting in tanks rolling over Iraqi farmers.
CaveJohnsonHatesLemons
I wonder if every revolution had a buncha of douchebags that don't help but run their mouth about what needs to be done. Probably. Seems historically accurate.
Regardless how long it takes to start, when it starts... nobody will remember you running your mouth. They'll just remember the brave ones who do something.
rafizard
We could do this if our country wasn't so fucking physically large and there were not so many assholes willing to die for the corrupt people in power.
MeestowKitty
There aren't nearly as many of them as you think.
NKato
There's a lot of cops with guns. Their entire purpose is to protect the people in power, with complete disregard for civilians.
MeestowKitty
There are more guns than people in this country and liberal gun ownership is on the rise. There are only 750,000 cops in the US and most of them are in major cities.
1PoorThor
Half of the American government has no conscience. And the other half refuses to act because they don't want to be confrontational.
It doesn't matter how much proof there is or how much people talk or warrants are issued and impeachments made. The ruling party will simply respond: "make me leave" because they know nothing will happen.
The only thing that is going to shake the status quo is when one of the protest rallies turns violent and mob mentality takes over.
1403creed
Can someone name the song playing in the background?
jepolis
Sounds like Muse, but I don't know the song.
yourmomatwoodstock
Radiohead “Exit Music (for a film)” on the OK Computer album.
WillemHellfire
I think it's either Muse or Radiohead. That's my guess
Arbitrarynamehere
Were the Dutch angles strictly necessary for these videos lmao
dumberthanyouraveragebear
Sticks and stones … and words… I like it
Vancouvering
Despite the painful decline in the American standard of living, our material wealth is still the envy of the world - Americans are too coddled to revolt. Revolution is for the desperate.
Pasquinelthe2nd
foxpotate
American Gen z is still too busy blaming trans people and women for all their problems because some manosphere Epstein adjacent billionaire backed internet influencer told them so.
Gwenx
The problem isnt any one generation.
The problem is Americas entire culture and socitey.
Its how the whole contry thinks and acts.
The fundament for this shit show was always there, look at how other countries steriotype americans, and think about WHY.
WHY are american portrayed as they are in media? Maybe becuase it has *SOME* truth to it.
People in america is brought up pledging alligence to their flag, beliving in the american dream, being lied to about their history, etc..
chuckaholic
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about a goat.
foxpotate
Go fuck yourself.
TheAngriestBeardman
Eh, it was a valid check. I don't see gen z being the trans/homophobes, definitely a boomer fear.
shidageki
Fuck you! My gen z boyfriend IS Trans, and I'm watching the people around him, friend and enemy. The problem is with uneducated wildly ignorant people like you who try to do exactly what you are accusing others of! Busy blaming a generation for actions that you provide no hard evidence of!
I don't know, or care, if you are farming points, trolling, or simply being ignorant online, and I don't care. Provide evidence, or shut up!
interesseret
It's always so funny to see the generational debate shift. Now we have millennials talking about gen z in the exact way they were so angry about being talked about by boomers.
Full fucking circle, and you don't see the irony at all.
Shameful.
deadman320
Thats not gen z, thats the boomers and religious morons making baseless claims. Almost all of that is just fox and friends spreading misinformation and hate to keep the rabble fighting eachother while they loot and pillage
Jace99
They are a product of the previous generation so what does that say about Americans in general? Turns out the “land of the free and home of the brave” is actually the land of “someone’s going do something about that right, ‘cause I’m going home for a cheeseburger”.
duhqueenmoki
tell me you haven't talked to Gen Z without saying you haven't talked to them... Don't buy in to the culture wars and generation wars. We're more similar than different and all need to take down these billionaires
LazerSpacePirate
AnOceanOfStars
Funny that up till just last years gen Z was being glorified as the "awakened generation of progress", the "blue wave", and such.
TheBigBadBonerBiter
I dunno, I've seen people talk about Gen Z shaping up to be a more conservative generation since Trump's first term.
Blud4BludGod
I've heard plenty of people make that claim without anyone really explaining what they're basing it off of or citing any meaningful evidence. It also really doesn't match my own experiences interacting with Gen Z.
nickswoop
I believed in that until the gen z voting numbers were abysmal. No one is coming to save us
prosper020
We are apparently phasing out blaming the millennials for everything, and move on to the next generation.
As a millennial, I’d say it’s nice to be ending, but it’s not ending, it’s still the same bs hanging over the same age bracket. “Just blame those damned youths”
MajorasTerribleFate
Gen Z are killing the "Millennials are killing the XYZ industry" industry
prosper020
foxpotate
I saw the exit poll graphs. Gen x and gen z were the majority votes for trump. Even boomers wised up this time around and voted harris. I'm not forgiving their treason out of some false idea of kinship with them when they want to kill me for being trans.
rfleming1080
Don't worry. If the US keeps heading along this current path, in 2 or 3 years we might think about doing the same thing... /s
Niagaran
Most nations would have had riots after the shit he pulled in the first week of last January.
The US has allowed the fascists to take root. They're not coming out with protests and votes.
DanzKMK0
How many fucking years do you need to think?
Rockafella83
You have « de-facto » lobbying groups acting on behalf of corporations against the greater good of the population.
So it’s clear politics will be tainted with corruption and laws that doesn’t make sense.
After that when people realize that the American dream was a lie all along that just works one way, there might be radical changes for the best I hope. But it’s gonna get bad before it gets better.
KleptoKea
You Americans should've risen up at least a decade ago.
Poppypoppoppop
"Think" ... man, ICE is going to have a field trip when you will actually start taking back your democracy and they are coming at you with tanks and warheads.
RyanH42
You'll have a big protest on a Saturday six months from now.
todaytomorrowwillbeyesterday
weeks
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
It's coming and I doubt it will be 2-3 years.
ultralunar
As an outsider looking in there's no evidence of that happening, Trump is just taking the piss out of his country at this point he's gone beyond reproach
tachyx
Every call for Epstein files is a delay tactic.
ImmaterialHour
We might have the concept of a plan
notifybay151
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cG45ZXgwMTUwcjduc2lwZnYxcm00dnhhMnl1eG02NDgwbmp4NzI4dCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/xUPGcq6cAnpcLz0lZm/200w.webp Vote! And get ready.
KrampusCopia
And make sure you know where your birth certificate is in case the Save act passes
KrampusCopia
I understand the sentiment of the dv...
baals
Dracology
US has just a /slightly/ bigger and more funded military
choppedliveraldente
A bunch of aggressive immature guys armed with legal immunity and organized with good pay and benefits and pride with heaven too? Yeah we'll be fine
discord79
Which isn't bound to the government?
Isthe4thtimethecharm
Also they spent 20 years fighting two wars that were the exact kind of war we would have to wage against them to do this. Make no mistakes terrorists are what it takes to fight a rebellion against a formal military. We could never stand toe to toe with them. But with prices raising like they are 2 to 3 year might be right before enough people go hungry to start a fight.
derrymerbles
Yeah the rest of the world wants it as badly as we do as quickly as we do. And because body counts and family aren’t on the line for them (at least as directly) they don’t care how ugly it would get for us to find out how much the military and our oligarchs have planned to mass murder civilians. We’re all hoping for the same thing, however naive (only the future will tell), that the orange fuck will die and his MAGAt followers will fall to end fighting. After that, people will fall, if they hold
ArchaeoEejit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_column
TsubakiTragic
There are far more high powered weapons held by US civilians than by Nepalese civilians. It only takes about half a dozen for change to be initiated.
NKato
Sure, but that requires Americans be willing to sacrifice what future they have against a system that has repeatedly refused to be reformed.
The only way this is gonna happen is if the Democrats - the ratchet in the system - fully expunge their corporate members.
A full, systemic refactor is required - and this starts at the cultural, grassroots level.
TsubakiTragic
So, Americans have 2 chances. 1) Buckley's, and 2)fuck all.
eleetsteele
Americans are too soft, comfortable, or cowardly to do so.
ThatuldoPig
While I agree, a very militarized police state backed by the worlds largest & best funded military is probably a pretty big disincentive as well.
ArchaeoEejit
I don't like this excuse but I grew up in Northern Ireland surrounded by a very militarized police state backed by one of the worlds largest and best funded military. I wasn't running around with a gun or planting bombs but I was out throwing bricks and bottles at armored vehicles full of armed soldiers with other people in my neighborhood, I won't be in any history books but I did my part.
ThatuldoPig
And if they decide to shoot back? I appreciate the effort, but without an organized force it's basically standing in the road daring the car to hit you as you kick the bumper. I'm not saying it isn't possible, but there is also half of the country that seems to support this bs and they tend to be the ones hoarding guns. They also seem to have a hard on at the idea of "just taking out the damn socialists"
mmmurppp
Yep. I’m sorry to say that the most I’ll do is a “no kings” protest. I’ve got a job, a comfortable life, but with tears in my soul.
bekkayya
fuck your comfortable life.
bekkayya
oh okay you downvoted me without saying anything thats okay I can say something for you. Fuck your comfortable life, the one you built on the back of everyone around you not afforded one, including my own. Fuck you.
ArchaeoEejit
Well you're over the worst of now, can't get worse, right?
MeestowKitty
Hey, I'm sure the Democrats are already forming a committee, to draft a letter, to send to Chuck Schumer to ask him to form a committee to draft a sternly worded letter, to then read on the new while shaking his fist, about how anyone who says what you just said does not represent the left and that we are a peace loving group who doesn't believe in violence even if it means stopping literal fascism.
darthnerdus6236
Too much work. Let's just wear pink.
MeestowKitty
Vagina Hats will save Abortion Rights eventually, right?
Beezebubbles
They will need to choose a name first.
robotlaserninjashark
As far as i know it is not not “them, the democratic oppositionsl party’s current meak leadership”.
It is “We, the People”
Arkvoodle
Not sure if you could tell in this video, but it wasnt anyone in government stepping up to do anything. The people stepped up and burned their government the fuck down.
MeestowKitty
I did. I'm just remarking on the ineptitude and spinelessness of the, so called, opposition, in the hopes that the people might FINALLY understand that no one is coming to save us, and that no amount of vigils, dildos, or placards are going to stop this.
Jordan7831
Nahhh they will just have a strongly worded op ed in some newspaper that no one will ever read.
jtxyz
Burt first chuck will have to let us know what his imaginary couple on Long Island think about it and carefully weigh their opinion before making a decision.
MeestowKitty
I know it was a spelling error, but I love that it said "Burt" instead of "But" because now I'm picturing Ernie going, "Burt, first Chuck will have to let us know..."
SavageDrums
Man, now I wish his imaginary couple was Burt and Ernie. They'd be much better influences than some shithead yuppie fucks with country club memberships.
Catheren
And how many years did it take to get to that point? I'm really sick of people pretending this was their government doing one bad thing and they all got together and ended it on day 1, no this was YEARS in the making. Revolution takes TIME. Hope to see a lot of you out there on the 28th.
perlninja
Y'all had about 8 years to prepare - but during the orange menace's first term all of us who warned you this would happen if he went for a 2nd term were accused of fearmongering. We warned you again in the lead-up to the last elections, and again, we were fearmongering, and nahhh it wouldn't happen. Push comes to shove, and it's happening and now? Now you're going to be "oh no it takes time". Alright, guess y'all will be ready by the time the next elections happen then... if they happen?
Catheren
You're saying that like I voted the orange shit stain into office- or like any of us were in charge of the various legal battles to jail his ass, or that any of us have any political power or authority to have stopped this beyond voting. So unless you're suggesting one of us should have shot him- which, by ALL MEANS, practice what you preach before bitching about other's inaction- so everyone HERE already said "no thx" and a great deal of us are protesting against all of this. See ya the 28th.
WigglyBlondeNoodle
There's also the fact that these countries that are propped up as examples of strong civic engagement are a fraction of the size of the US geographically. We don't have the public transportation infrastructure like other countries. So to get from one side of the country to the other to get everyone to the capital is a near impossible task. That's why there's been a steady stream of protests across the country rather than one massive one in one location.
RyanH42
How much more fucking time do you Americans need?
Cranbananarama
They'd probably need a few decades, minimum. Slow moving bunch, preference for sign holding.
IncognitoEnthusiast
How much more time do you need? It's not just the US, countries around the world are still dealing with this sort of bullshit. The US is just the biggest and most hated. Italy, openly fascist overlords. France, their right and left came together for no other reason than to ensure their own growing fascist party didnt get any more political momentum.
perlninja
Endless amounts of it because a third of the country is too dumb to understand what's happening (and is responsible for it, really); another third wants an end to things but *pearl clutch* not if there's a risk to life and limb, and another third is just fine licking a fascist boot as long as their status quo remains the same.
Catheren
By my guestimate of how this tends to play out? 5-10 years. Go read a history book, dude. Unless technology fast-tracks all the community building- but from what I'm encountering? We still have a lot of shit heels going "Oh PEACEFUL PROTEST doesn't WORK" and "Violent protest is just SUICIDE" so, we're still in the "Worse shit has to happen to them personally" before a lot of Americans grow some fuckin ovaries and getting off their asses.
Catheren
Please bear in mind- this was a SHARP turn- we went from business as usual- which still sucked compared to other first world countries, no doubt but not the point- to one dude giving the thumbs up for armed masked men to kick in doors. I sincerely doubt anyone thought it sincerely WOULD happen let alone within 1 year of the election. So kindly, stfu, give it some time, we'll get there when we get there. Revolution. does. not. happen. over. night. We literally JUST started it THIS YEAR.
DamnThursdays
Look it took roughly 30 years of corruption to get to that point, and you're correct in that, but I'm not sure if you're saying the world will have to endure 29 more years of the Epstein administration, or that the corruption only started a year ago and not, oh let's say, Reagan?
America's corruption, greed, and evil has been a problem for the country and the world for a long time. The world is allowed to be sick of this shit.
Catheren
I'm not disagreeing that we've been going downhill since Reagan (which is years before I was born mind you) but it's been significantly faster and more dangerous so only now are Americans actually having to confront more than the basic BS of "being poor" in a country where that means a lot less than it does in many other place.
Catheren
*Sorry hit enter not shift. To me, growing up poor in the US meant having a fan instead of AC, having to go to the park instead of summer camp, and- yes- having food stamps or even going without lunch- which is a lot better than places where poorness means no food, walking miles away or no water, a house made of scrap wood/metal cobbled together. Even POOR we lived in relative comfort and safety. Now masked thugs might break in our houses and ship us off to be tortured on a senile lunatic's word
SquashDemon
Thank you. You're exactly right, and not enough people are willing to acknowledge that we can't just fix everything overnight. Hell, someone could do the thing tomorrow, and they'd probably bitch about how that person used the wrong caliber gun, because bad stuff would keep happening. I'm doing what I can in my community to keep people safe, informed, fed, and alive, and I think I'm starting to see people waking up to the idea that we're in this for a long haul, but it's slow going.
MadamPuddifoot
Yeah it is easy when everyone is concentrated into one tiny area, unlike the entire US, which is colossal and spread out across that colossal area.
RyanH42
There aren't any local politicians you can go after?
GordonFreeman59
The Russians had a revolution in a country twice as big before electricity was even invented. The lenghs at which some Americans will go to look for excuses is mind boggling.
BoobJiggle
I'd wager that the first half million people to revolt in America will be shot dead by our very heavily militarized police and the most powerful military the world has ever known.. while the professional army and Marines are unlikely to fire on American civilians, the weekend warriors, national guard reserves, would probably have no issue doing so.
Until things are bad enough that death is an acceptable consequence for a huge number of people, things are unlikely to change.
MadamPuddifoot
They're also not spread across that big as country, their population is concentrated into certain areas.
GordonFreeman59
Highways... cars....
MadamPuddifoot
Yeah cuz everyone can afford to take days off of work, the gas it costs to drive 1500+ miles, and hotel accommodations. Big brain energy you got there, bud!
GordonFreeman59
Not being able to overthrow a fascist regime because you can't take days off work is the most american thing ever. I wish you all good luck. I pity your fatalism.
MeestowKitty
Except the people who ARE in the concentrated areas are still not doing very fucking much either.
BarryTheCyborg
Tell that to the people of Minnesota. It was also one of the colder and snowier winters in recent history for the east coast, so people couldn't get out unless they needed to.
MeestowKitty
The people in Minnesota who have so far failed to close the Whipple, stop the deportations and raids, and all they did was cause ICE to disperse to the suburbs and do their shit lower key to avoid the optics? The same people who think fighting fascism is throwing dildos? Those people? They failed when they didn't burn that mother fucker down after Pretti and Good.
MadamPuddifoot
Would you like us to riot in deland, FL? That seems like it won't do much, so we've just been protesting.
MeestowKitty
Given that Deland Florida doesn't even show up on the population density list, I would say that you're not making the cut for the kind of areas I'm talking about. However, being in a deeply red state that is doing some of the most damaging shit and the home of Alligator Alcatraz, I feel like you guys have a responsibility to do more than "show [your] discontent, and draw attention to things."
TexMexHex
Ye out there next Saturday? No? Then....shut the fuck up you armchair warrior.
MeestowKitty
Throw a few more dildos on their cars. That'll sure stop the rapes!
torokunai
as long as the voting is free, fair, and accurately counted, violence will not solve anything. However, the GOP has been fucking with elections for some time now and this is a very dangerous game.
JohnImager1
Riiiight.. because the GOP has been fighting against deportations and voter ID.. Ok
MadamPuddifoot
Well considering the 24 election was stolen...
torokunai
my County has very well-tracked paper mail-in ballots and Trump won, having lost in 2016 and 2020.. It was a fair election at the Presidential level at least, there's just too many idiots running around.
MadamPuddifoot
He fucking admitted he stole it. Just cuz your county was fine doesn't mean others weren't.
torokunai
cite please? If my purple-ish county flipped it's plausible to me that every other one did, too. Most people in this country just all that smart, that's all.
Swedishbouldering
Always excuses huh? "We are too many", "we are too big", "your country is the smaller than texas"
KleptoKea
Precisely. One excuse after another, and the more we hold a mirror to their cowardly faces, the more angry they get at us, instead of at themselves.
Emjayen
Without excuses Americans would have to acknowledge the painful reality of them being impotent cowards.
Swedishbouldering
Come on people. I don't mind downvotes but att least have the testicular girth to explain how I'm wrong. Or is it just recognizing I'm right and being pissed?