Brb, toppling the government by shooting up the white house. Should be easy, right?
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It’s just that simple!!!
Yes please
But that would make us criminals to. Killing a billionaire who drinks the blood of children and murders children by the hundreds to appease the most vile inhuman monsters history has ever known and destroys global trade to maje his dick feel hig would make me just as bad as him!
Not looking to start another Rwanda
It isn't going to happen. Too many very special episodes on Netflix.
You can afford Netflix??
I hope the joke is that Netflix is just shit quality and therefore has no special episodes. Otherwise, you just seem like a privileged asshole who discounts the ongoing, generational resistance against US imperialism within the metropole.
Toupee Tariff man is undeniably the worst, aside maybe Putin or Netanyahu.. But there's so many countries with far-right/fascist dictators or plants out there nobody seems to be mentioning right now. Good chunk of Europe too. Removal of him would help, but I don't think its going to fix the overall issue.
How many of those can tell a carrier group where to park?
Then can manipulate the orange twitler into moving his toys around pretty easily.
But there is only one that has nukes and that seems dumb enough to belive, that there could be solved anything by nuking somebody. I mean not even north korea has that pure evil "I dont care about consequences"-vibes.
Russia, china, israel, and much of europe has nukes too....
Their leader is far younger, far healthier, and far far far better educated than pedo man
You're right, we should have tried rolling over for the literal Nazis in less than a day like you effete, rich fucks in Western Europe. Pretty easy to say nothing short of a general strike is worth it when you live in the actual first world, have unions, and know that you won't get evicted and start starving after one month. But please, keep the chorus of unhelpful advice coming from the countries that haven't actually struggled against tyranny since they manned barricades with muskets. We'll try surrendering even faster next time in your honor.
Edit: meanwhile some of us are out here actually risking arrest and detention in a concentration camp in the swamp trying to do the right thing.
I live and Western Europe, and ai have to wholeheartedly agree with you. I think a lot of people here are really naive, thinking toppling the US government is something you do on a normal tuesday or sth like that. I really feel with Americans who want change, but can't do much because there are no social safety nets in the US.
Anyone who posts this nonsense on lemmy of all places has to be some kinda op lol
The only thing that can stop the current administration is Trump's death. I'm not even advocating for anything; it's just a cold hard truth I've known since November 5, 2024. It doesn't matter how the elections go this year, because if it ever becomes a problem for them, congress would be suspended with the support of the oligarchs. He is king, and there is no way to challenge a king except real power.
I'm also not saying that Trump's death would be a quick fix, just a necessary step. The only advantage we have is that Vance is weak by design and would not be able to hold the coalition of oligarchs and fascist foot soldiers together on his own merits. However, if anybody to the left of a white cishet conservative liberal assassinated Trump, then the fascists would rally behind Vance until he enacted revenge and the Democrats would help them.
The only other thing that would create problems for them is if a broad coalition of people from leftists to liberals organized a serious insurgency against the government. They could undermine critical industries and governmental functions, slowing down the state's tyranny in specific, tangible ways. However, the vast majority of liberals are ideologically opposed to non state violence and don't accept that the country is that far gone. If there is insufficient support, the public will cheer on the fascists violently cracking down on the left because "don't ya know, antifa just as bad as the Gestapo putting brown people in camps!" America is truly the home of the chained and land of cowardly 🙄
edit: spelling/grammar
don’t accept that the country is that far gone.
Not technically a liberal, but I think the country is that far gone and while I don't have an issue with non-state violence from the left (assuming its actually effective) I don't hold enough patriotism or feel any culpability for the current fascist admin to care to commit any myself. I expended a statistical anomaly of effort as an individual pre-November 5th to prevent Trump's victory. Drove hours to a different state in my junker ass car just to canvass in a swing state.
I'm done. I'm not putting my balls on the table when no one else seemed to have gave much of shit before. Just because the consequences are falling on everyone's stupid asses and now they all seem to care. Fuck em.
"As long as men die liberty will never perish"
- Charlie Chaplin.
Unhelpfulness of the meme aside, always down for advice on how I can do more. I protest and volunteer when I can, I'm even trying to get involced in politics, but everytime I ask I get more good advice so might as well!
talk to your coworkers about forming a union. think of the time you spend in mutual aid projects not as being volunteer work, but instead as being your real purpose driven work. understand that the terror america enacts abroad is the terror enacted domestically. the main reason we struggle to garner coalition support is that the right believes lies about us and the nascent left that would join us is outright fearful of the consequences. in this current environment, being in possession of documents clearly outlining the terror we live under is considered terrorism and a jailable offense. if you want people to not be scared to act you have to demonstrate to them that they are not alone and that you are on their side and that you're willing to help them.
this is a marathon not a sprint. also don't be afraid to ask the people you meet along the way for help
We would if we could.
I wonder if people outside the US grasp the size and scale of America. You're talking like 300 million people spread across massive geographical, cultural, political, and social scales. There is little that connects most Americans to their neighbors and the Epstein Class that runs things works 24/7 to degrade that and turn neighbor against neighbor. It's a dysfunctional system where people are trapped by runaway capitalism with no escape.
Do not expect progress overnight.
You'd have to be quite the optimist to expect a positive change from the US at this point. The same points you cite works against any form of improvement to the point where it's a borderline impossibility.
You should've taken Russia seriously instead of letting them slowly wear you down until they got exactly what they wanted. Dugin wrote a fucking book outlining exactly what they were planning yet nobody took it seriously. I'd even go as far as to say very few are taking it seriously to this day.
You should've taken care of your healthcare and educational institutions. The state of your school system is so bad I don't even have words for it. It'll take generations to rebuild it while the abomination that is your health insurance is systematically leeching whatever they can from people too uneducated to understand what is happening to them. I'm not judging people here either, this is a well planned system that needs to be thoroughly dismantled for people to have a chance.
You should've worked on the systematic racism that never truly went away. Instead it became the perfect vehicle for discord while simultaneously masking the class warfare that truly fucked everything up. It's also feeding a prison industry that isn't anything but the continuance of slavery.
You definitely should've made sure money wasn't the deciding factor in politics and while you were at it you should've taxed those assholes that are destroying the planet right now. Instead they took over and now they're running things almost exactly like they want to. What little resistance there is to their governance is divided and thrown against each other over and over again.
It's a little late to change things in any sort of civilised way now, and we're all going to suffer for it. The whole planet, not just your population. I feel truly sorry for all the decent people who were born too late to have a say in any of this. I know there's a lot of good people with no good options just trying to survive. Hopefully I'm wrong and you can sort it out.
They can’t do that! They are the greatest democracy in the world, with means they are utterly powerless! Don’t you understand?
We are too dumb and poor. Bomb us or something.
I love how this blames a group of people for inaction while also itself being another form of inaction.
Embargo the shit out of us, stop buying our gas and oil, pirate our movies and software.
We want them out of power too, but most of us are so vulnerable to job loss, home loss, healthcare loss and food instability that there isn’t much we can do until we are properly organized across 50 states, 100 million people spread across 3.12million square miles (8,081,000 million square km). That’s the scale of the situation.
Also we know national politics aren’t democratic. The senate is intentionally disproportionate representation, but the house isn’t really any better, because the minimum is 1 representatives per state, even when one of the states has 1.5% of the population of another. So Wyoming has 1 rep per 500,000 people, while California has 1 rep per 750,000 people. And in the senate it’s roughly one senator for 250,000 in WY and 1 for 19,000,000 in CA. That means people in densely populated cities (who tend to be higher educated left leaning voters) are way under represented.
Not going to happen. Have you seen how they've admired and lionised Musk?
If a man that literally saluted Hitler at the US president's inauguration is casually handed billions then something is very wrong with that country.
Trump has made America international joke. US is like a circus and trump their biggest clown. And best part of it is that they are proud of it.
I campaign for violence against billionaires and people in the current administration but get raked over the coals. How else do you expect we stop them?