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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 125 points 22 hours ago (43 children)

Dear Americans, go fuck yourselves.

Even if you didn’t vote for this imbecile child, nobody cares. You’re all in this shit together!

We are sick and tired of your excuses.

This is your president and this is your country behaving like this.

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

This is what no theory does to a mf

The American people as a whole are not the ones to blame for their capitalist dictators doing imperialism. You can and absolutely should shame all of the individual fascists that support even a little of what's going on, Republican or not, but there are so many people who are against this and are also victims within this capital of global imperialism, either by being driven to poverty despite there being enough resources for everyone to thrive, either by literally being hunted in the streets by state goons.

You should instead be giving inspiration to the American people so that they unite, organize and resist, to liberate both themselves and also the rest of the world from their own rulers.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 7 hours ago

But i didn't vote for this.

Motherfucker, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George Bush etc. aren't terrorising the world, it's the american people. The people you thank for their service of terrorising people.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 177 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (19 children)

As a Native American whose citizenship is being argued against in the Supreme Court, whose people have been fighting against the invasion of white people from Europe for centuries and only got the right to vote in 1975: go fuck yourself.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

*whose citizenship / whose people

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

DAMNIT! I am going to blame autocorrect.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 18 hours ago

Native American who’s citizenship is being argued against in the Supreme Court

You should go back to your home country or something like that. /s

[–] urandom@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago

This seems as ignorant as the parent comment. Just like they ignored the native population, you’re ignoring whole countries full of white peoples who did not partake in any form of colonialism.

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[–] teuniac_@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

Dude, calm down. I know all of this is anxiety inducing. Americans are dealing with a lot of shit in their own country too. Our energy is better spent on encouraging Americans to keep protesting and resisting.

[–] sfgifz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

To be honest the time for protesting and resisting was about 10 years ago. Once they're done weeding out undesirables over appearances they'll go for ideologies and values soon.

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[–] nmhforlife@lemmy.world 92 points 22 hours ago (50 children)

As an American who didn’t vote for him, I understand your anger. I feel it too but there are still genuinely good caring people here who do not agree with this monster. Please don’t hold it against all of us.

[–] fennesz12@feddit.dk 85 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

I'm Danish and I refuse to make this about nationality. I've had an immeasurable amount of American friends over the years. I've loved your music, your company, your viewpoints, your stories - and I've had nothing but respect for you. I've been on American social media with you for decades. I've laughed at the same jokes as you. I speak your language, I sing your songs, I share an incredible amount of your culture. We learned to celebrate Halloween from you. We wear your clothes. We are your friends.

This is where you'd expect to see a "but", but there is no "but". I just wanted to say this, because I refuse to be divided by national borders. The America I see now, is not the America I grew up with. And now I'm fucking crying. It feels like losing a good friend, to some sort of neurological illness. We will always share your values. Not MAGA values, but OUR values.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Fuck, now I'm crying too. I've lost friends and family to this mental illness. There is much to mourn. The values that you and I share are not the values of the Americans who wield national power right now, nor their cult. Many of us are fighting for our values over here. And your unconditional message of friendship means so much. Thank you. I feel the same way. Fuck the imaginary lines on the map. I pledge allegiance to YOU, and to any other individual, wherever they are, who believes in basic human decency: honesty, respect, compassion, non-aggression... against the psychopaths who don't.

[–] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 15 hours ago

Your friends are still here, but they're not in charge. Violent, armed bullies have taken over and are driving this country - with the rest of us in it - off a cliff. They aren't just invading Greenland, they're invading us. Our homes, our schools, our workplaces, our courts, all invaded. The authorities we armed and entrusted to uphold the law have seen their opportunity to go mask-off and support fascism. Your friends here are outclassed, outgunned, and oppressed.

Remember that America isn't a monolith. If you were to put a bullet in the head of every US soldier to set foot on Greenland, we will celebrate your victory. Because we care about humanity, and our armed forces have given theirs up to fulfill a hateful dream. They've made their decision and deserve whatever's coming to them.

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 32 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Thank you. Borders are stupid, we are all humans and we only have one floating rock. Also, I love the Danes I've met.

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[–] zd9@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago

Take that feeling like losing a good friend, and now imagine it's your own mind you're losing. Everything you held close and understood is upside down. It's disorienting, because they (fascist regime) intended it to be disorienting to paralyze any organized effective response.

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[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 108 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

In any war there are soldiers who don't wanna be there. Good, honest people, forced to march on because their masters will it.

If they come for my country I will have to shoot them nonetheless.

Take this motherfucker down by any political means necessary and if you can't, then form your "well regulated militia" that your all too precious 2nd amendment affords you and take back your own country instead of others

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 40 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

As an American, l say that any soldiers that willingly take part in this invasion, even in a support role, are NOT "good honest people". They are traitors following illegal orders. I fully support you defending your country with lethal force if it comes to that.

I wish that I had more power to stop this, but I don't. Do what you have to do, and don't feel guilty about it. Give us the hell we deserve.

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

Isn't every invasion like that?

Propaganda machine tells you the enemy is the worst ever, so children pick up the guns and march into death.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 48 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

Your government is threatening to invade its allies! Our countrymen died fighting side by side with your military in your misguided wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We don’t have the patience and time to distinguish between good and evil Americans anymore. As long as your country keeps acting like this you’re all guilty!

Please read up about collective German guilt a term coined by the US when your country was still on the right side of history.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Our countrymen died fighting side by side with your military in your misguided wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I really wish NATO nations would have criticized those wars, instead of knowingly sending their troops to die in wars based on lies.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 36 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Americans spout all about needing their guns to stop a tyrannical government and then a tyrannical governmnet comes along and they don't take their guns into the streets to stop it.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 37 points 21 hours ago

The venn diagram of Americans who think they need guns to stop a tyrannical government and Americans who support Trump is a circle.

(All kidding aside, while this is still painfully close to true, there are signs it's changing, such as the recent resurgence of the Black Panthers. However by and large the people who are horrified over the pain and suffering inflicted by the Trump administration are also anti-gun on account of all the pain and suffering they cause. The peaceful, anti-violence, anti-war types are not exactly well equipped--literally or figuratively--to stage an uprising against the government, certainly not one with a military budget the size of Mt Everest)

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 24 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (25 children)

The sane Americans here are saying, "Hey, we're your allies in this, we are trying to help," and you're literally saying, "No, you're the enemy." This is basically moral reasoning on the level of "my daughter crashed the car so I'm going to hit my son with a baseball bat." It's too much work on your part to distinguish between innocent and guilty? That's some very firm moral high ground you're lobbing spears from.

Not only is that nonsensical from a moral standpoint, but it's terrible strategic thinking. You just prefer it if we're all to be enemies? You're asking both you (who is allegedly so infuriated because you are demanding a solution) and us (the people best positioned to try to help solve this) to waste our time fighting amongst each other. Great idea.

But to be clear, I understand when you spew hatred like this, you're not thinking. You're lashing out emotionally because you're upset. Now the question is, will you acknowledge this, or will you respond by increasing the volume and digging in deeper?

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[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I'm struggling right now to think of any group of people with less excuse for ignorance of how radical fascists wield propaganda and extort for political power than central Europeans.

EDIT: I don't mean that to be super harsh, and I hope it's core to the educational curriculum (as it should be in the US too). But maybe I'm wrong.

When you visit your nearest holocaust museum or memorial and refresh your understanding of all that suffering and anguish, how do you feel? Who do you blame? What do you think could stop it from escalating again? Genuinely interested in answers.

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