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More of you could have gone out to vote against him. More of you could go to more than a one day protest once every few months.
Make May 1st your general nationwide strike with more people than the pitiful efforts that have been seen at this point.
the us has been doing shit like this for decades. trump simply just made it obvious.
You say this like it was any better before Trump
Most of the people commenting here were probably children before trump. What did you want the children to do?
Realise that it wasn't better before Trump
I think something most of the outside world doesn't understand about the USA, there are very few "us" unless you're conservative. It's a hyper individualistic society in an extremely large geographic area. The idea of collective anything is a foreign concept to me and I'm literally in a work union for the first time in my life for the worst job I've ever had. Unless my current Union is ok with the strike I can't afford to skip work. If I didn't have a union then the striking would be completely out of the question. I've been let go from jobs at the drop of a hat growing up in a "right to work state". There isn't a social safety net and my neighbors are completely ok with me becoming homeless. People who get to protest I've viewed as being privileged beyond my means. Community here is for the privileged and I'm scraping by to survive.
Then you have nothing to lose, except what little freedom you have left to continue this endless suffering of hand to mouth bullshit.
I can lose my life. I can lose my health. I can lose my freedom. All those things could happen with a high chance of failure without anything changing. In fact I could make the situation worse. The failed assassination attempt on Trump boosted his poll numbers and contributed to his victory and his paranoia.
It's very easy for people like you to tell me to sacrifice, but people like you will never help me.
Make a sacrifice for me first. Do anything to make my life tolerable. Put your money where your mouth is. Then we will discuss what I'm freed up to do to help the world.
How can I help, not being a US citizen?
Get someone over here to give me a full time job. Or sponsor me to move wherever you are. Have a job ready for me when I get there. I got PMP, PMI-ACP, and PSM I certifications along with AWS certifications. I need either a source of income that can support me without firing me for protesting or a way out after I do whatever you want done.
westerners can generally find jobs outside the west with much more ease. especially when you are certified for a reasonably well paid field. you could also sponsor your own move much easier than the average person could sponsor you.
also why would anyone else make a sacrifice for a problem your country created for everyone else?
Or I will do my best to divest myself from anything that involves the American economy. By starving your economy, it has less money to make military equipment, and therefore to enforce evil wars.
There it is. It's so easy to do nothing. You're very much like "us".
Stop deflecting responsibility on to me for your mess. Fix your broken country before the child molester in power ruins the world for all the children.
Not beating the stereotype
We've been protesting weekly here in MN.
Let's go! 55 weeks in a row now here.
Every day, all day, clog the arteries of industry.
It was more important to teach the democrats a lesson than stop literal fascism for a non-zero portion of us, unfortunately.
What did kamala mean when she swore to make the military the most lethal force on the planet and every democrat in the room cheered?
For the democrats, it was more important to continue literal fascism and teach the left a lesson than to win.
Define "literal fascism."
The Democrats were literal fascism, genocide apologist
Define fascism
Go back to Reddit
Haha, i get it.
But seriously, define fascism.
Terminal redditer
I would imagine that you can't because it would damage your position.
Which is why i laugh.
Go back to Reddit
Go back to Reddit
Yes, you've already shown that you're a living caricature of a cringy Redditor