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So, hey, Americans, your president is openly threatening genocide. You might uh, want to do something about that. Just a thought.
Open to suggestions.
I don't think any of y'all know how well protected this asshole is
Then what was the point of all that 2nd amendment talk? Was it all bullshit cause you wanted to keep your pow pow?
Guns and no balls, Thats what’s so dangerous about the regular American.
Like I said elsewhere, your country was won by fat farmers and regular people who grew balls.
It's mind boggling to me there have been no riots by this point.
Seriously, there seems to be this delusion that we all just have magic buttons that execute our politicians on a whim. What the fuck do you expect us to do, specifically, to fix this?
In pretty much every other western country, the populace could reasonably exert force over their national armed forces because those armed forces are reasonably sized. But the entire active duty military of Germany has fewer personnel than the on-base population of a single US military base (JBLM 210k, Germany 185k), and JBLM is only the 4th largest base in the US....
Not to mention, our military budget is more than the GDP of 85% of the countries in the world, and it's only getting bigger. The proposed budget for next year is more than 90% of the world's countries' GDP. Think about that for a few minutes.
You say as if American soldiers aren't also Americans. It's not just up to civilians to partake in politics and the resistance of tyranny.
Coups happen all over the world, for various reasons. You'd think an openly genocidal regime headed by a fascist, paedophile, moronic traitor, actively making life worse for the majority and aiding their enemies. Shitting on the constitution, and making veiled threats to cancel elections, would be enough to instigate one, but I guess not.
The stereotype of American soldiers seems to hold up, all bark but no bite unless the opponent is clearly outmatched with bigger weapons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
I'll accept my share of the blame for not being an active insurgent against the US government as long as we're also holding Russian and Chinese people to the same standard - failing to thwart genocide(s) by a powerful authoritarian regime while under 21st century surveillance and brutal working conditions. Sure I'm disappointed in all of us who aren't part of a resistance, but let's be realistic.
You say that but months ago when he was threatening to invade Canada, as a Canadian I thought “if I sneak up and kill just one of these invading fuckers before I gwt popped I will have done my duty” im just a regular guy but I feel that in my gut and I know A LOT of us do.
But you guys don’t have that sense of survival for some reason. You just shrug and go “I don’t wanna get a boo boo or miss project runway” you’re being invaded right now, your citizens are being murdered by federal invading forces and you are doing nothing but fighting among yourselves about who is the true leftist.
Wow, you fantasized about killing someone? That basically makes you a war hero. You truly earned this: 🎖️
o7
Mate, I imagine we've all thought that, but there's a big gap between thinking it and doing it, and from where I'm sitting it appears you're the exact kind of internet tough guy you're speaking out against.
Anything but site there on a keyboard fighting with other leftists about who is the true leftists
oh, anything short of killing ourselves at the government will not be enough for the freaks on this website.
Simultaneous angry mobs outside the white house and mar-a-lago could be nice. I would come out from California to join that.
Work together with independents and disenfranchised republicans to primary 75+% of the democratic party over the next 4 years.
The GOP and the DNC are the sword and shield of the wealthy elites respectively.
Not a short term solution, but the best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. 2nd best time is today.
Who supports him?
Who supports them?
I think the application of pressure goes where its possible to apply it, instead of where it isn't.
especially since the whoopsie that one time
Insurrection?
Can you plan and execute an insurrection in less than 24 hours?
Most people couldn't even get to DC with less than a weeks notice.
Someone may have replied with this already, but: https://stoptrumpswars.org/ we're trying.
Which authoritative body has the power to do something about it, that isn't openly in cahoots with him? I'll wait.
They just filed articles of impeachment - so that's something...
https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres1155/BILLS-119hres1155ih.pdf
Its been proven that the impeachment doesn't do shit. Infact the last time we impeached our president he was allowed to run and be elected again.
Unanimously supported or is it again an isolated democrat move? Asking because it’s kindof annoying to let USA delete a whole civilization…
And it'll go just like last time, every Republican closes ranks and it wastes everyone's time
Our demented puppet President has powerful people propping him up. Would be mighty helpful if Germans did something about Thiel, and South Africans did something about Musk. Australians, you good with handling Murdoch? Okay, let's go.
Most if not all of us lack the resources and opportunity to do anything direct.
Even the local traffic cops have enough firepower to take down a village; the farce of a 2nd amendment does nothing against real tyranny, it's just for meatheads to injure themselves or their loved ones and oppress minorities when they get scared. I'm in California; all my votes go blue and are meaningless on the national scale. No amount of standing in front of buildings or blocking roads will make a dent in the capitol overlords that own the levers of accountability.
but they didn't vote for the genocidal kamala.
how could this have happened???
U.S. government policy has not even closely reflected the will of the people since 1980, at the latest. Instead, the Overton Window kept moving right, and ever-more neoliberal, until we got to a point at which our only choices were between a grifter with populist energy, and a candidate offering a clearance-bin version of the "HOPE" that turned out to be more neoliberal ratfucking back when an effective salesman had pitched it to us.
And, no surprise, tons of people checked out of a political process which offered no meaningful response to their day-to-day life of getting economically ratfucked, because it just drained their energy for no discernable benefit.
So... you asked.
The US has been openly genociding trans people within its borders and no one cares. People turned out for Palestine and Venezuela to the extent that the state allowed them to, but have been seemingly silent on Cuba. Genocide is as American as the Kardashians.
To be clear, I'm not talking about politically savvy users on Lemmy. You're not the problem. The problem is the "white moderate" that MLK talked about in his letter. The problem is the apoliticals who complain about having to take the scenic route to Starbucks because of protesters on the streets. It's the so-called "adults" who treat politics like an optional sport. It's the people who have never heard of AIPAC, and who act surprised to learn that the US is at war. Those people need a good wake up slap.
The cultists are too far gone, the only hope for them to rejoin civilized society is literal cult deprogramming
Look, I agree with every one of your other points, but to say that "the US has been openly genociding trans people" is ludicrously stupid. Yes, some of the states are making anti-bathroom laws, and some of the states are making laws about not allowing medical/therapeutic support to minors for transitioning, and the federal government is making anti-trans executive orders about colleges... but genocide? Seriously?
Don't water down the use of the word genocide. It's a very serious thing that is currently happening and supported by the US, but that is not what is happening with trans people. Yet. It might happen with the way things are going, but not yet.
Most people on here gave Jewish pundits shit for calling 700 Jewish deaths in the October attack another "holocaust" and "genocide." We give those same people shit for not calling 70,000 Palestinian deaths a genocide. Don't be like those people.
Trans people being effectively legislated out of existence and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued three red flag alerts, but go on about how it's not a genocide
(I'll also note that this is specifically why I fled the US when I had the chance)