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[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The current administration would definitely try to provoke and likely fire on people with guns and then say that they fired first.

[+] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

LOL
Since forever people of the world have protested and rioted.
And this against regimes and ruthless dictators that make your orange look like a joke.
They 100% knew they would be shot at, maybe tortured if arrested.
They did it anyway, since they're not absolute pussies and an embarrassment like your pathetic population.

Glad you're finally admitting you're cowards, not that we didn't know already.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who is the plural you you're talking about?

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

About every people on the planet that had to confront an authoritarian regime.
And did it, regardless of the sacrifice in lives because they weren't weak docile worms like the banana republic dwellers

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you traveling to the US to take up arms against ICE, etc?

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

hell no, I want it to burn to the ground.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you're also a coward?

I don't feel the next to fly there and buy a gun and protest if that's what it takes to not be a coward. Especially when that definition comes from another perpetually online coward...

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm European, we have suffered enough because of the USSA.
They deserve to go to hell.
There is zero grounds to call me a coward just because I don't want to rescue a dying shithole.
The world will be a much better place without it.
You can get frustrated and cry about that all you want.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Congrats on being European. Explain how you're not, by your own definition, a coward.
Just go reread your comments and understand that you're messaging someone who is on the continent east of Canada.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You asked if I wanted to go there and help a country that is the cancer of the world and I that I despise?

Obviously not. Maybe you need to explain why that makes me a coward in your (very weird) logic?

Also IDGAF where you're from, that has nothing to do with my view, so irrelevant.
Unless you want to explain that too?

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Almost there buddy. Go one or two more comments back.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Do you think I'm going to play your games?
Answer the question or go away.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

WESTERN EUROID VICTIM COMPLEX XD

The global south is a victim of American hegemony, Canadians are victims of Trump, Americans are victims of their own actions, West Euroids are victims of nothing. Rode the wave of allyship with a hegemony to better living than the citizens of the actual hegemon, decoupling now that it's more trouble than it's worth. That's all. Shut up, armchair revolutionary.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

We have better living because we're not pussies like americans.
We strike, riot and fight for our rights.
All we have we have earned. Unlike you whiny bitches.

And all the USSA ever did for us was make us vassals and made us pay for the NATO protection scam.
Making us bye their crappy military stuff, needed for nothing except sending it to help them when the cowards decided to loot and destroy yet another oil rich and defenseless country.
After that WE get to take care of all the refugees they cause.
So fuck off with your BS, stay in your banana republic and suffer. You deserve it.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean they showed up. Respect for that.

It takes some balls to know you may get shot and decide to go with a frog costume and a dildo.

Is it the most efficient way to conduct a protest, no. But also, fuck efficacy.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I applaud the energy to want do something but people should consider whether they are spending their energy effectively.

All this did was give Republicans an incredibly easy punching bag and make opposition to ICE look like absolute clowns. Doing literally nothing would have been better than this.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Well I disagree. I think ineffective protesting is better than no action.

Who cares what the right thinks.

If a person in a frog costume shows up at a protest I organize I would be fucking stocked.

[–] mmcintyre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. If someone does a thing Republicans don't want done, they'll attack, regardless. Might as well make it interesting and keep the attacks anonymous.

I mean, that army of frogs could be school kids or coworkers. Boys. Women. You don't know. Facial and gait recognition aren't going to be very effective. I love it!

(I googled and just found out a group of frogs is an ARMY! It's perfect.)

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think you understand. This isn't about frog costumes. It's about dildo's. A lot of dildo's.

https://x.com/FordFischer/status/2043047049499709577

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's actually considerably worse.

Non-acton means you retain the understanding that something still needs to be done and thus should be looking for an alternative to achieve the desired goal.

Performative action that is not materially effective has the effect of making one think that they did "something" so they don't have to do anything else.

Action for the sake of action is just wasted energy. Do you spin your wheels in mud just because "it's better to have done something" or do you look for an alternative that actually gets you out of the mud?

[–] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Let he who has escalated further talk the first shit