• Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    26·
    23 hours ago

    Just remember though, that excuse didn’t matter during the WoT or 1% protests, Americans were able to gather in huge numbers and coordinate globally.

    But somehow in the last 10 years America has physically elongated until those distances that were doable before are now the biggest barrier to stopping literal fascism.

    Please stop repeating this self defeating myth.

    • pelespirit
      92·
      23 hours ago

      Are you saying World Trade Organization protests? I lived in Seattle during that time. I think protesting is good, but this is a takeover of our government. I know that it’s giving the fascists what they want, but I do feel defeated this time around. We barely got him out last time and he cheated his way back in legally or he got his minions to do it illegally.

      I’m focusing on helping my community members first this time and being a support system to anyone I can. I’m also trying to post media about actual facts and none of the hyperbole that is his firehose of taking over the media.

      “The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”

      So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.

      “All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        6·
        22 hours ago

        War on Terror, the global US born protest against the bullshit invasions following 9/11.

        So if you can’t keep him out legally, and he’s taking away your legal options anyway…

        Hey what are your amendments again?

        • pelespirit
          72·
          22 hours ago

          War on Terror, the global US born protest against the bullshit invasions following 9/11.

          I don’t mean to make you feel bad about this, but our protests weren’t that loud over here. Mostly because people convinced the populace that they had WMD’s. I was young and stupid and believed in our government.

          Hey what are your amendments again?

          Have you seen our police force? They have tanks and usually the option to shoot to kill. I know there are some to risk everything to against this regime, but they’re not the ones that are going to help the situation. They’ll just get mowed down. A financial hit to our economy is the only thing that will wake up the people who will do anything about this. Right now, they think that they’re the ones that won’t be hurt.

          • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
            10·
            22 hours ago

            Did the tanks stop Luigi?

            Sorry, I’m just tired. It seems like every time Americans talk there’s a million excuses for why they can’t clean up their own mess and instead we all have to wait until this spills into WW3 or something.

            • pelespirit
              32·
              22 hours ago

              Dude, you’re hand waving away some pretty extreme things. Let’s say that trump has a heart attack and dies from too many hamberders, it is shit buckets all the way down. There are many countries all over the world that have dictators and didn’t/don’t know what to do.

              Trump causing our economy to shit itself is the only way it’s going to be stopped at this point. Later, that won’t matter.

              • Kalothar@lemmy.ca
                2·
                3 hours ago

                I have a pretty damn good idea of what we are up against, and I don’t think violence directly towards the figureheads is going to work. Mainly because of their untouchability

                Lower level officials however will start getting their tickets punched if things keep going south with the economy.

                It’s all connected to money; healthcare, housing, and food. If the economy takes a hard enough hit, which will happen almost certainly now (trades falling apart and tariff threats create a pretty unpredictable market), there will be more and more people pushed to the brink. Just look at the Republican town hall videos, even their base is being riled up.

                There will be violence and a terrible economy in the near future