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::Looks at Americans really still just look on and do nothing while the Trump administration is tearing the country apart::
Yes.
Speak for yourself. What have you done to combat injustice in your home today?
Believe it or not yes some of us are trying to do something. You’ll have to forgive us for not having the same resources as the executive branch of the US.
Many idiots who are understandably mad/frustrated as well as foreign trolls/bots are trying to get Americans to become indiscriminate mass shooters regardless of who they end up taking down with them. The normal people telling us to get violent don't understand what it really takes to get an organized militant anti-government group off the ground. Any 'violence' that happens in this country by our side cannot be indiscriminate it must be targeted and reduce collateral damage to other people who support us.
This is not about any individuals, it's about America as a whole!!!
Speak for yourself.
I'm still waiting to hear what they've done to combat injustice in their home today. Or even yesterday for that matter.
EDIT - They responded, they're a G.
This is not about normal politics, or business as usual, it's about Trump destroying USA. In my country there is nothing remotely close to Trump or Republicans to demonstrate against, because we have a democracy that actually works.
Where is this magical land you live?
It's in Europe, but I guess you meant which country it is, which is Denmark.
And there is nothing magical about it, there are several similar countries that have functioning democracies.
To have a functioning democracy is not magical. But yes we do demonstrate if there are issues that require it. And we do have grass root movements. That can organize demonstrations quickly when needed.
Lmfao yall are cracking down on your borders as we speak dude are you kidding me?
WTF are you talking about?
Feel free to pick a source you trust
I have no idea what point you are trying to make? Traditionally we have been very open to emigrants, but the pressure it creates on our welfare system has forced us to tighten that.
Is that what you call "cracking down on your borders", and what you claim I ought to protest?
Of course it's disputable whether it's gone too far or not far enough, but as I mentioned, we have a well working democracy to debate that. But there is not one "fix all" solution.
Feel free to pick a source you trust:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=I%27m+trying+to+find+proof+of+my+stupid+clim&ia=web
If I wrote the list of actions and demonstrations I visited and helped organize in the last 15 years, I'd get accused of bragging. There's no winning against that argument, it's either "Show me what you've done" ::Shows all the things:: "You're bragging" or ::Shows nothing:: "See? I'm right."
I specifically asked.
Does this qualify as doing something?
I saw your other comment, and it is laudable what you have done. So you of all people should know that tearing down everyone in the US and assuming none of us are doing anything is completely counterproductive.
You are helping the Trump administration with your needless snark/generalizations. You’ve taken your years of activism and weaponized it against people who either are already trying to do something or could potentially join the fray because you can’t fathom some of us are trying. You just assume you’re a better person than any of us and are now spending your time attacking us.
Is being smug and looking down on people from your high horse worth it? Are you enjoying yourself?
Have you considered maybe lending us a helping hand? Perhaps using all those years of experience you have to bring about some good?
Especially those of us who are POC/LGBTQ+ we aren't the fucking problem any more than the German Jews who voted in their elections when hitler was elected. These people apparently would have blamed German Jews for 'doing nothing' and then fleeing their country instead of 'staying to fix it' and they don't seem to understand what they're saying. I do honestly believe there is a concerted russian/foreign effort to fan the flames of division between left leaning Americans and the rest of the world. Our populations overwhelmingly voted against trump we don't have the fucking numbers but yep we're all at fault and apparently we should go around committing mass shootings until we get what we want even if we end up killing other democratic party supporters as long as we get one magat...
This is why I don't share the things I've done to try and help, because random people on the internet who have done nothing say shit like this. Like I said, there's no winning, i'm either bragging or lying. You asked I answered, and you're still not happy.
EDIT - I was open enough to share a list of things i've done, do you mind sharing yours?
That was not a response to your years of activism. It was a response to your original comment, which was smug and shitty. I completely believe you did all those things and I literally said it was praiseworthy. I’m saying what you’re doing with your time now is the problem.
I was open enough to share a list of things i've done, do you mind sharing yours?
I feel like you’re not reading what I’m writing
I feel like you're proving my original point.
Dude I have said nothing negative about your activism or denied it happened. What are you on about? I have twice said it was good work and I believe you. What is your deal?
That's my deal. What have you done to defend your community and home today? Or yesterday?
EDIT - Assuming you're an American resident and if not why the fuck are we having this conversation.
I am a US resident.
I have worked with the EFF, the CSE (which does incredible and essential work in the US south), I have helped LGBT Americans stuck in the gulf south in ways that I cannot legally discuss, I have worked with abortion funds both raising money and drumming up support, and I have been in the vicinity of stun grenades more than once. My camera has seen a lot and raised a lot of money/volunteers for orgs. I am proud of my work, as you should be of yours.
We have both done good work. We have both tried to make the world a better place. Now please take a step back and think about what you are doing, and remember this has been my point the entire time. Go through the comments and find anywhere where I spoke ill of your activism or denied it happened. I really need you to think about what was actually said here in considered why I am upset (again, I applaud your work and believe you.):
You started this conversation shitting on all US citizens because of what’s happening. There are tons of us trying to fight it, but you used your experience and wisdom and keyboard to attack all of us in one fell swoop. To discourage people.
You took your position as someone who has done good to discourage and disparage the rest of us.
Ah, I see you are someone doing something! Well now I know you're not just another lethargic devil, yes there are tons of people trying to do good work but there's tons more work need to be done. We both not only need to keep up what we're doing but we need to do even more. People like us have our work cut out for us at a time like this.
Seeing as my first post was an acknowledgment to someone elses post (who doesn't seem to be getting the same pushback from you as I am for some reason?) I don't think I started it. And when did I ever say "ALL Americans"? It says "Americans," like, plural for American, as in there are Americans who are sitting there watching Trump tear apart their country and are doing nothing about it. That's not to disparage the work being done over there, ffs I personally know a lot of Americans who are doing far more than the both of us combined! ::Gestures broadly at the situation:: It's still not enough though.
But I get it man, you're fucking pissed off and anxious as you rightfully should be, I am too. Anyone who isn't scared right now is fucking stupid. Maybe this'll cheer you up - I recently (sorta) reconnected with an old friend, a really good friend of mine from back in the day who I still talk to on and off. His whole life and the whole time I knew him he was the last person in the world to care about politics, classic normie American catholic who loves his baseball and fantasy sports, keg parties no shirt on the whole nine yards. He's still very much that guy, but even he is becoming politically conscious and is starting to ask the right questions. If there's anyone that needs to be reached it's that complacent majority type like him, and they're being reached my dude. Hearing him talk like that gave me an internal supernova of hope.
I’m glad we can end in a more amicable place. I just encourage you to maybe think about the fact that you are on a growing platform with a lot of people who are probably not as involved as they could be. So maybe lean more on encouragement than snark and discouragement. That’s all.
I get it, mostly along the lines of the fact that the time for joking about this is over. It's really not funny anymore, and I didn't mean to offend or discourage. I just wish there was a big enough fire lit under more Americans rearends before the social security payments stop and yeah, I don't want to think about what that means right now.
You’re right it’s pretty fucking gloomy here. I haven’t even been able to listen to political podcast or anything lately because it’s just so everywhere right now and my mental health is getting obliterated between that and raising young kids. I am still involved but it’s very overwhelming right now so I have mostly had to settle for financial support and keeping my ear to the ground for opportunities to get out there with my camera or edit some stuff together for organizations.
Then prove it.
I'm not gonna send my professional c/v to some rando on the internet. What difference does it make anyway?
So you've done nothing and you're pretending. Thumbs up
What have you done?
We already asked you. And you've caved at answering. But you acted all high and mighty, so we're waiting on your actual response.
In middleschool some peers and I helped run a fundraiser and helped organize in 2003 against the war in Iraq (kinda started here, cuz I naiively thought we were past that as a species)
When living in America during my teens, attended every protest I could physically go to to march against KKK and NeoNazi rally's, we even (foolishly) got physical with them.
November 2011 was at Occupy Wall St. where 800+ of us were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. (first time being arrested at a protest)
2012-2013 worked with Greenpeace, Wilderness Society, and alongside with Bob Irwin (Steve Irwin's dad) in his Fight for the Reef campaign to protect the Great Barrier Reef from coal shipping expansion (successfully managed to delay the Australian coal industries plan for a whole year, sadly they dredged the GBR anyway but I'd like to think we gave them a headache.)
2013 onwards - Attended every protest but at this point I'm past yelling and shouting, nowadays I hand out bottles of water and information on rights and what to do if you're arrested or confronted by police.
2024 - Helped defend Plymouth UK from the fascist pogroms, same as above except also using my body as a shield to protect others from bricks. Hurt like a bitch but i'd take a million more. Also help run classes and leftist meetings alongside socialist members of government to teach members of the public everything from history of anti-fascism to safe resistance to mutual aid and preformative politics to cybersecurity to fascist dog-whistles and local fascist groups.
Currently diagnosed and disabled from Graves disease, but if a march were to happen outside say millionaire or billionaire gated communities i'd defy my doctors orders to show up.
Happy? This is kinda my hobby.
EDIT - If you NEED proof I can dig up the video I took back in 2011 of us marching onto the Brooklyn Bridge, but that would take effort and I don't see why I should waste that effort on you.
That other commenter had to be a bot keep the fight going man America's worth saving by actual Americans not a billionaire narcissistic psychopath of an orange shit gibbon Russian asset
"Earnest Hemmingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
Yes, anyone that presses someone to back up thier claims is obviously a bot 🙄
That's all we were asking for, thank you.