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we got some catching up to do (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 53 points 1 year ago (53 children)

Careful, every American on Lemmy has about 6 or 7 thought-stopping cliches ready to defend their cowardly fucking inaction.

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  • [+] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I am more than pleased to be proven wrong.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (28 children)

    The fact that you're posting this means you're not dead or in prison, which thought-stopping cliche will you use to explain your cowardly inaction?

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago* (27 children)

    Or maybe I don’t live in a shithole country?

    You guys’ America-centric assumptions are really more in line with what we tend to see from MAGA chuds. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised that you aren’t fighting back too hard.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    It sure is easy to criticize people for inaction when you're at no risk yourself.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Inaction isn't going to keep you safe.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Neither is poorly planned action.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I am, and frankly I find the default assumption that the people criticizing ineffective action aren't engaged in effective action to be extremely condescending.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The people the rest of the world has been warning for decades that this very situation would occur if you kept doing what you were doing? The people who got belligerent and shitty when we pointed out the path they were on? Easy to criticize them? Yeah, it very much is.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    This is Lemmy, the vast majority of Americans here lean hard left. We knew. What exactly were we supposed to do? Die immediately in an immature revolution? Magically devise the perfect argument to overcome a century of anti-left propaganda?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    criticizes what other people are doing

    does nothing

    WHY ARENT YOU GUYS DOING ANYTHING BUT POSTING ON THE INTERNET? does nothing but post on the internet

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, they live in the mystical land of Canada, that does no wrong at all, and definitely hasnt done ANYTHING wrong, especially to their indigenous people. the mystical far off country far away from Canada, where there's nothing he could do but spew hate! Do you realize how far away Canada is? All he can do is advocate violence, can you imagine how hard it would be to get to the US?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Fucking Americans. "Why can't you do it for us? Just cross a boarder into a country descending into fascism and stop it so that we don't have to do anything."

    Criticized for not taking action and the response is "can't you do it for me?"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This reminds me of a recurrent thing in life: someone competes following a set of rules, and the other player doesn't follow them. Of course that gives them an advantage.

    There are two logical options to make the game fair again:

    1)finding a way to make the second player follow the original rules

    2)accepting the new game with its changed rules

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The people who got belligerent and shitty when we pointed out the path they were on? Easy to criticize them? Yeah, it very much is.

    A bunch of us have had to live right next door to these people the whole time. Sometimes it's so ridiculous that I think the simulation overseers are experimenting with the opposite of the simulated utopia from The Matrix that failed. Is there a level of absurdity that will get us to reject the simulation en masse?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I guess I should quit my job and condemn my family to destitution because some guy on Lemmy called me a pussy for not fighting the government. Rofl.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Right, that's what the rest of the world is waiting on Americans to do: quit their job.

    "Do nothing" is so ingrained in the American psyche that when pushed to do something the only thing they can think of is doing even less.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No. I'm not quitting my job. That's the dumbest fucking thing anyone could suggest. Grow up.

    If there's a general strike, I'll participate. Quitting my job and condemning my family to starve? Fuck outta here with that childish nonsense.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No one actually suggested you quit your job. YOU'RE the one that said that and I was pointing out the absurdity that that is the first and only place you go. Are you lost?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Do you imagine people in Nepal to have big savings accounts and investments in NVidia?

    Truth is - if you are not bothered enough by the situation to risk your confort and way of life, then you are ok with the situation and accept it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Honestly? People who are living paycheck to paycheck have MORE reasons to risk everything and FAR fewer excuses for allowing the status quo to persist. Who the fuck do you think should be burning shit down if not the people most victimized by it?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    people SHOULD go out and die. not me tho. other people.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right, let me book a flight to another country whose citizens can't be bothered to fight back on their own to show them how it's done.

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