mrmaplebar comments on they said sorry

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I didn't vote for this shit, in fact I voted and warned against it for 3 elections in a row.

Sadly 1/3 of Americans actively support this shit, while.another 1/3 were more than happy to sit back and let it happen.

Americans at large deserve this. I have to constantly remind myself that this is what people in this country voted for, and it's only right for us to suffer the consequences of our elections, otherwise people here will never learn. I do feel sorry for the people who get caught up in this stupidity, but there are too many Americans who are shielded from the consequences of their words and actions.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 9 months ago

I have to constantly remind myself that this is what people in this country voted for

*What they accepted. There are a lot of ways to help fascists that don't involve voting for them and aren't mutually exclusive with voting against them. Fascism takes a lot more work on both sides of the aisle than just winning an election, and I for one am not letting the DNC apologists off the hook.

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[+] stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Cool. And so you want me to do what exactly?

I begged people to vote against this guy. I begged people to support Kamala. I begged Biden to step down when it became clear he was not up for it. I begged people to not let the Israeli/Palestinian/Iranian/Russian orchestrated war in Gaza be a reason why we turned our country over to authoritarian fascists and Project 2025. I begged people to recognize what was at stake at home and abroad. I'm not shocked or surprised by what I'm seeing today. Not only is this what they said they were gonna do, this is just an extension of what they tried to do last time.

I'm from Portland, Oregon. A blue county, in a blue city, in a blue state. Trump sent masked gestapo goons to attack us back in 2020, during a global pandemic, while people rioted and forest fires filled the sky with smoke. We've seen this movie before. My state is not even considered one of the states that are in play in American elections. And yet, I protested (I'll continue to protest), I gave what little money I could to politicians who wasted it, and I voted.

So what's left for me to do?

Go buy a gun and throw my life away by declaring a 1-man war against the fascist US government in a futile attempt to solve a problem that other people created?

Nope. Nah dude, no thanks. As tempting as that is when I see the news, I'm not gonna do that.

For now I've done all that I can reasonably do to try to fix a situation that the idiots and assholes of this country created. I'll continue to speak out. I'll continue to vote. But I'm not gonna throw my one life away over this shit.

Whether I like it or not, America voted for this--tariffs, ICE, techno oligarchy, imperialism, censorship, the absolute pettiness... ALL of it. This is what America wanted, and this is what America gets. Like Socrates, I'll defer to the "democratic" process.

I've done way more than the average American, and frankly, way more than the people in other parts of the world who continue to use American social media, consume American media, buy American products from American stores. I don't want to hear that I haven't done enough when people in other countries can't even stop using X.com, drinking Starbucks, using Windows, subscribing to Netflix, buying iPhones, or watching crappy Disney Marvel/Star Wars schlock.

Call me when everyone else has done the bare fucking minimum.

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[–] Soulg@ani.social 8 points 9 months ago*

Yes actually they absolutely want you to grab a gun and go off and die needlessly, they make that very clear everytime they post and demand our blood for the sins of the maga

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[–] Cargon@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

When the Allies invade to liberate America from this Great Evil it will be our duty then to assist them and help put the maga in gibbets where they belong.

Until then, I agree with you. I will not throw my life away in service of a futile cause. We are massively outnumbered and need help.

Two-thirds of Americans are irredeemable trash, and only a small fraction of the remainder truly recognize what is happening. I have been loudly warning people about this since Republicans stole the 2000 election, and yet their numbers only grow. Deprogramming such a large number is not feasible.