McDonald’s?
More like Taco Town
McDonald’s?
More like Taco Town
40%
To me, that’s the real issue. I’ve heard of and yearn for these situations where a population overthrows a corrupt government. But SO much of America is brain damaged enough that they intentionally, willingly, without a gun to their head, voted for this and believes it to be okay.
There is a heavy propaganda machine affecting them as well as a deep religious institution. We don’t even see much of it often on international media. Even then, while it can move the needle, it also points to a sizable percentage of that 40% not being ignorant or scared of Kamala, but openly Evil as well as stupid. Even when Trump says the most insane shit, they’re still worried that a Democrat will burst into their home with a loaded Immigrant and kill them all.
The great revolution is not coming. Datacenters are flammable today!

God damn so we need a recall function that's able to be initiated by the public.
Imho everyone from the president down to the dog walker should be subject to a recall possibility
Everyone is demanding that somebody else go and do something.
Right? And then i go and read the "well what can you really do" comments and it's shit i've already been doing for the last 30 years. So like, it's time for other people to step up ALSO because i am fucking tired and covered in scars from this fight already.
I can't help but feel like a huge, huge problem is that like half the country, and the most rich and powerful of us, are fully behind the same things that everyone else wants to gather up and blow up DC or something over. This is not like the country is united at all. Its more like half of the Americans (the poor half) are super unhappy with what's happening and the other half absolutely love it. Makes things a lot harder.
You noticed that too...I guess being a cunt is the human condition. There are a lot of Americans doing something substantial right now. They get charged with terrorism if caught, and get zero honest or credible media coverage, but they are still out there engaging in real action. If everyone took it upon themselves to do whatever they could, instead of worrying/accusing everyone else of doing nothing, a lot more would get done.
No, non-Americans are demanding that Americans handle the shit we have been telling them would happen for about three decades now.
Americans are acting like overly defensive, whiny cowards about it.
Treating us like a monolith ignores the millions of Americans who have dedicated themselves to bringing this beast down, most of us long before Trump ever took public office, some at great personal risk and consequence. We don't assume that all Europeans are jew-scapegoating islamophobe vassal dogs who will slavishly comply with a war in Iran despite being seriously threatened with military annexation by the US within the past year, despite the optics begging that assessment, despite being poked with this "Do something, Americans!" stick only now that you too have been made materially uncomfortable (Like I'm fuckin tired boss, I have been doing something continually since Occupy Wall St when I took my first pepper spray, before they were using the more exotic chemicals). We know that despite the failure of Europeans as a whole to stop fascism on their soil before it was too late (Several times now) that there are freedom fighters over there too who dedicate their life and safety to pushing progress, and we applaud them. Even though they don't usually get shot at or lynched by cops or shipped to a cage in another country when they get close to their goals. We know that it would be an insult and an erasure to assess them by the failures of their societies.
Why do I get the sense you've never even punched anyone in your life?
Get back under your bridge and stay there you useless do-nothing fraud.
Why do I get the sense you've never even punched anyone in your life?
Try again. In Saskatchewan, “never punched anyone” just meant you skipped hockey practice.
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
If I do anything non-violent to “rise up” against the government, it’s “not enough.” If I do anything violent, I put everything I have to care for at risk. I have a kid and a wife and a house and a mortgage and a job with a healthcare plan to be worried about.
I want trump and his corruption and his cronies gone. But I’m not going to put my child’s chance at a stable future at risk to make it so.
I will/do vote against him. I will/do protest. I will/do volunteer to help the victims of his shit policies. But I will not deprive my family of a husband/father/home. I can’t.
So if that’s not enough, I’m sorry. I want to do more but they’ve got us pinned down. We need “air support.” We may even need outside help.
Or to use my preferred way of phrasing it "I won't be first in line for the revolution, but you bet your ass I'll be third."
This exactly. We are human and oir system prevents us from having any power over that dumb ass. We did not vote him into power, the stupid electoral college did. Our vote is meaningless. Only our economic decisions are important. Vote with our feet, vote with our wallet. We should fight to vote with our data....but first we need to fight for our data back.
When it finally comes to it every Trump, MAGA, 2nd Amendment, gun loving American will rise up and stand on the side of tyranny
Lotta posts on here lately that seem intent on minimizing the presence of marginalized groups and their resistance within the US. I wonder what someone would want out of a narrative that conveniently ignores grassroots activism and mutual aid while minimizing their effect when they don't correlate with fundamental, top-down change. What position would a person have to be in to be comforted by a narrative like that? 🧐
So all those guns were for schools only?
Democrats have been saying that for 30 years. The excuse that you need guns to prevent the government becoming tyrannical was a farce since 1900, there's no way that individuals with AR-15s could overthrow the military unless the military lets them do so at which point you didn't need the AR-15s in the first place.
You can make an argument for home defense or hunting, but a shotgun or bolt action rifle are generally more than enough for that.
... did you not see Jan 6th? Its easier than you think
The President of the United States was throwing a rally and, furthermore, we now know that Trump's people coordinated with groups like the Proud Boys. That's not exactly spontaneous or lacking centralized organization.
Also, I 100% guarantee you that if it hadn't been MAGA, there would have been bodies on the ground well before they got to the Capital steps. The people in charge right now are the ones who are pro gun and ok with killing people they disagree with. They are also the ones who would argue for executing people for treason because that's what the constitution says.
It's not that a violent revolution couldn't happen, but there has to be something or someone to rally around and there just isn't yet. No one with the clout to actually pull this level of support has gotten to that point yet.
8 million people keep showing for No Kings... not sure why you folks keep ignoring this
8 million people across 2,700 locations, almost all non-violent, to protest....
Do I need to refer you back to the original meme or do you actually think protesting counts as doing something in the US? Protesting hasn't been effective since Republicans learned they can just ignore you.
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