FYI it's illegal to post soldiers at polling stations in the US
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Well, we had the chance to save our democracy, and we blew it because of eggs. Say, how's that affordability crisis looking nowadays?
I just spent around $40 on two burgers, fries, and a shake at Five Guys... So bad. It's looking bad.
Paid $4.50/gal for gas at a fucking Costco and my haircut costs 2 times what it did a year ago so I'd say Trump's nailing it ~ elon
But this would have happened no matter who won though since they're both bought by AIPAC /s
Eggs are so easy to go without too. I've never purchased an egg in my life
More like "election preventing army". Trump and the GOP can no longer afford free and democratic votes.
A bunch of failsons with a fourth grade reading level patrolling polling stations with AR-15s. What could be more American than that?
If this "army" is anything like ICE we all know what that means: voter intimidation and violence.
MAGA is attacking election integrity from several ends. We always knew this was going to happen if he gets re-elected. And with "we" I mean not enough people to matter, apparently.
Start organizing NOW. Get in touch with your local rapid response groups or other local orgs. Create a poll watch patrol and target high risk polling places. Report any suspicious people/activity, and response with people to protest and video it.
History rarely repeats, but it often rhymes.
Really... The world is watching you yankers. At this point. If the un is not controlling your election. We know it's rigged. And you are completely useless. Won't stand up for yourselves. And the sooner we convince our governments of this the best. The USA is over.
What exactly should random people living paycheck to paycheck do about our entire government being controlled by fascists?
We are already protesting and striking.
Our leaders have failed us. The good ones failed to stand up to the bad ones, and the bad ones are in charge now and control the media, the military, and the Supreme Court.
You want Dave from Burger King and Emmett from Starbucks to resort to guerilla warfare?
Should we be committing harkiri in the streets?
You think you’re angry?
Imagine being here, watching it happen face to face, arguing with a never ending army of brainwashed people who get off on cruelty because they’d rather burn it all down than let immigrants and trans people live in peace.
To be honest, that's what the American people have always done throughout history. When the elite got out of hand, the people revolted and successfully brought them down. So yes, Dave from Burger King should be there in the streets too. At the biggest anti-Trump protest the US had so far, only 2% of the American people were present. And those who were present waved signs for exactly one day and then went home. That is simply insufficient.
You want Dave from Burger King and Emmett from Starbucks to resort to guerilla warfare?
If we don't purge MAGA from our government and our society, then Dave and Emmett are going to find their jobs replaced by robots, and the jobs they had aspired to beyond that, have been replaced by AI. There are no jobs for them, and never will be. The few human powered jobs left will be done by wealthy Nepo-Babies.
So Dave and Emmett are now part of the 60%+ permanent unemployment rate, which is actually higher, but the government games the stats to make it sound better, as if "only" 60% is acceptable.
So Dave and Emmett won't have much choice but to fight in some way. Either they'll fight in the Rebel Army in the Civil War, or they'll fight to protect their family, but they'll fight one way or another.
If they don't, they'll end up in the extermination camps, where MAGA deals with the lazy chronically unemployed who are dragging down our country.
Apparently lie down and watch facism bloom. Y'all've already let it take root and flourish.
It turns out that this second amendment I keep hearing about was not worth the paper it's written on either.
What did German citizens wish they'd done a hundred years ago?
Not just some of the largest, the largest. No Kings makes up the top three
I think a lot of people don't realize just how gigantic the US is and how much of a logistical nightmare it is to organize nation wide things, and how relatively little small groups of people can do to the federal government
The criticism of not starting soon enough is valid; this kind of mass action should have happened earlier. But it is happening now and people like the mentioned keyboard warrior dismissing that are hindering not helping
Complications to organize are part of the problem too. We need people who devote themselves to enabling protestors, organizing alliances, … people who are able to get online like Anonymous did back in the day, using voice transpositions and face masks, making threats to do some wild shit if need be. Do you guys remember when Anonymous made threats to shut down the internet if a bill got passed?
We barely need people to coordinate explicitly. Anonymous is actually a pretty good example, now that I think about it. They were completely unorganized. You were Anonymous if you claimed to be Anonymous. You made demands from the shadows, executed plans in secrecy, and claimed credit again from the shadows. People see this and catch on, eventually mimicking your framework under the same name “Anonymous.”
Maybe it's time for you Muricans to stop protesting the Murican way and learn a little bit from 1, your own history circa 250 years ago 2, french history from roughly the same period
When tyrants don't leave on their own accord, what are you to do? Protest even harder while they laugh from their helicopters and private jets, surrounded by private security, isolating themselves from the people they try to rule? What good will protesting harder do?
Not sure the French Revolution is the best example given what happened immediately afterwards
No, it's not time, yet.
What amateur foreign "advisors" don't understand is that we have at least two important Constutional checkpoints to get through first - the 2026 Midterm Election, and the 2028 Presidential Election. Those are our final two opportunities to turn this nation around, and ALL indications are that they will go the right way, and with courage and decisive action from our elected leaders, we can still save America. We owe our nation, our Constitution, and our history, to do this properly, by the book.
But that's a big "IF." MAGA will make sure it doesn't go smoothly, and cause as much trouble as they can. They will do literally anything to remain in power, including cancelling elections. We have NEVER cancelled an election and n this country, not during WWII, not even during the Civil War. That is a BRIGHT RED LINE that they cannot cross. If they attempt to cancel elections, it's INSTANT Civil War.
So we will try to do it by the book, and let our elections do the talking, but MAGA is the world's greatest chaos agent, and they will definitely make it difficult. No matter what they attempt, we must stay on the legal Constutional path until that journey is either completed or forcibly removed.
The problem with all your American bullshit is that it leaks out into the rest of the world and fucks it up too.
Why [am I] ignoring...
Oh, I'll just post a million word essay enumerating everything wrong with the USA.
Disobedience is the key, it would have worked back in Germany and it would work today. Teach your children political disobedience, because not enough adults know how anymore.
It turns out the answer, as always, look elsewhere for examples. You want to see how to actually run a great country, look at literally every other developed nation besides the US. Want to see how to counter fascism, look outside the US...oh and open a history book for once in your fucking life, stop being so ignorant and illiterate like all our peers here, our illiteracy rates and comprehension abilities are genuinely some of the worst on the planet.
Hey buddy, are you in the west? Because the last I checked, not a single western nation has actually economically and politically pariahed the United States. You work on your government, many here are doing about all we can short of throwing our lives away and we could use more support.
THANK YOU! I get that, from the outside looking in, it looks like we aren’t doing anything; but short of open rebellion, we don’t have many options that don’t leave us, at best, homeless. And the “at best” scenario is increasingly the least likely outcome. When the GOP gains seats in the house this November, the latter part of this year could get interesting.
In the meantime, everyone watching is repeatedly punching ourselves in the national crotch, needs to be putting as much pressure as they can on their elected representatives not to treat the US as a pariah, but to pressure it to fall back into some semblance of sanity. Treating the US as a pariah will do exactly what nobody except Trump and Putin want - the unholiest of unholy alliances (outside of Bibi & Trump, that is). A New Axis (and they’ll probably call it that because they don’t know what irony is) for the world to deal with.
So, poll watchers? A thing we already have?
No, guys with guns to make sure you vote the right way.
Not at my polling location they won't. Have you signed up to be an election judge yet?
The president says yes, you say no. Which one do you think determines whether armed goons show up? Can you tell me why "not at my polling location they won't"?
Friendly reminder that not everyone on the internet is American, and in fact most aren't.
Trump says a lot of shit that isn't true. And he does it with the goal of scaring people.
i want to say "not at my location" and show up armed with a semiautomatic shotgun, but i don't have a semiautomatic shotgun. also if i showed up with my rhetorical shotty, they'd probably shoot me. i'm visibly disabled, there's a nontrivial chance i get shot in every police interaction, one with a firearm just increases it.
If you're not a poll worker and not even American, I'm not gonna listen to you tell me how elections in America work. I and thousands of others like me are the ones who run them.

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