• Snowies@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Notice how no one has any smart comments to respond to you with?

    Thats because it’s really fucking easy to criticize an entire country when you’re not in it.

    The American people were born here by chance, live paycheck to paycheck, and are separated from the people that make these decisions by thousands of miles and thousands of armed men with guns.

    What are we supposed to do exactly, specifically, as individuals… huh?

    We’re all fucking ears.

    If it’s so fucking simple, tell us how to fix it (not you Prole, them).

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      7 hours ago

      Criticism of America as usually pretty spot on, but a lot of recent criticism online has devolved to insulting every American individual and has plenty of schadenfreude vibes. It is especially galling since it is easy to imagine that this criticism comes from people or places that would be doing the same thing (or lack thereof) to fight this sort of cryptofascism in their own countries as well. How many of those complaining about the direction America is headed and how little the people are doing to stop it, would be totally disinterested if we were talking about Poland or Finland or Italy? Ultimately, I believe what we are seeing, in many cases, is really just an objection to how much their own country’s economics and military are tied to the whims or fortunes of the U.S.

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      23 hours ago

      You’re not meant to do anything as individuals. You’re meant to do something as a population.

      Nobody says it is easy. It not, but the first step is to form organisations.

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        16 hours ago

        We have organizations.

        They stage protests and advocate for better leaders.

        No one is moved by them in a meaningful way. Those who agree still agree and those who don’t, don’t ever hear about them, and if they do; they don’t listen or care.

        10 - 16% of my country thinks the earth is flat, and 8% thinks Barrack Obama is worse than Jeffrey Epstein.

        We just have tens of millions of insane idiots. How do you help tens of millions of people with shared language and culture, and access to social media and smartphones — NOT to be insane idiots?

        What’s an organization going to say or do to influence someone who is so brainwashed and committed to their tribe?

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              16 hours ago

              Well the process is well documented, But if you need a starting place police stations are a fair choice.