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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 117 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Every single bad thing you can imagine, they are doing. The USA simply has villains in charge, and they've set themselves the task of destroying anything that might sustain or improve life for anyone except themselves. In movies when this happens, real Americans take them down. In real life apparently they just sit and watch.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In movies, they get taken down by a single hero. Not very realistic.

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah. But their name is usually Bruce. Or Clark.

We got Luigi.

[–] Pastel_Problem@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I honestly wish there WAS something we could do but at this point its not logistically possible. I wish half the country could flood the capital and protest but the US is simply too large. It takes days and hundreds of dollars to travel even a few states away if you cant fly. I understand your frustration but you gotta cut us some slack while we figure this out.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

No need to travel. Organise a general strike

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

So are you an American not doing anything, or a foreigner who has no idea what it's like to actually be in the situation?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I'm a foreigner with an opinion. I talk to American friends every few days. I have some idea of what you're up against and I recognize it's not easy to do anything to slow this down or stop it. Trump's threatening my country and so are our own right-wing politicians, and I'm aware we all face similar difficulties: it's not easy to know what to do, and not easy to organize it even when you have an idea. But I can see it will take something unusual in the USA, not just waiting for an election.

Saying you're sitting and watching was unfair of me. Just an expression of frustration watching what they're doing to your country and threatening to do to ours.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Take your frustration and multiply it many times, then many times more. That's what any reasonable person who lives in the U.S. is feeling right now. Something will give, sooner rather than later.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

equally, please don’t imply that you understand global frustration at the US right now

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We are doing things. An important judge race in WI went our way. Couple of FL congress races were won by republicans by a lot less then expected. In MN we had 25000 people turn out. There are tons of cases working through the courts.

About all can be done at the moment is file law suits, try to shift public opinion enough so Republican congessman start getting nervous, win elections as come up.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee -5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

an opinion

Which involves critizing the US in every single comment and post you make.
This is what you do with your life.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

a foreigner

Oof. Masks off all up in here, I guess.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Please elaborate? Is it some horrible thing to ask if someone is not from a specific place? Do tell.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The problem is global. The US and the global elite are dragging the planet down with it. The most downtrodden victims of US domination are usually abroad anyway. So it feels pointless to worry about where people are because we all need to unite to fight Davos and its appointed imperator.

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Noone is a foreigner on the world wide web. It is mainly Americans who expect everyone else on the internet to be Americans.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

There's something called context, which affects the meaning of words. You should look it up.

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

They don't sit and watch. They cheer them on.

[–] PragmaticOne@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Trump is a fucking orange chode eating shit for brains.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

“Thank you for your attention to this matter” is how they sign all of their fascistic orders. They think it’s all funny. I promise you they’re laughing at all this shit.

[–] Graymouzer@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This seems like a slamdunk lawsuit. We get to pay the penalties for this asshole's stupidity.

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

We're going to be paying in so many ways for decades because of that asshole

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

This motherfucker is still on this?

He's a less lovable Don Quixote.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago

When techni-optimists where talking about green tech, I called the renewables ban. Misanthrope wins again!