• Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Show me the turn out in red states? Be lucky if get thousand people in Tulsa and cops sitting by to round you all up.

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      2 days ago

      There’s a hard Red Congresswoman representing Staten Island, NY.

      Getting rid of Blue state GOPs will give the Dems a majority in the House.

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      I understand what you’re saying and feeling, but don’t think direct action is feasible without a large coordinated group of people working together.

      There may come a day that a mobs that size are needed to exert physical force. I see these massive protests as exercising the core orchestration and massing that we’ll need some day. That day isn’t today, but the better we get the better we’ll be on that day. I see this as exercise.

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        Of course, no pressure whatsoever, we don’t have a crazy person with the nuke codes threatening the world.

        What’s the issue here, Americans are too stupid to put alcohol in a bottle? You don’t want to get hurt?

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            2 days ago

            Right, this is a localised problem that doesn’t happen anywhere else. Protesting is not a thing outside amerikkka. I’m getting jerked off while drinking hot chocolate and strawberries and writing poems on how good the place I’m living is.

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                If amerikans didn’t do it, it doesn’t exist yet. They are the best of best, surely they’ll figure out how to protest.

        • U7826391786239@piefed.zip
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          americans are fucking stupid. look at the countless articles of “american man’s life ruined by trump, still supports trump.” it’s absolutely mind-boggling

          i am also skeptical that a critical mass of people will do anything beyond peaceful protesting, and if they do, it’s probably too late. they’re still posting their shit on social media, which, surprise-- everything you post is now indexed and cross referenced by trump’s NSA/FBI/DHS/DOJ/CIA etc.

          this is why they want AI, and if/when the AI “bubble” pops, it’ll be your tax dollars bailing them out, just like the banks in 2008. is your face at a protest showing up online? guess what, they’ve got your name and address.

          tl;dr: yes. americans are fucking stupid. but worse than that, they lack the willingness to go the molotov route.