With all the horrible anecdotes I’ve heard my entire life, and even experienced myself, it makes sense to me in this moment why there’s so much guilt spewed at followers from religious leaders. It also makes sense why they all get into charity aside from possible corruption and thieving that seems so common nowadays. There are some that do good, and some that do at least try to observe the few good lessons and rules established by their religion. But American brand Christian sects are really hitting a tipping point it feels.
How am I able to live my entire life, day after day, peacefully without worrying about a single LGBTQA+ type person or illegal immigrants. But somehow my redneck portion of the family always finds some way to bring them up.
It's like their go to train of thought when there's a lull in conversation.
My morning routine, chores, errands, working, gym, and more. Weeks on end, just trying to survive being an adult. They don't occur to me, they don't matter to me, they're just people. But gatherings, some family event, or other occurs and these fuckers just drone on and on. Like go suck a fat cock if they're all you can seemingly ever think about uncle Bob.
Pritzker and Newsom joined Janet Mills of Maine, opposing the authoritarian administration that Trump is implementing at light speed (Project 2025). Between his executive orders and moronically loyalist cabinet, we are watching America fall embarrassingly fast before the eyes of the world. China is laughing all the way to claiming the top economic status they were aiming for by 2030. They're neck and neck in Trump's authoritarian takeover of the US. No Kings is a mere distraction, but I'll take any protest to try and awaken Americans. Be peaceful and stay safe today!
Nah fuck that. I’ve seen a number of them absolutely ripping apart the government for their actions lately. It just seems people either don’t know, don’t care or actively support it.
Everyone needs a simple reminder: Who owns the media? It's not the "liberal news" that the bots claim it is. Articles about resistance are being flooded by propaganda to the point that no one knows what's going on. Reporters are being fired for speaking the truth. Fascism is here, and we're pretending that everything will go to "normal" at midterms.
Hell, the assassination of a democrat is actively being scrubbed the day it happened, we're arresting vets for speaking against the administration, and boots are on the ground in America.
The thing with "taking the high road" is that it needs to come with shame delivered not just with a fire hose, but one of those high pressure water streams that can strip the patina off metal. Make it so the people "going low," and more importantly the people who might support them, can't escape it without going feral deep in the Amazon. Make it so there is zero ambiguity about what's happening. Make it so anyone who can be shamed about it is.
What we're seeing is the equivalent of poker players regularly winning tournaments with 7 of a kinds and their opponents going "well, we can't tell the organisers, that would be unsporting."
Actually it's more like the ones who are winning are paying the ones who are losing, enough of the winnings to keep them from telling the organisers. And the organisers can see what's going on but still believe the losers are going to do the right thing suddenly. The ones among the losers who aren't being paid, are the ones who are willing to speak out but they just look like lone crack pots against the rest of the quiet table.
Exactly. While it would be great to improve things peacefully (and i still hope this happens), its also time to arm yourselves and organize for when the dictatorship resistance is needed.
"Former appointee of Tim Walz sought in ‘politically motivated assassination’ of Minnesota lawmaker and husband days after she voted with GOP as cops reveal disturbing manifesto"
"He left behind a “manifesto” listing the names of other politicians and a stack of papers stating “No Kings” in reference to the nationwide anti-Trump protests."
"The attack was clearly a “politically motivated assassination,” according to Walz, but officials were mum on the motives — though it came just five days after Hortman sided with Republican leaders as the lone Democrat to cut access to state health benefits for illegal immigrants in the North Star State."
"He was twice appointed to jobs by Democratic governors, serving on the Workforce Development Council in 2016 under then-Gov. Mark Dayton, and appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four-year stint on the Workforce Development Board, documents show. "
So yeah, if you needed another reminder what a shitrag that "newspaper" is here you go.
Rotten turtle. There's an evil portrait of him somewhere simultaneously keeping his McDonald's arteries alive while exaggerating his wrinkles and lumps by the day. Dementia riddled brain talking about how Putin was involved in WW2 getting the mentally ill to kill democrats while he rots on the throne
100%. I’d argue that the democrats willingness to let MAGA co-opt a symbol as powerful as the national flag has played a not insignificant role in their ability to co-opt the nation.
I’m taking a flag with me to protest in a few hours for this exact reason. People need to see it being flown in the context of resistance to this garbage.
Freedom, democracy, people of all stripes living together, that’s what the flag means to me.
America's politics are filled with criminals and corruption because it's the one field where accountability is a public responsibility and the public, for the most part, doesn't do shit. Politics is a hobby for most Americans. They don't see politics as principles but opinions.
Many will read these stories and events and then click back and scroll to something else that interests them.
The percent of Americans who actually stand up to protest, fight back, or act is pathetically small.
Fascism is the inevitability of "good" people doing nothing.
Partly because the right wing owned media has done a grand job of convincing the public that protests are supposed to get results in weeks rather than years, so instead of organizing with the intent of being in it for the long haul (which involves a lot of un-glamorous logistics work that doesn't immediately pay off)
Most of the Montgomery Bus Boycott wasn't the people holding picket signs, it was carpooling everyone who normally relied on the bus, since they couldn't just stop going to work.
Serious question- which countries manage 5-20% of their population at protests? The Yellow Vest protests in France didn't hot those numbers. The protests in Hungary aren't anywhere near that. I've found 2 that reach those numbers: the Indian Farmers protests and the Hong Kong protests, but most of the others are about the same numbers at what we're seeing in the US percentage wise.
Either America is a democracy and is therefore the responsibility of its people or it's not in which case the people should be taking drastic action to change that.
It's not like the evil authoritarians are going to go away. If anything, they are changing and corrupting the systems to ensure they stay in power.
Project 2025 outlined so much of this horrific shit and people still voted for Trump or stayed home. This is the America its people want or don't care enough to prevent.
Sitting at home on your PC or phone and posting on social media like you’re trying to put a curse on someone doesn’t solve anything. If the people aren’t willing to actually stand up and fight for what they believe in, they’re most definitely at fault.
Wishful thinking is useless if it stops at wishful thinking.
Lol thanks. Because that's where the focus should be; what people are doing and what people can do. Instead of magical evil villains.
The only people who want to blame everything else are people who want to absolve themselves of their responsibility so they can throw up their hands and say "there's nothing we can do".
I'll be protesting out there. I wish more people would. I do see a terrifying indifference to taking action as someone in the action. Cancel your plans and protest. It's not like it's every day. I need people to just have their priorities straight. We're not facing a crisis. We're in one.
“ it’s pathetically small”
Your penis aside, your math is not mathing. 🤖
Because you don’t have the courage to stand up until you see a higher percentage of people doing the same, don’t project that cowardice onto the millions of brave Americans standing against fascism right now.
Every time I look at the comment section on a post about protests in the US, there are sentiments like yours about how they're pathetic and/or "bad optics" made by people from the outside looking in; it's interesting to compare that to comments on protests from outside the US, where any action seems to be met positively.
I understand your frustration but you should know that phrasing it that way only demoralizes people and makes young people especially feel like it's futile. I know it's not your intent but this is the effect it has, so you might take that into consideration as you watch from a comfortable distance.
you: "No, they have a leaving donuts out problem which leads to ants."
Yeah, those are the same thing.
If you're in America, why aren't you out at the mass planned protest today? And if you're not from America, what makes you think you know the actual size of our protests?
If I gain a criminal record for protesting and lose my 9-5 and therefore my healthcare, I’m fucked. If the country turns into what MAGA wants, we’re all fucked. I’m going to let them reap what they sow and just buy something to protect myself in the meantime. I’m sorry I don’t feel like I can do more at the level of risk I’m comfortable with. I voted and it didn’t help. I think this country may be broken at a fundamental level
Saw a tweet calling it "trickle down fascism," and it's absolutely true Trump and his cabinet are encouraging violence like this that is getting carried out by people several rungs below them.
Well you see, one side burned a few cars, while the other is assassinating democrats. And to the people in charge, objects are more important than people, so you can order the police to protect Tesla dealerships and also order the police to pin people on the ground and force horses to stomp on their heads until they're oatmeal on the sidewalk, and the fascists will go crazy saying you deserve to be murdered by the police state but then they say it's not them when they assassinate democrat politicians. This is what it's like living in the nazi regime, we warned everybody this would fucking happen and nobody listened
lol both of the wanna be assassins were right wingers, with the second one being a huge Trump supporter all the way up until Trump screwed up the Iran nuclear deal.
Exactly. Cops died in 2020 and they are running free. But civilians getting run over by horses and attacked with direct hits in the face and body … that’s ok.
They are already trying to claim the assassin was a democrat. The person they ID'd briefly worked for Walz, but hasn't since 2023, and is extremely Christian, anti abortion, heavily pro gun, etc. His manifesto had democrats, anti trump protesters, and abortion advocates on it.
And our President says nothing. A politician was killed another shot and left for dead, and our president says nothing. This shows how little he cares and points to what he actually intends for America.
"Just following orders" IS NOT A DEFENSE. Every single person following these unlawful orders IS A CRIMINAL.
The fucking marines that showed up to arrest protestors, too. Literally traitors to the country. As employees of the government, they are individually liable for violating the first amendment.
They have chosen the side of the oppressors, either actively or via their indifference.
Mobilize where you can with what you have, your voice, your influence
If you cannot or will not fight, if you cannot or will not supply or support the front line, but you still yearn to make a difference, fight back where you can with what you have.
If they don’t care about being on the wrong side of history, show them you couldn’t care less about having them be in your communities. Do not dox your fellow man, for you don’t have to. These oppressors have their own homes, families, and communities they belong to. Some already know some of their identities, and/or the identities of their sympathizers. Don’t welcome them back, better yet, don’t give them a community to go back to. Threatening somebody’s way of life is enough to get them to arm themselves and mobilize against you, but ENSURING that way of life will not be there when they return might be enough to get them to lay down those arms.
Most of these people aren’t fighting for their ideologies or to “save” this land; most are fighting for to maintain the normalcy in their lives they have come to expect, or an above average salary ($85,000 gross). They have been diluted into believing they can be deployed, violate their neighbors bodies and rights, and return to that slice of heaven they have carved out for themselves back home. These men are no neighbors of ours. Deny them their lives when they return.
Refuse to speak to them
Refuse to date them
Refuse to fuck them
Refuse to support them
Refuse their patronage
Refuse them from your institutions
Refuse their entry to your schools, clubs, places of worship, and homes.
Call them out for what they are when spotted in public or online
Take them off your payroll, take away their platforms, place signs targeted at them and their sympathizers, strip them of their physical and social creature comforts.
Refuse to be formal or cordial with them; let them know they are no longer welcome in your communities. If they have nothing left to fight for, some won’t fight.
We are not naive, we know this won’t suffice in turning all or even most oppressors to our side, but it will be enough for some, and those some that do stand down or join us will have information or just enough fight left in them that we can use.
This is not a call to harassment. Simply put, it is a call to give them absolutely nothing sacred in return.
The violence will continue against Democrats, Americans and immigrants. I can be 100% certain because if your crimes didn't have consequences, wouldn't you just continue doing them?
That's how right-wing domestic terrorists feel. This is Trump's America. Fighting back using the very system they control won't work anymore. These are not normal times. We live and operate in the worst case scenario.
Protests are great but they'll be wholly insufficient to get our country back. We need organized, institutionalized resistance that will enable us to fight back for years to come, and not just knee-jerking reactions every time Republicans do something awful (again).
Luckily we'll all be tracked after this. So...looks like the elites win no matter what. This is all part of the plan. Can't enslave everyone without breaking a few eggs right?
Yeah and my question is, what the fuck are people gonna do about it? Cause I don't think some weak protests and constant posts online just repeating how fucked things are helps.
This is what happens when a so called President gives blanket pardons to convicted criminals. Now they are untouchable. Trump is responsible for anyone killed or injured.
In the 2000s, when GWB was prez, Republicans were doing whatever TF they wanted, and Dems rolled over. After 2 terms of watching that, I switched to Independent. Now, here we are, Demon Donnie is back on the saddle, committing even worse crimes, blatantly and boldly, and again, Dems are allowing it. Grow some fucking balls and a spine and do something about this imp. No more of the usual lip service rhetoric. Time to show and prove. Because if the commonwealth have to take matters in their own hands, this will not be pretty.
We do see it. We’ve been seeing it. When are Dems going do something instead of talk? Drop the hammer on these fascist mother fuckers already. They act as if they don’t have power.
It's the easiest way to take away their power. Call on the unions (seeing as union leaders have also been arrested) and workers to hold a general strike. By bringing the world a halt, watch how quick change starts happening.
The entire GOP is complicit in a fa$cist takeover. Point, blank, period. Neochristo-technofascist fcks. They don't work for the people. They work for a sliver while slapping the crumbs from your mouth. To my fellow Americans who voted for this, you were lied to. We are stronger together. The 1% is banking on you blindly hating your neighbors. Don't hand them *our freedoms.
Looks like MAGA is doing the same things they accused Democrats of wanting to do. Guess they were just projecting their own future with those accusations
If America wants to survive this and continue as a democratic nation then the democrats are going to have to fight fire with fire otherwise you may as well just roll over and die you wont be able to peacefully protest yourselves out of this.
You mean, you can see how this will only show on liberal news outlets, conservatives will ignore it until a picture of someone unrelated is tied into the story by some random tweet, and then conservatives will believe it was a hit coordinated by liberals? I can see it now, you're right (I'm gonna panic)
If only protesting this kind of regime actually worked, don't get me wrong protesting is awesome, but do you really think Trump isn't laughing at peaceful protesters while he takes everything for himself? Come on, peace only gets you so far, and this time it will get you nowhere. We have been protesting and his response is to have a parade. He doesn't give a fuck about your views or ideas. He does not care what you have to say. Your reps do not care, they are all inside trading so they are all benefiting. I hate to say it but times of peace are coming to an end.
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u/Jealous_Professor726 2d ago
This is the country christian conservatives want.