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I mean, if the Americans are going to destroy themselves in a paroxysm of racist insanity, might as well make a little money selling them the tools they’re using to hit themselves in the nuts with?
I recognize they are doing peaceful protests, and getting scattered by ICE with some tear gas, but I don’t see many willing to actually fight.
Maybe it isn’t a lack of empathy but watching their actions?
My claim that Americans desire a fascist state are somewhat justified. Watch any random video of 1st amendment auditors in the US. The common theme regardless of political leaning is the desire to punish the other. US citizens will call men with guns to deal with a guy just standing on the sidewalk with a phone camera. The US citizen has the desire to have the camera person punished for their perfectly legal, yet disliked, actions.
Lawsuits in the US also demonstrate the results of years of brainwashing the American public with “American exceptionalism” rhetoric. Someone slips on the sidewalk due to no negligence of another, but someone must be punished.
The police in the US as generally pretty terrible. They have a long history of planting evidence, harassing innocents, fishing for crimes for no reason, harming and killing innocent Americans. The cops are protected by the government with qualified immunity. If a cop happens to get punished and fired in one district, it’s been shown time and time again they can move to the town next door and continue being a cop. If Americans cared, this action would stop. But a large number of them don’t care because it doesn’t happen to them OR they approve of the killing and beatings because that person was “the other”.
This has been going on for decades and decades. All it takes is the majority of Americans to desire it to stop - yet it hasn’t.
1/3 of the country voted for Trump because they knew who he was. 1/3 of the country couldn’t give a shit to vote.
American exceptionalism and apathy are killing Americans and 2/3 of them either are for it or don’t give a shit.
I mean, if the Americans are going to destroy themselves in a paroxysm of racist insanity, might as well make a little money selling them the tools they’re using to hit themselves in the nuts with?
Arming and equipping fascists is bad, even if the minority out-group of the day isn’t us.
“First they came for the Americans, but I was not an American so I sold them the weapons they would later use against me.”
Yeah, as much as I celebrate a dead American it’s more important that we don’t support them.
While I don’t celebrate any dead Americans, I would prefer we were arming the ones the fascists are oppressing.
Why? They clearly aren’t fighting back.
Americans have an “oppress me daddy” mindset.
I hope for your sake that you will always hold as much privilege as you do at this moment.
Given you don’t know me or my life, please explain my “privilege” as you understand it.
The lack of empathy is a giveaway.
“why do the ones who are suffering simply decide not to suffer”
I recognize they are doing peaceful protests, and getting scattered by ICE with some tear gas, but I don’t see many willing to actually fight.
Maybe it isn’t a lack of empathy but watching their actions?
My claim that Americans desire a fascist state are somewhat justified. Watch any random video of 1st amendment auditors in the US. The common theme regardless of political leaning is the desire to punish the other. US citizens will call men with guns to deal with a guy just standing on the sidewalk with a phone camera. The US citizen has the desire to have the camera person punished for their perfectly legal, yet disliked, actions.
Lawsuits in the US also demonstrate the results of years of brainwashing the American public with “American exceptionalism” rhetoric. Someone slips on the sidewalk due to no negligence of another, but someone must be punished.
The police in the US as generally pretty terrible. They have a long history of planting evidence, harassing innocents, fishing for crimes for no reason, harming and killing innocent Americans. The cops are protected by the government with qualified immunity. If a cop happens to get punished and fired in one district, it’s been shown time and time again they can move to the town next door and continue being a cop. If Americans cared, this action would stop. But a large number of them don’t care because it doesn’t happen to them OR they approve of the killing and beatings because that person was “the other”.
This has been going on for decades and decades. All it takes is the majority of Americans to desire it to stop - yet it hasn’t.
1/3 of the country voted for Trump because they knew who he was. 1/3 of the country couldn’t give a shit to vote.
American exceptionalism and apathy are killing Americans and 2/3 of them either are for it or don’t give a shit.
That’s what others will say when they come for you
Short term pleasure, long term own goal against ourselves too.
We don’t want the US to go full Gilead. They’re halfway there and look how much damage to us they’re causing already.
What we want is to nudge that sick nation to better days, if nothing else for our own sake.