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[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

More of you could have gone out to vote against him. More of you could go to more than a one day protest once every few months.

Make May 1st your general nationwide strike with more people than the pitiful efforts that have been seen at this point.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You say this like it was any better before Trump

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think something most of the outside world doesn't understand about the USA, there are very few "us" unless you're conservative. It's a hyper individualistic society in an extremely large geographic area. The idea of collective anything is a foreign concept to me and I'm literally in a work union for the first time in my life for the worst job I've ever had. Unless my current Union is ok with the strike I can't afford to skip work. If I didn't have a union then the striking would be completely out of the question. I've been let go from jobs at the drop of a hat growing up in a "right to work state". There isn't a social safety net and my neighbors are completely ok with me becoming homeless. People who get to protest I've viewed as being privileged beyond my means. Community here is for the privileged and I'm scraping by to survive.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then you have nothing to lose, except what little freedom you have left to continue this endless suffering of hand to mouth bullshit.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can lose my life. I can lose my health. I can lose my freedom. All those things could happen with a high chance of failure without anything changing. In fact I could make the situation worse. The failed assassination attempt on Trump boosted his poll numbers and contributed to his victory and his paranoia.

It's very easy for people like you to tell me to sacrifice, but people like you will never help me.

Make a sacrifice for me first. Do anything to make my life tolerable. Put your money where your mouth is. Then we will discuss what I'm freed up to do to help the world.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How can I help, not being a US citizen?

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Get someone over here to give me a full time job. Or sponsor me to move wherever you are. Have a job ready for me when I get there. I got PMP, PMI-ACP, and PSM I certifications along with AWS certifications. I need either a source of income that can support me without firing me for protesting or a way out after I do whatever you want done.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or I will do my best to divest myself from anything that involves the American economy. By starving your economy, it has less money to make military equipment, and therefore to enforce evil wars.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There it is. It's so easy to do nothing. You're very much like "us".

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Stop deflecting responsibility on to me for your mess. Fix your broken country before the child molester in power ruins the world for all the children.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Make a sacrifice for me first. Do anything to make my life tolerable.

Not beating the stereotype

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We've been protesting weekly here in MN.

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Let's go! 55 weeks in a row now here.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Every day, all day, clog the arteries of industry.