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I dont know where OOP got that idea from. Americans were never for this and polling data bears that out, especially relative to most wars which have had extremely high levels of approval at the outset, even for ones like Vietnam and Iraq that later became massively unpopular.
If you look at Trump's approval rating, it only really starts to move when gas prices move. Also historically. I think it is quite obvious where OP got their idea from.
It moved from 33% to 29%, the Iraq war started at 93%
But its in meme form! It has to be true!
when thousands of lives are on the line, it takes more than polling to convince people you stand for something
Oh fuck off. You know full well that there is more happening here than poll numbers.
Maybe you fuck off... just yesterday Georgia elected a trump finger man to replace MTG
You idiots keep voting republitard no matter what happens to you or the world!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/04/07/republicans-win-mtgs-georgia-seat/89490575007/
So, precisely what do you expect me, in a different state, alone, to do about this, that will effect widespread change in a timeframe that you would find acceptable?
There are rational options that are tragically slow and irrational ones that involve throwing one's life away in order to achieve little to less than nothing.
If you're just angry at the US and its population, that makes two of us, but lashing out at someone pointing out that the situation is not hopeless and work is being done to ensure that this does not continue does not help anyone.
Here we go again...
So you want a foreigner to give you a specific, actionable task (not a plan, that's too many steps) to solve your home grown problems... and such task must be:
100% effective
Solve the issue you have slept on for decades, immediately
Carry no cost, no risk and no effort
So anything small and easy, like stop using the terrible tech giant garbage like Meta or Xitter is no good because "tHAt woNT solVe ANythiNG"... something big like protesting won't work because "caNT gO aGAInsT the MilLitarY" or even better, organize a general strike won't work because "GoTTa wOrK or dIE" or "MuRIca toO big"
Am I angry? well, your country is currently, actively killing thousands around the world. And not the cutesy way you have always done but literally exploding whomever you want. On top of that, your child rapist president is also tanking the world economy which is sure to spread extra misery around and you people keep siding with him by voting his goons into office.
So sorry, but you are not the fucking victim here
No, that is not what I am saying, I'm saying that nothing I do at this second is going to stop the bombs dropping in the near future. As cathartic as it might be to go grab the AR and take a suicide run at the nearest representatives of the federal government, the result would just be a propaganda victory for our right wing.
I am not sitting here doing nothing, and yes, it is small comfort to people actively being bombed, but ultimately decades of right wing is not going to be undone in a day.
Also lol at calling for a general strike. Every time that has been done it has been preceded by massive organization by an actual labor movement that haven't had since the 70's to ensure that people are able to get their needs met in the meanwhile.
So you run with that notion and justify perennial inaction... It's what I said above. Unless someone else gives you an easy, yet 100% effective solution that costs nothing, you are not willing to do anything.
This is another typical strawman. There are an almost infinite number of options between "do nothing" or "suicide for the cause". People like you skip them all to pretend there are only 2 and since it's unreasonable to ask you kill yourself for the revolution, "do nothing" is your only choice... right?
Then why are you defending that position... if you are doing something, my message is definitely not for you.
You (and by you I mean Americans) have had decades... and your collective inaction has led us here, let's not pretend you have been actually fighting this for years and simply got nothing for it
See what I mean? "it's too hard, so back to doing nothing and pretending we are the victims here"
Oh blow it out your ass.
… and back to doing nothing I bet
I thought your argument wasn't directed at me? Motte and bailey much?
But since you suggest it, sure, I'll take a well earned break.
So did Americans already impeach their oppressor?
Are the deathcamps demolished?
Are the panoptics destroyed?
You talk like any one of those things is easy. The Soviets citizenry pretty definitively hated Moscow in many places, didn't mean they could just go and kill Stalin. The police state or army would simply crush them, or must I remind what happened to the Hungarians and Czechs? It's the same principle, even if all of California came to the unanimous agreement to overthrow the feds it would at best weaken the feds temporarily.
The problem isnt just Trump, it isnt just Congress, it isn't just the courts, it's the whole damned system. Interstate commerce, national political organizations, the pathetic pan American culture, and the thrive damned Bible thumpers. For this shit to be dealt with in any meaningful way the US needs to lose 20 states minimum, ideally total dissolving of the Union so no revanchistic assholes can leverage history. For either of these to happen the economy needs to collapse in near totality and the feds need to lose all ligitimacy for the simple fact that even doing one of your proposed ideas would see civil war start, for success to be possible the military itself needs to be incapable of purchasing jack or shit for loyalty due to currency collapse.
Comrade, I am exactly pointing out that ⅔ of the 🇺🇲population actively comply with their oppressions.
Nowhere am I suggesting that direct action is easy. It's just ⅔ directly comply with electoralists.
Electoralism is an important tool and youre a fool to dismiss it so callously. While the feds may be a failure long term it is still useful to vote if only to deny the worst aspects of this failing system, it is also imperative that the local and state governments are if not friendly then at least non-hostile to the various factions of the left.
As loathesome as the Bolsheviks were one of the reasons for their success was the capture and befriendment of various local officials. It allowed them to move freely and openly where the Tzarists were slowed or even stopped by locals. Same principle the capture of city councils and ideally the states would allow the raising of militia not bound to the feds.
The walls may be falling, the roof leaking, and the ground floor covered in sewage but the foundations are made of granite and concrete which will outlast the rest of the house. You'd be a fool to try to build in the swamp next door when a perfectly fine foundation sits ripe for the taking.
And I can stop reading your authoritarian praxis.
l8r bikesheder.
Oh no the college is right fucked. But everything else as I said state and local? Better to use it to strengthen our own power, but that just may be the Norman in me talking. How I wish to harrow the Mormons.
I didn't stutter.
Neither did I.
Then continue shooting minorities.