It had to happen someday. I hope we can weather this and come back stronger in a few years.
EdIt: fixed a typo in the title
Americans in the first panel pretending like it wasn’t the CIA installing their preferred dictator.
Fun fact, the US has been involved to some degree in at least 80 foreign coups or election manipulations just from 1946-2000. With all the ones before and after that time frame, its probably more like 150+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
Either that or they’re really pumped about going in there with guns blazing.
Shameless plug for the Blowback podcast. I’m not affiliated at all. Its just an amazing podcast that covers a different war/coup each season.
Hello? Internet Police? I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.
I became an accelerationist after the last election. The man literally said he was going to do this before the election. This has to stop and Americans need to hurt until they learn. I am also an American so I will also hurt, maybe die, but we need to do better as a country.
This has to stop and Americans need to hurt until they learn.
This has to stop.
Hurting Americans won’t teach them jack shit.
Hitler reduced his country to ashes and still had majority support. What makes you think we’re going to get it worse than Nazi Germany being starved and flattened in WW2?
I can’t predict the future but we are speed running fascism. Hitler would be proud.
If economic pain gets us to stop, good! If it doesn’t, then what will? Why should the world let America continue to cause harm to not only itself but the world? Should we have let Nazi Germany keep going?
Hitler got lucky. He got into power when the great depression was ending. So the German economy grew fast. Then he very quickly took Poland and even more importantly France. Then during the war, the Nazis made sure to compensate Germans for bombing losses with looted goods.
Trump came into office and crashed the economy.
I completely get where you are coming from.
The Republicans have been pushing all this shit since before I was born and the Democrat’s answer has been small business loans to compete against the corporate consolidation they take no steps to slow and other neoliberal bullshit. The Democrats complete capitulation to the right wing surge, and complete fumbling of creating economic policies that doesn’t breed disillusioned youth ripe to be picked by fascists, has left a festering wasteland. I don’t think more hurting will somehow make anything better or convince people that the grifters selling them snake oil are wrong. I’m worried that the muscles of empathy and compassion are too weak to pull anything good from the ashes.
I don’t know how to convince more people to care about their neighbors, but I do know that is the only way to make anything worth having. Even if they are an asshole. The system doesn’t need any help destroying itself. Capitalism and fascism are death cults. What we need is more people showing good examples of horizontal mutual aid. Helping someone who needs help can teach a better lesson than hurting them. Even if they are an asshole.
I became an accelerationist after the last election. The man literally said he was going to do this before the election. This has to stop and Americans need to hurt until they learn. I am also an American so I will also hurt, maybe die, but we need to do better as a country.
I sure am glad that you consider vulnerable populations to be acceptable sacrifices to “do better as a country”, even without data suggesting effectiveness. /s
What vulnerable populations would be harmed by accelerationism that wouldn’t be harmed by a powerful fascist US?
Well just think of it this way. The last time the GOP fucked up this badly, they lost the majority for nearly 60 years. I mean the United States suffered for nearly ten years and we literally had to have a World War to pulls us out, but the GOP was a marginal cockroach for over half a century.
Clearly they’re just missing their old stomping grounds.
They’re at like 40% approval rating or so. I genuinely don’t think the morons that have now flopped on Trump are going to stay that way. They’ll get the majority in the next election and their voter base will blame all the ills on the Dems.
Only problem…and I’m asking this genuinely because I’m not attuned to historical politics. What was the approval rating of Democrats back then? Right now it’s abysmal because, aside from some few brave voices, the best they can offer is silence in place of oppression. They’re even confirming some of Trump’s conspiracy-peddling cabinet picks.
Am I taking crazy pills or does the first panel does not reflect reality whatsoever? In my experience, Americans (the citizenry) regularly, openly, and loudly criticize and/or mock dictators and oppressive regimes, the federal government historically does not allow for normal business or trade to occur with them, and in several cases in recent history (for better or worse) the military physically intervenes.
I think a small percentage of Americans notice dictatorships but most have historically ignored world events. Usually, other country’s problems are more than most Americans can think about.
My point here, was now we have those problems ourselves and a lot of people are freaking out 'cause this is the worst we’ve had to deal with in a long time.
Yeah world events in American media aside from massive shifts don’t get talked about here. Instead it’s constant divisive bullshit.
I really like the yt channel Warfronts, been watching for a few months and it’s amazing how much world news I was missing before just in war related situations.
Wow, people think about their own countries more than other countries. Who would’ve thought!
As an American, I think we go well beyond that. The average person here totally ignores every other country’s suffering and problems most of the time. And then we (on average) whine like small children as soon as we face any serious problem that’s been widespread around the world. This is more than just “I have my own things to do deal with”. It’s more like “It’s only a problem because it’s happening to me”. IMO, of course.
Americans when they are the ones impossing a dictator in other countries :D
