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
A girl is missing on the left. Americans when put Dictators to other countries. (Girl laughs with a big smile)
Americans when they are the ones impossing a dictator in other countries :D
Do the American really just whine about it and not doing anything about it?
Yes, let all the other people fix it. Let me guess, you didn’t vote either?
I voted but a billionaire unironically bribed people to vote against me. The remaining options are grim and not enough people are at that point.
You don’t think the men and women of La Résistance were allergic to lead? You don’t think they fought knowing that getting shot, or captured, tortured and then shot was a very real possibility?
The problem is that unorganized resistance is impossible. It will result in martyrs and nothing more. No one wants to be a martyr for a doomed cause except fanatics who aren’t much use to anyone. And most people are willing to endure extreme pains if it means they get to live. The tipping point comes when there is a plausible way out through resistance. That has not yet show itself.
Organizing is difficult because it must be secret. The US government is proficient in infiltrating and destroying organized resistance and countering the same. (See all the revolutions it has fucked over the years.) An open rebellion will be quashed immediately with the media demonizing any participants.
To the extent that there is a successful or potentially successful resistance, we will not hear about it until it makes a major move. It will then be destroyed or rallied behind depending on how it deals with propoganda and whether it can garner general public support.
A military coup by a high ranking officer who takes their oath to uphold the constitution seriously is more likely to succeed. But such a person is likely not to exist because of the right wing nature of the military in the US.
If things keep going how they are going the rest of the world will need to take military action to end it a la WW1 and 2.
Most foreigners are putting the blame on potential allies in the US for not acting fast enough thus helping to fracture any movement before it can begin.
We have a large population that totally checks out of politics. There lives are rarely effected all that much by it… Until now. People are starting to wake up, the tides are beginning to change. It’s happening a lot slower then it should have, and it’s scary how far this regime is getting before we get our shit together, but it is slowly happening.
😄good to hear!
Wish you all luck over there, let’s hope this results in something that kills bi-party-system and rather than getting a one party system, it gets a 20 party system.
Can recommend swiss voting system, I really like that system (of course, it has many flaws as well, but I have not seen a better system yet)
I fear there might be too many people that will just want to go back to status quo, and not change things to prevent this from happening again. Especially since the banks and corporations will be wanting nothing to fundamentally change so they can keep exploiting people.
But hopefully I’m just being pessimistic
Do non americans just ignore all the protests happening in america and pretend we’re not doing anything?
If we are solely looking at mainstream media, then there is very little coverage of protest in the US itself. We get more coverage on us Europeans, Canadians and Australians boycotting US made goods. Therefore, it might look like Americans aren’t really doing much. Of course, most of us know that’s not the case.
“it’s only a problem is it affects me personally.”
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.
