Hey America, could you, like, do something about your fascist dictator please? He’s getting really 4th reich-y
I think we’re all still holding out hoping that the midterms this year can somehow fix this, if not it’s either about to get real End-of-the-USSR-y or real Tienanmen-Square-y.
In the meantime, support the DNC vocally, that’s the best we can do for now.
If Americans can’t organise a general strike when their president goes rogue and kidnaps another president illegally, when are they going to? I’m done holding out expecting Americans to deal with their bullshit. Were all going to need to be the ones
I don’t think the USA has ever done a general strike. We can barely manage a boycott. I don’t think there is anyone who could possibly lead it. No one here has that kind of respect and charisma. Maybe Obama could? But that’s not our tradition to have former Presidents continue to be political leaders — just fund raisers.
Plus we have no protection from retaliation. General strike is just asking everyone to no show. That’s a write up or a firing. Goodbye health insurance. Not even any unemployment because that would be getting fired for cause.
Which is a lot of defeatism, I know, but how the fuck do you do it??? .5% participation isn’t going to get us anywhere.
That aside, yeah. Don’t expect us to do any better than any other historical democracy that voted in an autocrat. Unless someone is going to do us like we did Venezuela, or somehow we manage to have actual, fair elections this year, we’re the bad guys going forward. And even then we’ll just clap ourselves on the back and sing how awesome our country and forefathers are because we survived someone like Trump and just keep on keeping on like we didn’t narrowly avert the end of the nation.
And I guarantee we’ll vote in another Republican administration within the next 15 years. We’re all (the world) pretty fucked. Let’s not do global superpowers any more.
Let’s not give everyone a pass by saying he’s a dictator. Trump is backed by scores of powerful Republicans who could’ve stopped this, and by tens of millions of MAGA cultists who are cheering everything he does.
Okay.
So these protests, obviously, didn’t do anything, as expected.
Can you start doing general, country-wide strikes to hit the Cheeto where it hurts? No violence needed,and let’s hope that stays that way, but you gotta do more than just hold up a disagreement sign at this point.
Don’t think it matters, unless the stock market took a tumble.
If only he had an arch he could “proudly” walk under right now /s
Hey, you don’t throw a 250th anniversary party every year. You have to make sure it’s a BIG one.
In the end, the US empire listed about 250 years. Maybe they stumble along shitting themselves for another 50 years, but this is likely the beginning of the end considering they’ve destroyed any trust with other powers for generations, and done so right at the time when they needed this ethical narrative to constrain China’s dominance. Like many other empires they became arrogant and shit all over everyone else, and eventually the knives come out.
250, maybe 300 years. Pretty mid, to be honest. Just average. Not really the powerful and unique exemplar they envisioned, just a standard run of the mill power that let the success get to their heads.
