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I know the history of the US from many perspectives, I don't need essays about it, I am educated enough to know that a great many countries have a lot of blood on their hands.
I am more concerned with solving issues here and now that harm people than joining bandwagons or tankie clubs and self-flagellating about it though.
These kinds of lists just serve like incel manifestos for people hung up on nationalist persecution rather than sexual insecurity.
A number of people here have no idea what they're writing about, because they're not actually from here. I saw some asshole yesterday holding up John Brown as a successful model of how a new American civil war should be fought, lol.
John Brown. If I could find it again I'd screenshot it. This is all just "let's you and him fight" nonsense.
The number of people on Lemmy alone who will go into frothing rage when you tell them that we're not about to have a civil war at all actually, at least not this century, tells me a lot about either how uneducated our population is, or how many people really, really get off to cosplaying as Americans online, and think they have even a fleeting idea of what daily life is like here.
Help isn't coming. Revolution isn't happening. But we've been here before in history, we can turn it around again if enough people work together.
Truth. The fact of the matter is Minneapolis is winning, or ICE would not now be there, Pam Bondi would not be issuing ultimatums to Tim Walz demanding Minnesota voter lists, Gnome would not be issuing faked videos and pictures of big guns with false narratives even as she and Bovino are casting arou9nd the rest of DHS for volunteers to come to the Twin Cities, etc. These cosplatriots are ignoring the finer points, like how ICE has been hitting the more rural parts of MN because the neighborhood networks are making it SO hard to round up anyone at all anymore.
Given the timing of all these comments, I don't think it's just a casual effort, but they're barking up the wrong tree, lol.
You are 100% right: we've been here before, and we CAN win this if people work together. Minnesotans learned from GF, and they are leading the way. I literally could not be more proud of Minnesotans than I am right now.
I am seeing a real surge in party-line belligerence emerging everywhere online, once again in an election year. Weird how such a far-left site like Lemmy suddenly has so many people going to bat for establishment Democrats. Makes you go "Hmnn."
I don't think it matters either way, I feel like everyone is fed up and the administration has waaay overreached and forgotten about the sheer scale of the US and the states. States hold all the power. When states like Minnesota and others decide they're done being pushed around by the federal government, they will start organizing a pushback and remind DC that the federal government works for the states, not the other way around. It may be a ways off still, but the momentum is increasing towards a head.
And yes, the administration is absolutely floundering right now, they have no idea how to put this all back in the tube, they thought they would have a future secured by now, it's why they parade JD Vance around every month, desperately trying to make him seem "cool and bad" like Trump was to the right, but he comes off fake and political and people haaate him on the right. He's everything they rejected when they devoted their blood and souls to Trump. They know when Trump finally is reclaimed by the loam and topsoil that there's no safety net and there won't be immunity anymore, much less electoral mandate.
Everything is racing towards a finale, one way or another there's going to be a massive shift in the country in short order. I don't know if it will be after the mid-terms or after Trump is found slumped over his nuggets, but it will happen.
You put it very well. I've been feeling the race to the finale for a while now, and of course there's been January, but yeah. It's going to blow. And then it is going to be very different.
Beyond what you've pointed out, the only new thing I've noticed are obviously foreign accounts wanting to talk about a renewed version of the events of 1860-65 (I'm specifically not using the term) while claiming the Constitution allows for this sort of "succession" and "national divorse" [sic] but when challenged they drop right off and refuse to engage on anything but that specific talking point. (Along with weird account stuff, like the language patterns of more than one person posting on it, typical paid behavior.) Going by the way they don't care what is said as long as anything is said about those events, I'm guessing they just want to normalize the discussion of it. I refuse and start talking about how magnificent Minnesota is, and wonder out loud why we would want to get rid of a great state when the problem is one pedo in the white house. And then I ask about Putin, lol. The last one I asked about the $500 million from stolen Venezuelan oil that rump parked in Qatar and told him I wanted to know his views on that; strangely, I have not heard back.
Yeah, I've noticed about the establishment Democrat thing as well. The problem is that they lost my respect when they ended the shutdown, so I haven't really been paying any attention to comments pumping them, though I probably should be: if they are using the same social media manipulation apparatus as others now it's worth noting. Whether it's socially "acceptable" or technically legal or not, it's a corrupt thing to do, a marker of having left the conversation in favor of trying to shape it. Just in terms of actual candidates my eyes are on the progressives now.
Also in recent discussion, FauxLiving pointed out something similar that could be added to your running list of "Things About to Blow Up" and that is a brewing war over on r/Conservative between the 2Aers and the rest, because they don't like what they're hearing out of the administration about how "Alex Pretti lost his gun rights by carrying to a protest." Even the NRA is shaking in its boots over that one, lol. That too is, as Faux pointed out, playing with fire.
But yes. We are heading toward an inescapable finale of some kind. And while I agree with everything you said, I almost suspect the final crisis will not come from here, as strange as that may seem. I think it will come from the other side of the world, if/when Putin finds his days limited and realizes he will have failed utterly at building his great Russkiy Mir. I think if that happens, the day he understands that he will have utterly failed in the one thing that motivates him, the West will feel a Leviathan's tail we never saw coming. If we're lucky, someone sane will just put a bullet in his head first. Or not. But as crazy as the West has become, don't forget the East just yet.
Your comment is great, a pleasure to read. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
Wild take. You read about the US recently killing civilians in many different countries, and that brings you to sexual insecurity? Another liberal that would rather bury their head in the sand rather than open their eyes. I wish I could say I was surprised.
The US being the largest global terrorist organization isn't a thing of the past, it's very much the present. Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, and basically all before them took part in the atrocities. Yet, the solution to this problem seems to be: "vote blue no matter who."
Go ahead and march around in costumes then, let me know how it works.
I'll be organizing community and grassroots work like happened in New York. I know you're probably offended by optimism but I am still fighting for my country. Not just whinging how bad things are bad.
Sharing information that clearly isn't common knowledge isn't whining about a problem. And working towards a slightly more moderate form of capitalism isn't a solution. It's just moderately less fascist.
You have offered nothing here but whinging and whining, you sound like a whiny kid. I'm not engaging anymore.
You haven't even had enough time to comb through a small percentage of what I offered. You instead insisted that you already know everything, and something about your sexual insecurities.
No, you offered a list of bad things the US has done, assuming I'm dumb, for what purpose you never outlined, you have given zero perscriptive statements, you're just telling people their attempts are futile without providing an alternative. I don't need that right now, it does nothing for me or others I am trying to actual work to actually help people. Help or get out of the fucking way.
It literally does remind me of when I was working to help young guys and organize programs, and invariably some chud would send me a 20 page manifesto about how bad women are. Okay, fine bro, feel what you want, but why should this change what I'm trying to do right now. Deal with your personal frustrations on your own time.
You referenced liberalism (Mamdani) as a goal for your future. What you're experiencing right now is all thanks to liberalism. You're not helping anyone by fighting for the status quo.
An easy start would be reading Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti.
The Democrats are not your allies, unless you're an old, rich, white dude. Then they're your best bud.
Whatever, I am going to continue to advocate for voting out all incumbents, dem and GOP, I have been saying for years they're all the same but we don't have other realistic options than actually work for real representation. The revolutionary ideas that you seem to be pretending you're not suggesting are childish fantasies in the US currently, stop assuming people don't know what Stalinism is, if you subscribe to that system uncritically you're as bad as MAGA, the GOP and establishment Dems, you just have different boots to suck on. Keep your cosplay manifestos for when people like ME actually manage to help enough people move the needle to a place where socialism is an acceptable word again.
Or take the country by force with your fantasy army. I'll be waiting.
I won't see your replies, you are still not giving me anything but more propaganda and whining. Use this as a lesson in public outreach and rethinking your approach. Stick to indoctrinating children if you're allowed near schools and playgrounds.
Indoctrinating children is what the people you vote for do. You're clearly not as educated as you think you are.
Your goal seems to be making it peacefulish in the US so they can get back to terrorizing the rest of the world. Filthy liberal. As long as it's not in your streets it's fine.
Socialism isn't an unrealistic option, it's already been proven to work. The US has been fighting it for years. Many have died for the ruling class to stay at the top.