Americans in their own mythology: “Freedom isn’t free, the price of us all owning ar15s to overthrow a tyrannical government is the odd shooting. But at least we are the sentinels looking out for our own liberty”

Americans in reality: “Ok sure, we have a tyrant ruler who is completely above the rule of law. They’re using their private paramilitary to disappear people, enriching themselves at every turn, poisoning the water and polluting the air and generally asset stripping the nation. That much is clear. What am I going to do about it? Well, our plan is to do nothing but wait for four years, let the tyrant do whatever they want in the meantime and then just hope it doesn’t happen again”

Andor

I saw a sign saying "remember ghorman" at a no kings protest. Got so mad I had to leave.

Her name was René Good and is the only reason why I care about ICE. They literally killed a WHITE woman and now it's gone too far! Her name was René Good because I only remember names of white people.

"This is the last election ever, Trump will cancel voting this term"

Okay, well you're not joining an org, so.. what are you doing about it?

The overwhel majority of liberal don't even turn up to these pathetic "protests". What they do is get mad on the Internet, mostly at leftists, and then go watch Harry Potter again.

You might think these people aren't doing anything, but it takes them a ton of dedication and effort to resist fascism by not gleefully telling those uppity minorities they actually deserve to be in concentration camps because only 94% of them voted for the Democrats in the last election

To the point where they often fail at it

Big fan of the Andor button.

This is 99 percent of reddit

The British suffragettes were literal terrorists and won their right to vote.

Oh hey! it's that trans guy I dealt with for the trans group in town. They freaked out on me cause I had feelings about what we should do to a literal flag waving nazi house in town in Signal. That was a learning moment.

Recognizing fascism is one thing, I think what can bring them further left is the disillusionment when democrats fail to fix what they rightfully identified as such. ICE was created under Georges Bush Jr. Obama could have abolished it, instead it just kept expanding. Biden had a chance to do it too, when their nature, ideology and potential as a fascist militia had already been brought to light by the first Trump administration, yet he didn't, ICE remained active under Biden. The wall that democrats had been so vocally against during Trump's first campaign not only wasn't dismantled but kept being built.

These aren't, to us, the gravest or deepest examples of the democrat's hypocrisy, of course the global imperialisn and the prison industrial system take precedence, and of course, capitalism itself. But to a young naive democrat, these things already part of a background that they take for granted, of which they may criticise specific excesses but aren't ready to question at their root.

Therefore, it is already a good start for more people to identify specific policies as fascist and be against that fascism. They still have a long way to go, and most will probably never go all the way, but everyone must start somewhere.

Thought that was AI for a moment, because what the fuck does "I Pokémon Went to the Polls" mean? But nope, it's not AI, just Clinton being cringe as fuck.

Average USian

I can only hope some of them start going further and further left and see why that is bullshit.

Meanwhile, I think if Europe had any spine, we would be massing troops to liberate America.

No, I don't care if they have a billiom rust buckets floating out in the sea, they lost to Iran.

We need to stop this isolationist shit, Americans are dying, fascism is growing.

Ah yes, larping on the internet is a better use of my time.