• GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Yes, Americans have been pacified - though I think most western countries’ populations are to some extent. And because of that pacification they are not going to jump up and do the really difficult stuff of resistance until it starts effecting them more - this I agree with. But your argument or your complaint sounds like if Americans don’t jump from pacification to doing the hard stuff nothing else matters. It’s all or nothing in your mind.

    But that isn’t how it works, small protests and boycotts on large scales do have some impact. They also demonstrate to Americans that resistance does work and possible get them to do more. If there is small successes then larger, more difficult resistance has the chance to grow and be sustained.

    should these protest happen sooner and more often, sure but they didn’t and that is arguments for history - So maybe this administration will actually prompt more people to start doing more uncomfortable actions to change the country for the better?

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      3 hours ago

      “But that isn’t how it works”

      Right, the entirety of history is wrong.
      From the stormers of the Bastille to Che.
      Finally this guy here can tell you what is needed.

      Babysteps! I mean where’s the urgency? Not like some regime dudes throwing sieg heils and introducing fascism at rapid speed can go irreversably wrong right?
      If only occupied Europe would’ve stopped eating bratwurst and apple strudel in the 40’s, all that unpleasantness wouldn’t have needed to happen.
      And besides there are plenty of things you can try before you show no mercy and have a mass singing of cumbaya.
      I’m ending this hopeless convo here and leave you to it.
      I’ll be sure to watch how it ends, got the nachos, dip and everything.

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        2 hours ago

        So what are you doing?

        Are you organizing people to go out and protest or are you just being a keyboard warrior? You know that phrase put up or shut up? Why are you not out pulling people in to a long protest? If you are why are you not taking this time to get more people in your protest? If you are not then you are no better than all these people that you’re bitching about.

        You’re right this is a conversation that is going no where you’re just here to bitch and really not do anything. Later.

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          4 minutes ago

          How’s your short term memory? I’ve explained before.
          1 European, not protesting for a country that has been nothing but a pain to the world.
          2 I was just ridiculing a silly movement in a thread online, and without intention I even gave good advise (which you don’t deserve).
          Even then it’s clear you’re all hopeless and clueless.
          Like I said, it’s for the best that you’re circling the drain, won’t lose any sleep over it.