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Careful, every American on Lemmy has about 6 or 7 thought-stopping cliches ready to defend their cowardly fucking inaction.
The fact that you’re posting this means you’re not dead or in prison, which thought-stopping cliche will you use to explain your cowardly inaction?
Or maybe I don’t live in a shithole country?
Probably don’t want to die tbh
Murican here. I just lack a spine like the rest of my countrymen. No sense making excuses.
You probably also have access to food and basic infrastructure and services. That gives you incentive not to risk your life violently overthrowing the government.
I don’t respect the position, but I appreciate that you’ve got more integrity than just about everyone else I get responses from.
Do you expect people who are living paycheck to paycheck to give up their lives to die, be homeless or permanently disabled?
Honestly? People who are living paycheck to paycheck have MORE reasons to risk everything and FAR fewer excuses for allowing the status quo to persist. Who the fuck do you think should be burning shit down if not the people most victimized by it?
Do you imagine people in Nepal to have big savings accounts and investments in NVidia?
Truth is - if you are not bothered enough by the situation to risk your confort and way of life, then you are ok with the situation and accept it.
100%. Anyone pretending to disagree with this is just trying to assuage their guilt for being huge cowards.
What should I do?
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Criticize them to the core, and they write a robot replier just for you.
FYI, this user is a rage bait troll. everything they say is intended to anger you. ignore them completely.
Their post history doesn’t reflect that from the two pages I skimmed.
In fact the only thing bad I saw was you harassing them and mods deleting your posts.
We tried in 2020, libs quickly coopted the movement by pretending to be at the front of it and that we had less radical demands, defused it by pretending to agree to those demands, and then supported republicans in opposing any of the demands, with Biden telling states to divert covid funds to police. Before I left, people seemed too tired and beaten down to really try again.
Set fire to the Capitol. Got it
Yeah, cuz Nepal is known for it’s military.
Yeah, it’s not like your country has based its entire identity for two centuries on its spirit of violently resisting tyranny against great odds
Resisting foreign tyranny, specifically. The US certainly doesn’t have that identity anymore.
This line is so perfect it needs to be a meme.
Well yeah the gurkhas
People really love criticizing the US and fair enough, but man it’s tiring seeing people lambasting the US for not violently resisting when we actively are and it’s just being suppressed by the media. Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch we can’t storm congress, but we’re doing a whole fuckload despite that…
when we actively are
Examples?
Well since local media aren’t covering them and many foreign ones step in line to not upset lord trump, the only way to get examples is to attend them.
The cities he sent military to were the cities that had largest protests.
Protests? So no, not violently resisting.
So, guaranteed death? USA will not use billy clubs and shields to knock down protesters. They will SHOOT and kill.
I’m not dying because we have 80 million retarded cunts here.
People are already DYING, what bodycount can your conscience hold?
Oh and did you miss all the students who were shot and killed in Nepal? You can find videos of them bleeding out in the streets with people desperately trying to save them, kids dying in school uniforms as they protest, but sure billy clubs.
How many American protesters have been killed since January 2025?
Give me your source. Otherwise, STFU.
Are you just going for a shock reaction, or are you seriously trying to neg other people into dying for you?
When you say violently resisting, what specifically do you mean?
Setting things in fire, erecting barricades, actively fighting authorities and creating chaos, making it impossible to ignore. For examples see the Maiden revolution in Ukraine, Hong Kong protests a few years ago, or any Tuesday afternoon in France.
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Please give examples
It’s a little difficult to provide specific novel examples without doxxing myself (the whole “suppression by the media” thing), but heck there’s plenty of examples even just from what’s in the news media.
You say “plenty” but the LA June protests were for the most part the exception rather than the rule. Can we get something recent and/or from outside LA?
Sure, but man, it’s kinda exhausting having a bunch of people jump on “sources please” when the initial comment was about how the lack of easily available reporting on this is a real problem.
Wow all the way back in June before the protests fizzled after accomplishing next to nothing
Just keep on shifting those goalposts, you’ll get there eventually.
Whatever you gotta say to convince yourself I guess
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But… you were the one that asked for convincing, I’m already convinced. I’m just choosing not to engage in a discussion about this topic because you’re clearly not willing to approach it in good faith. I know it’s kinda wounding to the ego when someone just says “Nah I’m not doing this with you” but you’re just going to have to accept that that’s what’s happening.
No your not. Your volunteering to go into the street to be rounded up by the cops. It’s the stupidest fucking thing. You literally have the equivalent of the printing Press giving to every person and you all think it’s easier to organize people to publicly show up in a town three states over then it is to use get those people to use the propaganda machine to spread a message.
Thank you, this is a wonderful example of exactly the kind of ignorance I was talking about. I appreciate the support!
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Yes, for example the Gurkhas are from Nepal.
Or did you mean the regular army? They put down a major Maoist insurgency over the decade of 1996-2006, and have remained a significant force in Nepal. Historically they’ve played a major role in power transitions, such as the Rana era from 1846-1951 when military officer Jung Bahadur Rana overthrew the monarchy and established a hereditary prime ministership, and then again in King Mahendra’s 1960 coup when the monarchy took power until the 1990s.
But fortunately they’ve not been as prominently involved at playing “kingmaker” as the militaries of many other South Asian countries. They tend to act as a stabilizing force for whoever gets power by other means. I guess we’ll see if that pattern continues to the current unrest.
