It may have been a accomplishment, but it was not even nearly enough. Nobody was impressed, least of all the fascists. If you want to hurt trump, hurt the moneys
And it’s sentiment like this that makes it clear that the people clambering for people to “just do a general strike” or “just take up arms” have given no thoughts to how to do that without wasting the resources or lives of the people they demand take action. If you take part in union organizing, you learn that you have to make all of your attempts count, otherwise you’re blowing your chances and making it harder in the future by alerting the bosses. Yes, you have to impact their money, but just like “vote with your wallet” is an empty phrase if there’s no mass movement around a specific product/company, to actually deal with the structural issues that billionaires and the companies they represent present, individuals have to band together to create structures that can contend with them. Otherwise, it’s just proposing individual actions to address structural problems, and that plays enough into the hands of these tyrants that they’ll say that’s the “right” way to deal with the problems they cause.
It’s not that I haven’t thought of that, and of course I understand that people still need food on the table
I also understand that it’s Americans that got us here in the first place. Had this been made Germany 1930-ish, I would have told Germans the same because well, we all know where this ends if nobody is willing to do something
And mind you, we don’t have extermination camps yet, but so far this US government had been more than willing to copy from their predecessors, I would not rule out anything at this point
Point is: had Americans bothered to show up voting, we wouldn’t be here. Yeah, I know, voting has already been made hard because Republicans only win if fewer people show up because they’re basically a minority, but they are vocal and dedicated. They vote. That’s why they won. Had Democrats or just plainly more Americans back then bothered to vote, we wouldn’t be here.
Americans caused this, can they PLEASE not rely on the rest of the world to fix their problem, this time?
You’re just airing your frustrations with this response. None of this is actionable advice about what Americans should actually be doing that takes in mind the advice of the person you are responding to.
It may have been a accomplishment, but it was not even nearly enough. Nobody was impressed, least of all the fascists. If you want to hurt trump, hurt the moneys
And it’s sentiment like this that makes it clear that the people clambering for people to “just do a general strike” or “just take up arms” have given no thoughts to how to do that without wasting the resources or lives of the people they demand take action. If you take part in union organizing, you learn that you have to make all of your attempts count, otherwise you’re blowing your chances and making it harder in the future by alerting the bosses. Yes, you have to impact their money, but just like “vote with your wallet” is an empty phrase if there’s no mass movement around a specific product/company, to actually deal with the structural issues that billionaires and the companies they represent present, individuals have to band together to create structures that can contend with them. Otherwise, it’s just proposing individual actions to address structural problems, and that plays enough into the hands of these tyrants that they’ll say that’s the “right” way to deal with the problems they cause.
It’s not that I haven’t thought of that, and of course I understand that people still need food on the table
I also understand that it’s Americans that got us here in the first place. Had this been made Germany 1930-ish, I would have told Germans the same because well, we all know where this ends if nobody is willing to do something
And mind you, we don’t have extermination camps yet, but so far this US government had been more than willing to copy from their predecessors, I would not rule out anything at this point
Point is: had Americans bothered to show up voting, we wouldn’t be here. Yeah, I know, voting has already been made hard because Republicans only win if fewer people show up because they’re basically a minority, but they are vocal and dedicated. They vote. That’s why they won. Had Democrats or just plainly more Americans back then bothered to vote, we wouldn’t be here.
Americans caused this, can they PLEASE not rely on the rest of the world to fix their problem, this time?
You’re just airing your frustrations with this response. None of this is actionable advice about what Americans should actually be doing that takes in mind the advice of the person you are responding to.