@mastodonmigration @heidilifeldman I'm not even an American, but people who do understand the danger we're *all* in and are trying to do *what they can* needn't feel ashamed on behalf of the sociopaths (i.e. those not caring about what happens to others).

I know that many decent Americans were regrettably preoccupied during trump 1.0 when the Chinese dictatorship crushed #Hongkong's struggle for democracy and civil rights in 2019-2020 (#trump didn't lift a finger and even denied pleas for political asylum...), but I remember you speaking up. 🙏

Having witnessed the struggle, the resulting repression and the weaponization of courts against the finest people of Hong Kong I genuinely understand what is at stake in the USA with your own ethnic supremacist fascist coup.

It is painful to look at the United Nations' human rights charter and see how over the past decades we allowed greedy profiteers to set our foreign policies instead of standing by that admirable document countries signed up for.

We need a global alliance prioritizing *democracy* over any business empowering despots.

We had so many many chances *and reasons* to do that when it would have been easy.

Now it's going to be fucking hard but we need that commitment more than ever.

(Thought experiment: would the rich elite support fascism in any country if they knew it was going to destroy their business prospects in all other developed democracies?)