Mastodawn

A request from somebody in the USA: if you live in another country, please start pressuring your government to institute sanctions against the US.

Diplomatic sanctions, economic sanctions, whatever is possible.

I do not expect this to happen quickly. Start laying the political groundwork now so that it can happen at all, ever, while it still matters.

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Paul Cantrell Jan 3

Treating the US like a rogue state would be a seismic shift in international relations — a shift that slow-moving world will resist. But the US •is• a rogue state at this point, and other nations need to start treating it as such. Like…yesterday.

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Paul Cantrell Jan 4

I appreciate the boosts on the thread above, which I take as support.

The defeatist replies make me despair a bit. Just to address some greatest hits en masse:

1. “Kick them out yourselves” → JFC, what the hell do you think we are trying to do, constantly, day after day, the amount of action and engagement against the federal invasion where I live is like nothing I’ve seen in my lifetime. WE ARE ASKING FOR HELP. Please do not be an ass about it.

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Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary

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To put the fact that Americans *are* asking for help into more context: For decades at least, US culture has pushed the idea of rugged individualism to extremes, and shamed the very idea of asking for or even *needing* help as meaning you're weak, useless, and possibly don't deserve to live. It takes an extreme situation and a lot of swallowing of pride for the average American to admit to themselves that they need assistance, let alone actually *ask* for it.