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@davidaugust
I don't think Americans pity anybody else's tax rate. You don't think most Americans don't know our for-profit healthcare system sucks? Do you think Americans honestly want to launch GoFundMes? SCOTUS has made it all but impossible for actual Americans to do fuck-all about anything. Citizens United basically allowed every politician to be openly bought and paid for.

Edit for the benefit of my European brothers and sisters:

We do not have a parliament. We are not even a democracy.

We are a Constitutional Republic. Our President isn't even democratically elected!

We elect State "Electors" that in-turn ELECT the President.

And there is FUCK-ALL any American citizen (or even group of Americans) can do to change or fix things WHEN WE HAVE A SUPREME COURT THAT IS ACTIVELY WORKING AGAINST US.

I think that's the biggest thing Europeans dont have a grasp on.

mossman Feb 21

@mike @davidaugust FWIW I've had Americans joke about / make fun of our taxes and social security over here plenty of times over the years...

@mossman @davidaugust
It's one thing to joke and commiserate with a bunch of friends sitting at a pub in a foreign country than it is outright bitch about another Country's politics, and target (even if not intentionally) their entire population on social media. You make it sound like we asked for this shit.

Not even the idiots that voted for that asshole asked for this shit.

hot tran*sexual menace Feb 21

@mike @davidaugust still the people need to vote for them.

Also you can still get anyone elected in the primaries if you show up with your buddies and organize the show.

How do you think the republican party got so tea partied/magafied that the classical business republican from the 90s and 00s doesn't really hold any sway there anymore?

@missqarnstein @davidaugust
How about you worry more about your own Country's politics and worry less about ours and painting 350 million Americans with the same brush?

99.9% of the people you are bitching about here did not vote for that son-of-a-bitch, and frankly we're tired of being of being put in his same fascist bucket.

OUR ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED. Or did you not know this already?

Texas is not a deeply red State, it is very much in-fact a very PURPLE State with a huge democratic voting bloc, but the Republicans in Texas love gerrymandering more than they love our Constitution, and sadly we have a Supreme Court (that we can NOT vote for) siding with the fascists.

There is frankly nothing an American voter can do when our own fucking Supreme Court is against us.

hot tran*sexual menace Feb 21

@mike @davidaugust i stop caring about your shitty politics once we're no longer a vassal state of your fascist hellhole.

Yes your systems are rigged but it's only possible because the population is either apathetic, overworked, or too inconvenienced to involve themselves or they flat out agree with white american supremacy.

@davidaugust @missqarnstein

Dave Dee Feb 21

@mike @davidaugust @missqarnstein boohoo participate, put your people in the primaries, in schools, participate.

And why do we bother? Cause your country causes shit that we have to deal with. Go fight some oligarchs and techbros instead of rolling over and whining that everything is rigged.

@davidaugust @missqarnstein @deedo
Again, there you go painting 350,000,000 Americans with the same broad brush.

Europe has its own fascist and autocratic leanings. Take care of your own back yards first.

Blocked. Because I am fucking sick and tired of Europeans telling us what we should fucking do.

hot tran*sexual menace Feb 21

@deedo @mike @davidaugust

Americans really don't like accountability at all. (Just saying because i'm getting unblocked, receive a rage post, and getting blocked again.) 🤷‍♀️

Dave Dee Feb 21

@missqarnstein @mike @davidaugust and once again, instead of seeing we're in fact fighting the same fascists he decides to put his head in his ass once again, forgets about the real enemy and walks away crying.

Ah well. Too much of that is exactly what put America where it is now.

Ken M Sweeney Feb 21

@mike @davidaugust you can always put those armalites to use? I mean a hell of a lot of you did it before so you can keep profiteering from slavery so surely a insurrection to keep some semblance of freedom is a worthy cause?

@davidaugust @TheComfortableSpotPodcast
Have you seen our American Military? They no longer have muskets and bayonets any more. They have tanks and MRAPs and an unlimited supply of weapons and ammunition.

Do you honestly think any American, let alone even a "well armed milita" (words in the 2nd Amendment) can honestly stand up to the US Military? ISIS tried. Al Qaeda tried. The Taliban tried. And they were a helluva lot better armed (not to mention their home-turf advantage) and they couldn't.

So what makes you think any American citizen can?

This is no longer the 18th Century.

Ken M Sweeney Feb 21

@mike @davidaugust to be honest, my original comment was in jest, but history does show that nations built on fragile democratic systems and deep internal divisions can unravel quickly — and when that happens, institutions, including the military, don’t always remain unified. 1)