inclementimmigrantGunman shot dead in Mar-a-Lago was ‘fixated on Epstein files’ and big Trump supporter
“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?” then y’all shit on the Florida Man creeping into the presidential palace with a shotgun and gas can
Euro-Lemmings believe both that Americans are recklessly married to vigilante political violence and also that they don’t do anything ever, it just depends on whatever belief, at any given point in time, allows them to whine about the US.
lumpenproletariatOh no. Not whining about the openly fascist government of America, those damn euros how dare they complain!
Yeah I whine about it a lot too, the point is that there is literally no action am American can take that’s correct. Do something? Rash, juvenile, doomed to fail, too violent, they should have large protests and walkouts instead. Protest in the street? Too civil, pointless, also doomed to fail, why aren’t Americans taking up arms by the millions to kill the government. Every action is the wrong one.
Maybe, just maybe that’s different people with different opinions and you’re lumping them all under one umbrella?
Hmmm, almost like that should be the approach with large, continental polities with a plethora of regional political subcultures in it.
RainbowHedgehogI mean, it is. But when I’m getting threats, or when people say terrible things about Minnesota to punish me for not protesting the way they want… things are a bit different.
I simply don’t have the energy to deal with Euros trying to start fights with organizers and demoralize people in our ranks because we don’t do things exactly how that group wants us to act. Especially when we face this no matter how we attempt to solve the problem.
What you both are noticing is a tactic of propaganda called FUD. It stands for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
The goal of this propaganda is to promote a feeling of hopelessness, on a large scale this will decrease political participation (“why vote, it doesn’t matter anyway, laws don’t matter they’ll just ignore them, the idea in the OP is dumb and anyone who thinks this will work is too”).
It doesn’t take too much creativity (and now, with LLMs, absolutely none) to make posts that say some variation of ‘that won’t work and you are dumb’ on every topic. This is why you have this perception of a mass amount of criticism, it’s being fabricated at scale across all of social media (Fediverse spaces had a brief period of obscurity but are now part of the propaganda campaigns).
That isn’t to say that there are not legit criticisms, but they are being signal boosted significantly as part of these FUD campaigns.
It’s your stupid monkey brain thinking that you are talking to ‘that one guy called internet’ instead of thousands of tens of thousands of different people.