Court Cantrell does not comply1d ago

The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else's thread. I wanted to share it without risking the other threadfolk getting backlash.

Concerning whether or not US-Americans know and/or care that yesterday could easily have been the start of WWIII/a global nuclear event:

A lot of us care and are aware. Enough that we were checking the news every few mins yesterday & dreading the approach of 8pm EST.

Please don't paint all US-Americans with the same brush of dismissive judgment....

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Show threadJorisBohnsonPM🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸

@courtcan

Much of the world holds the USA to blame for the USA’s and now the planet’s problems. For voting trump into office and not voting for the alternative candidate despite trump’s making it crystal clear what his intentions were to be.

#trump #donaldtrump #maga #gop #usa #usa #uspol #uspolitics #america #american #ice #humanrights #civilrights #economy #environment #iran #iranwar #israel #ukraine #russia #putin #epstein #congress #democrats #republicans #midterm #midterms

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Show threadCourt Cantrell does not comply1d ago

@JorisBohnsonPM I am well aware of all of that. I am just asking the rest of the world to acknowledge that a great many of us *did* vote for the other candidates and we *have been* fighting Trump's regime every way we can think of. We're marching in protests, we're hounding our representatives, we're having the difficult conversations with family members & friends, we're teaching our children to stand firm against fascism no matter what, we're still voting even though it feels pointless....

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Show threadCourt Cantrell does not comply1d ago

@JorisBohnsonPM ... and we are at the end of both our wits and our rope. We're also open to suggestions: exactly what would the rest of the world like for us ordinary, middle and poor class, blue-collar, anti-Trump, anti-Hegseth, anti-Vance, anti-Thiel, anti-fascist citizens to *do* now?

We will keep fighting. There's no quitting this. But we are tired, and I, personally, an American who didn't even grow up over here, am sick and tired of being blamed for what Orange Führer does...

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Show threadCourt Cantrell does not comply1d ago

@JorisBohnsonPM ...when all I have done since the moment he announced his candidacy is resist -- in every way I'm capable of -- both his internal idiocy as well as his burgeoning Idiocracy.

I repeat: we are exhausted and despairing over here, and lumping us together with MAGAts and with Trump's billionaire sycophants is what I call punching down.

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Show threadmahadevank1d ago

@courtcan you guys are doing a great, great job at it given your circumstances and how much you have to do to just survive as it is.

Keep going!

I wish there was something we could do from outside the US.

Show threadTawtovo (ܬܘܬܒܐ)1d ago

@mahadevank @courtcan
One thing I would ask people outside the US to do is persuade their governments to stop normalizing Trump, flattering him, rewarding him, allying with him. Yes, the US was once a loyal ally, but those days are over. Yes, Trump is easily manipulable, but also very dangerous, and the more thoroughly the rest of the world calls out the US government's abominations, the sooner this nightmare will end.

There is strength in solidarity, for a brighter future!

Show threadJorisBohnsonPM🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸1d ago

@courtcan

Keep fighting, protesting & voting
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Show threadJorisBohnsonPM🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸1d ago

@courtcan

Oh, when you’ve won - don’t forget to bring that corrupt & murderous lot to justice

Show threadCourt Cantrell does not comply23h ago
@JorisBohnsonPM If I'm still alive by then, I'll be agitating for exactly that.
Show threadMathematiker auf dem Sofa1d ago
@courtcan @JorisBohnsonPM
As a German, I am used to being called a Nazi abroad, despite the fact that my mother was born ten years after the end of WW2.
Hitler was not elected by a majority of Germans. He became chancellor through backroom deals and the support of conservative elites, even though the Nazi Party never won an outright majority on its own. There was resistance but the regime’s repressive structures, Gestapo surveillance, terror, and lack of unified opposition, made it increasingly difficult over time.
I hope you can turn this around and recover your reputation.
Show threadCy1d ago
Yeah like, "Well if Germans weren't Nazis then why didn't they stop the Nazis? They just let them Nazi up the whole place, because the German people are all secretly Nazis in denial."

And my question is "Why didn't the Germans imprisoned in concentration camps stop the Nazis?" It's much easier to answer.

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