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....
1/2
....An uncounted but large number of us have been fighting this as hard as we know how for more than 10 years. We are scared, exhausted, and despairing, and there aren't enough words for us to say how deeply sorry we are that our government is menacing the whole world.
2/2
@courtcan
From the outside it just looks so easy to fix, from the inside it's a bit more complicated.
I'm neither citizen nor resident, but I've also known citizens who've been fighting against the authoritarianism all millennium.
But even as an outsider I can know I've been talking about the inevitability of this disaster for a long time, but I can't know if I was really correct, or just got lucky that reality aligned with my views, and that makes it even harder to bring others aboard.
It sucks, but the suffering of the last 12 months may well have been what it takes for people, ordinary people, both inside and outside the US to be able to get to grips with what we need to do to create effective change.
Court Cantrell does not comply
kit
draNgNon