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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....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.
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with the caveat that if, as an american, you do not vote, because you value punishing the democrats for being spineless (and they are), over preventing {gestures broadly}, you are a piece of shit
you want better than the milquetoast bullshit the democrats offer
i do too
but we are only going to get there by showing up, especially in the primaries, and iterating to better over time
"i want perfect now or i'm not participating!" is not a moral position
it's being an immature child
Indeed. Centrist Republicans are spineless. Centrist Democrats are spineless. Meanwhile MAGA is turbocharged and the American left is despondent and dissipated. Some of this is due to plutocracy: they pump money into MAGA and they control traditional media and social media. One response to this is cynical defeatism. But I say the left should take over the Democrats. Job #1 for that is shut down these pathetic voices on the left that are useless whiny entitled cynics
@stalbaum @Oldfartrant @courtcan
no
i want 3rd parties but to get 3rd parties we need ranked choice voting
rcv is creeping in, but until then we have to focus on taking over the democrats
in an FPTP voting system, we only have a choice between 2 parties
it's not corruption, it's just math
the left splintering into different parties is as fatal for us as leftists not voting
"you want us to support spineless democrats!"
no, i want us to show up in the fucking primaries and replace them
@stalbaum @Oldfartrant @courtcan
it's great you understand energy independence but politically you're a moron because you're helping MAGA
do you understand the idea of someone who means well but by their actions only makes things worse?
so when MAGA makes your solar install illegal because you have to guzzle gasoline to satisfy the oil plutocrats, remember how your political choices helped pave the way for that, simply because you don't understand how our stupid FPTP voting system works
Court Cantrell does not comply
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
Doug 🌈🇨🇦 
1337 $#!+ I did that