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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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
@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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@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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@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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Oh, when you’ve won - don’t forget to bring that corrupt & murderous lot to justice
Court Cantrell does not comply
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