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
@WeirdWriter @benroyce @courtcan Good article. The same sense, writ smaller, happens in so many spaces. Pill testing and legalising drugs, for example:: "But it will send the wrong message" they say. And I just feel like screaming at them... "what part of 'people are dying' do you not understand?" And it's very hard not to feel, at the same time, that they know people are dying but they don't care, not about *those* people.
Their stupid insistence on some kind of logical consistency stands in the way of them actually doing something good.
They are about themselves. The nonvoter doesn't want to improve the world, they want to feel good about themselves. Their self-regard is more important than us suffering under fascism, and so, they will let the world rot. As long as their mind palace of their holy purity is spotless
It is, essentially, arrogant preening entitlement
Court Cantrell does not comply
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