I feel like there has to be a better word for forcefully impregnating someone
Maybe also add the word violent instead of forcefully. 🤔
If you’re looking for the word “rape”, rape doesn’t mean to necessarily impregnate, but to just penetrate.
You can rape someone without any intention or action of trying to impregnate.
America: Literally rains death on other countries.
Americans: How dare you say death to America! You’re the real problem with the world!
“How dare you not cry for the deaths of our troops! They only rape people because they need healthcare, you Hitler!”
quit bringing this shit up or else you’re going to split the vote between our pro-rape candidate and their pro-rape candidate!!!
Or for education, or the only place they can get hired/employed
spoiler
Lmfao what a spoiler
Only the ones in the Americas? Why do the ones elsewhere in the world get a pass?
Better?
Better.
They don’t, but this post is specifically about the USA.
Feeling bad about it is all we ever do.
Damn, ain’t that the truth
I never why we suppose to feel bad about our state in order to oppose to it. Shame do not lead to long term action; feeling bat about a state we do not run imply identify to it. This is an issue, we have to distinguish ourselves (as a collective) from the state.
I’m sure the EU will impose sanctions on the US for the actions of this administration, like they did with Russia. They wouldn’t want to appear hypocritical, after all.
I love your display name lol
I feel no attachment to the country that continuously attacked me and my people through the bipartisan police state.
Hey don’t be mean, the pedophiles in charge of running the country are doing the best they can :(
They are feeling pretty down from all the hate recently. They could use more kids to cheer them up.
Do you know how long I’ve been feeling bad about it?
No
That bad feeling is old enough to rent a car.
Is that 24 years?
I was drawing pictures making fun of George Bush Sr. in 7th grade. I’ve felt bad about this place for uhhhh… a while.
You’ve felt bad about what? Your childhood drawings?
My parents were antiwar and liberal af. My mom once told me as a kid that if the draft happened, they’d move me to Canada. So I was radicalized pretty early on about imperialism (in the most rudimentary sense—I was a kid after all).
The drawings weren’t great either lol. I still have them somewhere.
That’s cool! It’s not always easy as a child to make sense of contrasting messages from home vs from school and wider society.
I definitely didn’t understand most of it then as a kid, but I feel like it opened a doorway that shaped who I am today. That was also in the 90s when US society wasn’t yet destitute for working class families.
Death to America
You think I don’t know that? I’m living inside of it.
Already do. I get reminded everyday that my country is super evil but there’s not much I can do about it aside from voting which from what I understand this sublemmy doesn’t believe will do anything. So if that’s the case, guess I’m just fucked anyway? No matter what I do, my country will bomb other countries to the ground and its my fault??
You can get organized. Join a party like PSL!
Do you actually care, that your labour and tax are used to commit the gravest horrors onto other people, or do you just pretend to care for virtue signaling? If it’s the former then there is much more you can do than vote every few years.
Is there? I can protest, but that’s more so to raise awareness and visibility than actually doing anything to overthrow the government. I suppose if I somehow rally enough support during a protest, then I might be able to pull my own January 6, but that’s assuming the coup will succeed. Furthermore, I’m not good at hacking government interfaces, nor am I a super soldier. So I have no skills related to toppling governments. That being said, what’s your suggestion in my position? Keep in mind, I have people who depend on me being alive right now, so I’m not going to go on a suicide mission that may or may not succeed. If it had a 100% chance of success, then maybe we could talk about it.
There’s no need to sacrifice yourself, such actions rarely lead to good results. Everyone has their own way to contribute, but historically some sort of organizing effort has always been necessary for regular people to wield power over their rulers. Organizing takes different shapes depending on your goal. But suppose your goal is to disrupt the US war machine.
Look for small ways in which you might be part of or adjacent to this machine. Does your workplace work with arms manufacturers or other infrastructure used in warfare? Is there a heavily complicit company in or near your neighbourhood? Does your city/municipality have contracts with complicit companies? These are all things you can organise against. A campaign starts with awareness. Stand with a sign next to a company building and talk to workers about how their employer is contributing to mass murder. Or organize a protest. Or do something else that better fits your qualities.
Maybe set up a petition and build your campaign around that. Talk to people in your environment to agitate them. Educate yourself so you can educate others. After and during the awareness stage you start to recruit other people who want to take action. Together you can build a plan to achieve your goals. This plan should create the pressure necessary to change policy or supply chains either through a worker strike, direct action, mass mobilisation or maybe something else.
Read about organizing tactics from the book secrets of a successful organizer (or another book about the topic)
There are so many ways in which you can organize it’s impossible for me to tell you what’s best for you to do. It all depends on your qualities and your surroundings. But you can at least try, and learn from your experience. No one person can change the current course of the US. The threat of mass organization is the only thing that scares the people in power into moving at least a little bit towards the demands of the people they rule over.
This answer is not super coherent since it’s such a broad topic but I just want to impress upon you that being a citizen of the world means to engage with the world and how it impacts you and how you impact it. With enough people you can topple governments, but with less you can still significantly impact supply chains and/or policy. If you do nothing we are guaranteed to lose. If we all do something and coordinate, we can collectively wield more power than the people in charge.
No suicide missions.
Learn to garden.
Learn to cook.
Learn some basic first aid.
Find a food not bombs.
Hell, join DSA or make your own chapter.
This is going to be work and we need all the hands we can get.
But bombing children pays for my healthcare you pos how can u say that??!!1! >:(
I get this joke. It’s funny because what little healthcare you were being provided is actually now paying for bombing children.
Bad? I’m pretty sure you mean horrified, embarrassed and worn thin from fighting morons.
Always was meme
Havent you heard, stealing the worlds gold during the Bretton Wood system and then forcing countries to adopt USD so that they can export their inflation makes them the good guys.
