• SmokedBillionaire@sh.itjust.works
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    I wish our country was able to do what the French do, but I would have to drive the length of three entire Frances before I made it to DC to protest. I don’t have the freedom or the finances to do that.

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      16 days ago

      It’s mind boggling how people in the 19th century were able to make a coup and they didn’t even had a cars to drive. So much have changed since, I guess. Maybe Americans are only interested to defend slavery with all their guns.

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        Those of us who live in the civilised world absolutely understand

        The question is how far you Americans will allow things to go?

        You’re already fucked, but your opiates of shitty TV, pissy beer, fast food and the satisfaction that you seem to enjoy when you see people who are really suffering seem to placate you

        You don’t care about the vulnerable, the marginilanised, the suffering because you think you’re somehow going to dodge it, until it happens to you

        Americans gauge their happiness by the misery of others

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          Sorry but you clearly don’t understand because you make the same tired arguments that work for the rest of the world where things aren’t a nightmare but make no sense in the context of how life in the US specifically works, both due to absolutely zero social safety nets whatsoever and the fact that we can’t all just hop on a train and be at the capital in a few hours for the equivalent of €20 or whatever

          Then you’ve gotten so used to the meme of being the super smart enlightened non American educating the stupid fat lazy hamburgers that you ignore the countless times it is explained to you because no actually you are the smart one who knows everything better than us so clearly we are just wrong and stupid because you are correct and enlightened

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            Or, maybe instead of insulting Europeans because no way they understand your special society, understand that your arguments are simply excuses to not revolt. Your zero safety net is reason enough to revolt. A pedo starting wars in your name is the follow-up.
            You don’t have to drive to DC to do something useful.

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            How did the Protests during the Vietnam War happened? It is possible, but if you dont want to, you dont want to.