You have to deny so many American atrocities to make a map like this.
This implies the global south enjoyed imperialism before Trump. The global south should be far more against the US Empire in the top image.
2013 international Gallup poll: “Which country is the biggest threat to world peace”
France pointing to… Syria? Seriously?
We don’t think the world sees us as the Avengers anymore. At this point things are so bad here we’ve stopped thinking (which is different than not caring) about how the world thinks of us. For fuck’s sake our president started a war when we weren’t looking. It’s like riding in a bus the size of a football field being driven by a drunk, that’s what living in America is like.
For fuck’s sake our president started a war when we weren’t looking.
But you’d be fine with it if he did it while you were looking, of course
My point is that we’re so inundated with terrible news and horrific policy we can’t start to mount an opposition to a specific change before the next horror arises. We had military occupations in our cities which have been forgotten because that was half a dozen scandals ago.
Personally I’ve been in panic mode for a year because I was a government contractor before Trump let Elon Musk lay me off. Due to the economy Trump is directly responsible for the only job I could find pays 1/4 of what I was making with no benefits.
Now there is a war. I’m going hungry.
My point is that we’re so inundated with terrible news and horrific policy we can’t start to mount an opposition to a specific change before the next horror arises.
You didn’t do that under previous presidents either.
Personally I’ve been in panic mode for a year because I was a government contractor before Trump let Elon Musk lay me off. Due to the economy Trump is directly responsible for the only job I could find pays 1/4 of what I was making with no benefits.
Damn, truly nobody has been more mistreated by the US Empire than you. I’m sure the people Gaza would be horrified if they only knew.
Now there is a war.
And apparently it would be ok if it wasn’t started behind your back?
Ahh yes. Quantification of suffering to dismiss it as invalid. The ol’ .ml classic.
That comment was not about “quantification of suffering,” it was pointing out that untold suffering was already being caused by the US and its war criminal presidents before the most recent one was in office. Yet so many only seemed to notice when it started effecting them personally. Which isn’t surprising, but when Americans who previously just went about their privileged lives up until Trump came along talk as if this juggernaut of misery, cruelty, and death is only a recent thing, that’s very demeaning to the millions who have bore the brunt of that cruelty for decades. It is also frankly chauvanistic. It is very inappropriate to write that off as “quantification of suffering” but it sounds like you just have a beef with the .ml instance.
Fair, not the instance in general, but certain bad actors among you. I still see it as dismissial of suffering through comparison. Not a valid play in my book.
He’s not asking for your pity, or mine. He’s explaining why he and many other Americans are feeling helpless and are finding it difficult to mount a resistance, eventhough they know they should.
Interstingly sanctions had this same effect on the Iranian middle class. No way to revolt and replace the government when your rent is double your income.
He’s trying to pretend that the US was any better before Trump was elected
“when we weren’t looking” sounds like a cop out
We were looking, just not there. There was literally no preamble to this war, Iran wasn’t even in the news.
Not like every other administration was harassing them and trying to goad them into war.
Graham senator guy has been goading for a war with Iran since 2010 or even earlier
Who? I don’t think the US Senate voted on the Iran war. IIRC Trump just did it and Congress was like “this is fine 🐶🔥”
For fuck’s sake our president started a war when we weren’t looking
Russians be like: wow that never happened and here we go again…
More of you could have gone out to vote against him. More of you could go to more than a one day protest once every few months.
Make May 1st your general nationwide strike with more people than the pitiful efforts that have been seen at this point.
You say this like it was any better before Trump
Most of the people commenting here were probably children before trump. What did you want the children to do?
Realise that it wasn’t better before Trump
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The Democrats were literal fascism, genocide apologist
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What did kamala mean when she swore to make the military the most lethal force on the planet and every democrat in the room cheered?
democrats
literal fascism
