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Say it with me, America.
We.
Are.
Fucked.
you're not fucked. just lazy. you know this shit is going to happen yet you sit on your fat american asses anyway.
do something! anything! take a literal page from France and exercise your right to protest! riot! any-fucking-thing
Do what? what exactly would you want us to do? It's not exactly like I can go up and start killing people in upper echelons of society. I have a family to feed I have a elderly person I have to take care of I have a disabled person I have to take care of. I'm working two jobs. I'm a lesbian, and my wife is a black lesbian. What the fuck exactly do you expect us to do. At this point Americans have absolutely no power except the vote. That's the only mechanism that we have left to even have any kind of semblance of change. Unfortunately protesting doesn't absolutely fucking nothing as does having marches and all the other bullshit thing that Democrats think are going to change something. There's too many people on the left side of center that have too many different ideologies to work together. I'll say it again Republicans only have to win their base, Democrats have to win, democrats, independence, liberals, leftists, and everybody who's left over. There is not one strong unified body going against the Republicans that's why they were able to get away with all the fucking propaganda to brainwash these maga assholes. I saw a sign today it's a take a back America. Take back America from who? other Americans? It's a stupidest fucking saying I've ever heard. Because all Americans should have a voice and how everything is run not just the fucking loudest bullies.
it's true what they say americans can't read for shit. let's break it down for you, i literally typed out; "anything" "exercise your right to protest" "riot" "any-fucking-thing" 4 fucking things and you ask "do what?". fucking pathetic. fucking read.
"absolutely no power except the vote" you barely even have that since the fucking republican party has rigged your past 3 elections! and are gearing up for another one. and are actively trying to change the rules of who can actually vote. yet here you are bitching about not being able to do anything on the internet.
you think protesting doesn't work, yet the literal world protests all the time and gets shit done. your defeatist mentality is right wing propaganda. if protesting doesn't work, then what's the next step genius? that's right riots. france knows this shit, yet americans try and make fun of them being cowardly. your great grandparents went off to WAR (that's world war 2 for you slow americans) to fight the far right, and you're here complaining about fucking going to work while the far right do the exact same shit in your own country.
you want change? you gotta force it! the one thing these fucking republicans know is money. how do you fight that? you shut your fucking city down. the state down. the country down. no one goes to work. no one buys shit. you get out off your ass and into the streets. you shut the fucking roads down. you block infrastructure down. you make the fuckers afraid of you. and as we saw on Jan 6th those fuckers in the government are afraid of large groups of people, even if those people are on their own fucking side.
oh well grampa has to be alone for a couple of hours, let them watch tv. or better yet you and your SO take fucking shifts. one of you are out in the streets rioting about this bullshit, the other stays home. after x hours you fucking switch. it's literally not that fucking hard of a concept to understand. you have 2 fucking jobs that are shift work. you clearly understand how fucking shifts work.
greatest country in the world my fucking ass. "free country" my other fucking ass. in the words of Colonel Walter Hitchcock: "Freedom isn't free. It costs folks like you and me. And if we don't all chip in, We'll never pay that bill. Freedom isn't free No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee. And if you don't throw in your buck o' five. Who will?"
the silent generation gave up their lives in world war 2, so this shit didn't come to america, and you can't even get off your ass to stop it this time.