IDK why are you putting up with this bullshit?

Laziness mostly

We’re disorganized, we believed in bullshyte even when it was obvious, because it was glued to appropriate labels?

Good question. They are as incompetent as they are crooked.

Medicaid and the now the ACA and food assistance has been the cornerstone of lifting the lower class up. Healthcare is everything to them. Without it, they fall off the map. We’ve never faced things being taken away. America works on giving more to its citizens. It’s mind fuc*ing all of us.

Exactly my question.

Because it’s easier to believe in learned helplessness than it is to take actions that place you in conflict and confrontation with how fucked this all is. Its what happens when you demonize anger and violence, call it barbaric, while the true barbarism is the cowards game of euphemisms and deceit.

Not enough people are mad enough yet.

It's not gonna pass people. "Nip it in the Bud." Constantly asking why?, how?, is not cutting it.

If this was a correct final Jeopardy question, what would the clue be? Maybe best as a SNL skit?

Because most people can't handle their reality being disturbed to the point where they will live in denial even if it is happening right in their face. Their brains will invent any excuse to protect its walled off reality. And that's happening even when our shared psychosis isn't made manifest by

a racist, fascist, narcissist intentionally driving us off the cliff. Go ask a devout religious person how their god (who they claim made the universe) can allow children to live in misery and die young, they'll invent a reason it's the kids fault. We're disgusting and delusional.

No f@&$ing clue.

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Millions of Americans need chic-fil-a.

That could apply to soooo many things.

Because we're all to busy, tired and socially fractured to do anything?

Because we're in an abusive relationship with a sociopath on a macro scale. It's turning us into catatonic depressives and/or sadists. Eventually though, we're gonna pull a Julia Roberts in Sleeping With the Enemy and swim away under dark of night to go live with the proverbial cute drama teacher.

I'd rather ut be a Julia Roberts in Something To Talk About making him "a nice supper".

Indeed!

Because the system has intentionally worked against us for so long that we talk tough but have no real fight. Unlike the right, who showed up at our protests with guns and at the capital on Jan 6th with plans to be violent, we think violence is too much and are "afraid" of a guns anyway.

Because despite all the shit, we are all still too comfortable to risk life and limb to change things.

I think the fact that it's each other's lives and limbs on the line matters more to people with kids. And nobody is drafting or organizing the actionable plan it would take to make resistance out of a will to fight.

We lack leadership also, for sure, and a good leader would absolutely motivate more people who would be willing to take the risk. But good leaders often spring up out of a resistance that is already growing or present.

Lack of leadership to do the big actions necessary?

Decades of conditioning

Good question

The rest of the sane world ask that same question every day. Your country is untrustworthy and your morals are pretty much a world wide joke. No more of that "greatest nation on earth" bullshit. We see you for who you really are. Quit lying to yourselves.

I wonder if any individuals think that are willing to stand up to US Secret Service, Marshalls, and the entire US military? There are whole nations that can't do that, but you want a bunch of unarmed civilians to do it?

Because Jesus.

This 👆

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Because let’s face it: We’re disorganized and need a strong leader as much as the Asshole right sees in Orange Julius Cesar.

Trump cheated to win. Trump, Musk and the Kremlin all admitted it. Dems did zilch. Dems are still doing zilch with a few notable exceptions. That’s why.

Trump is a symptom, and elections mean less for the advancement of liberation than the ruling class want us to believe.

Because we are honestly, weak, stupid, scared, unsure, and unwilling to sacrifice ourselves. Hoping that another Luigi appears rather than doing the necessary and needful.

It is actually pretty simple. Most are waiting for someone worth following to say it's time to stop playing by the rules, arm up, and take to the streets.

You just said it. I've been saying it. If enough others say it, perhaps it will catch on when the fight is brought to them. Los Angeles & DC are up. This is their chance.

Mainly, because we are a country that believes in Law. We don't believe in armed resurrection as a method to change or run a Democracy. For what it's worth: I think that we the people will figure a way to deal with and rid our Nation of this Bullshit. 👽

Good question America!

No words no words no words It is all because of racism. That’s it

Because, we can't figure out a way to stop it without going to prison.

In general or did I miss something?

Sing it with me…🎤 Money money money…MONEY🎶🎼

Because we've gone too soft, and forgotten how it creeps on you.

JUST. STOP. ACCEPTING IT.

yes, why?

People want fascism, the people who don't even know what it entails. It's astounding!

Because rich people will destroy us all for a little more

In part because damn near half of America *wants* this bullshit. Far more than half are perfectly fine with the status quo of 2023, which was a lot better, but still awful (#1 incarceration rate in the world, worst income inequality ever) How can meaningful change happen under these circumstances?

"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to."

excellent question

Been asking myself that since about '94. Don't have a good answer.

Pedo meets accomplished genocidal dictator. Double white supremacy supremacing?

People won't do anything until they are forced to, which will be too late. Nobody cares about anyone or anything unless it benefits them somehow. We've got to find a way to capture the attention of the uninformed, apathetic & non-voters. They need something other than FB & big media for info.

I ask that out loud every single day recently, the Americans talk up how much they are rebels, but they seem capable of just sitting around and letting Donald Trump turn their country into an open air prison.

The ones that say they’re “rebels” were always going to be the same ones that like what he’s doing. If only because they get to fly confederate flags.

Cowardice and impotence

Because you arent doing anything to change it.

Bingo!

That’s the million dollar question!!!

Traction?

social media is too enthralling.

Because Americans are weak. See humans in WALL-E.

Americans are either too lazy, too dismayed or too racist to even give a fck.

Limited options.

We need to go French on their asses. Removing everyone with an R after its name. Cuz I’m not up for prez jd couchphuqer after the orange menace.

I've been asking that question for years too, bro!

Because there's not one, unified leader of the resistance.

Yeah we stopped doing that because they’ll just slander and kill that person. That’s not a resilient strategy.

I’ve seen two relatively small scale protest leaders I worked with in the 2010’s be murdered by police in the last 10 years. It’s still happening, they contrive a situation where the cops can claim it was your fault. They police shot one of them at a middle school in front of his kid.

it used to be the CIA, the FBI, and the cops would just be enlisted as footsoldiers sometimes, but America's political class have allowed police to become right wing paramilitary groups without accountability of any kind so they just kill or assassinate whoever they want now and dont even get fired

That doesn't resolve the fact that people need visible leaders in order to rally behind them. Am I wrong? Is there a movement of the scale we're talking about that's succeeded without visible leadership?

"Leaders" appearing out of nowhere is one of the symptoms of the larger problem of our political process being a series of financial transactions, as it always has. We want leadership? We must create it. We won't find it, for example, from officials speaking at peaceful protests with no objectives.

I remember thinking some savior person or organization had to appear before realizing that work in mass organizations was the best use of my time, but it sure took a while

Because people have gone soft and no longer know how to fight for what is right.

I think it's less "Gone Soft" and more because the older generation is extremely controlling and the younger generation is being left in shackles and debt. They literally have nothing to stand on.

Come show us how it’s done.

I am one of those people also. I do protest every Saturday up here. Alberta's government is becoming very Maga like. So I protest. Not sure what else to do after that.

We protest. The protests never stopped. The media just doesn’t cover it.

I have noticed that also. On Bluesky I see clips of huge protests but I do not hear about it anywhere else. It is sickening that one disgusting man can do this to a whole nation.

protest isnt fighting, its demonstrating, and its functionally illegal in America the moment police say it is.

Americans have had decades of the US sliding deeper & deeper into an authoritarian police state to become politically militant, but at nearly every step they choose instead to defend some part of the status quo, scapegoat minority groups or scapegoat those who already were politically militant

blame protestors or blame "the left" for 'giving' the far right pretexts for the things they were already doing, BLM, antifa, pro-Palestine, trans rights, there was always some rationalization to toss the people resisting overboard and ignore them

now we have the final results of people spending 20 years arguing online about why they dont or shouldnt have to have solidarity with x or y group demanding human rights, they just need to keep voting for a party and everything will be fine

and it is exactly as the radicals everyone ignored or clowned on predicted it would be

At least in Alberta we can vote for change...which I'll be doing...in America with the rigged voting machines they don't have a prayer

This is true.

You are going to need to be more specific.

Displacement defense mechanisms (boss yells at you at work so you go home and kick the dog) + social media Seeing all this shit go down with no vision of how to be a part of a force that stops it we decide to just yell at or vent with each other instead

Also zero social safety nets and a crap ton of essential stability tied to employment in the U.S. means no stepping so far out of line you might lose your job or become unhireable

Good question. I get the feeling that people are waiting. For what I’m not sure. If we wait much longer, we won’t have a country.

Most are waiting for a leader to say it's time.

We need a central figure to spearhead a movement. The people are ready.

They are all waiting for a Calvary that’s not coming

I think so too.

Totally agree with that one. We should be doing everything in our power to stop this bullshit.

1/3Let's start with #FinancialAnarchy Shall we? Stop paying EVERYTHING that does not support life; like roof, food, meds, transport, utilities. PULL all investments, retirements, insurance policies, etc (money you can't see directly) Do not pay taxes, fines, anything relating to govt, #NoTaxw/oRep

2/3If We all do it, We can strain their resources, take a stand, bankrupt fascists/oligarchy, keep money in the community instead of greedy pockets. Next We gather & form co-ops with grocery wholesalers, gardeners, & butchers/ranchers Build community greenhouses on as many urban/rural spots as poss

Love that idea. It would be our world. Our country. Our towns. We don’t need big money stealing out our pockets. We need to keep it all local.

3/3Theyre trying to collapse the dollar, use the $ not going to fascists, but local and STOCK UP(project 2025) Just my vibe-They're going to try & squeeze US product-wise after the "election"as a way to threaten us w/compliance. Bet thats what him & daddy vlad talked about post coitals😒

Yes. Makes sense. We know what they didn’t talk about.

Which specific bullshit do you mean?

Because a bunch of fucking idiots misread a study. Making the general consensus from society "violence is always wrong" and until that changes the things necessary to stop this bullshit can't happen. Trumpco has CHOSEN violence. Willfully. You can't UNchoose it for them without resorting to it.

I fear it is because we know deep down, 1) this was avoidable and we let it happen and, 2) our laziness/cynicism that allowed it to happen means we also lack the willingness or optimism to do the even harder work it will take to fix it.

you don't have to, guns are legal in USA, just for such a situation.

I went gun shopping. Those shits are like $300!

Gee golly THAT’S what the second is for? All this time we weren’t supposed to be shooting kids???

All for nothing, too, it seems😒

The right people aren’t hurting enough yet? We outnumber them by 340million and own 40% of global total of firearms or 1.2 for every person. It’s a question I ask myself every day.

If ONLY the people who voted for Harris formed an army, it would be 3 times bigger than the combined military forces of the entire world. It wouldn't require a force that size, but overthrowing fascism is more fun with friends.

Lets start a riot

I have no freaking clue.

Because the lawmakers we elected to do the job, who don’t want term limits, because of the contacts they make are cowards @judiciarydems.senate.gov @repdelbene.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @schumer.senate.gov

Cause the only way to stop it is actual war. And Americans try not to have wars IN America.

Slow to catch on 🤦🏻

Because we’re stupid enough to think someone else is gonna stop this.

Because some people are making money off it and too many are complacent

What choice do we have

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cowardice, isolation, lack of social support/solidarity. turns out right wing dipshit "philosopher" Curtis Yarvin was right when he said fascism taking over America's streets would happen quickly & easily bc Americans dont know how to resist oppression

Good question. Probably being full of fear or just agree.

because anywhere and everywhere specifically forbids discussing the practical solution and discourages organizing efforts to actually solve the problem.

I scream this question daily.

And it’s another day here in the Sunflower state of Kansas….. Republican super majority…… yeah, well. Happy Saturday

And there it is

Because they have the guns, the courts, and the prisons under control. That’s how autocracy works.

Yes, why are you?

Because you can't buy tanks or f-16s on Amazon.

Because action requires commitment and doing what is uncomfortable and possibly dangerous. And we are just lazy and scared Americans.

Me. They are waiting for me. When it was just a clown show [grnlnd,pnama, kennd center, maps, hegsethetx] But now.... Tell Trump to : knock off the authoritarian BS. Hands off elections

No time left to wait. The cavalry is not coming,each and every one of us are the last line of defense. We need to come together as a united front to rid the country of fascism and hate.

I'll fight until my very last breath, what are you willing to do?

I ask that every day.

We can just stop. Stop everything. Stop buying, stop working, stop being cogs.

Shit people who don't pay rent say

I have a mortgage. It only works when everyone does it. Otherwise, we slide right into a fascist dictatorship...

It’s illegal to be homeless now so we’d end up in a geo group detention center doing dollar a day labor wherein a % of the profits are then funneled directly back to Trump by way of their new donation scheme

Nah, not there yet. The disorganization of the Florida concentration camp is one example. Good to keep hammering them while they’re weak.

No we literally are there now. In the detention centers it costs five dollars to make one phone call and they work for a dollar a day. One camp being disorganized means nothing there are centers all over the USA - even the one in Portland Oregon has agents who grab people and drag them inside now

I have seen it happen with my eyes and watched the guy come out hours later with all his shit stuffed into bags. He was a protestor recording video and they tackled him and dragged him away. This was in JUNE btw. The police dept aimed weapons at us and ran inside. This shit is real now.

Let me correct myself, because I how that appears to be glib: We are living in an authoritarian regime. The bad things are happening and we are on the eve of the Worst Things. However, we aren’t at “don’t act bc you will def go to a camp” and it isn’t uniformly illegal to be homeless.

I was being flippant, moreso commentary against what we are living through not commentary against direct action

My goal was to encourage people to continue (or start) resisting.

There still are a massive number of people who don't want to mess up family holiday... or at least that's what my in-laws used to say when they were still allowed to come over.

How long?

People are still too comfortable to take action in mass. The people aren’t united, still buying into the petty reasons they gave us to fight amongst each other. Capitalism is still crushing us. No one wants risk stopping work to fight or risking their job to fight and ending up homeless.

Yep. It won't work unless it's all of us, sustained. So we wait, but it might be too late by the time folks set aside the manufactured in-fighting 'isms and look out.

Cause ya'll still think Putin is behind this when it's Netanyahu. MEE HEADLINE - Macron confronted Netanyahu over 'unacceptable' interference in France's elections Netanyahu interferes in U.S. elections too. www.middleeasteye.net/news/macron-...

Because people are too lazy and apathetic to act…plus, they never think they’ll be the target of this regime. Yes, speaking to complacent white people. (I’m white too, so put your claims of reverse racism away).

I have asked myself that every day of my life that I remember. So like 60 something years? Same old shit.

People have been bought off with phones and cheap data plans. And a bottomless lack of empathy.

Apparently, legislators see a coup and think it's business as usual. We'll take care of that in the next election.

I've got a lot going on right now. I'm working for a startup that might take off. If it does, I might have enough money to move to a better country.

Because Republicans don’t trust women.

I would say they are scared of women.

Since we failed to act before, I'm no longer sure anything short of violent revolution will work, and most people aren't going to be willing.

That's what I said when numbers at People's March DC were so low.

Especially if you're a 73 YO guy, out fishing w/a 17 YO client who's sp needs,+2 Secret Service agents walk up to you, ask your name+for the next 90 minutes grilling you in public abt where you're from,jobs you've had, etc. because you posted "Trump needs to go" online.Happened to my husband today.

Wow

Middle class white people are just fine. So they're largely unbothered.

Not middle class - upper middle class.

Middle, Lower ... Upper. They're not the target ... for now. So there's nothing for them to protect.

I think lower and regular middle class people will lose their Medicaid and their ACA and that will profoundly affect them. I put myself in that category. I’m worried.

That is the million dollar question.

National strike now.

Because people want to go back to normal. People don't want to leave their comfort zones. People don't know where their next meal is coming from if they don't work. People don't fully comprehend what they're facing. People hope it will all go away. People didn't take a civics class.

After People's March, I was trying to figure out why so few people showed up in DC and kept saying we all need to go to DC and protest together. American strength is in our unity and numbers. I got a lot of "I have kids", "I have to work", "I can't afford a trip to DC". Everyone had excuses.

As a non- American...I keep asking the same.

Personally, because I cannot convince specific people to go hiking with me in the swamp.

Because everyone in power is bought and paid for. It’s up to We, the people to end it.

Because Americans fear their government. Because we are lazy, uneducated and indoctrinated. Because white people are too comfortable. Very soon change will force Americans to act regardless.

I don't know.

I don't even know anymore. Lately being nice has been biting me in the ass since people seem to be thinking they're entitled to my time and my money

REPUBLICANS!

Right?

Because it's going to take a strategic, organized General Strike to get us on the right track. The rich have class solidarity and the rest of us have not achieved that YET.

Because the NRA forgot to arm up against a tyrannical government

It’s beyond me

Cause we aren’t in congress where something can be done. Oh…. Oh, wait….

The whole world wants to know. History will NOT be kind.

Not enough organization not enough structures of permission. There's millions of us, millions of weapons, and a highly diverse skillset. It's not a problem of manpower, logistics, or even funding or strategy. It's creating psychological permission for organized resistance.

A majority of those guns are in the hands of people who support trump.

Thank the gun control crowd. But you'd be surprised how many non-fash have guns.

I'm sick of it. Thought most people would stand up by now. Middle class sucks!

gotta pay rent

Conditioning.

Because no one can decide what to do.

Because one of you guys won’t *redacted* him.

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In many ways we aren’t .. I’m doing whatever I can with what I’ve got - which sometimes feels like it’s not enough. But if we ALL do something we can make change.

That is the correct question!!!!!!!!

Right? Republicans are FINE with all of it. They gave Trump all their power and now none of them has any work to do. Chuck Grassley pathetically admitted it “There is nothing we can do”.

Agreed

Because the people that are supposed to protect The Constitution are ALL complicit!

I think there at least need to be a lot more punching going on

Either because a lot of folks didn't want that lady in office or McDonald's refuses to bring back beef tallow.

Because people knew exactly what he was like and still voted for him. Some of them three times. Yes it’s difficult to imagine someone who chooses “dog-turd fricassée” off the menu but hey, over 70 million Americans thought “that sounds good!”

Because we are full of excuses not to stop it. “NO WAY I’ll STOP WORKING TO FIGHT FASCISM.” We’re trading capitalism for democracy.

Pretty easy. Not only did the majority of voters vote for it, nearly 100,000,000 folks that were eligible to vote, when faced with this fascist tyrant candidate, chose to sit home. Their non vote put Trump into office. You ask why we tolerate it? Apathy, pathetic apathy.

Nah. Blame rests with the rulers. Had Harris won, the genocide continues, trans and women's rights keep vanishing, migrants continue facing periodic, violent crackdowns, homelessness gets more criminal, everyone's broke, cop budgets keep ballooning, and things are even more ready for the next Trump.

L take

Prove it, blue MAGA

Ok. You're an idiot, ergo, L take

Goddammit, it's people like you who thrust us into this mess. You really think - REALLY think - that VP Harris is just as bad as 45/47?! Absolutely not. Tell me something... Where the cowardly sike-out Russian-op fuck is Jill Stein? Can you answer that??

It's always some foreigners' fault with you libs because you refuse to accept that systems that are foundational to this country need to be confronted directly. Y'all have nothing of substance to offer, only war and bipartisan downward class violence. And you're already losing in advance. Pitiful.

For us to care about the rest of the world, we need to take care of ourselves first. We both know that literal nazis would not be marching so openly in the streets of this country if Harris had been elected.

It's called imperialism, dipshit

First off, I'm not liberal. Second, I know full well how these systems work. They're not flawed or rigged; they're this way on purpose for rich white men. When you currently don't have a viable third option to make things better, you go with the better of the two. Harris was that choice.

Nah, you're a lib. You're a lib, and no one doing serious work will trust you. You don't study history without an extremely patriotic bias and you're fixated on electoralism. What's happening now is a direct result of what we do abroad. Address that or it gets worse.

So what would have been your solution for the 2024 presidential election?

Do you ever think about anything beyond elections

Yes. What would have been your solution?

My solution? What? How about congressional and executive Democrats give the finger to AIPAC and adopt the overwhelmingly popular position of not arming Zionists? Because there's your win. What you don't get is that Democrats are fine with losing as long as campaign funds flow. We owe them nothing.

You're just babbling, saying absolutely nothing about any real-world outcomes. And no, it's been well-proven that she'd have lost with or without third party voters.

Oh, my fucking god, no. That's not-- Just...no.

Not a real argument. The Democrats will not save us from their esteemed colleagues, the Republicans. Insisting on putting all our energy into that organization and giving away votes without expectations is not going to work because it never has.

Perhaps we are just too fucking stupid to get together. Can't put our pet poisons aside long enough to get together and stop him. We are the government. Selfish children. We can't save Gaza if we don't save the US.

Ah, I just re-read this, and it's more vote scolding, dressed up with empty rhetoric. Here's some clarity: Use of my political agency for support of candidates is CONDITIONAL upon a no-compromise stance against genocide, solidarity with women and queer people, and a specific antiracist platform.

How’s that working out for kids in Gaza? 💅

Oh look, my fellow honky is smug about the death of the children of a colonized nation. That is evil and your heart is rotten and I hope the same compassion you're expressing for them now is given to you. It's in part because you love the patriarchy, and since you're a woman, it makes you pitiful.

People are just saying shit huh