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[–] RootAccess@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

It's funny to think that any of these comments are relevant. Are you new to the internet maybe?. The best I can do is hope to influence. The best an American can do is contact people already working to correct this and ask them what needs doing. This leads me to wonder how all the Americans are posting in this thread, being that they are all so exhausted. Why not go to sleep? Then wake up later and get in touch and involved.

It's almost like Americans are here trying to convince themselves there is nothing they can do.

How brave of you. What a testament to your freedoms. What a fine demonstration of what it truly means to be American: A blame shifting, feckless inheritor of a once great country. All hype. No substance, apart from the folds of blubber around their mid sections. What a legacy. All your talk of freedom backed by nothing. FREEDOM!

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

Why not go to sleep? Then wake up later and get in touch and involved.

Because that would require more effort than posting a comment online.

[–] Anegro_Montoya@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Because freedom is propaganda unless you fit certain demographics. Otherwise, everyday you're just surviving.

White dudes can walk around heavily armed, try that as a black dude and see how free you are. We can't even go for a run in a lot of places without the cops or neighborhood watch showing up.

So shut the fuck up and stop blaming people caught in this bullshit and do something to help.

[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

What are YOU doing that's useful? Besides blustering on the internet that is.

[–] PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Calling for action. Could also be directed to Europeans btw, with obesity and fascism also growing hand in hand there.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

OP isnt an American...

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[–] HairTransplants@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

This is apt for the situation

[–] AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

So... General Strike to stop the coup?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 38 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Here's something we could fix:

We have no recall option! WTF! We should have such a mechanism. We should ask Congress to enact a law where we the people can recall the president via votes if we can collect enough signatures just like we are able to do for other things.

[–] CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 33 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

We do. It's the 2nd amendment. Literally what it was written for, the forceful reclamation of democratic freedom should it be taken by a tyrannical leadership. Too bad everyone that actually gives a damn about that option is on red team, and blue team thinks the 2nd amendment is for killing children and nothing else.

[–] hotdogthud@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, to be fair, the red team thinks it's pretty much only for killing children too...

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 6 points 14 hours ago

It's ok once they're born, god only loves fetuses.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

This is exactly why I've always maintained that the 2nd amendment against tyranny is complete and utter horseshit. There will never, ever, be a case in which civilians can take up arms against the US government and have any remote shot of doing anything. Any tyrannical government will get to where they are with such significant support they will be so ridiculously protected you'd have to take on the entire military and legal branches of the USA.

In 1814 when everyone had a flintlock pistol? Sure. Now? Have fun getting remote drone striked before you even step foot into Washington D.C.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago (11 children)

The Taliban won and they don't have advanced technology.

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[–] mwproductions@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not just the president, but any elected official.

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Now why would the elected officials do something to their own detriment? You want them to act like representatives or how they've been acting?

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