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When will America realize that this is not a joke. They'll be laughing right up to the goosestepping. (lemmy.ca)

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Canadians: Greenland must be the line in the sand. Non negotiable.

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[-] asg101@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 days ago

Anyone who thinks warmongering, fascism, and terrorism are unAmerican has not read much American history. The U.S.A was founded on genocide, grown on slavery, and has oligarchy baked in to their constitution. Hitler studied the way the U.S. treated indigenous and black people to form his genocide plans, and Israel has built on both the U.S. and Nazi examples for their treatment of Palestine.

The beat goes on.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social -4 points 5 days ago

What people hear when you say things like this: Ah, so this is business as usual, and while it sucks for the people affected, keeping my head down should continue working to keep me out of trouble. I'm powerless to fix this stuff, anyway, so I should just dissociate and worry about my own problems.

And then they don't show up for elections...

[-] asg101@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

Ah yes, elections will fix everything in the USA, just vote harder next time.

Just to make what I am saying as clear as I can without someone putting words in my mouth: The existing system is functioning as designed and as it has ALWAYS "worked" , and if the people of the world are going to have a chance to survive they need to destroy the current one, and replace it with one that cares about people and the planet, not just profits.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 0 points 5 days ago

Well, we have plenty of people on Lemmy who place the blame for this situation on the Americans who didn't vote for Kamala Harris, as if they weighed the stakes, deliberated, and decided affirmatively that not voting was the correct action. It's like the people who believe that have never met actual humans. Denial and dissociation 'works' very well for us as a psychological defense mechanism.

Now, if we have any hope, we need people to work together to shut down the fascists. I'm just sayin' that this here is a much better way to put it to motivate them, while telling them that "it's always been this way" and "the U.S. is simply evil" is a great way to push people back into denial and dissociation.