The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else's thread.
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The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else's thread. I wanted to share it without risking the other threadfolk getting backlash.
Concerning whether or not US-Americans know and/or care that yesterday could easily have been the start of WWIII/a global nuclear event:
A lot of us care and are aware. Enough that we were checking the news every few mins yesterday & dreading the approach of 8pm EST.
Please don't paint all US-Americans with the same brush of dismissive judgment....
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The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else's thread. I wanted to share it without risking the other threadfolk getting backlash.
Concerning whether or not US-Americans know and/or care that yesterday could easily have been the start of WWIII/a global nuclear event:
A lot of us care and are aware. Enough that we were checking the news every few mins yesterday & dreading the approach of 8pm EST.
Please don't paint all US-Americans with the same brush of dismissive judgment....
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....An uncounted but large number of us have been fighting this as hard as we know how for more than 10 years. We are scared, exhausted, and despairing, and there aren't enough words for us to say how deeply sorry we are that our government is menacing the whole world.
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....An uncounted but large number of us have been fighting this as hard as we know how for more than 10 years. We are scared, exhausted, and despairing, and there aren't enough words for us to say how deeply sorry we are that our government is menacing the whole world.
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@courtcan We see you, hear you, and millions and millions of people around the world are standing with you until you’re free from this oppressive, fascist, regime.
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....An uncounted but large number of us have been fighting this as hard as we know how for more than 10 years. We are scared, exhausted, and despairing, and there aren't enough words for us to say how deeply sorry we are that our government is menacing the whole world.
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@courtcan we’re silent because we have had to tend to our family and friends who have been wounded and cast adrift by this #facsist regime. Try to hold onto our physical health and sanity in this crazymaking milieu. We are in the mouth of a shark as #WarsanShire says in her poem Home.
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The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else's thread. I wanted to share it without risking the other threadfolk getting backlash.
Concerning whether or not US-Americans know and/or care that yesterday could easily have been the start of WWIII/a global nuclear event:
A lot of us care and are aware. Enough that we were checking the news every few mins yesterday & dreading the approach of 8pm EST.
Please don't paint all US-Americans with the same brush of dismissive judgment....
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@courtcan Is this ”not all men” but for the US?
I understand it’s frustrating. It’s frustrating from the outside too, waiting to be the next target of your president.
It’s hard to know how to formulate any short social media post taking all of that context into consideration.
I wish you all the best and that you have the strength to keep going.
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....An uncounted but large number of us have been fighting this as hard as we know how for more than 10 years. We are scared, exhausted, and despairing, and there aren't enough words for us to say how deeply sorry we are that our government is menacing the whole world.
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There's a difference between painting all Americans with the same brush and knowing that the USA as a social system is doing this.
Partly by making much of its internal opposition “scared, exhausted, and despairing”.
Just as “not all men” in a patriarchy.
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@courtcan Is this ”not all men” but for the US?
I understand it’s frustrating. It’s frustrating from the outside too, waiting to be the next target of your president.
It’s hard to know how to formulate any short social media post taking all of that context into consideration.
I wish you all the best and that you have the strength to keep going.
That's kind of why I'm not apologizing, because you know shit's fucked here, we're all struggling, and nobody outside of a few lunatics support this thing. You don't need to be told there are good people here, or even that most of us are good, just the oppressors make sure they have solidarity and we don't. I don't have to say I'm not a fucking fascist, because it's obvious, or it should be.
You and me both could get hit by a bomb, we both want to live in a good world, and USAers are held in the same if not more contempt by their elitist shitheads than people of foreign countries. We're all in this together. Except the elitist shitheads.
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....An uncounted but large number of us have been fighting this as hard as we know how for more than 10 years. We are scared, exhausted, and despairing, and there aren't enough words for us to say how deeply sorry we are that our government is menacing the whole world.
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@courtcan The felon has put a spotlight on the flaws in our system of government, as well as our economic & education systems. Deconstructing a failing empire in such a way that we can repurpose the pieces for a sustainable future is beyond a moon shot. With fully a third of the pop. wearing dark glasses to avoid the glare, the task will require outside assistance.
Pain is the way a body tells us to stop doing something harmful. We will feel the pain, all of us. The earth is all of us. -
....An uncounted but large number of us have been fighting this as hard as we know how for more than 10 years. We are scared, exhausted, and despairing, and there aren't enough words for us to say how deeply sorry we are that our government is menacing the whole world.
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with the caveat that if, as an american, you do not vote, because you value punishing the democrats for being spineless (and they are), over preventing {gestures broadly}, you are a piece of shit
you want better than the milquetoast bullshit the democrats offer
i do too
but we are only going to get there by showing up, especially in the primaries, and iterating to better over time
"i want perfect now or i'm not participating!" is not a moral position
it's being an immature child
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