Cowardice and AI gets insta-blocked. Not reading your excuses.

Which American are you?

  1. “I already [describes basic-ass participation in democracy]! What do you expect me to DOOO?”

  2. “We can’t fight back because then the Nazis will take the opportunity to punish us harder”

  3. “it’s not as EASY as you seem to think”

  4. “Yeah, well what have YOU done??”

  5. “Did you not see the VERY effective and not-at-all-a-huge-joke No Kings protests?”

  6. “Keyboard warrior!”

  7. “I can’t have principles, I might lose the shitty job I hate!”

  8. “I believe that every historical revolutionary to whom I owe my prosperity was a Disney character with no family or livelihood at stake and who never really had to risk anything because in my child-brain their victory was guaranteed.”

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  • WizardOfFrobozz@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Allegedly 'Argued Over Who Would Take 13-Year-Old Girl's Virginity,' Per Explosive House Report
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    7 days ago

    You outnumber the police and you’re armed to the teeth. “The US military would just crush the population” argument is not particularly convincing either. You assume the military is some perfectly unified, ruthlessly efficient machine, which doesn’t describe the US military in foreign wars, let alone a domestic one.

    Even the shitty GOP is unwilling to tolerate prolonged ground wars, casualties, recruitment problems, political backlash, and occupations of populations that are actually hostile to it. Yet somehow we are supposed to believe that the same institution would suddenly function flawlessly whe turned against your own citizens? The assumption that everyone would simply follow orders indefinitely while Americans were being killed in huge numbers is absurd. There’s a reason you haven’t sent soldiers in to occupy Tehran.

    Eventually they would run into a very simple problem- if armed resistance was genuinely widespread, half-measures would not settle it. It would either have to escalate to levels of violence sufficient to kill Americans on an enormous scale, potentially millions, or it would have to back down / simply stop functioning. You also have the fact that your military has never been more poorly managed than it is right now.

    Yes, the US military has vastly more firepower than civilians. Congratulations. Nobody disputes that. The question is whether it could politically, institutionally, and psychologically use that firepower against its own population on the scale necessary to win such a conflict- and if it’s your position that your own military WOULD do that to you, and that is why you are choosing not to act? Great- then your political morality is just one in which the government’s entitlement to your obedience increases in direct proportion to how willing it is to fucking kill you.

  • WizardOfFrobozz@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•What is the charge? Taking a leaf? A succulent aloe vera leaf?
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    8 days ago

    Americans would rather chuck perfectly good food into a dumpster than entertain the possibility of summoning the collective fucking will to fix a VERY straightforward problem. The idea that they could just legislate some reasonable liability protections and make sure edible food gets to hungry people apparently requires a level of imagination and civic competence beyond anyone’s wildest dream. So much easier to blame “some asshole” for creating what is surely an insurmountable legal paradox. The food rots, needy people go hungry, and the US gets to pretend the problem is some unavoidable fact of life rather than admit they just couldn’t be arsed to try.