It’s already well established that the Trump administration is a bunch of traitors and foreign assets.
What puzzles me is how Americans are OK with that?
They are destroying old alliances, and making them enemies to please Russia and possibly China too.
As far as I can tell, the Trump administration is meeting near zero resistance.
If people don’t do anything, it’s the same as condoning it.
And yes I know there are some that do, and I know there are good Americans too.
But you are too few, and you don’t make a significant difference to the problem.
There are lots of protests going on, as well as lots of angry people going to their representatives’ town hall meetings and/or calling and sending messages to them. Unfortunately it’s Congress who has the Constitutional power to act and they’ve abdicated. The Repubs are fully on board with the trump regime and the Dems are in the minority and have very little power. Most of them are just wringing their hands as usual. There are 3 branches of government and two are fascist-ruled. The third (judiciary) has no actual power if the other two don’t abide by their rulings.
It’s hard to know what more the average person can (legally) do right now.
I’m not dissing those that actually try do do something, but it’s almost like Americans gave up on democracy and the rule of law.
Or can Americans not see they are about to lose their democracy? And is heading directly towards a totalitarian regime!
Dems (most of them) are just wringing their hands as usual
Exactly, I wonder what it takes to make them wake up? Democracy in USA needs to be restored and reformed, and now is the time to do it.
If democrats are waiting because they believe it will be easier if Trump loses more popularity, they are playing a very dangerous game.
I think our protests will grow in size once people start feeling the more devastating effects in their personal lives. Yes, I do think there’s a lot of denial going on, and there’s lots of gaslighting not only by magat media but also by mainstream media (all owned by oligarchs), with very little coverage of the protests. What little coverage they do, they’re mostly focusing on the tesla/anti-Musk ones, and other things only if they get a lot of social media attention. And lots of misinformation and pro-trump propaganda on social media as well that downplays the severity of the transgressions being perpetrated.
Yeah huge problem right there! USA has an idea now that Democrats are left wing! while in reality Democrats are right of the center for most European countries.
Bernie and AOC are moderately left wing, and far from extreme, there is a pretty big left wing spectrum to the left of them too.
But USA lacks political nuances because of the 2 party system ingrained in the way democracy works in USA.
And we are. Sure. 34,000 in the Capitol of Colorado might seem pathetic to you, but that’s enormous. Just to meet with Bernie Sanders and AOC.
50501 is gaining a lot of momentum. Nearly every weekend in every city there are protests. They’re happening during the weekdays too. There are people showing up to republicans in town halls voicing their anger at their representatives.
And we are. Sure. 34,000 in the Capitol of Colorado might seem pathetic to you,
But that was not really a demonstration, more like a rally.
34000 actually demonstrating would be something.
If you aren’t willing to help, kindly fuck off.
You’re welcome to come and try to organize it yourself.
Organizing it myself is a lot more than just helping, and could be seen as outside indifference.
I never claimed I wasn’t willing to help. In fact I am helping in some ways. But I’m not in USA.
But thanks for the kind words. /s
You are a special kind of toxic.
I think it’s very dangerous to assume those will be democratic. We are pretty close to Trump arresting political opponents, he has threatened about it already during his first term. And he now calls Tesla protesters terrorists despite they never threatened or harmed anyone!! By declaring them terrorists he can use terror laws against his political opponents.
So I think you mean they THINK they know when the next elections are.
our big problem is too many people hooked into propaganda machines like they’re in the matrix. too many people on bluesky, twitter, facebook, lemmy, and at their local mcdonalds watching mass media news, all without connecting to anyone else who can help them muster resistance or help them direct their feelings.
the revolution will not be televised. people need to go outside and start talking to their neighbors to dislodge them of the notion that this is politics as usual
Yes there’s a lot of truth to that. But at some point people should get concerned enough to take to the streets.
But despite everything happening in USA, that is not the case.
that’s what i’m saying. those of us who are pushing back against fascism are currently trying to get our coalitions bigger, and i need anyone on lemmy not outside getting on that timing. the bigger and stronger our coalition the safer it is for our activists to act
It’s already well established that the Trump administration is a bunch of traitors and foreign assets.
What puzzles me is how Americans are OK with that?
They are destroying old alliances, and making them enemies to please Russia and possibly China too.
We’re not quite here yet, but… it’s only been 2 months.
Feels like it’s been an entire term already. 😮💨
OK so how many rioters were hurt at the January 6th attack again?
We are is okay what?
As far as I can tell, the Trump administration is meeting near zero resistance.
If people don’t do anything, it’s the same as condoning it.
And yes I know there are some that do, and I know there are good Americans too.
But you are too few, and you don’t make a significant difference to the problem.
There are lots of protests going on, as well as lots of angry people going to their representatives’ town hall meetings and/or calling and sending messages to them. Unfortunately it’s Congress who has the Constitutional power to act and they’ve abdicated. The Repubs are fully on board with the trump regime and the Dems are in the minority and have very little power. Most of them are just wringing their hands as usual. There are 3 branches of government and two are fascist-ruled. The third (judiciary) has no actual power if the other two don’t abide by their rulings.
It’s hard to know what more the average person can (legally) do right now.
Like this:
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-protest-students-vucic-74fff7381f2d6e6ba084aeb17aa88163
This is in Belgrade, a city with just over a million citizens:
USA has a 40 times bigger population and 9 cities that are bigger than this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
I’m not dissing those that actually try do do something, but it’s almost like Americans gave up on democracy and the rule of law.
Or can Americans not see they are about to lose their democracy? And is heading directly towards a totalitarian regime!
Exactly, I wonder what it takes to make them wake up? Democracy in USA needs to be restored and reformed, and now is the time to do it.
If democrats are waiting because they believe it will be easier if Trump loses more popularity, they are playing a very dangerous game.
I think our protests will grow in size once people start feeling the more devastating effects in their personal lives. Yes, I do think there’s a lot of denial going on, and there’s lots of gaslighting not only by magat media but also by mainstream media (all owned by oligarchs), with very little coverage of the protests. What little coverage they do, they’re mostly focusing on the tesla/anti-Musk ones, and other things only if they get a lot of social media attention. And lots of misinformation and pro-trump propaganda on social media as well that downplays the severity of the transgressions being perpetrated.
Yeah huge problem right there! USA has an idea now that Democrats are left wing! while in reality Democrats are right of the center for most European countries.
Bernie and AOC are moderately left wing, and far from extreme, there is a pretty big left wing spectrum to the left of them too.
But USA lacks political nuances because of the 2 party system ingrained in the way democracy works in USA.
But still center or left of center for the US, which is more conservative and religious overall compared to Europe.
You’re welcome to come and try to organize it yourself.
Good luck.
Absolutely no, it has to be Americans who do it, and decide what to do with their country.
And we are. Sure. 34,000 in the Capitol of Colorado might seem pathetic to you, but that’s enormous. Just to meet with Bernie Sanders and AOC.
50501 is gaining a lot of momentum. Nearly every weekend in every city there are protests. They’re happening during the weekdays too. There are people showing up to republicans in town halls voicing their anger at their representatives.
If you aren’t willing to help, kindly fuck off.
But that was not really a demonstration, more like a rally.
34000 actually demonstrating would be something.
Organizing it myself is a lot more than just helping, and could be seen as outside indifference.
I never claimed I wasn’t willing to help. In fact I am helping in some ways. But I’m not in USA.
But thanks for the kind words. /s
You are a special kind of toxic.
It’s because they know when the next elections are.
I think it’s very dangerous to assume those will be democratic. We are pretty close to Trump arresting political opponents, he has threatened about it already during his first term. And he now calls Tesla protesters terrorists despite they never threatened or harmed anyone!! By declaring them terrorists he can use terror laws against his political opponents.
So I think you mean they THINK they know when the next elections are.
Yeah we’ll see what happens.
our big problem is too many people hooked into propaganda machines like they’re in the matrix. too many people on bluesky, twitter, facebook, lemmy, and at their local mcdonalds watching mass media news, all without connecting to anyone else who can help them muster resistance or help them direct their feelings.
the revolution will not be televised. people need to go outside and start talking to their neighbors to dislodge them of the notion that this is politics as usual
Yes there’s a lot of truth to that. But at some point people should get concerned enough to take to the streets.
But despite everything happening in USA, that is not the case.
that’s what i’m saying. those of us who are pushing back against fascism are currently trying to get our coalitions bigger, and i need anyone on lemmy not outside getting on that timing. the bigger and stronger our coalition the safer it is for our activists to act
I wish you all the luck.