How more Americans aren’t calling it quits and emigrating literally anywhere I’ll never know. Your country is being taken from you in plain sight with barely a whimper.
I mean, we are? I’m tired of this whole we are doing nothing narrative.
The media isn’t going to show national news in support of this, however:
There are groups mobilizing, protests at city halls, capitol buildings. I have seen protestors in small cities, and in the large.
There is steam picking up, the town halls becoming increasingly more chaotic on both sides.
You even have the growth of socialistra.org
And other like associations
You have entire organizations of legal workers trying everything they can to slow down things through legislation. You have the the anti oligarch movement spearheaded by AOC (democrat) and Bernie (independent). Some guard rails are holding and some are failing.
I am talking about those that do not do these things, thinking that voting is the most they could do. I actually appreciate that there’s a lot that isn’t gonna let this slide
SiegeRhino@lemmy.world
on 28 Mar 10:59
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every comment section with just the most ignorant opinion about Americans from someone on the sidelines
A.) I’m broke
B.) I don’t have a college degree - See A.
C.) The job market sucks literally everywhere - See A.
D.) I’m on the Autism spectrum - See A.
E.) My wife cannot have children
F.) My wife doesn’t have a degree - See A.
Get the picture? I’m not even appealing to my own country, why would anyone else want me?
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
on 28 Mar 15:30
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It takes time to plan leaving the country. A lot of people like me are leaving we just haven’t gotten there yet because of how long it takes getting everything lined up
Of my entire friend and family group I’m the only one who can afford to leave. Moving is not cheap and I think it’s like 1/3 of Americans are paycheck to paycheck
It’s also more than just financially difficult to move countries. Most places require you to have a valued skill set. Many places deny neurodivergent people. This means a lot of the people who need to leave the most can’t land somewhere even if they could afford to flip their life upside down
How would it help to leave? Lots of cowards have already done so. Have you ever considered that maybe it’s because so many progressives are leaving that now we don’t have the numbers you want to see when we protest? That the people who would have been protesting are already gone?
I’m fully willing to die fighting fascism in this stupid civil war, but it isn’t a war until we get some governors and coast guard on board. Until that point, anyone who does anything violent is just a ‘lone terrorist’ and will probably be disappeared to El Salvador.
Leaving is not speaking out. Leaving is not fighting. It is only for your own survival, and it leaves the rest of us with less to fight with and less to fight for.
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How more Americans aren’t calling it quits and emigrating literally anywhere I’ll never know. Your country is being taken from you in plain sight with barely a whimper.
Well a lot of the Americans most impacted by this shit can’t afford to move away
Can they afford to stay?
Do they have a choice but to suffer?
I’m stuck here for at least another year and a half
I am more asking about how more Americans are willing to just go along with no civil disobedience whatsoever.
Many will still think he’s one of them.
I mean, we are? I’m tired of this whole we are doing nothing narrative.
The media isn’t going to show national news in support of this, however:
There are groups mobilizing, protests at city halls, capitol buildings. I have seen protestors in small cities, and in the large.
There is steam picking up, the town halls becoming increasingly more chaotic on both sides.
You even have the growth of socialistra.org And other like associations
You have entire organizations of legal workers trying everything they can to slow down things through legislation. You have the the anti oligarch movement spearheaded by AOC (democrat) and Bernie (independent). Some guard rails are holding and some are failing.
I am talking about those that do not do these things, thinking that voting is the most they could do. I actually appreciate that there’s a lot that isn’t gonna let this slide
every comment section with just the most ignorant opinion about Americans from someone on the sidelines
it’s always a comment that seems to believe the answer is so simple as well. as if it was obvious.
but you know if they were in that situation they’d see their own type of comment for what it really is. some hot air.
A.) I’m broke
B.) I don’t have a college degree - See A.
C.) The job market sucks literally everywhere - See A.
D.) I’m on the Autism spectrum - See A.
E.) My wife cannot have children
F.) My wife doesn’t have a degree - See A.
Get the picture? I’m not even appealing to my own country, why would anyone else want me?
It takes time to plan leaving the country. A lot of people like me are leaving we just haven’t gotten there yet because of how long it takes getting everything lined up
Of my entire friend and family group I’m the only one who can afford to leave. Moving is not cheap and I think it’s like 1/3 of Americans are paycheck to paycheck
It’s also more than just financially difficult to move countries. Most places require you to have a valued skill set. Many places deny neurodivergent people. This means a lot of the people who need to leave the most can’t land somewhere even if they could afford to flip their life upside down
How would it help to leave? Lots of cowards have already done so. Have you ever considered that maybe it’s because so many progressives are leaving that now we don’t have the numbers you want to see when we protest? That the people who would have been protesting are already gone?
I’m fully willing to die fighting fascism in this stupid civil war, but it isn’t a war until we get some governors and coast guard on board. Until that point, anyone who does anything violent is just a ‘lone terrorist’ and will probably be disappeared to El Salvador.
Leaving is not speaking out. Leaving is not fighting. It is only for your own survival, and it leaves the rest of us with less to fight with and less to fight for.
I’m not going to leave. I’m fighting for the country we should be.