Political Memes

You’re welcome to come raise some hell outside the capital if you can afford that trip, though.

People don't talk about it, but this is what jan 6th was. Not for a good cause, obviously, but basically everyone that was participating in that was either psychotic enough to willingly throw away their entire life based on a single ineffective and uncoordinated mass mob capital occupation on a single day, or they were small business owners who were able to afford to fly across the country first class and take several days off of work, and probably most of them were both of those things. A lot of these guys are getting arrested immediately after being pardoned because the prison system sucks and does not set you up for success, obviously, even for those wealthy people. There's not an escape from the state, even for them, their lives will be irrevocably altered and made worse by their participation in a single ineffective day of high profile movement.

Obviously you could action a good amount of political change onto people by simply making them think they have nothing left to lose, as we see with that, but again, mass, uncoordinated movements are broadly ineffective. More organized and militant action is what you really only get when people start to collectively understand that the people around them, the things they actually do have left, are under immediate threat, and they need to do something to stop that. Maybe even more than that, you probably need a funding apparatus which is either gonna be foreign, or probably based on illegal domestic activities. So probably foreign.

I dunno at what point some of those criteria start to be filled. It's not looking great.

This is why people need to band together. Yeah, its a kind of socialism. Here we have protests in the capital city and organisations run subsidised transport so you can get there very cheap or even free if you can't afford anything. We're suffering too, support each other.

I mean I'm not American so I can't do much, but that aside you don't need to go to the capital. You can raise some hell right in your backyard by—among other things—refusing to work. Organize protests not against Trump, but against your senators, representatives and (if applicable) state officials for not resisting Trump's rampage more.

Finally I want to note that I'm not making a moral judgement here (it wouldn't make sense to do that from the sidelines, as you said) but rather a statement. I'm not sure most Americans fully understand the implications here, but unless Americans en masse choose to change course y'all are on a one-way trip to fascismland. What responsibility you want to assign to whom here is up to you.

we judge cause our countries have stood against worse and understand this is the duty of the democratic citizen: to protect democracy. You in your little baby aged country do not know how bad it gonna get if you don't. Losing out on a day of work on your shitty job is going to seem like paradise in a few years.