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Your country voted for this and keeps these people in office. This is YOU.
The US has so many fucking guns that your kids have active shooter drills in kindergarten. If you didn't want this you would stop it.
Our country gerrymanders districts, purges voters, and makes last minute changes to voting id requirements and then allows groups of people to question the validity of your ballot and have it thrown out so it doesn't count. Our elections have not been the voice of the people for a long time, but the will of a party willing to sacrifice democracy to stay in power.
Then do something about it
No country that isn’t fucking deranged holds random citizens accountable for the actions of a president they may not have even voted for, wtf are you even talking about.
How many iraqi and afghan civilians paid the price for how America felt about their leaders? How many Venezuelans?
You need to pull your head out of your ass and realize that it's MOSTLY innocent civilians that pay the price for this shit, your just used to being the ones doing it.
The USA is screwing the whole world extremely hard. Many countries that didn't have a say in the US elections are now being happily fucked by Mango Hitler.
Don't expect those countries to be happy with any american person they see. Is it unfair? Absolutely? But the only ones responsible for what's happening are the Usonians, either by having voted for him or by not stopping him.
Yeah I have no illusions about people being dicks to random Americans they encounter, that’s how people work. But that’s not what “you can expect to be personally held accountable for your actions the second you leave your borders.” means. That sounds like they’re expecting the fucking ICC to swoop in and arrest people for not burning shit down and trying to kill politicians, which is fucknut crazy.
No, I'm expecting Americans to get curb stomped when they walk into the wrong neighborhood.
My mother was adopted, and her non-biological grandmother was a holocaust survivor.
I was always confused by how much she hated all Germans and German immigrants, regardless of age, or if their family had immigrated before the war. Most of them surely didn't support the nazi party in any way, and the vast majority I knew of were born after 1950.
I understand the mindset a little better now, I think. Unfortunately in this instance, I'm the German that didn't support the nazi party and wanted to get out of Germany in the 30s. But I get why any Jewish person would hate me.
Do you understand that we are under a repressive regime?
We do understand that for generations you have justified your creepy little gun fixation by regaling us with what you would do to a repressive government.
The American people have unfortunately been stumped by the fact that using guns against the state has been made illegal and moreover is actually quite a dangerous and unpopular thing to do.
Somehow this little factoid didn't manage to pierce their unbelievably thick skulls when they were moaning about their "constitutional rights".
Are you just one of those asteoturfing bots, or do you really not understand how fucking stupid it is to hold random citizens thousands of miles away from where Trump is, who voted against him, as personally accountable for his actions?
The whole “go shoot him” fantasy is so far divorced from reality that I don’t even know how to address it.
Especially from month old accounts… not suspicious at all!
This is what bothers me the most about random folks, usually from an EU country, telling Americans we should just oust our shithead president through national strikes or violence and complain that we aren’t doing anything. The US is huge, what works in smaller European countries is vastly more difficult and expensive to organize and execute in the US. Those tactics do work here, but mostly at the local and state level which is akin to how they work in most EU countries when you adjust for population and size. At this level there is just not much an individual or small group can do. Even if my entire city and the surrounding area rose up together (which it wouldn’t since it’s politically mixed) it would have little to no impact. A million or two people just isn’t that much in a nation as large and diverse as the US. The entirety of California or Texas couldn’t appreciably move the needle in all reality and they are massive, wealthy states.
The same reason EU citizens haven’t been able to band together to fully and consistently leverage the combined power of their continent on the world stage is why Americans haven't been able to effectively organize and execute effective federal power changes.
I think it would be a fantastic idea for Europeans, and the rest of the world, to start actually considering what a violent, imperialist US means to their normal day-to-day and how they can best prepare to defend against it. I, and all those I choose to surround myself with, hate what our government is doing. We voted against it, give money and time to causes against it and to try to reduce harm where we can and help those impacted by it. Many of us would leave if we had the means to, but the reality is that leaving has its own risks, is surprisingly difficult and expensive, doesn’t guarantee where we end up will ultimately be better, and removes our ability to do anything here. Like most of life, reality is complex and messy, I just wish everyone could keep that in mind when condemning all Americans for the actions our government is taking.
In short, I am not my country, and while I fully accept that the world hates the US right now (and they should), personally hating every individual American and blaming us as specifically responsible is ignorant and inflammatory. It doesn’t help and just serves to depress and discourage action by those of us who do not support the actions of our government.
I said this on Reddit and will say here as well.
As an European, I have nothing against Americans as individuals that like us, are shocked and troubled to what is happening with your current Administration.
And generalising that all Americans should mobilise and fight against their government is not as straightforward as many people here think.
Like us, you guys have families, kids and pets that want to stay united and protect what is most important for you: your family.
But I do have issues with your government and those who support it.
I don’t trust your government, people that support it, your tech infrastructure or any company that aligns with this whole mess.
And that’s why I’m migrating everything to Europe. From cloud, to tech, to operating systems, to socials.
That’s why I just created my Lemmy account, and considering deleting Reddit.
I’m still stuck with Apple’s ecosystem, but will find a way to break free.
I’m a software developer and will start developing apps that will serve me and potentially others, but will be based in Europe and will not depend on others that in any moment can cut off the access just because…
That is quite literally not what I am saying, I’m saying that the real world is complex and not as easy as “Americans are fat and lazy and stupid and won’t do anything about their fascist imperialist federal regime that a sizable portion of the country apparently supported”.
What would you have the average American do that lives nowhere close to DC, needs a job to eat and have shelter, and likely lives somewhere where at least some portion of their neighbors support Trump and his cronies? Like if you have a real solution I’d love to hear it because just noting the a lot of Americans have guns isn’t helpful (which isn’t everyone for what it’s worth, not sure if you’ve been here but it’s not like folks walk around fully armed everywhere).
The US general strike movement estimates over 10.5 million people need to strike to have an effect, in a year they’ve gotten less than half a million to sign a strike card. Organizing over 10 million people is crazy difficult. We would need nearly the entire population of Sweden or Portugal, it’s more than the entire population of Greece or Austria. And that’s just 3.5% of the US population. My entire point is that it’s easy to sit behind a keyboard and blame Americans when you’re entire experience is a European country that needs to organize an opposition of maybe 2 million people, likely less than a million. The reality that Americans actually face is at least and order of magnitude more difficult. So blaming individuals as though all of us support what is happening and are to blame shows a lack of understanding. Many of us don’t like this any more than you do, and are doing what we can in our sphere of influence to change things, but it isn’t a simple situation to fix.