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Ah, and ladies & gentlemen — there it is. The convenient cop-out. Good friend, for your country pegged to the USD, you are but a mere plane-ticket away! (cue next excuse)
But hey, keep throwing peanuts from the peanut gallery and pretend you know better; though best not to say "we" if you're not going to be in the fight, yeah buddy? ;)
Go to sleep, wedge-driving tankies.
Other countries are gonna be trying their best to defend against a fascist US, and in the end, you are going to suffer as well. Due to your own government. You will not be absolved for not doing the hard thing, your very own government will make sure of that, if things are allowed to progress. And I want to press on that point: You will not be safe. And it will get worse. And it won't be because of any other country.
Of course the rest of the world will be pissed at you too. Your country will be the aggressor against them. And they will not come to your rescue. Why would they, after all? They won't be the aggressor. They will be defending themselves against you.
If you do not take action when the time comes, you will be left behind. Not intentionally, not by other countries at least.
You will be the average German in Nazi Germany. And how exactly, did other countries and history look on the average German in the end? And how did it go, for the average German? How many of them do you think thought "if only I had done something sooner"?
I don't expect USA to stop the path it's heading. I am preparing for the inevitable. I do not mind you blaming others. That is what I expect. You are going to face the consequences of your actions, and so am I also going to face the consequences of your actions. I will just be trying my best to survive a potential WW3, or, ideally, the consequences of a US civil war, and a Europe that stands alone.
You are telling me nothing I don't already know; just with strong confidence from a position of not having to do anything yourself. Nobody likes Chamberlain armchair generals.
Do you have kids? What, specifically, would you do in my position? Please be very specific.
You think I would not join a resistance if it was my country? I very much would. I would rather die in freedom than grow old unfree and under fascism. Though, chances are I would end my own life before growinf old due to that life and oppression itself being unbearable.
I do not see what I would fear in resistance, because the fear of what would happen were I not to resist would simply be greater. A life under fascism is simply not worth living. A life where I am not free to being myself is no life I would ever be satisfied by.
If you have kids, then this should especially apply to you, because you have kids to worry about. Kids to fight for. Kids that will live in this future you are heading towards. And, if it all so happens that you all survive, what will you answer when they ask you about today? Will you say that you fought for freedom? Joined a resistance and tried to prevent a worse future? Or if you won't survive, remember by?
But what do I know. I've only known oppression my whole life, being a minority of multiple kinds. I clearly do not know what is implied by losing freedoms, and what oppression can feel like. My country might have been peaceful so far, but I know for a fact I would rather face death than lose the potential freedoms I have. That I would subvert the law and state, risk facing its ire. Because the alternative is far worse and much more psychologically insidious. And would likely end in death and suffering, anyway.
Look. I'm just trying to get you to think about this in a serious and life-threatening manner. Because it is. What you deem is the best course of action is up to you. But do not forget that the thing that seems to have the least cost today, might not have the least cost tomorrow. You very well might just be taking out a loan with a drastically high interest rate.
You're saying I should book a flight to start a revolution in your country on your behalf because my country that's been ravaged by American imperialism pegged its currency to the petrodollar?
Okay, deal, I'll join. I'll be your Che, but you have to be Fidel first.
I know it's hard for you Americans to think of the rest of the world as even human, but we're affected by your empire and we are in this shit together. But you're on the front lines, and you need to fight instead of hiding behind complicit neo-liberals who use you as rhetoric to serve the same fascist capitalist class. We are fucked because of your inaction and apathy.
Read some non colonial history books.
By all means, please proceed with throwing peanuts from the peanut gallery from far away, and I'll continue calling out one's Chamberlain-like excuses.
Silly wedge-driving tankies.
To those viewing be aware of users like this who have an expressed intent to fan stochastic flames and also wedge-drive. Obvious Russian tactics (and no, need not originate from there but certainly possible).
Holy shit straight to calling me Russian, hope original.
I'm an American citizen, for what it's worth. A Palestinian American, and I don't view it as my duty to fight to save your empire when you think genociding my people is the "lesser evil". When you wake up and fight for humanity, I'll join you. Until then, first they came for the communists and all that...