• charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    I’m just one US citizen but I’d like to apologize to all Ukrainians on behalf of 50% or so of all people here. Our leadership is disgusting.

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      EU citizen and i’d like to say your apologies are empty and hollow to us. Do something. This isn’t a joke, this isn’t hyperbole or a leftist talking point, you’re under constitutional crisis. Do something.

      • nomy@lemmy.zip
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        6 hours ago

        This seems like a good place to post this:

        Our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.

        It’s worth remembering that one of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It’s really impossible to overstate just how fuckin’ bad these people are and they’re winning.

        I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

        The coup was successful, they’re in power and if they don’t want to give it up they won’t.

        Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Establish secondary lines of communication and start preparing.

        https://www.dsausa.org/

        https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/

        https://socialistra.org/

        https://generalstrikeus.com/

        https://afsc.org/news/how-create-mutual-aid-network

        https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids/

        https://mutualaidhub.org/

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        6 hours ago

        They weren’t talking to you champ. You wanna strap up and shoot your shot? I’ll buy your plane ticket.

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            6 hours ago

            Good luck, seriously.

            Those of us that can help, will; we’re mostly worried about trying to organize our local communities at this point but you’ll find plenty of friendly faces I’m sure.

          • nomy@lemmy.zip
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            6 hours ago

            What exactly are you proposing that you think has any chance of success?

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                5 hours ago

                Fair enough, we’re working on it.

                The actual left in the U.S. was gutted before most of us were born but we’re definitely trying. Not anyone in any position of power, they’re all just sitting on their hands; but lots of marginalized people are starting to talk and establish communications. Things are probably going to get bad over the next 5-10 years, preparing and planning is all we can do right now.