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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

So are you an American not doing anything, or a foreigner who has no idea what it's like to actually be in the situation?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I'm a foreigner with an opinion. I talk to American friends every few days. I have some idea of what you're up against and I recognize it's not easy to do anything to slow this down or stop it. Trump's threatening my country and so are our own right-wing politicians, and I'm aware we all face similar difficulties: it's not easy to know what to do, and not easy to organize it even when you have an idea. But I can see it will take something unusual in the USA, not just waiting for an election.

Saying you're sitting and watching was unfair of me. Just an expression of frustration watching what they're doing to your country and threatening to do to ours.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Take your frustration and multiply it many times, then many times more. That's what any reasonable person who lives in the U.S. is feeling right now. Something will give, sooner rather than later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

equally, please don’t imply that you understand global frustration at the US right now

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We are doing things. An important judge race in WI went our way. Couple of FL congress races were won by republicans by a lot less then expected. In MN we had 25000 people turn out. There are tons of cases working through the courts.

About all can be done at the moment is file law suits, try to shift public opinion enough so Republican congessman start getting nervous, win elections as come up.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

an opinion

Which involves critizing the US in every single comment and post you make.
This is what you do with your life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

a foreigner

Oof. Masks off all up in here, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Please elaborate? Is it some horrible thing to ask if someone is not from a specific place? Do tell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The problem is global. The US and the global elite are dragging the planet down with it. The most downtrodden victims of US domination are usually abroad anyway. So it feels pointless to worry about where people are because we all need to unite to fight Davos and its appointed imperator.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Noone is a foreigner on the world wide web. It is mainly Americans who expect everyone else on the internet to be Americans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

There's something called context, which affects the meaning of words. You should look it up.