• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 day ago

    Feel exactly the same as an american. No one here wanted to get involved. It defies party lines, literally no one wants it. We had the largest protest in our country’s history on Saturday and they will do nothing. It wastes billions of our tax dollars while our people can’t afford food. Its a couple of dozen people at the absolute top who are pulling the levers here, while ignoring what the people want.

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      6 hours ago

      You can’t be the victim and perpetrator at the same time.

      It didn’t defy party lines either, a quarter of American citizens are suicidally/homicidally religious and they support the war.

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        23 hours ago

        Exactly the problem unfortunately. It’s extremely demoralizing. I’m still proud, like I said the largest protest in our history, I’ve never seen more Americans this motivated before, but I hope the organizers plan to do something. They don’t care about protests. They just let them go knowing everyone will go back to work the next morning. However, if they go too far the propaganda machine will simply pick up and say whatever it needs to and people eat it up happily. My uncle steadfastly believes that the majority of protesters are in fact “paid actors”. Millions of paid actors. Billions of dollars spent on it obviously.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, all these Americans were just minding their own business, basing their whole economy on pillaging oil from any part of the world they can, doing nothing wrong of course though.

        So innocent, just driving around in their pickup trucks blasting propaganda from their radios, then rushing home to watch more on their television.

        Can’t we just leave the Americans alone so they can pretend they aren’t the shittiest group of people on earth?

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      22 hours ago

      It doesn’t defy party lines any more. MAGA just took a few weeks to receive their newest orders from daddy.

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        21 hours ago

        That makes sense, they seemed mad for about a day about the gas prices and now I guess they just grabbed a bottle of lube instead of demanding it stop.

        Meanwhile I actually know personally TWO people who went out and bought EVs! In car centric transit deserts where they have to drive. Both had some form of “I’ve been debating a new car for a while and this made my decision not to use gas”. So a very thin silver lining that people are at least thinking about it.

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          The Iran war is all a big ruse from Big Musky to sell more Teslas? I’m joking of course, but there is some Technate of America ties there. More so with Venezuela, Cuba, Columbia, Ecuador, and Greenland. But that’s way too deep of a rabbit hole…

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      1 day ago

      So if you don’t want it, why aren’t you stopping it or trying to overthrow the government? Your biggest protest was 2% or so of the population.

      ~98% don’t give a shit, they might care about their petrol prices but that’s it. Dead Iranian children and US foreign policy isn’t a deal breaker for them.

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        11 hours ago

        fuck off. fuck all the way off until you’ve walked a mile in our shoes. im not taking this european judgement anymore. come over here and show us how we should be doing it, big boy.

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            france is a fraction of the size and population of america. if we were that small and homogeneous, we would probably be able to be more effective too. the best equivalent would be expecting the entire EU to organize and protest as one large country.

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          11 hours ago

          No, it’s your fucking responsibility to fix your nation and you pathetic fucks only give a shit about voting every few years despite the fact that its never once fixed you being the most reprehensible evil nation on the planet.

          Go fucking vote harder, maybe you can get another dronebama to bring about fake change as he bombs middle eastern kids.

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              11 hours ago

              Youve done jack shit to date, so dont know what you expect to happen. Have some fucking accountability.

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                    11 hours ago

                    i totally undrestand you’re angry but you’re taking it out on the wrong people, citizens dont have any control over our goverment. im angry too and as a queer person im also in danger from my government. you arent as cool as you think you are, youre punching down.