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This is exactly what I'm saying. The US is no different now, it's just not hiding it. Some Americans hate Trump because he takes away their "good guys", righteous, "for all mankind" feeling. The US has always been an occupier, oppressor, exploiter. "Thanks" to Trump, that's no longer hidden.
The real Americans have been against all these atrocities all along. We've been quite vocal, just not getting much coverage cause we, ya know, don't appeal to our corporate overlords
Common problem across the globe, really
Any suggestions on how to fix it? Kinda annoying that friends and neighbors see us as being like the weird racist uncles that think Jews are trying to replace us with Mexicans or some shit.
We just want to not massacre civilians and not torch the constitution
War crime laws exist for reasons and we'd like to conform to them.
Everyone who’s been doing the no kings protest, do a full on 1 week stay at home/do not buy anything from any corpo. Don't work, don't buy. Have fun protesting this week and stock up for the week beforehand. Try and get everyone behind it. Normally we say the protests work best but truthfully just not being present will hurt the capitalism even harder. (Capitalism needs consumerism to survive, you guys really only have control over one of the two, so remove yourself from the equation and the capitalistic government will abide) it happened during Covid, can happen again and again
There are a lot of people who live their lives in this type of protest, insofar as is possible. The more the merrier. We have to build the systems and future we want, nobody else will.
I know that not all Americans are the same. I know about the mass protests during the Vietnam War. One of the greatest American songs, “Born in the U.S.A.”, is anti-war, anti-American foreign policy.
But nothing has really changed. It doesn’t really matter who is president. Obama bombed as he pleased, Clinton bombed as he pleased, Nixon bombed as he pleased, JFK bombed as he pleased, Trump bombed as he pleased. For over 60 years, the United States has been the same, nothing has really changed. It’s not “in the name of humanity” or “in the name of American citizens.” It’s all “in the name of capital.”
The United States is run by capital, and capital has no remorse, no ethics, no respect for human life or the environment.
How can you fix that? I’m not that smart.