• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Are you kidding … my best hope is the American people because they are the ones who can change this at any time … but none of them so so it means that there is no hope … in 2026, 2028 or any other year, until the American mentality changes.

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      16 hours ago

      I meant 28 is the earliest point most likely anything would even happen. I’m not saying everything rides on the next election.

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        And he’s saying the earliest point is when Americans get their shit together. And I agree.

        It could happen as early as in a month or as late as never.

        You have literal fascists in your government committing war crimes and no one does anything about that.

        What will change in 28? Are people suddenly gonna start caring and grow some balls to resist fascists? I don’t think so. Your government will become so fascist and people so oppressed you won’t have any elections or any chance to resist.

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          I know it may be difficult for some to believe, especially from the outside looking in, but the sea change in the US is in progress.

          With the ongoing suppression of our media and the limited means of the average household to reach an audience beyond their local government, it may be hard to see the trees for the forest in a nation that’s so spread out, but we currently have at least one national general strike scheduled, and with every public protest the resistance seems to grow exponentially.

          Progressive campaigns like Mamdani’s are spreading and succeeding in many districts once considered solidly MAGA territory. It may take many more months for all of these efforts to reach the national scale and even longer to make it into the international headlines, but it appears Americans haven’t yet given up or fully taken to glassy-eyed complacency.

          Whether it’s enough has yet to be seen. I would just offer that perhaps they’re not yet done fighting for their democracy.

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          Bb bb but the new nikes just dropped, and a Star Wars is coming out.

          …A culture of privilege and arrogance that blames the people they funded for things to be this way so they could lead gluttonous lives on top of the worth of other human beings.

          And don’t get me wrong, I’m American… I haven’t done anything either but I’ve gone through the surrealism and denialism enough to understand it’s the cold truth.