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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Cut the histrionics. Americans aren’t being massacred. They are only asked to go to some minor inconvenience to uphold their country’s democracy.

    The distance between Chicago and Las Vegas is greater than between Berlin and the Russian front line in Ukraine. Are Germans supposed to feel pity for you poor darlings?

    • stinky@redlemmy.com
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      4 hours ago

      What on Earth do you think is going to happen if we stand up to a militarized police force larger than the world has ever seen? You’re telling us to “stand up and fight” against a 30-trillion dollar army of bloodthirsty armed pseudo-soldiers.

      I don’t want or expect your pity. But I would like you to try for empathy, if you can muster it. Good luck.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      17 hours ago

      Only an idiot would stay and do that, if there are better opportunities out there. Furthermore intellectuals, scientists are the first to flee a fascist states, as they are the target of persecution first and foremost. Have you not been to history classes? Immigrants came here to flee from persecution form those countries, that you can get straight up murdered or jailed even before you pull a trigget