Yeah obviously they haven't successfully overthrown Trump yet. What is delusional about me telling you the revolution will not be televised?

what the fuck are they putting in your drinking water

Funny, though, I'm just repeating back word-for-word what other countries tell us Americans.

Go fuck yourself. Sitting on the sidelines sneering at other is most certainly tedious and exhausting.

What would you do, tough guy? You wanna come and defeat all the baddies single-handedly?

Yes, but if you understood the office of President in France and the office Le Pen currently holds you'd realize how bizarre of a choice this comparison is.

Shame shame USA

Look. You use whatever excuses you need to cope with the situation. But at the end of the day, you better get used to living under a dictatorship because thats where you'll be.

Hey those aren't current pictures of the white house now are they?

One is from Washington DC, the other yes it is from White House.

On average, how long does it take a European to travel to their capital city, either driving or public transit? How long does it take an American to reach DC?

Are European capitals generally the center of population?

K.

But she holds national office. Why don't French people "do something" about it?

When are these images taken? Currently the White House and National Mall look like a trailer park aftter a tornado rampaged through it.

Mainstream media are doing exactly the same in France and they all belong to, oh wait, some right wing billionaire.

It’s almost like someone somewhere is showing the user manual to the others.

Edit: It’s even worse than that. They are saying all the bad guys are extreme leftist from LFI (the most successful left party), gouvernement is somewhat implying the same and some officials even said they should remove this party from power and the upcoming presidential election. They are trying to make the opposition illegal and pave the way for the Fascist. It’s a fucking shit show, of course we need to riot and burn the system, that’s the only thing they are afraid of.

More 'we cant do anything because xyz' arguments. There are protests outside of Paris. Here in Canada, an infintely sparser population, the railroads were shut down over the pipeline in 2020. We literally saw store shelves here on the east coast get emptier because the trains werent running.

Are Americans lacking any and all imagination that all they can think of doing is non-disruptive protests?

Dont get me wrong, Im sure there is creative action happening down there but my god all the comments are full of excuses.

The key word, here, is current. The east wing is conspicuously intact. The lawn is noticeably not recovering from the UFC stage.

Do u know what a parliament is

Man, how astute and useful. Do you think this won you the argument?

The fact is you all want to see one thing: for all those guns Americans own to be turned on each other. If you think that you’re advocating for anything else - or if you think there will be any other outcome - I don’t know what to tell you.

It’s real fucking easy to wag your finger and say, “Just do X!” as though we’d never thought of that!

Get a clue and understand that you don’t understand.

Much like your stupidity

So is generalization.

Seriously. The global ultra rich are all working from the same basic playbook. It’s just happening here first due to the extreme concentration of wealth.

Questions are excuses nowadays. Good to know. 👍🏻

So you could have stayed and fought... but you left and are now yelling from the sidelines.

I agree with a lot of your points, but it rings a bit disingenuous coming from someone who threw in the towel.

"Do what I tell you to do, or you're just making excuses! There couldn't possibly be other real factors that affect peoples' lives that I haven't considered!"

Social Media is especially insidious. They want to drive everyone online into a space they can control and monitor.

Define mutual aid. My local group has been recently focused on bolstering the local food bank, since we found out the state funding was getting stuck in the urban area and not making it to the (largely immigrant) communities of people who cant afford to live in the city.

The local food bank is entirely volunteer driven, they only have a facebook page, and no way to accept donations online. It directs people to mail a check, but most people just venmo the urban food bank and assume the money will come our way eventually.

Due to lack of funding, they don't even have refrigeration, and thus can't accept fresh produce donations from the local farms or community gardens.

Here in a few weeks, we're planning a big donation drive and awareness campaign about the lopsided funding structure, and county council has been invited to hear us talk about implementing a more decentralized food distribution system.

Opinions on the fediverse seem to think this is just more ineffective shitlib harm reduction nonsense, and we shouldn't be wasting our time on it. I want to know why they don't want us delivering food boxes to neighbors targeted by ICE.

Oh please. We know what the implication is. Dont play dumb. Dont be a coward and own your argument.

Is the image from OP generalizing entire countries?

Maybe both you and OP are bad actors who are looking to drive division and infighting amongst people over what is clearly a global problem.

Or maybe you’re just a smug asshole and part of the problem? But hey, why not knock down and demean others to make yourself feel big and righteous, behave no better than the emboldened fascist fucks.

Why are trailer parks always the example for when something looks like shit? Im genuinely asking. Trailer parks where I live arent bad at all. Im not saying they look like mansions but people generally take care of them and make an effort to keep their property looking nice.

Can I offer some advice? Take your foot off the cunt pedal.

You know Im right. Why are you being a coward about this?

Cool strawman. May I borrow it for halloween?

I moved back because my family is here. What the fuck are you on about? It had fuck all to do with Trump. I moved back during Biden. Are you seriously upset because I wanted to be with my family?

Stop being a cunt.

Hell you guys are actively trying to influence our politics

No, there is no “you guys”. There are very specific people behind this, many of which aren’t even in the government. Some of whom are Canadian.

we're so tired of the bullshit.

What do you think the people in the US are feeling? Such an obtuse fucking statement.

My fascist hell hole is better than your fascist hell hole. Hey, let's go bomb some more brown people together.

Ill bomb your hello hole. ;)

Violent fascist nations are violent, more at eleven!

Lol, I like you already.

So Im not supposed to be upset at what the US is doing to my country? To my family's fnancial stability? Piss off, bud.

I agree with your sentiment but knock it the fuck off. Those protesting in France and those protesting and fighting back how they can in the US are n the same team.

As are many people here and around the world. Let’s acknowledge and uplift each other when we’re all striving for the same goal. You can still call out people who are building themselves up by denigrating others but don’t do it by behaving the same way.

Well we had No Kings protests. Police have shot and killed our citizens in the process of that. In my area, during a protest, police grabbed, dragged, and shot a protestor point blank in the eye with a less than lethal gun (he's blind now)

This definitely is a shit post.

Cool armchair Mr. warrior, do you ever get out of it?

Maximum travel time to the Capitol for each country by the lesser of car or train:

Albania 4.5 – 5.5 hours (by car)

Serbia 4 – 4.5 hours (by car)

Spain ~3.5 – 4.5 hours (via AVE high-speed rail)

France ~4.5 – 6.5 hours (via TGV high-speed rail)

United States 43 – 46 hours (by car, excludes Alaska and Hawaii)

I'm not saying that your plan is bad or wrong but it's not necessarily mutual aid.

What you are describing is one way aid, unless I am jumping to conclusions about the people who are organizing it. The problem with one way aid or charity is that it doesn't build parallel systems to protect people when the state takes away things they depend on. This is why it's not an effective support for direct action. If the people supplying the aid get scared or they lose their privilege, the aid stops.

I'm going to use strike support as an example. Striking workers may get strike pay, but it's not enough to live off. They depend on the support of friends, family and other workers who are not on strike to meet their needs so that they can continue to strike until a fair(er?) deal is made. The idea is that when these people are back at work they can support another group who is striking.

In a more general example, I am a gardener. I can take my time to teach others how to garden. I can share my seeds and my produce. Maybe my neighbor can put aside his raked leaves for me to mulch my beds with? It might be easier to think of mutual aid as an informal economy where the goal is to distribute resources and knowledge for the purpose of making sure people are taken care of vs profiting. IRL my neighbor has offered his front lawn for more growing space, but I haven't been able to take him up on it because poor health has stopped me from using all the land I have already. He can't spare the time or labour to help rn but I know our produce delights him so I'm not going withholding it because I'm not getting anything in exchange.

Seettu is another example although it's not a static thing and different applications may be closer or further from mutual aid than others.

I hope this helps.

Good luck with your food drive.

Ad hominem. Very nice. Which is next on the menu?

As someone who isn't even rallying calls to action, but simply suggesting that people exercise the second amendment and get involved in their community, and having those ideas rejected?

Literal mad max scenario.

Lol because you resisted so hard in 2024. It's not easy to overthrow your government, but stop pretending the threshold for doing so wasn't crossed

The comparison is after a tornado has been through it. Trailer parks don't do well against tornadoes

Me? I never said anything about the second ammendment. I know you Americans are gun happy but thats not what I said.