That's another country's problem
That's another country's problem
It had to happen someday. I hope we can weather this and come back stronger in a few years.
EdIt: fixed a typo in the title
Americans in the first panel pretending like it wasn’t the CIA installing their preferred dictator.
Fun fact, the US has been involved to some degree in at least 80 foreign coups or election manipulations just from 1946-2000. With all the ones before and after that time frame, its probably more like 150+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
Either that or they're really pumped about going in there with guns blazing.
Shameless plug for the Blowback podcast. I'm not affiliated at all. Its just an amazing podcast that covers a different war/coup each season.
Hello? Internet Police? I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.
I became an accelerationist after the last election. The man literally said he was going to do this before the election. This has to stop and Americans need to hurt until they learn. I am also an American so I will also hurt, maybe die, but we need to do better as a country.
I completely get where you are coming from.
The Republicans have been pushing all this shit since before I was born and the Democrat's answer has been small business loans to compete against the corporate consolidation they take no steps to slow and other neoliberal bullshit. The Democrats complete capitulation to the right wing surge, and complete fumbling of creating economic policies that doesn't breed disillusioned youth ripe to be picked by fascists, has left a festering wasteland. I don't think more hurting will somehow make anything better or convince people that the grifters selling them snake oil are wrong. I'm worried that the muscles of empathy and compassion are too weak to pull anything good from the ashes.
I don't know how to convince more people to care about their neighbors, but I do know that is the only way to make anything worth having. Even if they are an asshole. The system doesn't need any help destroying itself. Capitalism and fascism are death cults. What we need is more people showing good examples of horizontal mutual aid. Helping someone who needs help can teach a better lesson than hurting them. Even if they are an asshole.
I became an accelerationist after the last election. The man literally said he was going to do this before the election. This has to stop and Americans need to hurt until they learn. I am also an American so I will also hurt, maybe die, but we need to do better as a country.
I sure am glad that you consider vulnerable populations to be acceptable sacrifices to "do better as a country", even without data suggesting effectiveness. /s
World web police
Arrest this man
He talks in memes
He's making me feel sad
He's like a freaking oracle
Well just think of it this way. The last time the GOP fucked up this badly, they lost the majority for nearly 60 years. I mean the United States suffered for nearly ten years and we literally had to have a World War to pulls us out, but the GOP was a marginal cockroach for over half a century.
Clearly they're just missing their old stomping grounds.
They're at like 40% approval rating or so. I genuinely don't think the morons that have now flopped on Trump are going to stay that way. They'll get the majority in the next election and their voter base will blame all the ills on the Dems.
Most of the really negative effects haven't hit yet. The stock market crashed in anticipation of what's to come.
Only problem…and I’m asking this genuinely because I’m not attuned to historical politics. What was the approval rating of Democrats back then? Right now it’s abysmal because, aside from some few brave voices, the best they can offer is silence in place of oppression. They’re even confirming some of Trump’s conspiracy-peddling cabinet picks.
Americans when they are the ones impossing a dictator in other countries :D
Am I taking crazy pills or does the first panel does not reflect reality whatsoever? In my experience, Americans (the citizenry) regularly, openly, and loudly criticize and/or mock dictators and oppressive regimes, the federal government historically does not allow for normal business or trade to occur with them, and in several cases in recent history (for better or worse) the military physically intervenes.
I think a small percentage of Americans notice dictatorships but most have historically ignored world events. Usually, other country's problems are more than most Americans can think about.
My point here, was now we have those problems ourselves and a lot of people are freaking out 'cause this is the worst we've had to deal with in a long time.
Yeah world events in American media aside from massive shifts don't get talked about here. Instead it's constant divisive bullshit.
I really like the yt channel Warfronts, been watching for a few months and it's amazing how much world news I was missing before just in war related situations.
A state being a dictatorship has absolutely zero bearing on the US's relationship with the state only its rhetoric about it.
"it's only a problem is it affects me personally."
A girl is missing on the left. Americans when put Dictators to other countries. (Girl laughs with a big smile)
Do the American really just whine about it and not doing anything about it?
We have a large population that totally checks out of politics. There lives are rarely effected all that much by it... Until now. People are starting to wake up, the tides are beginning to change. It's happening a lot slower then it should have, and it's scary how far this regime is getting before we get our shit together, but it is slowly happening.
😄good to hear!
Wish you all luck over there, let’s hope this results in something that kills bi-party-system and rather than getting a one party system, it gets a 20 party system.
Can recommend swiss voting system, I really like that system (of course, it has many flaws as well, but I have not seen a better system yet)
I am allergic to getting shot.
It's been three months. Things move fast on the internet but it's important to keep some perspective.
Are there countries that aren't like this?
Spain is a monarchy but has a socialist prime minister since 2018. They're very open to immigration and it seems to be going very well.
I'm on level 8 at Spanish in Duolingo. I can order tacos, a glas of water and coffee, tell my name and where I'm from and ask where the library is and if there is a bomba placed in it. I wouldn't understand the directions given to the library though.
Edit: Linked to the original source
Modern European limited monarchies aren't similar to old European monarchies. Queen Elizabeth wasn't like Henry VIII.
Switzerland and Nordics have been democratically stable for the longest time. Though, it does not mean that they won't ever experience fascism at any point in the future. Americans didn't think it will happen to them after all.
ALL HAIL GENERAL KRULL sincerely little girl