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.

Much like your stupidity

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.

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?

I never said impossible. I was also involved in a lot of community action during Trump’s first admin.

See how far that got us?

That’s a strawman argument. The Arabs were united enough to succeed.

Jesus, this does not help the stereotype of the angry internet commenter upon whom nuance and understanding are lost.

That’s a nice assumption you’ve got there, but you know fuck all about what I’ve been doing for the last ten years.

Enjoy your distance from the problem and the arrogance of assuming you’d do better.

You need enough, and we don’t even have that.

Come live here for a while and then tell me how easy it is.

What did you think I meant by, “we are not a united people”?

You can’t organize peace with people who idealize a fascist society

That is not the choice we face. Disruptive protesting gets you killed in this country unless you’re “protesting” for fascism.

I do think other countries risk less when they protest, yes.

You first. It’s real fucking easy to tell others to just go die because you’re frustrated.

I can make this simple: would you be the first to step in front of the firing squad when you have no idea if others will join you in rushing it?

We are not a united people here.

I’ve often been surprised at how living in America is perceived by the world. I’ve met a lot of people from all over the world, and while some have actually spent enough time here to understand the good and the bad. The rest who have not seem to believe in the shiny veneer that we export in our movies and television.

We are absolute wage slaves here. We are one missed paycheck from homelessness. But sure, blame the slaves for not overthrowing their owners.

The key context to the USA’s relative passitivity with protesting is that we can easily lose our jobs for one of several reasons (none good) if we go protest AND that almost certainly will mean we will also lose our healthcare insurance.

The average person cannot weather an extra expense of only a few hundred dollars, has no savings, and borrowing money in that position usually leads to a debt trap where you’re continually punished for being in a temporary bad spot.

And that’s before we consider what cops and ICE are like here. They’ll just straight up murder us without consequences.

I get that the world is frustrated with us, but I also get that the world fails to grasp how much more desperate things have to get here in order to overcome the hurdles put in front of us.

Oh my favorite: inconsistent rules or inconsistent enforcement!

I’m 42, diagnosed recently with ASD, not yet tried for an ADHD diagnosis (but I suspect I am). I can really relate to what you’re going through.

Getting diagnosed has this extra hurdle of needing to be honest about your natural state but not honest about how you are presently. In my case, that meant answering the survey questions by evaluating how I was, thought and felt as a youth and not as the adult I am now with the years of life experience and the adaptations that came with that (which naturally exhaust the fuck out of me).

Just because you don’t cleanly fit the DSM V criteria (which is very outdated now), that doesn’t mean you don’t have ASD, ADHD or both.

Doctors were so unhelpful for me that you’d swear they serve Satan himself. I had to identify my own problems and seek the diagnosis on my own. I’m fortunate that my mother was able to also answer questions about my childhood behaviors because her observations lined up with my own.

I’m sorry you’re where you’re at right now, but try not to lose hope. Maybe consider the context of your honesty when answering those vague and ambiguous survey questions. AND don’t be afraid to unmask and stim during your in-person evaluation.

My phone app makes it incredibly easy to vote the wrong way, and I assume that I’m not alone in that. So for those errant downvotes on otherwise ok comments, I just assume it was an accident.

Plus, there are a lot of stupid, illiterate, angry people out there who feel nothing about doling out downvotes over nothing. I try to reserve my downvotes for good reasons.

The jumpers on the motherboard are installed backwards. Fix it!

Only when the horse meat is covered in ivermectin

Bruno is a good name for a handsome boy!