• nmhforlife@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    As an American who didn’t vote for him, I understand your anger. I feel it too but there are still genuinely good caring people here who do not agree with this monster. Please don’t hold it against all of us.

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      2 months ago

      In any war there are soldiers who don’t wanna be there. Good, honest people, forced to march on because their masters will it.

      If they come for my country I will have to shoot them nonetheless.

      Take this motherfucker down by any political means necessary and if you can’t, then form your “well regulated militia” that your all too precious 2nd amendment affords you and take back your own country instead of others

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        2 months ago

        As an American, l say that any soldiers that willingly take part in this invasion, even in a support role, are NOT “good honest people”. They are traitors following illegal orders. I fully support you defending your country with lethal force if it comes to that.

        I wish that I had more power to stop this, but I don’t. Do what you have to do, and don’t feel guilty about it. Give us the hell we deserve.

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          2 months ago

          Isn’t every invasion like that?

          Propaganda machine tells you the enemy is the worst ever, so children pick up the guns and march into death.

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      2 months ago

      Your government is threatening to invade its allies! Our countrymen died fighting side by side with your military in your misguided wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

      We don’t have the patience and time to distinguish between good and evil Americans anymore. As long as your country keeps acting like this you’re all guilty!

      Please read up about collective German guilt a term coined by the US when your country was still on the right side of history.

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        2 months ago

        Americans spout all about needing their guns to stop a tyrannical government and then a tyrannical governmnet comes along and they don’t take their guns into the streets to stop it.

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          2 months ago

          The venn diagram of Americans who think they need guns to stop a tyrannical government and Americans who support Trump is a circle.

          (All kidding aside, while this is still painfully close to true, there are signs it’s changing, such as the recent resurgence of the Black Panthers. However by and large the people who are horrified over the pain and suffering inflicted by the Trump administration are also anti-gun on account of all the pain and suffering they cause. The peaceful, anti-violence, anti-war types are not exactly well equipped–literally or figuratively–to stage an uprising against the government, certainly not one with a military budget the size of Mt Everest)

        • Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.worldBanned
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          2 months ago

          Because the people afraid of a tyrannical government started supporting the tyrannical. Not to say I hate or am against guns but to think a yokel was going to make a difference in a country this big is absurd. The police are a military force themselves.

          I often wonder if the Oklahoma City bombing would happen today by Tim Mcveigh. I mean this is literally the government they feared it’s just that they are targeting the people they hate so they don’t care. If it was the other way around it def would. And Oklahoma has embraced his ideas hell they might have shut down the FBI office in the last few years.

          What am I or we supposed to do? The majority of us are broke. I don’t have money to travel to a blue state right now to help resist.

          I have a family I very much love and a daughter I want to watch grow up. I know others are losing their ability to be with their families but I’m not putting that at risk unless I absolutely have to and if it was going to make a difference

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        2 months ago

        Our countrymen died fighting side by side with your military in your misguided wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

        I really wish NATO nations would have criticized those wars, instead of knowingly sending their troops to die in wars based on lies.

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      2 months ago

      The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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      I understand that there are a lot of Americans who did not vote for him or support his actions. But he’s your monster. You need to deal with him.

      If you do nothing and stand back while he invades other countries and force them to fight the battles you won’t, then you are neither a good nor caring person.

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      You are forcing us to fight your fight. I am not going to waste time trying to determine who is who.

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      2 months ago

      Ah yes, the tired old “not all men” argument. Nobody cares. If you’re not actively part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.