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    5 hours ago

    The problem in the US isn’t apathy. ICE doesn’t seem apathetic. The military doesn’t seem apathetic. Silicon Valley doesn’t seem apathetic. Wall Street doesn’t seem apathetic. The billionaire class is engaged and has financed an enormous army of brownshirts to flatten dissent.

    Yes, those are acting… the apathetic ones are the US Voters as OP pointed out

    Meanwhile, people are fighting and dying on the streets. Parades of people march in opposition. Blossoming networks of activists inform on and undermine the state. Lone wolves even take pot shots at the President.

    There have been 2 large marches… on weekends. For the first one, the rapist king literally send a video shitting on the protesters, that should have made it clear a weekend protest would mean nothing.

    Yes, some Minnesotans did rally harder, not on weekends, and weakened ICE stance… maybe the rest of the country should learn from them and not wait until it’s literally life or death as Minnesotans did

    Even if the people of the USA who claim to hate this regime bothered to do a free act en mass, like closing your Meta and Xitter accounts, it would be noticeable… alas, nothing of significance can be done and all we (the rest of the world) get from Americans is some victim complex cry

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      the apathetic ones are the US Voters

      We’ve repeatedly hit record high turnout during Presidential cycles, even in the face of widespread disenfranchisement.

      There have been 2 large marches… on weekends.

      Far more than two. They’re heavily underreported, but I see (and periodically participate in) marches and rallies at Houston City Hall twice a month, easy.

      Even if the people of the USA who claim to hate this regime bothered to do a free act en mass, like closing your Meta and Xitter accounts

      Slacktivism Will Save Us

      Dude, please touch some grass

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        We’ve repeatedly hit record high turnout during Presidential cycles, even in the face of widespread disenfranchisement.

        If you are referring to voter turn out, still the largest group belongs to those who could but did not vote

        Far more than two. They’re heavily underreported, but I see (and periodically participate in) marches and rallies at Houston City Hall twice a month, easy.

        Happy to fill my brain with this good news if you can provide any source

        Slacktivism Will Save Us

        Definitely would be more efficient than just slacking…

        Dude, please touch some grass

        As soon as your rapist dictator stops killing people around the world, I will take a day off… I know this is likely not something that causes you ANY concern but in this last year, literally tens of thousands of people have been slaughtered by your country’s actions with not even a flimsy justification for it

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          Happy to fill my brain with this good news if you can provide any source

          Makes a declaration with no substance, is refuted, asks for a source.

          What’s your .ml/hexbear account?

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            Buddy, you claimed, with no source, that there are protests twice a month. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt but would like some evidence of your claim

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              No, no — see you made the declaration that no protests are happening. Do you understand what the burden of proof means? You made the declaration, they refuted it using 0 sources because you didn’t provide any sources for your claims.

              Because you don’t have any.

              Edit: oh, I looked into the protests they mentioned — they’re absolutely happening, so not only do they not need to provide sources because you are arguing in bad faith, they don’t need to because what they’re saying is true.

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                … and again no evidence of these biweekly protests that are totally happening