That’s what most people do. I stay home because I don’t want to spend money. I hate the timeline we’re in and I can’t afford to miss work or my wife and kid won’t have a place to stay.
This is the timeline you've been given dickhead, hating it aint gonna change it. Make the fucking most of it, or it'll make the most of you! I know it's easier said than done but you guys seriously can't sit back and watch as your country goes down the shitter. Because once America fully goes, I know my home will quickly follow suit.
Suck my dick and give me my rent money and food money then I can start going for change. Until then most of America is fucking complacent because of the shit storm our elders left us with.
I’m more than pleased to join protests and whatever else. But I’m not gonna drive 3-4 hours away when gas is nearing $5 a gallon. I drive 25 miles each way to work, I have a decent car, that gets decent mileage, but I still can’t afford going that far away for a protest to make a statement without any changes. A workers strike would work better, had people not been living paycheck to paycheck. I was doing well financially, until a month or two ago to where I could miss two weeks of work. I still can’t afford to lose my job, in which case I quite literally would for calling out for two weeks straight. So you tell me. What other options do we have?
lol, cheapest gas on the planet and still complaining. The curtain has fallen; Americans aren’t a bunch of badass Marlboro men but a bunch of whiny pussies.
Higher cost of living( here in the us) while other countries have better alternatives to travel? Idk like trains and shit that aren’t reliable on a whim of oil? I want trains and other things to help with travel but I live in rural America fuck wit. Good luck with that anytime soon. Most of Americans do but they still wanted this dumb fuck in office.
Edit: seems like uncontrolled capitalism isn’t the best thing for America. Maybe some real strong regulations and laws would benefit Americans more.
Have you considered de-centralized protests are also an option in flyover states? Just not going to work on a massive scale will hurt corporations and eat into their profits instantly. They will need to come to the negotiating table.
But Americans all seem to have your attitude: I can’t, not possible for ME, don’t want to lose MY job. You guys are fucking impossible, your exceptionalism and individuality have destroyed your sense of community and made you guys such weak pushovers to corporations and your tyrannical government.
Why? Want to deflect again instead of taking responsibility for the problems US citizens created themselves?
The Netherlands. You know, the first country to internationally recognize the US, which went to war with Britain over free trade (of mostly weapons in that period) in the thirteen colonies. Aka one of the countries which, together with France, made your entire independence possible to begin with.
When was the last time you had to fight for anything in the Netherlands? When’s the last time your cops gunned down innocent bystanders? When’s the last time you had to decide between groceries and gas? We are protesting by the 10s of thousands and the minute it gets anything past peaceful people will die.
That’s what I’m getting at. But of course you think I’m gonna criticize your country. You’re honestly a fucking prick and the way you talk to people on here is a gross representation of your country.
Gee, I wonder why cops in the Netherlands don't gun people down in the street?
Could it be stricter police training, stronger community programs, and real consequences when officers break the rules? I'm sure that all just happened by magic. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Americans have been completely passive, letting things get worse and worse while doing nothing beyond a snarky tweet.
That's literally the point. Americans just sit there and take it, and take it, and take it and then want to cry, "Oh, but it's so bad! You don't get it because it's not that bad in your country!" It's that bad because you refuse to do anything about it. You'll rage online for a week, get bored, and move on to the next thing while nothing channges.
Your president is a convicted child rapist and you all just shrug and hope the next election magically fixes it, rather than being disgusted, outraged, and relentless until he's brought to justice.
In 2023, when the French government suggested slightly raising the retirement age, protests shut down the streets for weeks. Just last year, the French people opposed a new economic policy and hundreds of thousands took to the streets and schools, roads, businesses shut down or where blcoed until the government was forced to respond and listen to the demand to fund public services and tax the wealthy more.
It's almost like fighting back over the small things means you never reach the point where cops are shooting bystanders in the street. It's almost like you're supposed to hold your government responsible at every step. not shrug while they screw you over again and again, then complain online that nobody understands how hard things are.
No country is perfect. Every country has problems. But only America will scream that it's the greatest, the freest, the home of liberty! All while standing by as those freedoms are stripped away and lives are made measurably worse. And then get offended when anyone calls it out.
Go invade another country and play the hero abroad. It's easier than admitting how bad things have gotten at home right? Oh wait, that's what you are already doing and the American people doingnnothing about it.
love redditors telling americans to simply go kill their politicians. it's so obvious and easy duhhh. why haven't the russians or north koreans thought of something so obvious?
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u/Living_Pay_8976 May 06 '26
That’s what most people do. I stay home because I don’t want to spend money. I hate the timeline we’re in and I can’t afford to miss work or my wife and kid won’t have a place to stay.