cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164
In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…
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Quit your bitching and state how you’re helping. You keyboard warriors are fucking annoying, man.
US Americans, especially white US Americans, are incapable of doing anything because a violent revolution of their state is against their material interests and they know it. This is why settler US Americans are not part of the global proletariat. For the global proletariat violent revolution is a either a side step in material reality or a benefit but the settler US Americans, like Israelis, benefit materially from their state via subsidy and sharing in the global extraction from the empire.
You don’t even know if he’s American or not.
And even if he is, what difference does it make? You’re in a Lemmy comment section. People are going to write what they’re thinking. Even if they don’t, this sort of thing will still be in their heads. Which you can’t even blame anyone for considering how impotent the masses are in the US. Thoughts like these are perfectly understandable regardless of who it’s coming from.
I am American, I was making fun of the keyboard warrior I replied to, and Poe’s Law is way too fucking strong in this space. 🙄
Yes, my point was more that you being or not being American is irrelevant in this context, considering the USA’s status as the global hegemond (thereby causing everyone to have a stake in it regardless). My thoughts still stand.
No, they’re not “understandable”.
And I’ll keep telling them how much of a useless fuck they are when, they too, aren’t putting their fucking necks out on the line to stem this.
Do you care to explain exactly why it’s not understandable?
In any case, you’re getting angry at the wrong people. This is counter-productive.