"Why don't Americans ________?"

For the same reason the Russians don't. Or people from any other country where a corrupt government routinely murders citizens.

April 07, 2026 - 19:48 UTC

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It’s totally my thought when people call for a general strike. Most states have no worker protections. Those at the lower rungs are already a hair away from destitution, with no real safety net to help. A general strike for them could (and for many would) get them fired.
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“They couldn’t fire all of us!”

Honey, we can’t even get everyone to vote
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Just a reminder to white non-Americans who whine that Americans are just lazy and selfish

You are free to go to your nearest American military base and practice what you preach

Go on and show us how it's done
If it's so easy...
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Oh you mean like the many corrupt governments that routinely murder citizens where said citizens literally picked up firearms to fight back? Or do you assume that suffering and corruption only exists in the US and Russia?
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Cowardice among the asses, I mean masses. South Korea's coup ended in 6 hours. Nepal stepped up immediately. America? "THEY'LL ENACT MARTIAL LAW! BOW DOWN! BOW DOWN, QUICKLY! DON'T RUIN MY COMFORT AND PEACE FOR YOUR FREEDOM!"

Land of the free and the home of the brave my ass.
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"Destroy your safe and happy lives / before it is too late"
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So what are you doing besides talking shit online? Exactly shut the fuck up and sit down unless you’re going out and throwing hands.
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I accept vitriol from Palestinians and Iranians on the receiving end of the depravity of the US military. Now when it comes to a European country that leases land to the US military in their own country who aren't even willing to evict them? Who are in coalition with our far right billionaires?
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Right! Especially bc it's often a reaction to us asking them to do more to pressure their governments to divest and sanction us

Like sometimes it just feels like they see us as acceptable sacrifices so their privilege doesn't get challenged
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I think people not routinely subject to it forget the degree to which American domestic exploitation is based on constant unrelenting artificial precarity and/or deprivation, as well.
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“Artificial precarity.”

A useful concept. It’s true that whenever Trump is in power, we feel afraid for our security: He is so clearly indifferent to the people, and even malicious. He threatens us and we know definitely that he’d rake off any funds he could get hold of, health, food, rent.
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The government has a strict, unmoving cap on the number of doses of ADHD medications that can be distributed, and it's lower than the amount needed to provide the prescribed course of treatment to those diagnosed with severe enough cases to necessitate daily doses for normal functioning.
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You want people to act?

Disrupt their daily lives.
Take away their comforts they normally fall back into no matter what bad shit happens.

The high gas prices right now is the catalyst but more is needed to disrupt that.

Immigrants and trans people are just there for laying down the ground work
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Shit, we all watched what happened when people tried protesting under a guy that wasn’t frothing at the mouth to kill folks.
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We had multiple whistle-blowers against Boeing mysteriously die and nothing ever came of it.
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A lot of Americans also aren’t paying attention. We’re very isolated as individuals and if we’re not in the habit of checking the news (which is often unpleasant and there’s little we can do about it), a story can just not get to us. The misery of our daily lives is banal, “just how life is”.
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If you’re not murdered, you’re thrown in a corporatized prison system and have your life ruined.

Anyone who protests or does anything else to fight back is a brave motherfucking hero.
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Hi. A bunch of old women did get dictators to die in common jails.
It HAS BEEN DONE
IT MIGHT BE DONE AGAIN
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We are not French. They shoot us here. They bomb our neighborhoods. They starve our children. They sterilize people. Wrongfully imprison them. Do you not understand that everything done overseas was done first at home as a practice run?
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Maybe you should follow French news more. They shoot AND they throw grenades at us.
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I know people joke that Americans are soft, but I don't know anything harder than fighting a global internationally funded slavery ring. With nothing but your own wits. And winning.
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I'm very... very sorry to read this. Seems like you don't understand that protest, here in Europe, are often as dangerous as they are there in the USA, sometimes even more.
I know personally people who got injured in protests.
And I know (not personally) people who lost limbs or even their life.
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Fun fact, there are plenty of countries that experienced the same kind of retaliation for protesting and they still revolted..... just saying...
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Currently reading Political Girl by Mariia Alekhina and it really is eerie how her accounts echo a lot of what we are seeing. I remember a friend’s mom remarking that the US and Russia are always at odds because they are so alike. She came here from Soviet controlled Poland.
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There's also a massive undercover police system devoted to infiltrating and destroying activist groups, to the extent of marrying activists under false pretenses and later disappearing until the prosecution on trumped-up drug charges comes down. Everyone in for drugs is a political prisoner.
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One Source:

www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/us/nixon-marijuana-tapes.html
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There's also the systematic destruction of communities in the freeway system and suburbanization, which has made organizing within communities much harder, because there aren't many left and forming new ones is a constant fight against the system.
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It doesnt even stop us from trying and continuing to get killed for it
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almost like its part of our governments job that they make sure americans don't do so and so
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That also comes with the severe consequences, though, that Russia is just “The Putin Country” now. Nobody there gave enough of a shit to get him out of power when it was easy to do, DEFINITELY nobody gives enough of a shit or has enough power/courage to take him out of power NOW,
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and so Russia is just Putin’s country now. And all its citizens MUST be assumed to uncritically support everything that Putin is doing right now, because of what a massive danger Putin’s Country presents to the world. The same thing is rapidly becoming true for the United States,
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I am now, for my own mental health, blocking people who yell at us for not doing more.

I am a barely functional human because I need healthcare that I cannot afford. This is America, and it's going to kill me. I wish people in countries with free healthcare understood.
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