one has to love the learned helplessness of "the US citizenry cannot possibly be expected to act against the government, for we are in the one place on earth where cops shoot people. that is an UNREASONABLE demand. anyway please overcome the US military from a foreign nation"

April 07, 2026 - 20:59 UTC

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There are literally Americans doing the thing, I hate these people.
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So many USAmericans are still so insulated in the imperial core, trained by decades of extractive global capitalism centered around our lives and comfort, that we believe that we are not the ones who bend the moral arc of the universe towards justice. It's embarrassing and may just kill us all.
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The US citizenry are the ones who have always insisted they need a small arsenal with which to fight a tyrannical government. Now they have a tyrannical government and, what do you know? The gun enthusiasts either aren't doing anything or are on the side of the tyrants.
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they can only fight the tyranny of schoolchildren living
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That’s a total misreading of what she’s saying, but ok. Cool.
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That’s is not what Parker’s post was about.
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I’m not sure what she actually wants. I asked her what non Americans could do to remove Trump and she said “we’re all stuck with him un 2029”
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Historically the consequence to americans resisting their government is individual deaths. The consequence to any other country resisting americans is genocide. Every death the american government causes against their citizenry put together is less than any one of their hundreds of wars
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The united states has such disregard for other nations the last time they actually declared war was world war 2.
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I love how the rest of the world has to unite against the US, but the US people don't have to do anything.
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Iirc she goes on to say we should be running into overseas US military bases. Unfortunately protesting in the US is much more dangerous than suicide by foreign military.
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Man what the fuck is going on with Parker’s takes lately?
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i unfollowed her a while ago for posting takes about the benefits of AI all the time so i'm less surprised
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u.s. citizen
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Honestly yes, they should get right on that. I’m not the most active activist anymore but if the government in Sweden or Germany threatened to END A CIVILISATION I would dust off that balaklava and get crackin

(& I’ve been in protest against the US in Sweden where the cops did, in fact, shoot ppl)
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It's not even that. Whenever I bring up
Maybe the war maniac needs to die.
People go, "Isn't that a little extreme?"

HE KILLED CHILDREN!!!!!???
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Like anywhere, people in the US actually have an incredible amount of power to Do Something About It, but they don't have the power to do it safely. It's not an unreasonable choice to make, choosing to stay safe. I do it all the time, so do most people. But it's not exactly good.
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Plenty of Germans stayed safe in the 1930s by moving to Switzerland, anyone who stays in the US is complicit from now until it's over.

And don't tell me it's expensive and difficult to move, it was also those things in the 30s so they can suck it up.
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And if people on the other side of our bombs (Britain is fully complicit in this too) hold that against us (which they actually don't a lot of the time, which is truly amazing), it's not like they'd be wrong. And a lot of people struggle to swallow that.
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Unlike foreign governments, the US citizen does not have strong economic alliances and billions of dollars of trade and US Treasury bonds they can use as leverage in order to stop him.

You’re just excusing your own appeasement if you’re yelling at German citizens to stop Hitler and no one else.
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so this is going to shock you but foreign citizens actually ALSO do not have access to billions of dollars, because they are equally as powerful as a US citizen, minus maybe a gun on average. what universe do you live in where foreigners have more leverage on the US gvmt than a us citizen
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That thread is asking that foreign governments withdraw from the US and take diplomatic and economic action and a while bunch of people are choosing to pretend otherwise
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crackers lie with utmost ease
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But im just a smol bean... 🥺
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i hate americans so passionately holy shit
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its actually a much more reasonable demand that you put yourself in the line of fire to stop your government from shooting foreigners than to ask foreigners to put their lives on the line to stop your government from shooting you
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I always find it wierd that americans get so upset when people hate their country and like...... the US is litteraly the international boogeyman
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It's a reasonable argument that protests are less effective here because of distance and lower population densities.

But the protests still need to happen. And at a smaller scale, a dedicated group of a couple hundred people could make their senator's live's hell.
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Maybe I'm a bit thick but I've been following US politics from the time I took my Pol Sci Degree in the 90s and the whole point of everyone being able to buy multiple "not" machine guns that look and act like them was something about fighting tyrany or whatnot.

Come on, get on with it. /s
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Yeah it’s wild to me that in a country with so. many. guns. these people are still alive somehow??
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I'm pretty sure she means like sanctions and stuff, not a military invasion
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So it's OK for "them" to die, but not you. Right, got it.
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I actually entirely agree that a lot of other countries (most certainly including Germany) ought to do more (or really just start doing anything at all); but then following that up with the idea that people in the US don't have to do more? Seriously?
At the very least Democrats could start acting.
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"I literally have no money, no healthcare, no safety net" okay so what are you afraid of losing? you have like 3 hours to stop your government from dropping a nuclear bomb on a civilian population. but sure, let's talk about how bad the new Mario movie is
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How bad is it tho
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brb lemme just execute a TAS flowergirl-to-revolutionary dismantling of American nuclear potential, sub-3 and back in time to dunk on chris pratt
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I literally cannot afford a plane ticket to deal with the American president myself, like at least they are on the correct fuckin continent
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The "Americans are uwu smol beans" bit is irritating and being smugly like "lol got me" all day sucks, but to be fair, she does say later in the thread that she means other nations should bar the US from their military bases, put on sanctions, kick out diplomats, not literally go to war with the US
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this will certainly not result in retaliation from non-vindictive president Donalt John Trump

also im a strong proponent for a pivot away from america but holy shit is this all less our responsibility than that of US citizens. asking us to stop this so you can stay home is crude to say the least
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The US will still wreck your shit for trying to bar them from your military bases — look up ‘1975 Australian constitutional crisis’
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Oops I dropped this 🧵
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Our large landmass was considered a good thing when it came to designing our government. It made it so we could protest, but not like too often to be annoying or something, nor too close to the capital to mean anything to those in charge.
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ah yes god forbid anyone ask an american to do something difficult. it SHOULD be up to the rest of the world, who can of course easily control the US, and who, when they die to a coup or economic retaliation, dont count as "martyred", because their lives simply dont mattter as much as an americans
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