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Libbo 1biden-alert :

I feel like this sort of post is more likely from Russian bots than actual humans…

Like it’s basically dehumanizing Americans that are showing some actual empathy.

canadian kkkanada : lmao its absolutely not, its telling you to call your fucking senators and congresspeople before he fucking cancels elections

I can assure you were are doing so in record numbers.

Only 1 in 5 Americans voted for him. I’ve seen estimates of over 10,000 protests in the past year.

This reply really proves my post. Expressing empathy ≠ doing nothing. The people upset about it here are quite often doing a lot more than posting online.

Libbo 2 jokermala

Oh well thanks, I will go change things now that you mention it. What a helpful suggestion we’d not yet thought of.

Libbo 3 obama-prism

“focus on actually changing something while you still can”

My Swedish homie there have been protests on basically every weekend since Donald Trump took office. The state of Minnesota has been protesting daily for the past 2 weeks.

Things change w/ elections, which is in Nov.

bro, just give me 11 months

  • Salah [ey/em]@hexbear.net
    48·
    17 days ago

    When I was a teenager I had to learn and deal with the fact that I grew up in an oppressive system and that as long as I wasn’t actively unlearning propaganda and resisting the oppressive factors I was contributing to it. It was a very painful realisation and I needed some time to learn how to deal with this reality. A lot of white liberals have not had this realisation and are very hostile to the idea that they might be associated to bad things.

    I think it has to do with the fact that white people in the imperial core grow up with a superiority complex, because they learn that they live in this nearly perfect system that was built by their ancestors (white people) in which everyone has a say and everyone is constantly working to fix issues that come to light. People from an ethnic minority learn from a young age that the system is rotten and don’t have this rigid self righteous worldview. I have no idea how to break this apart for people.

    • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      27·
      17 days ago

      Kinda blows my mind that liberals are simply lacking in guilt. Either they shy away from the overwhelming evidence of the brutality of the empire they support, or they simply ignore it.

      • Salah [ey/em]@hexbear.net
        23·
        17 days ago

        Idk about you but I was heavily indoctrinated by the idea that everything bad that my country did was either in the past or a mistake due to wrong assumptions or bad leadership. This whole system of imperialism is completely invisible to most people in the imperial core. Obviously a lot of people stay wilfully ignorant, but the propaganda and indoctrination make it very easy to do that. There is a liberal explanation for everything if you just refuse to look at the larger picture.