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And just what, exactly, should we do about it? What are you doing? Organizing a firing squad for the firing squad? Or maybe you just want to sit here complaining that individuals aren’t doing enough to take down the government, based on a single comment, and call it a day.
I’ve answered this question enough times that I’ll play it out for you.
I answer you.
You give me excuses (usually “but that would require me to risk or sacrifice my comfort!”).
I call you a coward.
Someone shows up and deletes all my comments.
So I’ll just jump to calling you a coward and we’ll count down until my post gets deleted and you can make yourself feel better about doing fucking nothing.
Except you didn't answer a single one of their questions?
Like did you think nobody would notice?
Imagine thinking I owe Americans anything
Hey. Donald Trump wants you to hate Americans to ratchet up conflicts between the two countries, and it sounds like it’s working on you lmao. Do whatever you want with this information
Donald Trump is not even 10% of your country’s problem. Wake up. This shit didn’t start in 2016.
You'd think you'd want to give us this information since you're so adamant that we do something.
So now's your time. What should we do? What would you do?
You’re not asking what to do. You’re saying: “Please acknowledge that none of the things available to me are sufficiently easy, safe, convenient, individually decisive, personally gratifying, or guaranteed to work, so that I can go on pretending that doing nothing is a reasonable response.”