WizardOfFrobozz

Cool. Start acting like it

Wait… you think the SIZE of the protest matters one bit? When the thing you’re opposing gets WORSE following your protest?

Also, let’s call it what it was. It was a parade. And yes, it was very big and cute.

Unfortunately for white liberals in the US, protesting isn’t an end in itself unless you’re just using it as a way to telegraph that you’re “on the right side.”

Outcomes matter- and the only outcome of the once-every-four-months, “scheduled in advance,” “peaceful” No Kings parade was to communicate to MAGA that they are free to continue doing what they’re doing because their opposition is easily ignored and absolutely nothing to be afraid of.

Literally all it would take for me to give Americans even an ounce of respect would be for them to make even the most modest effort to live up to the national mythology they’ve spent the better part of a century congratulating themselves for and belligerently forcing down everyone else’s throats.

No, I don’t hold other countries to the same standard, because they haven’t spent generations lecturing the rest of the world about their unparalleled courage, their moral superiority, and their supposedly instinctive resistance to fascism. They made fighting for freedom the centerpiece of their national identity. They demanded admiration for it. They treated any failure to provide that admiration as an insult. And now, when history finally asks them to demonstrate a fraction of the courage they’ve spent eighty years taking credit for, the pants-pissing cowards decide they’re helpless little babies and HOW DARE YOU, FOREIGNER?

Yeah, guy, accusations of moral grandstanding don’t really land when the bar you’ve failed to clear is not sitting around emboldening Nazis.

Americans don’t care.

She said, blandly, before doing fuck all about it.

Later. Cowards get blocked.

Stop dressing your cowardice up as helplessness.

100%. They’ve been sleepwalking into this shit for 30-40 years, have spent the last two doing “shocked Pikachu” and REFUSING to fight back while the other side escalates into a full sprint.

At this point they deserve whatever MAGA gives them and I no longer give a shit- the best I can hope for is that their inaction comes back and bites them so hard the US becomes a cautionary tale for every other country where the far-right is gaining steam.

Congratulations, you support the death penalty.

Unless, you know, you can point to something death penalty supporters have said that’s any different from what you just said?

In fact, you’ve taken it a step further by including child rapists, who generally aren’t put to death by the state- so not only do you support the death penalty, you support it being expanded.

You get it.

Nor do you deserve to.

You created the culture that put him there. You allow him to remain there. None of the problems associated with Trump have much to do with Trump and have everything to do with your broken culture.

That’s a lot of words to say “I have the attention span of a toddler.”

Sure, but Americans are too cowardly to kill the people who need killing

Oh. Missed that

“Guys, I think I fucked up.”

“What are we supposed to DO???” ask the people who have tried literally nothing.

Let’s not glaze them too hard. South Park’s “both sides” bullshit, “giant douche or turd sandwich” politics and “ManBearPig” habit of treating earnest concern as proof that you were the sucker went a long way to convincing a generation or two of young men that cynically sneering at sincerity and being intellectual lazy is really very principled. I say this as a fan, but they realized FAR too late that the stakes were real, and there is a strong argument to be made that the US wouldn’t be where it is right now if not for Parker and Stone.

Remind me, how many things have Americans allowed him to do that he “shouldn’t be able to do”?

You’re part of the problem.