I think being so fucking desperate to be distracted is actually our primary problem as a country. Stop avoiding reality, it’s time to grow up
Please send us Americans your best “you don’t have healthcare but too many school shootings” memes
Sorry this doesn’t really help forget about the situation but it’s a very good possibility.
Bombs are falling in the Middle East, but it is Americans who are in a nightmare? Lol.
I have a hunch the title might have been cynicism.
Please have a little empathy for the americans who bomb innocent people.
Well, this is on .world, so only Americans and the protocols of the elders of Zion LARP group count as people here.
No, the Americans need to be consistently reminded of what their government is doing so that there’s at least the slightest chance they’ll put a stop to it. They don’t get to ignore the problem, it’s their job to fix it. They are not babies to be coddled.
I have no clue what to do. I’m American. I’m trans. I voted for Harris. I live in a blue state. I’ve gone to protests. I’ve talked to state senators about legislation. I’ve canvassed. I’ve talked to Trump supporters and tried to get them to change their minds.
it all feels totally useless. nothing I’ve done has had any effect. my own mom voted for Trump three times. it’s like being chained to an anvil and thrown overboard. I’m swimming but I’m still drowning.
As another trans person, I say the best thing to do now may be to avoid the typical liberal “protest and vote” advice. Protesting simply isn’t as effective as it used to be, and voting should not be the foundation of your political activities. Voting is useful, but especially in a firmly blue or state, it’s mostly a symbolic gesture.
There are trans people in your local area who are being hurt by this administration. Forget protesting. Focus on helping the actual material needs of the community. Every blue state currently has trans refugees coming into them. Often these are young adults showing up with few resources, often ending up homeless. There’s likely a population of homeless trans kids in your own community. These are the people you should be focusing on helping right now. Join a local trans support group to help out your brothers, sisters, and siblings. If an organization doesn’t exist, start one. Things to focus on:
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Housing and access to housing
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Job assistance.
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Food and other essentials (one group in my area runs a trans specific food bank, as many trans folks have had bad experiences with church-run food pantries.
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Medical assistance. Provide recommendations to local providers. Educate people on safe DIY use. If there are local HRT homebrewers in your area, help organize distribution and mutual aid.
*Traditional gender support groups for newly transitioning folks.
- General mutual aid and emergency assistance.
Honestly, for trans people, it’s completely valid to just laser focus on the material needs of our own community right now. We’re being targeted by an organized campaign of state persecution. There’s hundreds of thousands of us that are internally displaced refugees within the borders of the US. There’s a lot of people hurting, and a lot of people in need. Protest if you want, but personally, I’ve found focusing on direct material needs and mutual aid to be a much more productive and rewarding path. The Trump regime is trying to destroy us. Simply helping your brothers, sisters, and siblings is an act of political resistance and defiance.
Your goal is not to bring down the Trump regime. That is not your responsibility. For those most targeted, simply surviving these years is your primary act of resistance. Take care of yourself, and take care of your brothers, sisters, and siblings. That is how I as a trans person have found meaning in this time. I voted, but that was only symbolic. And I’m not currently participating in protests. I’m focusing on actually directly helping people instead. Survival is resistance.
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You do know what to do and you are doing it! It’s not going to magically solve everything but you are doing more than most people.
“Disteact [Americans] from the nightmare THEY are enduring”???
Yeah. Keep them in the memes as to distract them from the dystopia right outside their doors.
They are dragging the entire world into their insanity.
The rest of the world has to endure America.
Sorry to anyone living in the fascist dictatorship that is the US. Its clear that youve lost your democracy.
Also sorry for all of the innocent civilians living in Iran which are about to go through hell thanks to Israel running off and crying to the US
Sorry to anyone living in the fascist dictatorship that is the US. Its clear that youve lost your democracy.
Its sad how much this sentence damages all democracys around the world. The fact these words have been made true is putins greatest victory. Putin aside, americans played a bigger role in giving up their own liberty. That is even more disgusting.
I’m not as mad at the 32% that elected trump as I am at the ones that sat at home and let it happen.
It’s liberals like you who let America become a dictatorship when you voted for Genocide Joe last year
Thanks Obama!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video that Trump called him after the strikes: “It was a very warm conversation, very emotional.” Speaking in Hebrew, he called Trump a friend of Israel like no one before him.
https://apnews.com/live/israel-iran-war-updates#00000197-9582-d77f-a797-ffaf39a20000
Thanks guys, real glad we didn’t vote for that evil fascist Harris and paved the way for Mr. No New Wars…
It was very important for palistine.
We saved Palestine,
RedditLemmy!
Americans… The people who go to work every day and get paid shit for their work…enough to not complain too much but not enough to get a head. The people who get fixed incomed at 64 and then inflationed until the bank gets the house back. These people did not bomb Iran.
Orange turd and his team of evil fucks did.
Now, I’m actually neutral on this particular action. Nobody wants Iran with nukes. However please then do the same in NK and ruzzia.
If any of this does backfire, I just want you all to know that we just woke up to this shit just like everyone else. Just like when the orange turd invaded LA. We just woke up to this shit. Is it gonna be over in 3.5 more years?..god I so fucking hope so. The guy in coocoo unstable. Just like Kim and Putin, he should go to a retirement home and leave the rest of us alone.
Americans… also the people who overwhelmingly voted Orange Turd into power
Nobody wants Iran with nukes.
Frankly, I do want Iran with nukes. Iran hasn’t declared war on anyone for over 200 years. They’re stuck in the same neighborhood as a rogue nuclear state that engages in frequent wars of expansionist conquest. The region is incredibly unstable precisely because there is no military counterbalance to Israel. Iran getting nuclear weapons would be an immense boon to peace and stability in the Middle East. I trust the Ayatollahs with nukes a lot more than I do the Israelis with them. At least the Iranians don’t believe that their deity gave them the right to annex entire nations.
Iran getting nuclear weapons would be an immense boon to peace and stability in the Middle East.
I think you just put your finger on exactly why the US doesn’t want that to ever happen.
I am wondering when Americans are finally going to come to the inevitable conclusion that conservatives have to be utterly destroyed by any means necessary in the most extreme prejudicial manner possible. These people are absolute pure f****** evil.
No fucking on Lemmy?
Voice-to-text automod. I hate it but dont know where the off switch is
I’m only in Paris because they promised you’ll be here too.
Where are you freakinsteve le
Je suis un USian
Are you though?
Sacred bleu!! Ma couverture est découverte! Je suis un poisson mort!..
Liberals dont want change. Until the left accepts that libs gotta go in the ground too, nothing will happen.
I agree, but the enablers arent as big of a problem as the perps right now. I feel like they would fall in line pretty quickly upon seeing the consequences of their actions.
We’re going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they created
K
me last night reading the news as i’m trying to go to sleep
Seriously, Americans need to stop acting so helpless. GOP. Trump. NAZIs. They’re not us.
and i’m certain you have a detailed plan that involves you staying put behind your keyboard.
Here’s the thing, Brohard: every time someone says we should do something they’re ALWAYS met with those kinds of shit comments from cattle car fodder such as yourself. “You first!!” is not the fucking flex you think it is, and only shows that YOU are the coward armchair warrior.
I dunno dude. Seems you wouldn’t be getting this upset if my original comment weren’t right on the mark. Also, you too ≠ you first.
Your comment isnt right on the mark; its frustrating because it’s nihilist MAGA-style groupthink from an entire class of people who bitch about The Way Things Are then reject all who want to change it. It’s like trying to get a sandlot baseball game started but every kid in the neighborhood just whines that baseball is stupid and pointless but bitches that there’s nothing to do.
What’s super weird is that it resembles the war in Iraq but dumber.
After 9/11 Americans were out for blood, for revenge.
This time they were out for blood, democrat blood. Revenge for… being told to stay inside.
I guess every 20 years they realize they hate each other so they outsource the violence?
America is truly that neighbour which has constant domestic drama that the rest of the neighbourhood has to put up with constantly cause they are too nice to shun said neighbour.
It is the moral imperative for Canada, Mexico, and all Central and South American countries to invade and destroy the Nazi outpost called the US
