• Mihies@programming.dev
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    3 hours ago

    Orange war is costing the entire world, not just Americans. And if EU had cojones, we’d send the bill to US and Israel.

    • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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      13 hours ago

      Hahaha Americans don’t care about children and civilians. They only care about things that affect them directly like gas prices. At best they’ll complain about the other stuff on social media and have 3 single-day protests in a year and make excuses about why they can’t do more.

      • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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        12 hours ago

        “But, but, the country is huge. It’s massive, and huge. They can’t be expected to drive across thousand of miles to protest. Or expected to go to their local town and protest!!”

        “They’ve got busy lives. They can’t just up and go to a protest”

        “It’s very difficult to get millions of people to all turn up on the same day”

        “Also just wait until the midterms, it’s gonna be a bloodbath. Once November is over things will change, so there’s no point in protesting now.”

        (I put them all in quotes because those are the main excuses -not reasons, excuses- I used to get when I asked about when the next protest is going to happen.
        The “it’s very difficult” excuse is my favourite, whenever I point out that millions of people protested before the age of instant communication they get very snarky)

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          11 hours ago

          “I’m tired. I’m struggling to survive”

          They’re gonna be struggling more when they’re dragged off to the concentration camps.

          Unfortunately it seems Americans will only get the motivation to protest after it’s too late.

          • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
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            3 hours ago

            Discourage critical thought and destroy education systems for 50 years specifically to decrease response in effective manner and encourage reactive over proactive response

            Not shocking it was effective.

        • Züri@lemmy.ml
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          11 hours ago

          Then there was January 6th 2021.

          They COULD if they only WANTED.

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    14 hours ago

    Yes but it is the oil companies that charged us the extra $59 billion. Hey could have just… Not

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    11 hours ago

    The US supposedly has all this massive oil production and refining capacity, not to mention a huge supply of ethanol. I guess we are really testing the self-sufficiency theory.

    I am personally looking at home battery storage and solar, to charge existing EV. Seems like the break even point on such a setup might be shifting closer and closer.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    Okay, now we’ll see what Americans do about it in November. Probably nothing. But hey, I would love to be proven wrong.