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  • Every one of your complaints stem from Americans not marching in the past. If you want a better life, a better country, more equal distribution of wealth, march! All the excuses you give for people not marching are conditions brought about because your population doesn’t generally march in the first place. As a culture, you’re so individualised that you forget how to stand up for each other, until it’s too late, and blood gets shed. None of us survive in a bubble alone, we all live in communities, we all rely on other people for various things. Unions work because alone we are weak, but together we’re strong.

    We don’t take things like free healthcare for granted, it didn’t magically manifest itself, it was fought for by our predecessors. By marching. The same conservative rich fucks that prevent you from having healthcare are consistently trying to remove it from us. We have regular industrial action, attempting to prevent them from taking it away from us.

    Do the same.

    We have bullshit anti-protest laws too, we still manage to enact change though.

    https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-alarming-crime-and-policing-bill-yet-another-assault-right-peacefully-protest

    American democracy tends to be passive. You vote red or blue every now and then and that’s it. The politicians handle the rest. In Europe there’s more to democracy than just voting for your representative. Learn from us, claw your freedoms back. For starters, demand a real democracy where you can vote for more than just 2 choices.

    The Arab Spring managed to enact change at least, No Kings hasn’t achieved anything yet. I hope it will, but so far the fascists still run the country.


  • The original numbers were 4-6 million, it’s only recently been corrected to 13 million by some sources.

    4-6 million is pathetic. 13 million is a lot better.

    Of course I’m negative when it looks like less than 2 out of 100 of you can be arsed to oppose fascism.

    Well done for finally waking up, but you haven’t done great yet. Keep going. Until Trump and his ilk are gone you haven’t achieved anything but let off some steam.

    Keep up the momentum!

    Is that better? 🥕🥕🥕🥕



  • That’s not how logic works. Jesus Christ. Absolute numbers aren’t how you compare these things.

    Of course the country with 340m people can get a bigger crowd than the one with 18m.

    I know the American education system is underfunded but why over the last two days have I had to argue this point to so many of you?

    The Dutch are standing up for others, they could go about their day as if nothing is happening and nothing meaningful would change in their lives. But they chose not to.

    Americans are only standing up for themselves, so they don’t lose their freedoms. The Dutch protest is therefore more impressive, even with it being a smaller turnout.

    If 13m is the true number then that’s a lot better! That’s 3.86% of the population. Now keep it up! You still have a king as far as I can see, so why did you all go home on Sunday?

    People are still being deported, people are still being snatched by masked men, the federal government is still breaking laws and doing what it wants, checks and balances be damned.

    Keep the momentum going, depose these fascist fucks!


  • There’s the American spirit!

    Emotion and bravado instead of rationality and decorum.

    Now go outside and show Trump that same attitude.

    If it was 20% we wouldn’t be watching the country with the largest nuclear arsenal and the most military bases around the world descend into fascism.

    This affects the world but only Americans can do something about it, the rest of us have to convince you to get off your arses and do it.



  • For an issue that doesn’t effect the Dutch. And yet they still showed up in solidarity, because they have principles, and understand that to live in a democratic country means taking responsibility for its politics and not just voting every 4-5 years.

    Americans are being kidnapped, assassinated, and having entire departments shut down, and their turnout isn’t much better than the Dutch outraged at what’s happening another continent away.

    I want them to learn that if they want change they need to do something, instead of giving every excuse under the sun as to why they couldn’t show up as has been done in other threads.

    This is a good start I guess, but it hasn’t done anything to stop Trump and co yet. They need to pump those numbers up.



  • If the numbers of 4-6 million are true then less than 2% of Americans showed up. The pictures of big crowds was impressive, but that’s not enough. To the outside world, it looks like you have bowed down.

    Take inspiration from this protest in The Netherlands and chastise your neighbours, your colleagues, your friends and family, to march, or this time next year America may just be a fully fledged fascist state with no personal freedom.





  • What’s the point in mining the Moon if we’re just gonna leave what’s been mined there? Of course it would be removed.

    Where did you get that 10% is what would be required to affect the tides? Why don’t we just say it’s 90% to back your point up even more?

    The point is, if allowed, we’ll fuck it up like we fuck up every environment. Why must we insist on destroying everything just so some rich people can get richer? Climate change is upon us and instead of acting to prevent it we’re looking to do similar destruction elsewhere.

    When you look up at the vastness and marvel of space and planetary bodies, are you desperate to see dump trucks, bucket excavators, and orange flashing lights looking back at you?


  • Until we’ve mined so much that the ratio of mass between the Earth and the Moon causes tidal changes and eventually the Earth pulls the Moon into the Earth and all life is destroyed. How quickly do you think we can speedrun that?

    The industrial revolution was about 150-200 years ago and our planet is dying because of it. Can we beat that record?

    Edit: also, who gets dibs on the moon? Something tells me the vast majority of the population won’t get a say and mysteriously, somehow, it’ll be American mega-corps doing the mining