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Careful, every American on Lemmy has about 6 or 7 thought-stopping cliches ready to defend their cowardly fucking inaction.
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I don’t respect the position, but I appreciate that you’ve got more integrity than just about everyone else I get responses from.
The fact that you’re posting this means you’re not dead or in prison, which thought-stopping cliche will you use to explain your cowardly inaction?
Or maybe I don’t live in a shithole country?
You guys’ America-centric assumptions are really more in line with what we tend to see from MAGA chuds. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised that you aren’t fighting back too hard.
It sure is easy to criticize people for inaction when you’re at no risk yourself.
Inaction isn’t going to keep you safe.
Neither is poorly planned action.
I sure hope that means you are involved in planning actions instead of using it as an excuse to do nothing.
I am, and frankly I find the default assumption that the people criticizing ineffective action aren’t engaged in effective action to be extremely condescending.
The people the rest of the world has been warning for decades that this very situation would occur if you kept doing what you were doing? The people who got belligerent and shitty when we pointed out the path they were on? Easy to criticize them? Yeah, it very much is.
This is Lemmy, the vast majority of Americans here lean hard left. We knew. What exactly were we supposed to do? Die immediately in an immature revolution? Magically devise the perfect argument to overcome a century of anti-left propaganda?
No, you’re right, you’ve done plenty. You should feel very pleased with your effort. You deserve a rest, even. Have yourself a nap and I promise nobody will wake you up to tell you how goofy it is that you just called Americans on Lemmy “hard left” 😅
criticizes what other people are doing
does nothing
WHY ARENT YOU GUYS DOING ANYTHING BUT POSTING ON THE INTERNET? does nothing but post on the internet
The people who got belligerent and shitty when we pointed out the path they were on? Easy to criticize them? Yeah, it very much is.
A bunch of us have had to live right next door to these people the whole time. Sometimes it’s so ridiculous that I think the simulation overseers are experimenting with the opposite of the simulated utopia from The Matrix that failed. Is there a level of absurdity that will get us to reject the simulation en masse?
I guess I should quit my job and condemn my family to destitution because some guy on Lemmy called me a pussy for not fighting the government. Rofl.
Right, that’s what the rest of the world is waiting on Americans to do: quit their job.
“Do nothing” is so ingrained in the American psyche that when pushed to do something the only thing they can think of is doing even less.
No. I’m not quitting my job. That’s the dumbest fucking thing anyone could suggest. Grow up.
If there’s a general strike, I’ll participate. Quitting my job and condemning my family to starve? Fuck outta here with that childish nonsense.
No one actually suggested you quit your job. YOU’RE the one that said that and I was pointing out the absurdity that that is the first and only place you go. Are you lost?
Put a /s on it then, moron.
complains about America-centric assumptions
only posts about America
Or maybe I don’t live in a shithole country?
lmao yeah right chud. They’re all shitholes especially yours.
As long as you can point to a country you believe is doing worse there is no reason to want yours to do better. You are just mainlining that propaganda aren’t you?
“America is the greatest country on earth!”*
*Not due to actually being great in any way, just due to the fact that we believe other countries are at least slightly worse, and that’s good enough for me!
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Do you imagine people in Nepal to have big savings accounts and investments in NVidia?
Truth is - if you are not bothered enough by the situation to risk your confort and way of life, then you are ok with the situation and accept it.
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You’re a “good german”, is all.
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Yeah, this place shockingly has less nuance than Reddit did. Maybe not shockingly, since it seems to cater to a very specific group of people.
100%. Anyone pretending to disagree with this is just trying to assuage their guilt for being huge cowards.
Honestly? People who are living paycheck to paycheck have MORE reasons to risk everything and FAR fewer excuses for allowing the status quo to persist. Who the fuck do you think should be burning shit down if not the people most victimized by it?
people SHOULD go out and die. not me tho. other people.
Right, let me book a flight to another country whose citizens can’t be bothered to fight back on their own to show them how it’s done.
sure just advocate for violence that you wouldnt commit yourself.
Didn’t say I wouldn’t. Just said I’m not going to fly to other countries to do it.
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I am more than pleased to be proven wrong.
This pleases you?! That is fucking sickening.
It does. Greatly. Every time I’ve checked my phone for about a year I’ve been disappointed not to see today’s headline.
At this point I’m pretty sure at least half the people cirtisizing lack of violence in America are feds trying to get people to spill incriminating evidence. You look stupid complaining online about not hearing about shit you can’t say online. No one’s booting up an onion router to brag to some shithead on lemmy about how they returned a tear gas canister to the cops.
This is very strange but I feel like I’ve read this exact comment before, word for word. Did you copy this from somewhere?
Nope, just wrote it.
Yeah, cuz Nepal is known for it’s military.
People really love criticizing the US and fair enough, but man it’s tiring seeing people lambasting the US for not violently resisting when we actively are and it’s just being suppressed by the media. Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch we can’t storm congress, but we’re doing a whole fuckload despite that…
when we actively are
Examples?
Well since local media aren’t covering them and many foreign ones step in line to not upset lord trump, the only way to get examples is to attend them.
The cities he sent military to were the cities that had largest protests.
Protests? So no, not violently resisting.
So, guaranteed death? USA will not use billy clubs and shields to knock down protesters. They will SHOOT and kill.
I’m not dying because we have 80 million retarded cunts here.
People are already DYING, what bodycount can your conscience hold?
Oh and did you miss all the students who were shot and killed in Nepal? You can find videos of them bleeding out in the streets with people desperately trying to save them, kids dying in school uniforms as they protest, but sure billy clubs.
Are you just going for a shock reaction, or are you seriously trying to neg other people into dying for you?
How many American protesters have been killed since January 2025?
Give me your source. Otherwise, STFU.
Dude, there’s no way you can argue your way into making someone feel bad for not wanting to risk their life in a violent resistance against their own government.
That’s a choice every person have to make for themselves. You don’t know them. You don’t know their situation.
You seriously need to take a step back and sit down.
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Setting things in fire, erecting barricades, actively fighting authorities and creating chaos, making it impossible to ignore. For examples see the Maiden revolution in Ukraine, Hong Kong protests a few years ago, or any Tuesday afternoon in France.
Orange revolution and Euromaidan in Ukraine were peaceful protests the government responded violently to them which energized more people.
In Poland Solidarity also was peaceful and the one that created violence was the government.
Historically peaceful protests like the above are more effective, because more people are willing to join them.
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No your not. Your volunteering to go into the street to be rounded up by the cops. It’s the stupidest fucking thing. You literally have the equivalent of the printing Press giving to every person and you all think it’s easier to organize people to publicly show up in a town three states over then it is to use get those people to use the propaganda machine to spread a message.
Thank you, this is a wonderful example of exactly the kind of ignorance I was talking about. I appreciate the support!
And they all clapped
Just know you’re no different than r/the_donald users
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Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch
We cannot protest the government without support from the government.
Now that just ain’t what I said.
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Yeah, it’s not like your country has based its entire identity for two centuries on its spirit of violently resisting tyranny against great odds
Resisting foreign tyranny, specifically. The US certainly doesn’t have that identity anymore.
That’s not the countries identity, that’s a propaganda line.
This person is obviously not immune to propaganda.
it’s not like your country has based its entire identity for two centuries on its spirit of violently resisting tyranny against great odds
Yeah they’ve haven’t. Maybe you’re drinking the koolaid. But only a fool would believe this.
Yes, for example the Gurkhas are from Nepal.
Or did you mean the regular army? They put down a major Maoist insurgency over the decade of 1996-2006, and have remained a significant force in Nepal. Historically they’ve played a major role in power transitions, such as the Rana era from 1846-1951 when military officer Jung Bahadur Rana overthrew the monarchy and established a hereditary prime ministership, and then again in King Mahendra’s 1960 coup when the monarchy took power until the 1990s.
But fortunately they’ve not been as prominently involved at playing “kingmaker” as the militaries of many other South Asian countries. They tend to act as a stabilizing force for whoever gets power by other means. I guess we’ll see if that pattern continues to the current unrest.
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We tried in 2020, libs quickly coopted the movement by pretending to be at the front of it and that we had less radical demands, defused it by pretending to agree to those demands, and then supported republicans in opposing any of the demands, with Biden telling states to divert covid funds to police. Before I left, people seemed too tired and beaten down to really try again.
Lemmy is so USA centric they did not notice the people sponsoring Nepal’s protests are the exactly the same people in charge of USA right now.
The ban on USA big tech industry is a sovereignty statement, and every country should do that, USA is literally stealing data from other countries, since data is the new gold, the name of the game is digital colonialism, you should read more about that if you have more than two brain cells
Source?
Second part - Every country that currently has the capability is “stealing” data. I’m not deflecting from the US’s actions, but let’s do the math here and pick something that everyone isn’t in the same glass house together.
Yeah, sure let’s keep pretending that there’s not only few countries in the world where the US CAN NOT steal data because they LOST a war
As I said Lemmy is very US centric, you guys are not able to look at any thing else other than your own aases
You can make the meme for most countries in the west. The past couple days have been us celebrating the latest Banksy performative protest as if that’s done anything more than be more art in the ocean of art to be snooty about socially and continue on with the ever weak art based protest. 30 years of performative art centric leftist culture and 30 years of neoliberalism shifting further and further to the right
trump didn’t give a blanket “y’all either obey me or you’re out” to all social media, blocking all except tiktok, no wonder 'muricans are still sleeping
What happened in Nepal? Ive not been in lemmy, or news sites in almost a month. Im very out of the loop on this one.
Thanks! All caught up now. Go Nepal citizens!
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