I’d like to thank everyone for my most upvoted post on lemmy ever. Not only have you upvoted it to the top for like 2 days you commented the shit out of it. I’d like to take this opportunity to say fuck the mods of this instance. This was my second post coming off a 30 day ban and I want to say these fucking mods have been nothing but bitches. I’ve never been more attacked on any other instance, subreddit, forum, etc. then I have been in this fucking instance. Not only have I been attacked I’ve been told my memes arent memey enough again and again.
I’ll be honest, I do not know how to make a meme but I keep posting just to piss in these mods cheerios.
Thanks lemmy.world/politicalmemes for being the worst community I’ve ever been a part of.
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Our government is far more militarized than our citizens by a factor of about a million.
Plus, nearly every MAGAt is armed to the teeth with guns. Starting the violence just gives them the ammo (pun intended) to start the war they want.
Everyone here on both sides knows what’s coming. One side is literally foaming at the mouth for it to happen though so they can play put all the fantasies they’ve dreamt of since they played with finger guns in the back yard.
This is not gunna be fun for the side Lemmy primarily wants to win
That is way the United States need to get a un-united. It can not be, that all those red states dictate the blue states what is allowed and what not.
Suppressed states need to free themself, in my opinion.
Yes. Cascadia now.
Thats why you ambush the forces of the government and then seize their weapons.
But i seriously disagree with this notion of the US government being a million times more militarized. The difference between gun and big gun is much smaller than between no gun and gun.
But even if it gets to the point of the US air force bombing its own citizens. Those bombs need to be build. The factory needs workers. The factory needs supplies from a different factory. These suppliers need the same…
Fighting and winning a civil war against a well armee population is much harder than fighting against a well armed conventional opponent.
Try taking a look at !combatfootage@sh.itjust.works or !combatvideos@sh.itjust.works for a while, watch some Ukraine war footage, and realize that as bloody and horrific that war is: Both side are nearly at parity in military strength, and neither side is capable of air superiority.
Now imagine civilians with hand weapons going up against the most advanced, funded, and well trained volunteer military in the world with an unlimited budget and legendary logistics.
Your suggestion is only remotely possible if the military and the industial complex behind it fractures and joins the rebellion in a sizeable amount, otherwise it’s suicide.
Conventional armies fighting against each other cannot be compared to fighting against guerilla/insurgents.
Look at the US failing to create a stable occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Look at the US failing in Vietnam. Look at Israel annihilating Gaza and committing mass slaughter, yet Hamas has the same number of fighters today, like it did in 2023.
Of course the US army has the means to genocide all of the US population. That is until they run out of food. Of course they can terrorize the civilian population by cutting power, starving people and denying fuel, healthcare etc. That worked great for Bashar al Assad in Syria…
Ones you have a popular uprising, the disproportionate use of force by the regime usually fuels more resistance against the regime. That is why they try to react disproportionately hard even to the earliest signs of it. Why did they make all the fuzz about Luigi? Because they are scared, that if it is not 1 Luigi but 100 Luigis, the system would be at serious danger and with 1,000 Luigis it could collapse already, because no Oligarch would feel safe anymore. And 1,000 Luigis in a country with 340 million people is not that much.
You didn’t mention guerilla warfare in your other comment, you said the US isn’t that much more militarized than anyone else, and that there isn’t much disparity between small and large weapons.
Could America sustain a resistance similar to The Troubles? I think so. But any sort of conventional warfare, like along the lines of the Russian or Spanish civil war, is quite unlikely, which is what I thought you were implying.
Resistance against a foreign power is also a much different thing than domestic.
Lmao this is an absolutely hilarious take
“You’re a pussy” says the person behind the monitor.
Of course, I, as foreigner, fly to America to save it… /s
They would put me in prison before my plane touches US ground, lol
Yeah, Americans never traveled anywhere to save anybody from nazis. Never.
American came veeery late and way after sovereign countries got invaded.
A country attacked from another is something different than going to waste from within
I mean, thousands of international volunteers traveled to Spain to help during the Spanish Civil war. The same is true for Ukraine and to a lesser extent, Rojava.
Yea, helping may be OK, but you can not simply walk in a foreign country and start a revolution there, or, wait, was that not done by America and Russia all the time?
Well, I, as Swiss person, have the opinion, that a country should not interfere in in-boarder stuff of another country, if it not directly affects first country.
Of course, Swiss government and Swiss organisations are allowed to state their opinion on what is happening but not interfere.
Ukraine is not an in-boarder event according to the international boarders that were agreed upon at that convention I forgot the name from 😆 but there, basically all countries agreed to the boarders of each country, that they don’t change them with violence and that each country is sovereign, iirc.
Huge amounts of Americans support what Trump is doing and welcome a dictatorship. There’s no unanimous opposition to what Trump is doing. That is the reality. This is same as the Russia situation with Putin where Russians who sided against the country and fight alongside Ukraine are the minority actually willing to do something.
I see you are unaware of all the armed protests and demonstrations going on.
what you are whining about is already happening.
There seems to be a media blackout on those do you have any details ?
there is no media blackout, you’re trying to be cynically hip, which is very cowardly in this situation.
here are thousands of people in Denver alone during the 50501 protest.
https://www.denvervoice.org/archive/2025/2/18/thousands-rally-in-denver-against-trumps-radical-overhaul-of-government
here’s a thousand people at Stonewall
https://glaad.org/rally-at-stonewall-draws-1000-people-protesting-removal-of-trans-people-history-from-park-service-website/
there are Nationwide protests happening constantly, and pretending there aren’t political events happening that you are choosing not to join because you want to be blissfully ignorant or are afraid of the consequences of fighting for civil and democratic rights is simple cowardice.
own up to your apathy.
Mate it’s a bit bloody hard to join from the UK so shove your insults up your arse. I’m not American and I can assure you that this isnt making it on to the major networks (US or international) in any meaningful way. Hence the “media blackout” comment - because that’s how it looks.
“Hence the “media blackout” comment - because that’s how it looks.”
you are either blind and deaf or have never used the internet before.
If you are actually British, and the BBC is not covering these protests, that does not mean there is a “media blackout”, it means that Britain specifically isn’t covering the protests in the US.
The protests are all over the telly in the states and other countries.
but I guess you guys do have that police state thing going on right now, so I can see why the BBC wouldn’t want to report on civil rights movements.
websites and news organizations are reporting on the 50501 movement hourly.
I don’t know how you’re managing to miss all of the information being disseminated about these protests, but if you type in those numbers, you’re going to find all the information you could ever want about the 50501 protests, there’s nothing remotely like a “media blackout” happening.
Won’t speak to all your statements around the protests, but as a Canadian I haven’t heard anything from our news about your protests. The only time I’ve heard of protests are from Lemmy and Reddit comments, not even posts. Donalds and Elons shenanigans are plastered over all our news sites and social media platforms.
It’s good to hear protests are happening though. Good luck and best wishes on all your protests!
Nice of you to say, I’m rooting them on as well.
I feel like between the dozens of judges stepping up, and all of the civil and municipal lawsuits, plus constant nationwide protests against all manner of executive order abolishing civil rights, there’s still a way to go before the citizens are down for the count.
I googled 50501 from the info on here. Not a single entry from major US media, every single one is a regional paper - with one exception - there was an AP article 2 weeks ago.
I’m afraid I don’t usually turn to the Baltimore Sun or the Staunton Register for my US news - first two entries - where the hell even IS Staunton.
No, the BBC isn’t covering it (typing 50501 into the search bar got me “Is American cheese really that bad” from 2019 (no I dont understand either)
The last coverage by majors such as CNN and APnews and reuters who ARE who I look to for US news was two weeks ago (16days to be precise) so if there have been many protests since then as you claim then it does indeed look like they are ignoring it
A search on AP news for “protests” sorted by new has me scrolling down about 70-80 items before I find out that 300 people are protesting being sacked from the DHH.
Then another 2 pages to find a rally in california a couple days ago.
None of these were on the AP home page headlines, none of these come up in the RSS ticker feed. If it’s not a media blackout they sure don’t think these protests matter
“I googled 50501 from the info on here. Not a single entry from major US media,”,
not sure how to help you if you find the concept of regional media included in media as mindblowing.
American cheese really is that bad, so at least you found a relevant result for yourself!