Isn’t Mint a version of Ubuntu?

Your behavior is neither common nor normal.

Fuck off and die.

“I just don’t understand where this Anti-American attitude comes from!”

Not what I said at all. I explained my dislike of you because of how you behave.

I know, it’s always the same responses from Americans:

1. Everywhere else is bad too!
   American exceptionalism never dies - even when the country goes to shit that just means they’re going to shit better and faster than everyone else.
   Deflection - vague statements about other countries having an a right wing is irrelevant to how shitty America has become.
   Defeatism - “this is a global problem”. No, it’s not. There are many countries that haven’t turned their leaders into Kings with nothing to check their power or prevent them from chasing their every whim. You mentioned Canada, Canada has not invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader. Canada is not insisting it needs to Annex an allied nation. South Korea is actually holding a political leader accountable for trying to have a coup and taking them to trial. We should just change the logo of America from “Land of the Free” to “Nothing can be done to stop this.”

2. Why haven’t you / Aren’t you doing something to stop this?
   See above - “Nothing can be done to stop this” / “Can’t somebody else to this for us?” Anything to avoid dealing with the actual shitshow they are living in themselves.

FFS, a leader of a supposedly democratic country has invaded another country, is openly talking about annexing another, openly stating human life has no value, and your response to that is “but but Canada has a Conservative party that lost their last election!”

America is burning itself down right now and your response is “well there’s smoke in Canada!”

Shut the fuck up and do something useful, you useless ineffective twat. Christ.

• Someone who claims to be “on your side” and doesn’t understand why someone would have an anti-American attitude.

I agree with “don’t quit, impede” philosophy, but a very public show of support against these fascist actions is not something to dismiss.

The state of Minnesota can wait until there is a more friendly administration

People need to stop saying “wait until after the election”.

1. that’s over 2 years from now with a murderer free to kill more people.

2. this adminstration is going to do everything they can to make sure there isn’t a “next administration.”

Then the method is ineffective. Making it less effective isn’t going to make the powers that be notice more.

Protests are only taking action if they are disruptive. Standing in a corner with signs while people go about their day is as effective as sharing memes on Lemmy.

Wait for Elections is waiting 10 months, not taking action now.

aren’t going to have the accumulated experiences of US veterans

Oh man, this dinner is going to be so good when I have 100 chefs making it.

Yes, defensively shooting the man running away. Of course.

Using an Aux cable I have to crank my stereo up to be able to hear it even with my phone set to max volume. It doesn’t have an output level that’s a reasonable volume.

And the output from the phone is so quiet even with my phone at Max volume I have to crank my stereo up on order to hear it. Switching input from Aux to anything else without lowering the volume first is what’s going to damage my hearing.

The last civil war we had killed 600,000 to 700,000 and that’s without modern weapons.

I agree, as time goes on a Civil war gets more destructive.

Therefore, delaying a civil war by 4-8 years will result in more destruction than if citizens stand up for themselves now. Either way, according to your arguments the civil war will happen eventually.

If going back to doing nothing and kicking the can down the road is the only way to avoid a civil war then I have bad news for you: you’re not avoiding anything, you’re just trying to delay it for another 4 years while things continue to get worse and more people get killed.

These people saw The Handmaid’s Tale as a “How-to” guide.

No, that’s the stated purpose of the 2nd amendment. The real purpose is for emotional support rifles.

It will likely flip back in 2028, but we have to flip the House back in 2026, ideally the House and Senate but that’s unlikely.

JFC, that’s the solution? Wait 10 months and hopefully flip house but probably not the Senate?

Then everything returns to the stagnant status quo that resulted in this situation in the first place. Dems continue to be toothless, Republicans continue to prevent anything from happening, continue to face zero consequences, and are further emboldened to go even further next time because why the fuck not? Either they succeeded in the fascist takeover or nothing happens and they just try again.

That’s the best you can hope for?