CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world @davidaugust@mastodon.online
The fact that stations like Fox News and Newsmax are legal and are allowed to flat-out lie and brainwash a large swathe of the population is at least partially to blame.

@davidaugust@mastodon.online @TheComfortableSpotPodcast@mastodon.social
Have you seen our American Military? They no longer have muskets and bayonets any more. They have tanks and MRAPs and an unlimited supply of weapons and ammunition.

Do you honestly think any American, let alone even a "well armed milita" (words in the 2nd Amendment) can honestly stand up to the US Military? ISIS tried. Al Qaeda tried. The Taliban tried. And they were a helluva lot better armed (not to mention their home-turf advantage) and they couldn't.

So what makes you think any American citizen can?

This is no longer the 18th Century.

@davidaugust@mastodon.online @missqarnstein@eldritch.cafe

Yes your systems are rigged but it's only possible because the population is either apathetic, overworked, or too inconvenienced to involve themselves or they flat out agree with white american supremacy.

How to tell me you know fuck-all about the US' politics and our election system.

@mossman@social.vivaldi.net @davidaugust@mastodon.online
It's one thing to joke and commiserate with a bunch of friends sitting at a pub in a foreign country than it is outright bitch about another Country's politics, and target (even if not intentionally) their entire population on social media. You make it sound like we asked for this shit.

Not even the idiots that voted for that asshole asked for this shit.

@missqarnstein@eldritch.cafe @davidaugust@mastodon.online
How about you worry more about your own Country's politics and worry less about ours and painting 350 million Americans with the same brush?

99.9% of the people you are bitching about here did not vote for that son-of-a-bitch, and frankly we're tired of being of being put in his same fascist bucket.

OUR ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED. Or did you not know this already?

Texas is not a deeply red State, it is very much in-fact a very PURPLE State with a huge democratic voting bloc, but the Republicans in Texas love gerrymandering more than they love our Constitution, and sadly we have a Supreme Court (that we can NOT vote for) siding with the fascists.

There is frankly nothing an American voter can do when our own fucking Supreme Court is against us.

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
I don't think Americans pity anybody else's tax rate. You don't think most Americans don't know our for-profit healthcare system sucks? Do you think Americans honestly want to launch GoFundMes? SCOTUS has made it all but impossible for actual Americans to do fuck-all about anything. Citizens United basically allowed every politician to be openly bought and paid for.