To be fair, South Americans have a lot of very legitimate reasons to be angry at the US.

Praying to a machine that isn’t listening isn’t really any different than praying to the Moon.

If people voted for Gore instead of Nader, American history would be very different.

People did vote for Gore. Their votes were invalidated by the Supreme Court. The election was stolen.

Playing with historical counterfactuals is pointless anyway. Voting is over. They aren’t going to let us vote them out of power anymore. The elections will either be canceled or rigged.

It’s time to do something else.

protests (BLM, Gaza), violence (Matthew crooks, Luigi) has at best accomplished zero,

We need organized labor actions. We run this country and we can shut it down. That’s how we got the New Deal.

The one exception I’d give is boycotts - like the Tesla boycotts that have destroyed their sales numbers.

Don’t forget the vandalism and arsons. There’s more than one way to hurt a business.

US American

We have this interesting combination of high tech and low tech literacy, before you know it praying to the machine spirits will be a mainstream religion.

Bush was forced onto us by the Supreme Court in a judicial coup that basically set us on our current trajectory. Trump has never won more than 50% of the vote, even this time around he only got 49.9%

In a democratic country this shit wouldn’t happen. Elections have always been dubiously free and fair in this shithole.

I’m in my 30s, hardly a kid. I’ve watched this shithole country get worse and worse my whole life, and I am beyond convinced that we will only stop it with political actions that go far beyond the ballot box. You’re going to have to get your hands dirty.

If we’re allowed to vote for the next president you might as well, I know I will, but stop pretending it is nearly good enough.

I think that saying is just the British patting themselves on the back. It was mostly just Soviet blood that liberated the camps.

You forgot the jury box i.e. jury nullification

“Eyy what murders? I didn’t see no murder. Brian Thompson just fell on some bullets.”

Unfortunately I think most of us would probably survive at least the a couple of those years, as much as we might wish we died.

Voting won’t save you.

Voting also isn’t the only option.

Recall that there are four boxes of liberty.

If they let us vote again then we might as well do it, but at the rate things are going they might just rig the election if they don’t cancel it.

Be suspicious of anyone who tells you that voting is going to solve this problem. They aren’t going to let you vote them out of power.

By all means, vote if you can! But if the only thing you do is vote, you will lose.

True, I’m pretty sure they hate them for being Arabs. They love killing Palestinian Christians too. It’s racial.

The existence of Israel is part of what causes that intolerance within majority Muslim countries. Israel, through its own racist apartheid and colonialism, has inflamed resentments in the region against non-Muslim peoples.

But Israel doesn’t deserve all the blame! The other cause is the US actively propping up other repressive regimes in the region, as well as murdering so many people’s families that they see no choice but to take up arms against the Great Satan.

The only way to believe that Islam is some kind of uniquely backwards and primitive religion is through racism. This situation is a product of recent history.

They’re a problem being made worse by AI.

I’m not going to forgive your racism, actually.

Decolonization can be done peacefully.

I don’t think that will happen, but it could!

I also support Palestinian resistance, and that’s very different from Israeli violence inflicted onto Palestinians. Indigenous resistance to colonization is always justified.

Sure, Israel should be abolished peacefully.

I’m just saying, this isn’t how we got here.

The internet is not going away, and just looking up this or that thing the AI spit out will help you learn what you’re working with.

I think you mean “sifting through several pages of worthless search results while looking for something the AI spit out”

The internet is worse and it can still get worse.

No, we ended up in this situation because colonizers came and stole Palestinian land. It’s an Israeli myth that Palestinians first stole the land from the Jews and expelled them.

The truth is, Palestinians are just descendents of ancient Israelis. They’re not invaders. They’re indigenous to the land.