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People across the world already very well know that Trump is unpopular. That is not the problem. The problem is that you guys continue to just allow that guy to run your country.
As long as there isn’t massive civil unrest in the country, it looks like from an outside perspective as if you’re just letting him do whatever he wants without much resistance. Writing some insults isn’t going to change that perspective.
It bears mentioning that the large scale protests you see in other parts of the world are often in places where there are strong worker protection laws.
In the US almost every single person is literally one major medical incident away from living in their car, one missed mortgage payment away from living in their car, and one missed insurance payment from not getting the medicine they literally need to survive. Most US states allow an employer to fire one of their employees without any warning or cause whatsoever, so long as the reason for the termination doesn’t fit into one of several small boxes…which they would need to admit for it to be actionable, anyway.
My point being, a big part of the reason why you don’t see protests like you do in say, France, is that unlike France, the people here are largely wage slaves that cannot afford to even miss work when suffering from extreme illness, let alone to take to the streets over that asshole pedophile acting like an asshole pedophile. This has been by design.
Don’t mistake a population of people spending all their energy holding onto the little they have for one that supports this regime. Whether you think their action or lack of action is justifiable, you need to at least admit it’s understandable.
I think it’s worth noting that the US is something like 330 million spread out over a large geographic area. There are mass protests happening, and they’re big, the last was millions of people. But you’re not going to see it everywhere simply due to a mix of demographics and geographic distance.
By contrast, France has something like ~65 million people in a region that is the size of Texas, one of our 50 states. You could fit France spatially into the US something like 20 times. You couldn’t miss their protests if you wanted to, even if it were done by less than a 10th of their population.
It’s almost as if the US had grown specifically to deter workers’ resistance
Intense reading something about how oil has influences the development, urbanisation and expansion of suburbs. Making sure it’s the explosion motor that wins the market, they paved the whole world in petroleum based asphalt so everything that burns petroleum based gas can roll faster/safer and thus burn more gas.
Not long after that masterplan worked wonders they got to all the other petroleum derivates like creams and various single une plastics. Taking over the entire world within a few decades with pollution that will last centuries if not millenia.
Hooray for that.
Tbh, it feels kinda unfair to use Texas as a comparison and describe it as “one of our 50 states”, when you could fit the original 13 states inside it.
Comparing the Paris metropolitan area (almost 20% of France’s population) to the Boston-Washington corridor might work slightly better (with them having a similar percentage of their nation’s population, but Paris metro being several times denser).
Well, that and also people in France can take public transportation to cross the country quite easily. In the US, most people can’y even get groceries without a personal vehicle.
Not saying it’s an excuse, they’ve gotta figure this out because holy fuck, but yea. Deeply unserious country.
Literally, there was a massive fire near here at the sole grocery store for like a 5 mile radius and it got to the point where the county had to step in and provide a grant for free ubers and shit while the store was being rebuilt because there was no realistic alternative mode of transportation…the other stores weren’t on bus lines and to boot it was high summer, like 90°F and 90% humidity out…the city had already had to roll out cooling centers because seniors were getting heatstroke due to their AC being busted, there was no way they were walking or biking 5 miles for groceries in that or they’d have been dead on the side of the road.
It makes more sense to a European to think of the US less as a country and more as basically the EU. We’re not a monolithic people from coast to coast. Decrying a lack of broad action across the US is like expecting broad, coordinated action in Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Romania and Austria. We’re bound by the same federal laws, but the laws on a state to state basis, literally all laws not explicitly granted to the Federal Government, belong to the states.
The difference between Wyoming and Massachusetts might as well be the difference between Finland and Croatia. Culturally, economically, geographically, different climate, different racial makeup, different religious persuasions…the farther you get from one state, the more different things become…take someone from the upper midwest and have them talk to someone that grew up deep in Southern Louisiana. They’re both speaking English but watch how difficult it is for them to communicate. These are both people that hail from the same country. And that’s even ignoring the fact that there are much higher concentrations of people here who don’t speak even like, emergency English then even countries where English isn’t their mother tongue. Go watch some police bodycam videos and see how often entire extended families have like a token 12 year old that can speak english fluently that is basically speaking for the whole family when the cops are initially rolling up to the scene.
I guess with all that Im just trying to say…people need to ease up on throwing shade at the people of the US as if we are complicit in this because we’re using all our energy to keep our heads above water. This scenario is literally unprecedented in this country, there has never been a time when a single branch of government so effectively demolished the checks and balances that were designed to prevent it from happening. We literally have a domestic military force with as much firepower and resources as the actual military in the form of ICE, the FBI, the police, the National Guard, Homeland Security…little different situation then a bunch of beat cops with batons and riot gear standing at the end of the street to make sure that the protest doesn’t spill over into traffic.
It’s not as simple as people are making it out to be.
Croatia mentioned :D
Seriously tho, good points. We need to stop throwing shade at each other and replace that with support for each other.
That’s fucked up about the grocery thing. My small town where I’m from would probably have the same issue, come to think of it. There’s sorta a bus that replaces a 10-15min drive to another store, but it sucks and even once you get there there’s a giant parking lot to cross. No way an elderly person is making that trip with any frequency, which they would because they wouldn’t be able to carry that many groceries.
But anyway, I think it’s also something ya’ll need to still take responsibility for. Each state still has its major failures that don’t need to be taken in a larger context in order to be criticised. They still influence the federal election, and popular vote-wise the far-right is still incredibly numerous in the US. The best the US can muster is woefully inadequate and the worst is incredibly dangerous to everyone else on the planet including themselves. So many chances to have stopped the country having gone in this direction and yet there have been decades of embarrassing failures to stop this crap. No country is a monolith, that’s not an excuse.
Oh, and as much as they were horribly wrong, awful people, Jan 6 insurrectionists showed up.
Wage slaves have FEWER excuses for refusing to riot, not more.
The very definition of revolution, resistance, uprising, civil unrest is that things are going to fall apart bigly and badly. If everyone who rises up & sacrifices their jobs therefore their lives, then at least the ruling class will no longer have us as their slaves. Because we died in protest. Who will make their food & build their mansions & chauffeur their limos & rub their feet & clean up their messes when we’re all dead? We might have to make the ultimate sacrifice. Touché. 💀
There’s a lot of ways of expressing unrest, and many of them are aimed at expressing a widespread lack of support for the regime. This hits them in their own support base, and is a big part of why they push back so hard on them.
Trump is a massive narcissist, that’s why he’s getting his signature on the cash in the first place. To someone like that, the idea that something so rewarding for him could be “perverted” like this, with the whole world seeing just what people really think of him, is a nightmare! And that’s the point - to keep reminding him of just how unpopular he is, and keep him reactive instead of proactive.
A quick internet search reveals:
Whoever […] defaces, disfigures, […], or does any other thing to any bank […] note […] with intent to render such […] unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
So personally I wouldn’t bet on this not being illegal. On the other hand, freedom of opinion might save your butt. But what do I know about US law?
Well but see the intent isn’t to render it unfit to be reissued, the whole point is that you want it to stay in circulation so as many people as possible see the additional message.
Good point!
This is legalese. The
“with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued”
probably relates only to the
“or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt”
part, and not the whole
“Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together”
No. If you can’t spell out “rapist” on facebook without being canceled. you sure as hell can bet your butt on a dollar note with that remark not staying in circulation. and you’re supposed to know that. so if you write that on a dollar bill, i don’t think it’s “plausible deniability” to say “i considered this dollar bill fine for further circulation”.
You wouldn’t need plausible deniability because the prosecution would have to prove that your intent was to make the bill unfit for circulation. Intent is already notoriously difficult to prove in a court of law, and it would be very difficult to prove someone wanted to take a bill out of circulation by writing a message on it that they hoped would be seen by people.
Even if the result is that the bill gets taken out of circulation, the court would have to prove that you knew that would happen and wanted it to.
What are they gonna do? Take every note out of circulation?
It would be almost impossible to pin it on anyone.
with intent to render such […] unfit to be reissued
This isn’t trying to take it out of circulation tho, so that probably wouldn’t apply. They’d have to make an argument that effectively goes against the first amendment to say you can’t write on currency you plan to spend.
“rendering unfit” is when you glue $20 corners to a $10 to pass it off as a 20.
Arguably relevant precedent:
Nah, totally legal. As long as you make sure you don’t draw over anything renders it unfit for reissue
“Money trades hands all over the world”? I haven’t handled a physical piece of American currency (apart from the occasional coin that gets mixed into my change) in years. Sure, go ahead and do this, but don’t assume that anyone outside your borders give a shit what you write on your bills.
Well, if you don’t see it then the same has to be true for billions of other people.
I strongly encourage you to consider using a bit more cash.
Local businesses pay increasing amounts of highway robbery to visa and other payment processing providers (who are very busy on their puritan agenda). Some places near me even offer discounts for cash transactions. Terms of service forbid it, but hey, I’m not going to state it in court.
Obviously we all use cards for a lot of things, just suggesting you draw it back.
Also, maybe don’t make “show the rest of the world that we hate Trump” the primary goal of your resistance movement. Ugh.
It’s not about anyone else caring.
It’s about Trump caring.
Why is the top account in the screenshot? Does anyone care that they love the idea or did we just want to advertise their substack for them?
A qr code as a stamp that takes you to an easy list about Trump’s Epstein ties would be easy enough to make
Doesn’t communicate that information as directly as something written on the bill itself
Yeah I’m not scanning an unknown QR code on a grungy bill
Live a little
¿Por qué no los dos?
My idea was something like:
______ rapes children! Scan here for proof [qr code]
I feel like thatcs even sketchier. Maybe I’ve spent too much time on 4chan, but that reads like “scan this for csam”
4 years ago I would have a problem with it reading like that. Unfortunately, I’ve come to the conclusion that every single person that voted for him is ok with that if not actively involved in that. So the implication that they might see their god king dicking a child will probably get more of them to scan it.
We are reaching levels of slacktivism that are unheard of!
Yeah, that will show him!!
If Democrats ever regain power, this needs to be official. “Donald Trump is a pedophile” should be by law written on all currency. It will take decades to educate Americans.
Biden tried the quiet “let’s sweep it under the rug and everyone will forget” approach. It didn’t work.
Trump is a pedophile needs to become the modern “Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam”
(In ancient Rome it was traditional to end every speech, no matter what the speech was about, with the phrase, “Carthage must be destroyed.”)
It was Cato who was famous for that, he was the Lindsey Graham of the Republic.
if democrats regain power, it will just be the wheel turning in wait of republicans regaining power later. while that side of the wheel is better than current one, what america needs to do is break the fucking wheel.
Yeah, the danger of a Democratic president is the left growing complacent again, allowing the right to fester and come up with another dictator.
Yep, Republicans break things, and get voted out. Democrats try to fix what they broke, but it takes a long time and is expensive and boring, so they get voted out. The cycle repeats and is grinding us to dust.
educate
and there’s your problem. people don’t even agree on on what to even teach, so there can be no education.
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They don’t like being reminded that only one thing ever stopped Nazis.
Actually this wouldn’t work that well. In many countries that informally use the US dollar, they’re very particular about keeping the bills in pristine condition.
https://www.mybanktracker.com/credit-cards/travel/crisp-clean-us-dollar-bills-travel-country-275899
Well duh.
This was my second thought when I heard the news. My first thought wasn’t so much a thought as it was an all-too-familiar stabbing pain in the middle of my brain accompanied by a feeling that if I had to put into words would translate to “oh god.”
We can do this right now also, I think I might start it on normal bills, get the ball rolling for when his name shows up on them
gotta love plausible deniability, too.
“it came to me like this” /shrug
Good idea, for those who use cash. I haven’t used cash in almost three years, now. And, then it was only because I got a discount for doing so.
I mean this is a good reason to switch back to cash. I never carry cash but I think I’m going to start for this reason alone.
okay… but like… who really uses cash?
To buy drugs, duh
