• stylusmobilus@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    They told us to mind our own business when we told them to vote prior and during 2016. We warned them this would happen if they didn’t. We know voting works, too, the Republican voters prove this repeatedly in every election and not all of those were fraudulent or tampered with. Zohran Mamdani proves the primary and the vote works when people do their duty and stand behind their candidate.

    They doubled down and elected Trump again. With a 65% turnout, making any tampering much easier to achieve and offering little incentive for their electoral college to lean blue.

    Now they’re looking for every excuse to absolve themselves personally of the responsibility after another 65% turnout, asking us what can they do, expecting us to show understanding they don’t offer others, expecting us to make them feel welcome when they want to run and getting nasty when we don’t. Every one, a different angle of excuse based around the individual but all some kind of selfish, and reflective of the government they have, the quality of the representatives.

    This has been going on for some time. They think the vote is earned, which sums up half the problem. No, it’s a duty. Where it goes, is earned. That’s never a hard choice. Primary or main election.

    Now they’re exporting their political culture and the threats overseas to us. They’re quick to blame our eXpATs involved in it, who went there for a reason, starting or funding CPACs we didn’t want or ask for, washing us with their dogshit froth politics and spreading it everywhere. The rest of us have every right to be furious with their voters over this; their government and their Zionist attack dog threatening everything and everyone and it’s all because they wouldn’t turn out in numbers to vote. Worse, they expect understanding over that and get shitty when we don’t. Some people around the planet don’t even have a fucking right to vote much less their privileges. There’s no way in the world we’d be putting up with this if Harris had been elected and there’d be no ME war either just quietly.

    The only people who can stop it is themselves as well and they can’t even agree on the right way to do that which is peaceful national shutdown. Some of them go on about getting and using guns and while it might feel good to have one it isn’t their answer. That’s without the excuses. Yes, we know it’ll be hard. Yes, it’s easy for us to say but we’d fucking act on this as well and since they want to export this shit overseas we get the right to tell them to deal with their failed vote result.

    The easy way has repeatedly been ignored for years. Now it’s the hard route. The simple fact remains the sooner they get 2 weeks to a month of peaceful shutdown going (60% in all the cities would probably be enough to bring the wheels to a halt) and force Congressmen and Senators to act the easier this will be. The longer it’s left, the harder it is.

    Just, please US, stop proving Churchill fucking right.

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      1 month ago

      As someone that keeps a toe in right wing spaces, you should understand the blatant information war and psyop that had been going on over the course of (at least) 2020-2024.

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        1 month ago

        You can stop it…60% of the people in urban areas completely shutting down peacefully will have it sorted in a month.

        Pick your hardship ay, it scales upwards from voting attendance being the easiest. Peaceful shutdown is better than trying a civil war on.

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          Absolutely agree. Unfortunately, I believe the population as a whole has become so complacent that the resistance has been pounded out of them by their screens and mod cons. E.g. People all over the internet complain about cars/appliances with subscriptions, and the loss of CDs/DVDs. But people must be buying them, ‘cause they’re not going away. WHY don’t people just stop buying them?? If everyone JUST STOPPED BUYING THEM, they would go away.

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            1 month ago

            That’s why I’m reluctant to let go of my old Corolla

            I’d love an EV, but I don’t want a subscription based, fully tracked car

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                1 month ago

                I saw one the other day, 2001, only had…wait for it…213k on it, for just over 2k and fuck I wish I’d have had the cash lying around ay

                Manual too, with roadworthy and registered till September

                Bargain it was