Political Memes

Remember the huge demonstrations in the US against Obama for his campaign of assassinating people with drones?!

Me neither.

Because there weren't any.

From the outside the impression that passes is that the reason that a lot of Americans are against this POTUS whilst not having been against previous ones is that he brought to America the Fascism that America practiced or supported abroad. In other words, before it was "I'm alright Jack" for those people, but now they themselves are not alright anymore so and THAT is what's unnacceptable for them.

The imperialist mindset in the US hasn't changed, the delusions of grandeur and the feeling of inherent superiority are barelly reduced if at all - America fucking up people all over the place is fine as long as it only does it in far away places to little people who aren't Americans, ideally somebody you've been told by TV are "bad people" (whilst Americans are "good", they're always the "good guys", even when they leave hundreds of thousands of bodies in their trail)

American Exceptionalism has mainly just made a massive pile of bones and that feeling of "better and more important than the rest" hasn't changed and the focus of people demonstrating against Trump in the US isn't at all ending such posture and the consequences of it in the World, rather it's just ending the problems Trump is causing to America and Americans: good for you if you're fighting for what's good for you, just don't expect other people to think better of you for that alone when you don't and never really cared enough about all the shit that's been done in your name by the leaders of your country fucking up everybody else.

In fact, expecting to be aplauded for it by the rest of the World sounds a lot like the usual delusions of grandeur.

The only people in the US I myself respect in all this shit are the ones demonstrating against things like what's happenning in Palestine - they're standing by genuine principles and fighting for others, not themselves - not the people merely fighting Trump for what he's doing to America, since that's just self-serving, not principled.

It may feel to you that when you're with your people everyone is against Trump. From the outside looking in, there are more people who support Trump than oppose him, and there are many times more people who are in neither camp and just accept that this is what the world is. That vast majority of Americans think that democracy only happens once every four years.

Most of the cases of ICE brutality escalate through protests against them. The protestors know that raising violence will be used as an excuse to America’s fear/racism-driven base to triple their funding. They bravely accept they’ll do more in getting attacked, in demonstrating ICE’s cruelty, than attacking individuals.

We’re in a bizarre period of history where there’s so many eyes on the internet, optics matter more than ever. There’s still some extremely captive audiences that can be made to think everything the regime does is “legitimate”.

Hahahaha your system is so broken. The fact you can't see it is kind of sad. Maybe they lose the midterms but your limp noodle Democrats are not going to do shit.