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Are opposed as in they are setting on fire ammunition production? Or those 20% are all in military production by coincidence? Maybe they are refusing service to veterans? Or maybe they are blockading ports instead of arguing for americans on tankers stealing oil?
The alternative in voting were libertarians and greens and psl, if they are both the same - which they are, but even that effort is too much for burgerreichers. So no, i don’t believe they are opposed to anything, they have opinions which they don’t act on even if it were not costing them.
Amerikans have the only agency in the whole world to oppose this, and they dick around arguing about burger prices
While cool and good, this seems completely irrelevant
Parasites get in the food all the time, and providing military discount is so distracting
And sure a lot of these are very kinetic, with risk of losing white picket fence mortgage, whatever, i understand material comfort, cause i have it relatively good in that department, with having a job and residence, my despair is at total absence of those types of people. It’s like measuring temperature, amerikkkans managed to produce like 8 people willing to go to jail over their beliefs, out of 340 million. Not 1000, not 100, 8 (3 self immolations
, 4 pal action gals and guys and one elias, whom one should write a letter to, but won’t because it will lower credit score)
But voting and boycotts are free, literally, and they don’t even do that. And im not attacking local posters, you shouldn't take offense at calling amerikkkans (euros are the same) evil - or purge nationalist brainworms
It doesn't even bother me to call Americans evil I was just saying we need to actually do something to harness the resentment that does very much exist instead of just saying oh well they are still evil.