As a European, I am surprised at just how much Trump is allowed to do. In the sense that he’s not being stopped by a riot or something like that.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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If we riot, we lose our jobs. If we lose our jobs, we lose our health insurance. If we lose our health insurance, then we'll go bankrupt when the police shoot us with less lethals in the face. We don't know who we can trust to stand with us because we don't have those small but powerful institutions like unions. And even when we do, unions can't do general strikes or even solidarity strikes lest they lose their ability to exist.
and a significant chunk of the people around us actually support the orange buffoon.
Some of the largest nationwide protests we've ever had have been during Trump II. But the distances are incredibly vast.
The continental US is just over 4,500km wide, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, which are massive as well. While DC is populated, our country is large enough that it would take a six or seven hour flight to get there if you aren't in a hub city.
If you are, it's still over 5 hours of flying from L.A. to DC.
Driving from San Francisco, CA, to WA DC takes 41 hours, when at highway speeds. And that's without fuel, rest, or food. People are super spread out in a way Europe is not.
The real pain is people not voting. Voting could have saved everyone loads of trouble.
Glad to see someone mentioning this. I see a disturbing number of people on here saying nothing is happening and it's not true at all. Many, many people are angry, doing things, and more are getting involved with each new horrible thing that happens. It takes time for movements to reach critical mass. Especially in a country this big as you point out.
It's also critical to understand that he isn't supposed to have the ability to do all these things. He's ignoring law and due process completely at this point, but his party controls all three pillars of government and no one is stopping him at the governmental level.
To be honest, though, the main thing the past decade has revealed is that our government's supposedly robust set of checks and balances collapse completely as soon as people just stop being honorable and following the rules voluntarily. It's a paper thin system it turns out.
I don't know of any system that will hold up if all the people in power just decide to ignore it. What we lack is a robust way to ensure that no one group holds all the power at any given time.
They sent the military to peaceful protests in L.A. People are scared to riot.
remember that a lot of americans actually support this shit. that is the real problem, rioting is pointless.
I'm surprised at how europeans think they're any different.
:waves hand: We've always been at war with Eurasia
The more applicable portion of that book is the description of Winston’s job in Part 1 Ch 4.
I was looking for the text to post it. That was the first thing I thought of too.
Well yeah they always have been. Literally genociding palestine right now among other attacks.
They are liquidating this countries resources on every level, and it's just blatant now
Don't look up!
Wow the state that's half anti-science and half moron is reversing science that it never gave a shit about? I'm shocked. Shocked!
Guess how much nature cares
Nature doesn't care about our politics but ecosystems are already collapsing from climate change, with over 1 million species facing extinction according to the latest IPBES assesment - changing the reports won't change the physics of greenhouse gases.