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As long as there isn’t massive civil unrest in the country

The thing to understand about liberal Americans is that they're currently doing everything in their power to prevent this, as they have been brainwashed for decades by conservative rhetoric that "only thugs riot" and couldn't seem to parse this for the racist dogwhistle it actually was.

They're making the exact same mistake the DNC made with not holding their ground during the government shutdown, because they so desperately didn't want to look like "the bad guy". When it comes to dictators, you're gonna have to riot at some point. A lesson that neo-American society will learn eventually the hard way.

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.

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.

Cashiers or anyone who regularly deals with cash.

Also, maybe don't make "show the rest of the world that we hate Trump" the primary goal of your resistance movement. Ugh.

Fun fact: US $100 bills are used in crime around the world because it's a strong currency and a million dollars fits in a backpack!

This is a silly take. Like, I get the concern, but, like... Why are you here instead of "ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING"? It's super hypocritical because if you think that's not an act of resistance and they should do stuff, then what the fuck are you even doing typing on the internet?

If you're gonna complain, at least post a list of things these people should be doing and how to do them. That way, you're at least a step above the thing you're criticizing, lmao.

That seems kinda pointless. Writing on the money atleast helps show how many people hate him, and further cements the (correct) idea that he's a disgusting sexual predator, that no decent person would want to associate themselves with.

Most people, whether they realize it or not, are biased towards ideas that they see as widely accepted. And this is something that can still be seen from inside a right-winger's echo chamber. Writing on money probably isn't going to convert them to the left, but it might push them ever so slightly away from actively supporting the regime, towards passivity.

Not using cash at all just makes your purchases more traceable.

that's really gonna stick it to the man!

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.

You're kinda wrong man. There's a bunch of counties where dollars are essentially the main currency. I go to Lebanon often and yeah, USD is the main currency, esp after the financial crisis a few years ago. There's also Ecuador where USD is the actual official currency.

Doesn't communicate that information as directly as something written on the bill itself