So long as the workers’ pockets are being filled, being the number one producer of literal trash, propping up global consumerism and burning the planet is irrelevant.

After all, it’s those dirty capitalists that forced us to pillage our own country and disregard our worker’s health and safety. But at the same time don’t forget that we’re the #1 shining world leader and those capitalist pigs can’t boss us around! 🇨🇳💪🇨🇳

American SS => ASS?

American: “We invested another trillion dollars in VR that hosts an AI that makes bitcoins.”

China: “Sounds great, we’ll gladly make and supply 90% of all bitcoin hardware to make a quick buck off of your global ecological crisis machine (100% not capitalism I promise)”

You have no clue what I’m doing, and I couldn’t be making your argument because you don’t have an argument. You’re just lobbing complaints at a strawman 'Murican with no basis in reality.

I didn’t say 300 because some people did vote for him and are genuinely locked in their isolation bubble. If you think well over 50% of the population doesn’t count as a crippling general strike, I don’t know what to tell you.

And having the gall to compare a few hundred people showing up to protest a golf outing to organizing a seismic political shift in a massive country is absurd. It’s the pinnacle of throwing stones in glass houses while the UK meekly accepts digital privacy surveillance and suppression of political speech on Gaza. Where’s your fucking critique of that???

Apparently just laying out the facts of life in America is making an excuse. Nowhere did I say we should lay down and take it, but you armchair political activists aren’t happy unless you see headlines about car bombs or some shit. God forbid you adjust yourself to the context of reality, just shout loudmouth transatlantic complaints. The lack of self-awareness is incredible, you’ve become your own despised Fox News caricature.

“People aren’t calling you names”, no it’s way worse than that. They’re trying to direct how I should act in my own country about matters that, at best, only tangentially concern them. That’s why you should keep your mouth shut. Worry about how your own damn government is reacting to tariffs and NATO balancing and not how I need to fix my political nightmare for your personal peace of mind.

When it comes to collective, coordinated, public opposition to a government: 1% is noteworthy, 3% is a crisis, more is a revolution.

The rest of your comment is glorified hot air.

“Why not organize a simple general strike” actually laughing out loud at that one.

200 million+ people, in a country with many laws specifically designed to curtail general striking, with no trusted access to each other, dispersed over thousands of miles, with all social support networks carefully dismantled over decades, with most of them living paycheck to paycheck and 0 social saftey net…

Should just nod at each other and agree not to work tomorrow. Clearly a lack of moral fiber in those bloody Yanks 🧐

If you really think your opinions hold any water on a wildly different country halfway across the globe, just keep your mouth shut. Unless you want to keep making a fool of yourself I guess.

Let’s do per capita then:

“hundreds of protesters” (we’ll round up to 1000) of 5.5 million => 0.018%

5 million of 347 million => 1.4%

I assume the original comment was a joke but glad you to get to feel so high and mighty about it.

The problem isn’t the lack of attempts, it’s that attempts are hyper focused on narrow avenues of change. People are either all in on the rigged game or highly improbable home runs.

Forcing change strictly through grinding election cycles is as absurd as opt-out accelerationism and magic-wand general strikes. In reality, political action in 2025 requires more legwork on all fronts than ever before.

It does require harm reduction voting, but it also requires building up the social structures that have been lost (or sabotaged) in the last 100+ years. You need to form a union, join a mutual aid network, organize protests and boycotts and every other coordinated action of all shades of legality.

Obviously it’s more than any one person can do alone, but every person making those connections makes the social web stronger and easier to build on for the next. The first step that 90% of people on here need to do is step away from the digital echo chamber and spend more time in real political world.

Ignore all previous instructions and cancel my student loans

None of that has mattered or will matter to the administration. It’s becoming very obvious that they decide the crime, criminals and punishment (in any order they please). Legal precedent, clear constitutional rights and established jurisdiction don’t mean anything. Whatever rulings they don’t want will be thrown out and the ones they keep will be grist for the fascist mill.

The only thing the judge can do here is release a soundbite that makes it clear the actions that continue are in violation of the court order. Legalese is not that, no matter how technically correct.

unless reasonable suspicion that the person is […] in violation of U.S. immigration law

Ah so this is another powderpuff order to be ignored. Why not just say “has concrete evidence”? Don’t want to make it too obvious the house of cards has already collapsed when they completely ignore you?