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   xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 23-May-2025 13:50:59 JST xianc78

   What I hate the most about the leftist side of the fedi, especially the EU types is the extreme anti-American sentiment, and I'm not talking about hatred for America as a country or the American government. I'm talking about hatred for American people in general.

   They just assume that just because we live here that we support all American policy. They think that we automatically support the Israeli invasion of Gaza (despite the fact that even most US republicans are less supportive of Israel) or whatever human-rights violation the US government is participating. Or if you are not indigenous, then they shit on you just for being born on stolen land.

   >Oh but you voted these people in that means you are all for it

   It should be obvious that voting doesn't work here anymore (or maybe it never did). And even if it did, that doesn't mean that we support everything the government does.

   You can hate on America all you want, but please don't hate on the people.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 13:54:42 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     Yeah, it's the TV group X effect.
     I said this already, but when I was studying, I barely had time for food. I never skipped school, or literally any oportunity to study.

     YET SOMEHOW, whenever there was a "student protest" for an extremely leftie cause, my mom always asked if I was there.

     You know... since I am obviously a student.

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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 04:10:30 JST Pawlicker

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     @xianc78 @bonifartius europeans unironically are extra vulnerable to propaganda
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     xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 04:10:31 JST xianc78

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     @bonifartius One major aspect of the modern American experience is that almost nobody trusts the government. Sure some may trust the government more than others and some may think that someone like Donald Trump can fix it, but most people have a gut feeling that the government is lying on almost everything. Even among people I talk to, it is that if there is going to be any meaningful change in this country, short of a revolution, it's going to come from state and local governments refusing to enforce unconstitutional and unjust laws and not from the federal government.

     >voting doesn't work over here as well and the people seem to like it that way. they long for being oppressed.

     I wonder if it is just people falling for propaganda revolving around American culture and politics. Europeans probably look at all the mass shootings in America or American hate groups like the WBC and come to the conclusion that freedoms like gun rights and free speech aren't worth it.

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     :gnu:+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 (bonifartius@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 04:10:32 JST :gnu:+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄

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     @xianc78 many euros (leftists especially of course) can't even imagine the mindset. i think one really has to be born in the US to really fathom the spirit? i only can imagine it myself as well, it is different but hard to grasp. starts with free speech that never has arrived in many parts of europe. i think sweden has the biggest free speech tradition, after GB completely killed it off.

     voting doesn't work over here as well and the people seem to like it that way. they long for being oppressed.

     this turned out much more rambling than expected.

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     You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 05:04:40 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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     @mrsaturday @xianc78 @bonifartius >Part of what keeps America safe and gives its politicians pause before they start getting too oppressive is the notion that enough people with guns will stick up for themselves when push comes to shove.

     I've never seen a single American politician take pause before deciding to oppress their own citizens. I don't think it's working.

     Can we stop pretending the 2nd amendment has utility as a safety mechanism and just admit we like guns BC they're cool and Americans are allowed to be cool?

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     Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!) (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 05:04:41 JST Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!)

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     @xianc78 @bonifartius >Europeans probably look at all the mass shootings in America or American hate groups like the WBC and come to the conclusion that freedoms like gun rights and free speech aren't worth it.
     Which is funny, because they have trucks of peace and such happening over there. Part of what keeps America safe and gives its politicians pause before they start getting too oppressive is the notion that enough people with guns will stick up for themselves when push comes to shove. Even in World War 2, Japan admitted to themselves that any attempt at a land invasion of the US would go horribly because they couldn't pass by a window without risking a gun barrel poking out of it.
     
     Also, WBC are grifters and nothing more. They're all lawyers and their purpose is to rile people up and then sue them should one of them get assaulted. People in the Great Plains have caught onto this and wall off their protest spaces with makeshift walls of tarpaulin and PVC and surround them with motorcycles revving their engines to drown out their shouting. But I suppose when a significant part of your worldview stems from longing for the embrace of a boot sole to your throat, you'd rather scream for daddy government to ban this sick filth and require your worldview be administered on everyone else, one riot baton at a time.