NoneOfUrBusiness

Nobody is silent about this what the fuck are you even talking about?

Y’all getting the latter, definitely.

That’d be tantamount to seceding, so legally no but practically yes if they want to secede.

I mean if anything Israel should be really freaking out about Trump. US soft power is the only thing keeping Israel from being eaten alive—or at least left out to dry—by its neighbors. I know they’re not freaking out, but they really should be.

The buses were blown up while empty in a parking lot, which isn’t likely to be a coincidence.

This is the kind of resistance I can 100% get behind. Blowing up civilians is generally not good, but absolutely blow up their shit.

There’s an Arabic saying that roughly translated goes something like this: Sins are wide and good deeds are narrow. The meaning is that when a large part of a group of people is sinful, just not being implicated in sin doesn’t protect you; you have to work to stop or you have no business trying to be excused from whatever punishment will come. In other words, you gotta work to stop the evil being done or you’re well within the moral blast radius. So… That’s what’s going on here; with this framework more than 99% of America is guilty.

Counterpoint: They’re 🐂lso the re🐂son we don’t write like this.

Canaanites: The heroes we needed but didn’t deserve.

People from non-Western countries complain too; it’s just that in a dictatorship complaining can get you thrown in prison or worse so people take care not to complain too much in public.

Yeah I wanted to say WWI and mistyped.

Oh shit I added an extra I for some reason. I mean WWI. WWII was definitely an American problem too.

I mean I don’t think most people are for state independence now, but the idea is gaining legitimacy. There’s just no reason to stick with a federal government that will take your taxes and then give you nothing.

Just to make it clear, though: The kind of protesting that works is not standing in the road and blocking traffic on a weekend. We’re talking indefinitely long protests where you occupy public places in a massive show of force meant to force the present regime to back down, and all the violent clashes and multi-day standoffs that come with that. This is (part of) why the civil rights movement worked but the Iraq war protests didn’t. For a recent example of this in action look up the Ukrainian Revolution or the Tunisian Revolution, or for an American example the civil rights movement. If the person you’re responding to had in mind more typical quiet single-day protests then they’re 100% correct, otherwise you’re right but it’s very much uncertain whether Americans have the guts for this kind of stunt.

I mean WWI was salty Europeans fighting salty Europeans over European salt. Nothing for America to get involved in.

Does Spain?

I mean yes. Spain has one of the biggest weapons industries in the world IIRC.

Race and people are different things though.

I know calling the GOP on their hypocrisy is a low hanging fruit, but still: the party of law and order.

None of that is a problem for Trump.

Seeing a therapist is probably the way to go here.