• floofloof ( floofloof@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Every single bad thing you can imagine, they are doing. The USA simply has villains in charge, and they’ve set themselves the task of destroying anything that might sustain or improve life for anyone except themselves. In movies when this happens, real Americans take them down. In real life apparently they just sit and watch.

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        I’m a foreigner with an opinion. I talk to American friends every few days. I have some idea of what you’re up against and I recognize it’s not easy to do anything to slow this down or stop it. Trump’s threatening my country and so are our own right-wing politicians, and I’m aware we all face similar difficulties: it’s not easy to know what to do, and not easy to organize it even when you have an idea. But I can see it will take something unusual in the USA, not just waiting for an election.

        Saying you’re sitting and watching was unfair of me. Just an expression of frustration watching what they’re doing to your country and threatening to do to ours.

        • flatbield ( furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) 
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          We are doing things. An important judge race in WI went our way. Couple of FL congress races were won by republicans by a lot less then expected. In MN we had 25000 people turn out. There are tons of cases working through the courts.

          About all can be done at the moment is file law suits, try to shift public opinion enough so Republican congessman start getting nervous, win elections as come up.

        • Take your frustration and multiply it many times, then many times more. That’s what any reasonable person who lives in the U.S. is feeling right now. Something will give, sooner rather than later.

      • They’re just another US obsessed person from another country cosplaying and trying to tell Americans what to do.

        But if an American criticizes thoer country things are surely different.

    • I honestly wish there WAS something we could do but at this point its not logistically possible. I wish half the country could flood the capital and protest but the US is simply too large. It takes days and hundreds of dollars to travel even a few states away if you cant fly. I understand your frustration but you gotta cut us some slack while we figure this out.