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It's really just X. Focus on X imo.
- You mean Twitter, right?

I'm really confused as to why 'Russians' are generalized as the last domino here
Like, could have easily been 'Putin', but even then are we content with stopping at removing despots? Let's at least aim a bit higher, maybe 'oligarchy', or even 'capital owners' if we're being ambitious.
- Yeah. I've no problem with the Russian civilians as an American. But I do have a problem with Putin as he seems intent to make himself everyone's problem just like our wannabe dictators.
  Fuck Tesla. Fuck Elon. Fuck Trump. Fuck corpo pigs
- Because for a disturbingly large segment of the American population, the Cold War staying cold made it not really register as over.
- Capitalism. Everyday russians have nothing to do with the problem.
- Billionaires
- It should say Kremlin, imo.
- Americans must externalize their own internal contradictions onto Russia. Liberals be scape-goating.
- I hope there will be revised version soon. I really like the style it delivers the message.

man. i dont think any of this would be happening if people weren't fucking lazy and just voted in November. like god damn who cares if the line is long for one night.
- People don't know how to participate in a democracy, it's ridiculous.
  If millions upon millions of people in your country want to vote far right, you're not going to get Bernie, you have to compromise. You pick the one that has the most likelihood of pulling your country in the direction you want, because the alternative is that you don't get anything at all. You can't be entitled, because you have to share your country with 350 million other people. Fucking compromise or get fascism.
- They purged voter roll, but only for democrats.
  Technically legal.
- There are numerous ideological and philosophical frameworks that attempt to explain how fascism takes rise, so why do you just blame it on laziness?
  Did Hitler come to power because of German industrialization, German embarrassment from WWI, the great depression, and other global economic hardships, or did Hitler come to power simply because Germans were lazy and didn't vote?
  Our turn towards fascism was inevitable, and it can be explained better than with some nebulous concept of "laziness".
  At the very minimum, start asking yourself why Americans are not enthusiastic about voting.
  
  Because laziness gave it the win.
  Lots of things can give rise to fascism, but when people stay at home they give it a free pass to take control. We had the easiest chance of hitting the brakes.
  Voting is EASY.
  All we had to do was vote. If trump doesn’t leave then it’s going to cost lives to change. Damn fool to think otherwise.
- That happens every single election. How about, instead of attacking people who are rightfully unconvinced this system works, you attack the people actually doing the fascism.
  You’re like a fuckin’ Russian bot, only helping to divide. Fuckin’ dumbass democrats, man. This is why you lose.
  
  I think, not voting, is the wrong way of expressing not being convinced of the system.
  I think the better approach would be vote, but try to spread the word why you’re inconvenienced, try to force government to be more transparent, sue politicians that do corrupt stuff, organise demonstrations and strike with precise demands like improve transparency of politics, found only trustworthy journalism, fact check anything and add sources to information/misinformation, track sources truthness not by 0 and 1 but between 0% and 100%, teach empathy to anybody, make music, talk to many people
  But i am lucky, as my people before me have done that already, well, still hard job to maintain…
  
  You insult this person and accuse them and dividing, only to say "fuckin Democrats, this is why you always lose".
  Who's dividing here again, chum? Practice what you preach
  I'm not a Democrat and I share their sentiment.
  80 million of y'all didn't show up and instead of looking at ourselves, we just blame the Dems for not matching our purity politics enough.
  80 million didn't show. They had weeks to turn in a vote via mail or just finding a local place to do it.
  We all had options. 80 million decided to do nothing and they share just as much the blame and anyone for this.

This cartoon could be done in reverse with Russian Dolls.
- lol nested dolls where the little one is Putin.
  
  And immovable. Because they are.

It shouldn't be Russians, but Putin
Edit: You know what, some Russians are good people. Not everyone in Russia is a bootlicker
- Of course this is true but when youre in a conflict you dont have the luxury of making distictions.
  This is like Americans reminding us 'not all Americans are like this'. Its like, yeah bro we know but your country is actively threatening ours, so tough.
- Russians are good the same way Americans are good, as in that a huge amount of them support a piece of shit.
  
  And probably for the same reason. Bad education, that's what I think as a Russian.
- Not saying every Russian is bad, and they're obviously victims of lies and propaganda... But still. Don't they overwhelmingly support the invasion of Ukraine? That's like if most Americans were fine with us violently murdering, raping, and torturing our bloody way through Canada (please let this not happen)...
  
  I mean there are a massive amount of people in America in complete support of the genocide in Gaza. But I guess the analogy doesn't work for Americans because the children dying are brown.
- Americans will always be xenophobic. They'll just switch their target every now and then.
  
  Wow, hot take. It's almost like you completely missed the point of the comment you're responding to.

I’m doing my part!

It's a nice thought, but unless toppling Tesla also somehow reverses destruction of the public education system, and also something about the complex systematic, and very much intentional, polarization of individuals through social media feeds then this won't stop Republicans or Russia in the end.
- Think of it more as exercise. It takes a bit for people to get rolling. If we can take down tesla, then we learn we can do more. Revolution doesn't start at the finish line.
  
  This exactly, and more people need to understand it. A one day boycott of Amazon doesn't do much to Amazon, especially since many people will simply defer spending to the next day. What it does do is give a simple goal for people to participate who haven't done this sort of thing before. Then you expand it to longer time periods and more targets.
  
  I'm just saying we need to know the route to run the marathon, otherwise we shouldn't expect to win any prizes by the end of it.
  Defeating Putin, Trump, and Elon Musk is going to have specific steps to accomplish. Educate, Organize, and Unify opposition, and this will absolutely involve playing politics which a lot of people abhor. This isn't one of those "hit problems with club until it stops moving" scenarios. At least not until we take away the enemy's bigger club.
- Idk man melon seems pretty upset rn I’d say carry right on chaps looks like you’re going the right way o7
- Also worth noting, Tesla’s stock price skyrocketed when it was made clear Elon would take over the government. It is now basically back to where it was before this.
  I will get excited when it starts losing years worth of value.
- Good thing we've got people like you to tell everyone that doing anything isn't worth it!
  
  I never said it wasn't worth it. I'm just saying you should plan a little further ahead than just punching a singular nazi if you want to defeat Hitler.
- Right, Twitter should be in there too.
- Not with that attitude!

Which foreigners are we gonna decide is the reason the US isn't a democracy to hide the fact the state is owned by the ruling class next? I vote for going back to the Japanese
- I bet it's gonna be China, they've been setting that stage for years
  
  You even see people eating it up on Lemmy.
  Since some people in this thread need to hear it: China is not your enemy
  
  My money’s on Iran but China is always in contention for this coveted distinction.
- It's Arabs and Muslims this time. And the queer community as always. And obviously any commies that try to organize and resist.
  And the Zionist Christians that run this country will absolutely love to deport the Jews to Israel.
  And it'll just continue to anyone "unAmerican"
  "The Nazis never really went away"

Yeah, I'm pretty sure those dominoes are falling the other way.

Swap Republicans and Trump
Trump basically is the republican party anymore
- Basically the Russian party, every one of them funded by Russians.

This is not about money anymore

Row row

I understand all the hate against billionares and political elite, but what's up with hating russians, including civilians? Especially these days, when russian citizen equals to bloody war, poverty and censorship.
- No, a lot of people hate on the Russian government. I will say that the comic should say Russia instead of Russians to clarify that, unless the author themself is incorrect/misled.
  Russia is the one who has been supporting Trump through their bot network in various social medias. We're basically fighting an information war, and yet we basically won't acknowledge it so we lose.
- Because it's always been like that. An enemy image unites, and allows for political agendas which wouldn't be possible otherwise. China and Taiwan? Israel and Gaza? The middle east? Jugoslawia? Kosovo and Albania? The soviets, Hitler, the OG fascist Mussolini, and even they weren't the first ones.
  Having an enemy helps unite people against them, and as long as the image of the enemy being present and being a danger is fed, inner conflicts matter way less, since the "danger" is the enemy.
  For America it's an especially interesting case:
  America spends ~900 billion dollars on military, which is as much as the next most spending 9 countries combined. Source. Fuck knows if that's super accurate, it's a fuckton. America's main export good is war, so any enemy is a good enemy, and any war is a good war. Suddenly, the 66.5 billion spent on Ukraine since 2022 aren't that much anymore.
  The "commies" and the "reds" are an historic enemy, and have been for a significant time of America's existence. America has existed for 249 years this year. The soviet union existed for 69 years, counting in the Russian Republic right before its 74 years. Right before that was the Russian empire, which existed for 196 years. The Russians, in some form, have been an enemy since basically forever.
  A comparatively extremely dumb population on average at least in regard to the non-american world, in addition to intolerance of the "non-american way" of doing things and disinterest in other cultures.
  And since the average American already is used in thinking black and white with glorious freedom of two-party pseudo democracy, it's even easier to get the enemy image going.
  For some variance, China can be used sometimes too.
  And before I get called a Russian bot, fuck Putin, fuck Trump, fuck Musk, and many other political figures having blood of many people on their hands.
  
  Great analysis. It's a shame these days one can elaborate the most reasonable argumentation and still will be straight hated if not including literally 'fuck Putin'.
  Argumentation era is over.
- i think its more towards putin. i dont have an issue with russians, i have an issue with putin

- *traitors
  
  Yeah Americans, the same as Russians above. Americans are just on a different stage of the progression right now.

Republicans should be replaced with Americans. It's all the same bullshit American culture.

Is ok to be xenophobe against Russians now?
There are plenty of Russians who are wonderful persons.
It's like judging all Americans for what Trump is doing.
- It's like judging all Americans for what Trump is doing.
  In case you haven't noticed, that is what is happening
- There are also plenty of Russians invading their neighbour, slaughtering thousands of innocent people.
  Just like the complacent Americans sitting by watching their "leader" destroy the civility of the free world. The Russians are no better.
  
  Being a bad or good person is not tied to nationality.
  
  It's called conscription. Russians have two choices: poverty or war. And the slaughter is way bigger in the russian lines.

Welcome to liberal q-anon.
- Where we go one, we bicker incessantly?

Instead of Russians it should be Democrats and then USA...
- Nooooo the parties aren't the same 😡😡😡 The Democrats just needed one more term in power and they will have fixed everything

The hate to Russia is somewhat misplaced, Putinism is more or less a by product of America. It will be less a problem once Americans stop hate themselves.
- What a dogshit take.
- So it’s America’s fault Putin wants to reclaim old Soviet land. What kind of weak feeble minded child is Putin if that is her motivation.
  
  So it’s America’s fault
  Quite literally yes. The US is the country behind the privatisation of all national assets in Russia that ended up in the hands of oligarchs, it was literally carried out under the guidance of MIT economists.
  
  It's America's fault that America is turning fascist. You don't just get to run a 200 year political experiment built on genocide under the guidance of white landowners, and then start scapegoating Russians once that project inevitably and predictably goes fascists. This is American exceptionalism.
- Nonetheless, burning a house down doesn't rebuild any houses, even if it is the arsonist's house going up in flames.
  
  Exactly, you can ask the talking heads how that went...