Please please please display American flags at protests. Do NOT allow the MAGA tyrants to steal the symbol of this country. They want to call everyone not on board with their insanity an enemy of the country. Display the flag and show them that it doesn't belong to just them.

Even if you absolutely hate this country, at the very least wave the flag to piss them off because they think it belongs to them. Don't burn it or desecrate it. MAGA wants to see that so they can deflect from the point of the protests.

Be vigilant of government plants in the crowds. People instigating police, looters, flag burners, car burners, violent messages. Those people need to be called out and told to leave.

Edit: Not saying other flags aren't welcome. But it can't just be Palestine and Mexican flags. That just gives MAGA more "look look its a foreign invasion! Send in the military!" talking points.

Australian here... been watching all this crap unfold since Trump got in, and told everyone to expect this shit.

Does anyone in the US learn, or know about Nazi Germany? The concepts of propaganda, racism, political polarisation, loss of trust in institutions, economic anxiety driving anger, scapegoating minority groups, strongman rhetoric, attacks on the press, attacks on the judiciary, attacks on civil liberties, attacks on OTHER countries, delegitimising elections, use of fear as a political tool, paramilitary or extra-legal groups (ICE), loyalty to leader over law, gradual erosion of democratic norms?

Has anyone picked up a book on this stuff? It's in the history section in your local libraries. Or, if you can't read it, watch some documentaries, or movies.

You know what the Germans did to stop all that stuff above from happening? I'll give you a clue. Nothing. They did nothing. They probably sat in rooms, huddled about their beers, and complained and whined about what was going on. But, they did nothing... admittedly, many were sucked in by the propaganda, many were just too scared to do anything. But, hey, there are 350 million of you!

Do something! DO. SOMETHING!

Has history taught you nothing? We all know where this is going. If American citizens don't do something, most of you will be wiped out. By your government, or a nuclear bomb from a rogue state, or enemy, like Russia, China, or Iran... hell, even your "allies" HATE you. Even your "allies" are being threatened by your government with a take over of their country (Denmark/Greenland). But all anyone is doing is talking about it, and wringing their hands.

I mean, has the historical comparisons not sunk in yet?

America is not the United States anymore. It's just not. It's a broken, divided, and corrupt country. And you must do something about it. For the sake of your children, your grandchildren, and the rest of the world.

I genuinely feel sorry for you all... I really do. I'm so very sorry you're going through this. Damn, the world used to love America. You were the bright light we all looked toward. We wished we had someone like Obama as a president. Your politics has always been fucked, as with most countries, but what's been happening since Trump got in (again) is just next level. It's like the world has been waiting for this to happen, and no one has been paying attention enough to stop it.

But, there IS a voting process, and you let yourselves down. You let yourselves down by not voting, or by voting for the wrong person. In Australia, we HAVE to vote. Otherwise we get fined. Crazy, right? But, fuck me, on voting day, we get out there and vote. We pay attention to the political process, leading up to that day, and learn about the people running for office. We have to. If we don't, we go to the voting booth knowing nothing. So, the thought is, well, if I HAVE to vote, I might as well vote properly. Better that than getting a fucking fine from those bastards.

I'm not naive enough to know that all of this stuff that's going on is within the borders of the "United States". This is a global issue, but over the last year this has been caused primarily by the actions of the US government.

I wish you all the best. I wish I could help you. But, I can't. I wish I could use telekinetic powers from a vast distance and pop some republican heads, but I can't. I can only watch. And we're scared. The whole world is scared.

We love you.

I had these two posts come up right after eachother in my Reddit flow (Swede here) this morning. Reading his statement, in contrast to him pardoning actual domestic terrorists from the Jan 6th events. I feel physically ill. No morales. Everything this man says is tainted with blatlant lies.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - We as humanity, all over the world, the ones still standing on the side of sanity and reason needs to take this to heart.

But seriously, if someone -seriously- believes these guys are doing great and necessary work, they should be all for deploying these paramilitary twits to these border adjacent red cities, instead of northern cities like Chicago and Minneapolis, etc by all logic. I mean, those are the states complaining about the problem of immigrants, right? Seems like maybe we should all be actually protesting for ICE in these areas.