My opinion is that the U.S. is committing war crimes and doing everything it can to undermine established international law. Furthermore, the U.S. president is a pedophile and a felon.
What worries me is that the American people have come to terms with this and won’t do anything about it.
You reinforce my view on this.
Yes, indeed, the blame lies with none other than this class. However, no one other than US citizens can solve the problem - which is why I’m writing this post, even though it merely states the obvious. It is simply an expression of utter incomprehension as to how such crimes are allowed to occur in a supposedly democratic country.
How can this pedophile criminal still be in office? In no democratic country in the world could such a degenerate person have been entrusted with any government responsibility at all.
The responsibility for this lies with none other than the American people.
You should be able to handle that on your own - but you’re not, even though you’re being exploited like this by a pedophile criminal.
There’s nothing else to say about it.
Unfortunately, I don’t see it that way. I’ve found time and again that even US citizens in the Fediverse tend to display a massive amount of completely misplaced, naive national pride.
It seems to me that even those here, due to the oligarchy in the US that controls the media, are massively misinformed or uninformed despite their flirtation with free media.
Added to this is decades of propaganda that Americans apparently cannot overcome even here.
The best example is this post: Instead of the all-too-necessary self-criticism, there are only excuses - even though the U.S. president is a pedophile and a serious criminal. Nevertheless, U.S. citizens act as if that were not the reality.
It really is American arrogance: I’m certainly taking a stand - it’s just that the very thing I’m taking a stand against is the the crimes of the US. If you at least try to stand up for the Palestinians, that goes without saying.
I am not a U.S. citizen. Like any other person in the world, I can only observe that the US is committing war crimes and trampling on international law. So am I supposed to naively assume that all Americans are monsters? To put it another way: If that’s not the case, why does your country act this way? Aren’t you a democracy in which the will of the people is represented by the government?
I am well aware that this is not the case, but the responsibility for this lies just as much with US citizens as the responsibility for the war crimes your country is committing.
Thank you very much. That’s basically what I’m getting at: there’s hardly any difference left between the US and Russia - both countries are controlled by oligarchs. But somehow, on the international stage, it’s portrayed as if only Russia were controlled by greedy autocrats.
However, since the mechanisms of control in the US are still far less pronounced than in Russia, I thought it would be a good idea to remind US citizens that they don’t yet live in a dictatorship, that they could still turn things around for the better if they would only give up their apathy and finally take action.
In Russia, it’s completely different. And in the US, it will soon be the same if citizens don’t fight back.
Yes, applies to all democratic countries. The logic is Democracy.
I don’t understand why you’re bringing this up. I’m not the one responsible for it. Your government is responsible - and your fellow citizens, too. It’s a mystery to me how the richest country in the world can have no social security, no health insurance, and all that. Where I come from, that’s covered under basic decency, but not in the US. No one else but US citizens is responsible for that, because they simply allow themselves to be exploited in such an absurd way.
It’s quite remarkable that you’re unable to properly assign blame for your own misery. But hey, it’s telling, because this post is about war crimes - and you’re acting as if I’m to blame for the fact that you can barely make ends meet.
Please don’t get me wrong, I’m sorry, but I can’t help you - only you yourselves can do that by forcing through the reforms that allow the population to live a life with some semblance of human dignity.
I can only say that this is guaranteed in every industrialized country in the world - just not in the US.
No one can change that except the US citizens themselves.
Nor can the rest of the world prevent the US from committing the most horrific war crimes, which the country is definitely doing.
That, too, is the responsibility of US citizens and no one else.
My point is that US citizens could remove their criminal president, but they don’t do so despite all his criminal machinations and despite the most serious war crimes.