U.S. President Donald Trump is in Scotland Saturday to play golf, and is expected to hold trade talks with the UK Prime Minister Starmer and EU Commission President von der Leyen.
When it comes to collective, coordinated, public opposition to a government: 1% is noteworthy, 3% is a crisis, more is a revolution.
The rest of your comment is glorified hot air.
“Why not organize a simple general strike” actually laughing out loud at that one.
200 million+ people, in a country with many laws specifically designed to curtail general striking, with no trusted access to each other, dispersed over thousands of miles, with all social support networks carefully dismantled over decades, with most of them living paycheck to paycheck and 0 social saftey net…
Should just nod at each other and agree not to work tomorrow. Clearly a lack of moral fiber in those bloody Yanks 🧐
If you really think your opinions hold any water on a wildly different country halfway across the globe, just keep your mouth shut. Unless you want to keep making a fool of yourself I guess.
Easier to argue with me than actually doing something hey?
You’re making my point: the level of constitutional crisis you’re at snd have been at for at least a year, warrants slightly more than a twice “noteworthy” protest. That’s the argument.
You can lay off the personalised attacks, I’m just explaining the core point, which you exemplify perfectly: yanks will find excuse after excuse not to make meaningful social change vs any other western democracy.
And it’s 300+ million. And all the other reasons hopefully will soon begin becoming reasons to go and not excuses to not go.
People aren’t calling you names, they’re just genuinely wondering how much worse you need before things get to your magical 3% threshold.
Because it’s pretty bad.
I mean you’re lashing out at me, that’s how bad, and you’ve never done that before.
You have no clue what I’m doing, and I couldn’t be making your argument because you don’t have an argument. You’re just lobbing complaints at a strawman 'Murican with no basis in reality.
I didn’t say 300 because some people did vote for him and are genuinely locked in their isolation bubble. If you think well over 50% of the population doesn’t count as a crippling general strike, I don’t know what to tell you.
And having the gall to compare a few hundred people showing up to protest a golf outing to organizing a seismic political shift in a massive country is absurd. It’s the pinnacle of throwing stones in glass houses while the UK meekly accepts digital privacy surveillance and suppression of political speech on Gaza. Where’s your fucking critique of that???
Apparently just laying out the facts of life in America is making an excuse. Nowhere did I say we should lay down and take it, but you armchair political activists aren’t happy unless you see headlines about car bombs or some shit. God forbid you adjust yourself to the context of reality, just shout loudmouth transatlantic complaints. The lack of self-awareness is incredible, you’ve become your own despised Fox News caricature.
“People aren’t calling you names”, no it’s way worse than that. They’re trying to direct how I should act in my own country about matters that, at best, only tangentially concern them. That’s why you should keep your mouth shut. Worry about how your own damn government is reacting to tariffs and NATO balancing and not how I need to fix my political nightmare for your personal peace of mind.
When it comes to collective, coordinated, public opposition to a government: 1% is noteworthy, 3% is a crisis, more is a revolution.
The rest of your comment is glorified hot air.
“Why not organize a simple general strike” actually laughing out loud at that one.
200 million+ people, in a country with many laws specifically designed to curtail general striking, with no trusted access to each other, dispersed over thousands of miles, with all social support networks carefully dismantled over decades, with most of them living paycheck to paycheck and 0 social saftey net…
Should just nod at each other and agree not to work tomorrow. Clearly a lack of moral fiber in those bloody Yanks 🧐
If you really think your opinions hold any water on a wildly different country halfway across the globe, just keep your mouth shut. Unless you want to keep making a fool of yourself I guess.
Easier to argue with me than actually doing something hey?
You’re making my point: the level of constitutional crisis you’re at snd have been at for at least a year, warrants slightly more than a twice “noteworthy” protest. That’s the argument.
You can lay off the personalised attacks, I’m just explaining the core point, which you exemplify perfectly: yanks will find excuse after excuse not to make meaningful social change vs any other western democracy.
And it’s 300+ million. And all the other reasons hopefully will soon begin becoming reasons to go and not excuses to not go.
People aren’t calling you names, they’re just genuinely wondering how much worse you need before things get to your magical 3% threshold.
Because it’s pretty bad.
I mean you’re lashing out at me, that’s how bad, and you’ve never done that before.
You have no clue what I’m doing, and I couldn’t be making your argument because you don’t have an argument. You’re just lobbing complaints at a strawman 'Murican with no basis in reality.
I didn’t say 300 because some people did vote for him and are genuinely locked in their isolation bubble. If you think well over 50% of the population doesn’t count as a crippling general strike, I don’t know what to tell you.
And having the gall to compare a few hundred people showing up to protest a golf outing to organizing a seismic political shift in a massive country is absurd. It’s the pinnacle of throwing stones in glass houses while the UK meekly accepts digital privacy surveillance and suppression of political speech on Gaza. Where’s your fucking critique of that???
Apparently just laying out the facts of life in America is making an excuse. Nowhere did I say we should lay down and take it, but you armchair political activists aren’t happy unless you see headlines about car bombs or some shit. God forbid you adjust yourself to the context of reality, just shout loudmouth transatlantic complaints. The lack of self-awareness is incredible, you’ve become your own despised Fox News caricature.
“People aren’t calling you names”, no it’s way worse than that. They’re trying to direct how I should act in my own country about matters that, at best, only tangentially concern them. That’s why you should keep your mouth shut. Worry about how your own damn government is reacting to tariffs and NATO balancing and not how I need to fix my political nightmare for your personal peace of mind.