The idea that Americans might have to do something to fix their country? Unthinkable, clearly a joke. Good luck.

Which American are you?

  1. “We can’t fight back because then the Nazis will take the opportunity to punish us harder”

  2. “it’s not as EASY as you seem to think”

  3. “Yeah, well what have YOU done??”

  4. “Did you not see the VERY effective and not-at-all-a-huge-joke No Kings protests?”

  5. “Keyboard warrior!”

  6. “I can’t have principles, I might lose the shitty job I hate!”

  7. “I believe that every historical revolutionary to whom I owe my prosperity was a Disney character with no family or livelihood at stake and who never really had to risk anything because in my child-brain their victory was guaranteed.”****

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  • Revolutionary France. Civilians used community policing (backed by the threat of force) to force changes to the army uniform. There were activists in revolutionary cities openly confronting troops, checking their uniforms, and in some cases escalating to violence if soldiers didn’t display rhe blue/white/red cockade. Thy distributed pamphlets persuading people that wearing the revolutionary colors was a shorthand for allyship and after not too long the army basically had to adopt it as official or expect their troops to be harassed at best or attacked in the street at worst (Schama, 1989).

    Other examples- civilian pressure successfully forcing the Iranian military to replace monarchist uniform insignia with Islamic iconography after the Shah fell in 1979, Chinese citizens physically attacking soldiers for displaying traditional insignia rather than (later-officially-adopted) Maoist symbols in the 1960s, civilian nationalist groups in Ghana forcing a redesign of military uniforms to remove British colonial styling….

    Now move the goal posts. Do it.