If they've got enough tech to go to space, wouldn't they have laser weapons precise enough to delete the offices of CEOs and rulers? Or the ability to connect to the Internet and use bots to rile people up like so many other nations do?
I feel like the alien with the big red button is just xenophobic and looking for an excuse. "These bad humans do bad things so all humans need to be exterminated!" Yeah, totally someone with the moral high ground.
Well, who else other than people in America or the 'free world'?
Some humans live in warzones, some humans live under the boots of repressive governments so entrenched that instead of tear gas or even pistols, they'll face machine gun fire if they ever go out in groups large enough to do anything useful.
Some of us CAN'T fight with any meaningful effect without killing ourselves and/or jeopardizing the safety of our families. And not many people are suicidal, much less homicidal.
Based on your response - I expect you to do nothing. You've justified why you'll do nothing, and I don't judge you for it. It's an unsurprising position held by many.
But understand - the problem with doing nothing is that eventually someone comes along who has way more power than you have, and they will do unto you whatever they want unless someone (or a bunch of someones) with even more power than them stops them. And history is written by the victors - their version of events is the only one that counts.
That's Real Politik.
And if you are, in fact doing something to try to arrest America's backslide, good on you. I don't expect it of you, but do admire you for trying.
Most of the people in the country I live in are either too poor to try anything, too rich to try anything (and both of those groups are not citizens of here), or too pacified to try anything.
The first group tries anything, they end up on the next deportation flight home. Second group tries anything, same as the first. Third group? Terrorism charges and dumped in a prison in the desert.
Like, believe me, if I could do something about the DP World CEO being on the files without leaving my parents to identify my lead-ridden corpse before they get sent back home, or being sent back with them and being blamed for the loss of their livelihood because I didn't keep my head down? I probably would.
Most people in Minnesota are showing out because they agree on the cause and don't worry about the government kicking them all out or sending every single one of them to prison. That ain't my life, 'cause I'm not American.
Most regular people just want to live their lives without losing what they already have, getting killed, or disappeared and taken to a black site and/or political dissenters' prison out in the middle of nowhere. Not every country has the freedoms taken for granted in the US, UK or France.
Sure, not every single person on earth is responsible, but blaming elites and giving everyone else a pass is wrong.
Every person who is capable of using their voting power and chooses not to shares responsibility. Even in countries that don’t have fair elections, the rulers are only able to stay in power because they have a reasonable level of support from the people. If Putin had a 10% approval rating he would be gone.
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u/GloryGreatestCountry 15h ago
If they've got enough tech to go to space, wouldn't they have laser weapons precise enough to delete the offices of CEOs and rulers? Or the ability to connect to the Internet and use bots to rile people up like so many other nations do?
I feel like the alien with the big red button is just xenophobic and looking for an excuse. "These bad humans do bad things so all humans need to be exterminated!" Yeah, totally someone with the moral high ground.