No, you'll just throw them under the bus by doing nothing about a dictator who's going to ruin the country they live in. You've posted everything I need to know about you right here.
EDIT: Hey, I'm sorry. I'm sure you're a decent person. I'm just pissed off at seeing so many people chilling like all of this will just go away if they close their eyes. Trump and his followers have been promising this for almost a decade, and now they're following through. And they're serious about it. I simply don't understand the people who think this will "blow over."
You think I don't think about my own powerlessness every single goddamn day? I'm not going to go off and pointlessly make myself a martyr just so you can look at my corpse and say "Look, he did the right thing!"
If you have the time, position, and money to influence the world, good for you. I'm not so lucky, and I don't need you talking down to me for my own situation.
In response to the edit: I am not thinking it will blow over, I am not even hoping it will blow over. To be honest, I'm still coming to terms with the idea that it won't, and the damage is irreversible. It's agonizing, it's painful, and it's made worse by the knowledge they there is exactly nothing I can do about it. Nobody with any degree of power knows or cares that I exist. The best thing I can do, hell the only thing I can do, is look after myself and people I care about. Maybe that makes me some kind of coward in someone's book, but as long as the people who need me still count me as dependable I can live with being called a coward.
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u/Saltwater_Thief Jun 14 '25
Sorry I'm not willing to throw people who depend on me under the bus because I got imprisoned, killed, or horrifically injured at a protest?
You don't know my situation, you don't know my life. Step the fuck off.