Soooo, how’s everybody feeling? It’s been less than 3 weeks since this prescient post, anything change?
Edit: aw shit, it doesn’t carry over the comments and the gold :/ sorry comrades. Big up to Lussy, the OP.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7075332
Like, everyone fucking sucks in this country.
Edit: jesus fucking christ, just verbal masturbation and racist bullshit for 20 minutes under the guise of a declaration of war lmao what a fucking clown car of a country.
Like someone said in the other thread you linked and I posted in, I guess the silver-lining is that most people oppose this shit. Now, with that out of the way, a lot of people opposed Iraq and Afghanistan and that went nowhere.
don’t gaslight yourself. invading iraq was mid 70s% approval, higher than I saw for western polls of russians at the beginning of the SMO.
public opinion has zero influence on foreign policy and pretty much never has
Once the invasion was underway, IIRC that number peaked above 90% - clearly many of the people “opposed” to it did not actually have strong objections, too. IMO there was a small minority of Americans who ever truly opposed that war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_Iraq_War_protests
It also catalyzed the largest antiwar protests worldwide
Absolutely
Domestic policy, too.
When I stay in the right (errr, left and not lib) bubbles, yes, but when I venture outside of them, I start to doom spiral over the number of takes that are at best opposing it on procedural grounds, if not (manufacturing) support.
I’m certainly hopeful that the large amount of procedural opposition will be “enough” but it’s still disheartening.
This. People are eating up the corpo media broadcasting the celebration of gusano Venezuelans in Florida, Chile, Argentina, and Europe. My expectations for the westoids were low but holy fuck! They truly have goldfish memories.
The fucking gusanos brought this about. This is the coming of age of the Gusano dynasty, the Revenge of the Gusano.
A third opposes, a third supports, and a third is unsure. Source.