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Notice how I wrote “in America we”.

But you’re right a sample of a handful of grumpy commenters should be extrapolated directly to the public at large. Ok. Nailed me to the wall there, bud. Gj!

Instead of politically organizing you’re babysitting other people’s personal views of the shitshow. #winning

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, directly in defiance of an authoritarian regime...

Relatively speaking in “free America” a bunch of “polite” people, when measured by time spent undertaking direct political (not their online impotent rage) we have what?

I like to believe it’s because deep inside we know they wouldn’t hesitate right? They clamp down hard early:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Uc_Davis_Pepp...

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> But you’re right a sample of a handful of grumpy commenters should be extrapolated directly to the public at large. Ok. Nailed me to the wall there, bud. Gj!

....Isn’t that exactly what you’re doing? Or do you have some kind of data to support your belief that Americans don’t give a damn about Trump pardoning actual war criminals?

> Instead of politically organizing you’re babysitting other people’s personal views of the shitshow. #winning

You’re right, what we really need in this country is yet another self-righteous, sheltered cynic to tell us how much more effectual he would be compared to the rest of America, if only he weren’t so darned jaded by everyone else’s apathy. /s

No it isn’t.

Yes I do: right now most are at home taking no direct political action. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, which isn’t under threat of military destruction but an emotional/social way of life? In the face of a so-called authoritarian regime, no less.

America? The vast majority of the political drama on Twitter is generated by 6% of its user base.

If you’re using the internet as your bubble to measure political actions, you could be talking to a way smaller group than you expect.

Western sensibilities, according to history, are to let bastards take over without lifting a real finger.

See Europe in the early 1900s.

Ooo yes you’re so angry but impotent rage & nothing is also another emotional American.

I’m a sheltered cynic?

Extrapolate all you want about my individual character cause you’re annoyed about abstract descriptions.

They must emotionally ring true for you to be taking such a cynical tone and really caring this much.

Oh yes it’s easy to wrap yourself in a sense you’re a do gooder who has it all figured out while ignoring the generally humanity has been like this since society began.

If everyone really mattered to us humanity would have ceased long ago. After the first person died we’d be so anguished we’d die. But that’s not true in our objective universe and I’m sure you’re going fix humanities indifference towards itself. Mmhmm

Grow up

> America? The vast majority of the political drama on Twitter is generated by 6% of its user base.

I’m sure you have a source for this claim, right? Surely someone on such a high horse as yourself would never support an argument with dubious, unsourced facts.

>Yes I do: right now most are at home taking no direct political action. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, which isn’t under threat of military destruction but an emotional/social way of life? In the face of a so-called authoritarian regime, no less.

I personally don't feel that this is an adequate citation for this argument.

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