While we do #Denmark #Danmark #USA #Greenland #Arctic drama, don't forget the #Inuit, the people who live there

@benroyce For many of us the mistrust has long been there.

Lots of people are aware stuff like the Hague Invasion Act has never been repealed, even when the so-called good democrats had decades to do so. It just wasn't important. For a long time that was still theoretical though.

Still I think it was really the lack of accountability and system fixing after the coup attempt that taught us to fear the US as a nation of people who just don't care about "others", foreigners in specific.

@ckd

@benroyce And I must say that I find it harder by the day to hear quotes from US citizens like "I didn't vote for him", "not my president", "not in my name" and especially: "50% of us disagree".

I get it. And I believe people when they say that. It also doesn't mean anything to me. That's internal.

What is external, to me as a citizen of another country, is that the USA -the country, with all the history, friendship & agreements we share- is actively threatening my country with invasion & war.

@Pepijn

if someone didn't vote, they are absolutely without a leg to stand on on anything

this is where i place all my anger as an american

all their toxic idealism, all their mindless cynicism: it's nothing more than pure unadulterated entitlement and weak stupid excuses

absolutely infuriates me

we *have* to vote to defeat this abomination. there are no excuses

@benroyce @Pepijn

The US also has primaries that don't get the attention they deserve. The Democrats are an appalling neoliberal far-right party, in the main, and the US's choice of Trump as an act of desperation is understandable from the POV of the status quo being intolerable.

The Wolf PAC's introduction of AOC, Rashida Tlaib etc. is what should be happening wholesale.

Without this, the Dems are a holding pattern before the next nosedive.

@benroyce @Pepijn

The US also has primaries that don't get the attention they deserve. The Democrats are an appalling neoliberal far-right party, in the main, and the US's choice of Trump as an act of desperation is understandable from the POV of the status quo being intolerable.

The Wolf PAC's introduction of AOC, Rashida Tlaib etc. is what should be happening wholesale.

Without this, the Dems are a holding pattern before the next nosedive.

@Pepijn

if someone didn't vote, they are absolutely without a leg to stand on on anything

this is where i place all my anger as an american

all their toxic idealism, all their mindless cynicism: it's nothing more than pure unadulterated entitlement and weak stupid excuses

absolutely infuriates me

we *have* to vote to defeat this abomination. there are no excuses

@eswag @benroyce @Pepijn

"the Dems are a holding pattern before the next nosedive."

So wisely said. The Democratic Party has structural defects that cannot be overcome. If there are elections next November, at best we can only expect another repeat of the previous administration.

@Leendaal @benroyce We should as NATO countries, minus that US idiot, put boots on the ground in Greenland to give the signal. Do not mess around with us.

@benroyce @Pepijn@mastodon.online this person has a history of being weird in this topic. DNE.

@davevolek @eswag @Pepijn

"that cannot be overcome"

and what does mamdani mean to you?

@benroyce @eswag @Pepijn

He will eventually disappoint many of his followers. I mean no offence to this man, but he is operating a machine from the 19th century.

@davevolek @eswag @Pepijn

then *you* accept the status quo

we don't

there is only moving forward, no matter how much the path is rocky, and i agree with you it is rocky

but we cannot choose pessimism, rather than accurately and consciously identifying the challenges and meeting them

i reject your cynicism. it describes your attitude, not our reality

articulate a path forward or at least do not reject those who are moving forward, however hard you (accurately) see their path

@eswag @Pepijn

get 50 #mamdani s in the #primaries2026

absolutely NO american leftist has an excuse not to vote in the primaries

none

third party doesn't work. not voting is self-serving self-defeating idiocy

we take over the #democrats

it is a requirement or you need to shut up about what you say you care about forever, because you do not care if you do not vote in the #primaries

@benroyce @eswag @Pepijn

In 2008, many were swooning over Obama--and USA was charting a new direction. I said, "That ain't gonna happen." Obama is a classy, intelligent, well-meaning guy, but he is against forces that he cannot overcome. And look what came after.

After the warning shot across the bow, the Democratic Party elected a leader who was not well, cognitively speaking. The nation paid the price for that mistake.

Whatever cynicism I may have is well earned.

We need a new way.

@benroyce @phl I bet I’m not the only American to just now be hearing about this. WTF?!?!

@davevolek @eswag @Pepijn

well yeah but your new way has to come via the old way

you need to engage the shit system to build the better system

it's not good enough to merely envision the better, you have to implement it. and that means involving yourself in what is, to make what should be, no matter how much what is sucks

so when you speak of mamdani, cheer

don't write his obituary when he's been in office a week. that's absurd and self-defeating

@benroyce @eswag @Pepijn

The new way will have to be built outside the current way. I explain that in Chapter 6.

A student in martial arts learns many skills to hurt their foes. But the skills that really matter are the skills to deftly step aside--and help the foe continue in the same direction of his attack but in a stumbling way.

Never directly confront a foe if you don't have to. Be sneaky.

@davevolek @eswag @Pepijn

when i say work in the shit system to build the better system, i'm not even talking about the democratic party, i'm talking american society as it is

which means rules of organizing and reaching out and dispelling common misconceptions that automatically invoke many of them same crap old methodologies you dislike

you can't be a ghost

and mamdani at *the least* represents the power of the new. that is your ally. don't shit on your allies

@benroyce @eswag @Pepijn

Have you worked inside a political party?