I thought your argument wasn’t directed at me? Motte and bailey much?

But since you suggest it, sure, I’ll take a well earned break.

Oh blow it out your ass.

No, that is not what I am saying, I’m saying that nothing I do at this second is going to stop the bombs dropping in the near future. As cathartic as it might be to go grab the AR and take a suicide run at the nearest representatives of the federal government, the result would just be a propaganda victory for our right wing.

I am not sitting here doing nothing, and yes, it is small comfort to people actively being bombed, but ultimately decades of right wing is not going to be undone in a day.

Also lol at calling for a general strike. Every time that has been done it has been preceded by massive organization by an actual labor movement that haven’t had since the 70’s to ensure that people are able to get their needs met in the meanwhile.

I imagine a lot of that map would change color real quick if contracting companies raised the cost of work or made it impossible to get some work done by boycotting Israel.

So, precisely what do you expect me, in a different state, alone, to do about this, that will effect widespread change in a timeframe that you would find acceptable?

There are rational options that are tragically slow and irrational ones that involve throwing one’s life away in order to achieve little to less than nothing.

If you’re just angry at the US and its population, that makes two of us, but lashing out at someone pointing out that the situation is not hopeless and work is being done to ensure that this does not continue does not help anyone.

Oh fuck off. You know full well that there is more happening here than poll numbers.

It moved from 33% to 29%, the Iraq war started at 93%

I dont know where OOP got that idea from. Americans were never for this and polling data bears that out, especially relative to most wars which have had extremely high levels of approval at the outset, even for ones like Vietnam and Iraq that later became massively unpopular.