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There are two ways to remove Trump from office. Vote. Gun. I support both.
The only issue with this is that his signature is so unintelligible that whoever is not aware of what it looks like will just be confused to see loose accusations on their cash next to a bizarre scribble
Imagine thinking this is resistance instead of ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING.
This is a silly take. Like, I get the concern, but, like… Why are you here instead of “ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING”? It’s super hypocritical because if you think that’s not an act of resistance and they should do stuff, then what the fuck are you even doing typing on the internet?
If you’re gonna complain, at least post a list of things these people should be doing and how to do them. That way, you’re at least a step above the thing you’re criticizing, lmao.
It’s your shithole to fix. You voted the pedo in, you deal with him. Why the fuck are you asking others to help you, when all you do is keep shitting on others.
You know what needs to be done, you are just a gutless nation protecting a pedophile. You will come up with a million excuses as to why he’s still in power and nothing is changing, you’re really good at empty talk. Jokers.
So, for fun, what are the things that need to be done? Would you mind listing them out and explaining how to do them?
Personally, I’m not the one complaining about people not doing enough. Just hypocrisy, so I want to be fair and give you a shake. I think writing these messages is fine because it won’t take away from other efforts, and it does get under Trump’s skin when people call him a Nazi pedophile. You know, because of all the kids he raped.
You could start with a general strike and stop funding this corrupt, pedophile protector administration. Just do it properly, not for the show for half a day.
True. A general strike is great. We don’t have a good foundation for general strikes and worker protections right now, though. So, we’d probably have to get that structured first. Funding is a little harder to control. That would require some sort of tax withholding, which seems harder to do, but I’m not an accountant. A lot of our taxes are taken out by employers, but you could argue about a federal income tax strike or something. I’ve heard people considering it.
But, you see, that’s a lot harder to see on its own. Those aren’t ways to accomplish them. Right? I think pushing people to set up mutual aid groups and such is going to help coordinate that planning. You’ll need food, housing, and money for a prolonged general strike, as well as a means to coordinate. People have to work together, and that takes talent and dedication.
Tough crowd huh…
Useless. It might make you feel good writing that, but it’s completely useless.
As if there’s a single person on earth that doesn’t either hate him or love him. Who still doesn’t know that and needs to read it on a dollar bill to get the news? Seriously…
Americunts and their resistance 🤡
As a protest I prefer to just take any money with that pervert’s signature on it back to the bank and ask for clean money. Or, if that’s made impossible, just stop using cash all together.
that’s really gonna stick it to the man!
I’m glueing some to my toilet.
Who reads their money?
Cashiers or anyone who regularly deals with cash.
Those people aren’t the people that need to be reminded.
Trump supporters deal in cash a lot from my experience. They don’t trust banks and tend to use cash more often on trades and bartering to avoid taxes. Go to a flea market for example, it’s all cash and like 80% MAGA.
First of all, no they don’t. There is a very small minority of MAGAs that are real preppers. (I actually have some respect for those people.)
The rest are just soulless suburban pawns that hide their racism in faux-Christianity or faux-libertarianism. The cat majority of them are up to their eyes in debt.
Where’s George?
People across the world already very well know that Trump is unpopular. That is not the problem. The problem is that you guys continue to just allow that guy to run your country.
As long as there isn’t massive civil unrest in the country, it looks like from an outside perspective as if you’re just letting him do whatever he wants without much resistance. Writing some insults isn’t going to change that perspective.
As long as there isn’t massive civil unrest in the country
The thing to understand about liberal Americans is that they’re currently doing everything in their power to prevent this, as they have been brainwashed for decades by conservative rhetoric that “only thugs riot” and couldn’t seem to parse this for the racist dogwhistle it actually was.
They’re making the exact same mistake the DNC made with not holding their ground during the government shutdown, because they so desperately didn’t want to look like “the bad guy”. When it comes to dictators, you’re gonna have to riot at some point. A lesson that neo-American society will learn eventually the hard way.
It bears mentioning that the large scale protests you see in other parts of the world are often in places where there are strong worker protection laws.
In the US almost every single person is literally one major medical incident away from living in their car, one missed mortgage payment away from living in their car, and one missed insurance payment from not getting the medicine they literally need to survive. Most US states allow an employer to fire one of their employees without any warning or cause whatsoever, so long as the reason for the termination doesn’t fit into one of several small boxes…which they would need to admit for it to be actionable, anyway.
My point being, a big part of the reason why you don’t see protests like you do in say, France, is that unlike France, the people here are largely wage slaves that cannot afford to even miss work when suffering from extreme illness, let alone to take to the streets over that asshole pedophile acting like an asshole pedophile. This has been by design.
Don’t mistake a population of people spending all their energy holding onto the little they have for one that supports this regime. Whether you think their action or lack of action is justifiable, you need to at least admit it’s understandable.
I think it’s worth noting that the US is something like 330 million spread out over a large geographic area. There are mass protests happening, and they’re big, the last was millions of people. But you’re not going to see it everywhere simply due to a mix of demographics and geographic distance.
By contrast, France has something like ~65 million people in a region that is the size of Texas, one of our 50 states. You could fit France spatially into the US something like 20 times. You couldn’t miss their protests if you wanted to, even if it were done by less than a 10th of their population.
Tbh, it feels kinda unfair to use Texas as a comparison and describe it as “one of our 50 states”, when you could fit the original 13 states inside it.
Comparing the Paris metropolitan area (almost 20% of France’s population) to the Boston-Washington corridor might work slightly better (with them having a similar percentage of their nation’s population, but Paris metro being several times denser).
It’s almost as if the US had grown specifically to deter workers’ resistance
Exactly, it’s like people are so caught up in the methodology of this that every conversation I see about it seems to wooosh the actual point of protesting lol
Intense reading something about how oil has influences the development, urbanisation and expansion of suburbs. Making sure it’s the explosion motor that wins the market, they paved the whole world in petroleum based asphalt so everything that burns petroleum based gas can roll faster/safer and thus burn more gas.
Not long after that masterplan worked wonders they got to all the other petroleum derivates like creams and various single une plastics. Taking over the entire world within a few decades with pollution that will last centuries if not millenia.
Hooray for that.
Well, that and also people in France can take public transportation to cross the country quite easily. In the US, most people can’y even get groceries without a personal vehicle.
Not saying it’s an excuse, they’ve gotta figure this out because holy fuck, but yea. Deeply unserious country.
Literally, there was a massive fire near here at the sole grocery store for like a 5 mile radius and it got to the point where the county had to step in and provide a grant for free ubers and shit while the store was being rebuilt because there was no realistic alternative mode of transportation…the other stores weren’t on bus lines and to boot it was high summer, like 90°F and 90% humidity out…the city had already had to roll out cooling centers because seniors were getting heatstroke due to their AC being busted, there was no way they were walking or biking 5 miles for groceries in that or they’d have been dead on the side of the road.
It makes more sense to a European to think of the US less as a country and more as basically the EU. We’re not a monolithic people from coast to coast. Decrying a lack of broad action across the US is like expecting broad, coordinated action in Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Romania and Austria. We’re bound by the same federal laws, but the laws on a state to state basis, literally all laws not explicitly granted to the Federal Government, belong to the states.
The difference between Wyoming and Massachusetts might as well be the difference between Finland and Croatia. Culturally, economically, geographically, different climate, different racial makeup, different religious persuasions…the farther you get from one state, the more different things become…take someone from the upper midwest and have them talk to someone that grew up deep in Southern Louisiana. They’re both speaking English but watch how difficult it is for them to communicate. These are both people that hail from the same country. And that’s even ignoring the fact that there are much higher concentrations of people here who don’t speak even like, emergency English then even countries where English isn’t their mother tongue. Go watch some police bodycam videos and see how often entire extended families have like a token 12 year old that can speak english fluently that is basically speaking for the whole family when the cops are initially rolling up to the scene.
I guess with all that Im just trying to say…people need to ease up on throwing shade at the people of the US as if we are complicit in this because we’re using all our energy to keep our heads above water. This scenario is literally unprecedented in this country, there has never been a time when a single branch of government so effectively demolished the checks and balances that were designed to prevent it from happening. We literally have a domestic military force with as much firepower and resources as the actual military in the form of ICE, the FBI, the police, the National Guard, Homeland Security…little different situation then a bunch of beat cops with batons and riot gear standing at the end of the street to make sure that the protest doesn’t spill over into traffic.
It’s not as simple as people are making it out to be.
That’s fucked up about the grocery thing. My small town where I’m from would probably have the same issue, come to think of it. There’s sorta a bus that replaces a 10-15min drive to another store, but it sucks and even once you get there there’s a giant parking lot to cross. No way an elderly person is making that trip with any frequency, which they would because they wouldn’t be able to carry that many groceries.
But anyway, I think it’s also something ya’ll need to still take responsibility for. Each state still has its major failures that don’t need to be taken in a larger context in order to be criticised. They still influence the federal election, and popular vote-wise the far-right is still incredibly numerous in the US. The best the US can muster is woefully inadequate and the worst is incredibly dangerous to everyone else on the planet including themselves. So many chances to have stopped the country having gone in this direction and yet there have been decades of embarrassing failures to stop this crap. No country is a monolith, that’s not an excuse.
Oh, and as much as they were horribly wrong, awful people, Jan 6 insurrectionists showed up.
thank you. im sick of being beaten down verbally by people who have no fucking idea what life is like here. it’s hell warmed over and i would love to be able to leave.
Croatia mentioned :D
Seriously tho, good points. We need to stop throwing shade at each other and replace that with support for each other.
Wage slaves have FEWER excuses for refusing to riot, not more.
The very definition of revolution, resistance, uprising, civil unrest is that things are going to fall apart bigly and badly. If everyone who rises up & sacrifices their jobs therefore their lives, then at least the ruling class will no longer have us as their slaves. Because we died in protest. Who will make their food & build their mansions & chauffeur their limos & rub their feet & clean up their messes when we’re all dead? We might have to make the ultimate sacrifice. Touché. 💀
There’s a lot of ways of expressing unrest, and many of them are aimed at expressing a widespread lack of support for the regime. This hits them in their own support base, and is a big part of why they push back so hard on them.
Trump is a massive narcissist, that’s why he’s getting his signature on the cash in the first place. To someone like that, the idea that something so rewarding for him could be “perverted” like this, with the whole world seeing just what people really think of him, is a nightmare! And that’s the point - to keep reminding him of just how unpopular he is, and keep him reactive instead of proactive.
and many of them are aimed at expressing a widespread lack of support for the regime.
No, many are aimed at expressing widespread consequences for the regime.
This hits them in their own support base
It literally doesn’t. They don’t give a fuck what you think.
and keep him reactive instead of proactive.
Yes, because that prevented him from launching a war on the other side of the world and putting ICE in airports…
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They don’t like being reminded that only one thing ever stopped Nazis.
“Money trades hands all over the world”? I haven’t handled a physical piece of American currency (apart from the occasional coin that gets mixed into my change) in years. Sure, go ahead and do this, but don’t assume that anyone outside your borders give a shit what you write on your bills.
Also, maybe don’t make “show the rest of the world that we hate Trump” the primary goal of your resistance movement. Ugh.
Fun fact: US $100 bills are used in crime around the world because it’s a strong currency and a million dollars fits in a backpack!
The second reason is bogus, the euro is valued as high or higher and we have 500€ bills.
I guess the Swiss Franc is not common enough. Other than that it would give some nice density benefit. 800 pieces of 1000 CHF would make 1M USD.
Source? That seems like it’d be more of a pain since you’d then have to convert it to your own currency which would be another chance at getting caught doing whatever you’re doing
Well, if you don’t see it then the same has to be true for billions of other people.
The above comment definetly was a bit anectodal, but there really aren’t that many countries that use the USD. Its pretty much only the US, its territories and a few smaller south american countries. Canada and mexico maybe accept payments in dollar but don’t officially use it.
Apart from that the USD is sometimes used in international trade, but that’s more for currency conversion and not as physical money.
The only people that use physical USD outside of the US are American tourists with their america first worldview and mexican cartels.
It’s called USD for a reason
Are you seriously implying billions of people are handling USD regularly? You realise other countries and currencies exist, right?
No.
Yes.
I haven’t touched my own countries physical analogue money in years, 😂 not one here really uses it much anymore
I strongly encourage you to consider using a bit more cash.
Local businesses pay increasing amounts of highway robbery to visa and other payment processing providers (who are very busy on their puritan agenda). Some places near me even offer discounts for cash transactions. Terms of service forbid it, but hey, I’m not going to state it in court.
Obviously we all use cards for a lot of things, just suggesting you draw it back.
Do you know that each country has their own currency and even in physical form?
Whoops. I guess the one word I missed in that post was the word “American”. My mistake. Still useful advice to someone, but I guess not here.
It’s not about anyone else caring.
It’s about Trump caring.
A quick internet search reveals:
Whoever […] defaces, disfigures, […], or does any other thing to any bank […] note […] with intent to render such […] unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
So personally I wouldn’t bet on this not being illegal. On the other hand, freedom of opinion might save your butt. But what do I know about US law?
Well but see the intent isn’t to render it unfit to be reissued, the whole point is that you want it to stay in circulation so as many people as possible see the additional message.
You may want to consider becoming a lawyer dawg
This is legalese. The
“with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued”
probably relates only to the
“or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt”
part, and not the whole
“Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together”
Good point!
No. If you can’t spell out “rapist” on facebook without being canceled. you sure as hell can bet your butt on a dollar note with that remark not staying in circulation. and you’re supposed to know that. so if you write that on a dollar bill, i don’t think it’s “plausible deniability” to say “i considered this dollar bill fine for further circulation”.
You wouldn’t need plausible deniability because the prosecution would have to prove that your intent was to make the bill unfit for circulation. Intent is already notoriously difficult to prove in a court of law, and it would be very difficult to prove someone wanted to take a bill out of circulation by writing a message on it that they hoped would be seen by people.
Even if the result is that the bill gets taken out of circulation, the court would have to prove that you knew that would happen and wanted it to.
What are they gonna do? Take every note out of circulation?
It’s a win-win!
Arguably relevant precedent:
The MAGoos have been stamping ‘Donald Trump Lives Here’ on US currency for years.
They are supposed to do it on bills that show the White House, but they’ve also put in on $5 bills that show the Lincoln Memorial
Quick, which one shows a graveyard?
It’s not my fault the staff doesn’t trust you with anything valuable.
I don’t think you understand the Supreme Court and Justice department in the US. It’s only illegal for Democrats.
As someone else already pointed out, the “with intent to render such […] unfit to be reissued” part is key here.
The Stamp Stampede has a good resource on this.
Essentially, the argument just boils down to the fact that you’re… not making the bill unusable. As long as the denomination is still visible and not altered to another number, and it’s possible to see anti-fraud measures like the green seal well enough, you’re not rendering it unfit for circulation.
There is the problem of ATMs sometimes rejecting stamped bills (or accepting them but having the bank send them back to the Fed to be replaced with new, clean ones) but afaik it’s rare and not too likely as long as you don’t cover the denomination.
Most businesses don’t reject stamped bills as they have no reason to expect additional markings would mean a bill is actually NOT real, and most people won’t decide to just never spend it again because it has a stamp.
As long as you don’t promote/advertise a business, or change the actual denomination of the bill, you’re fine.
To be fair, there’s a whole lot of difference between defacing a banknote vs. rendering it unfit for issue.
In any case, cause of how often it changes hands, and how little supervision its under, it’d be very difficult to actually identify who defaced a specific note - especially if you’ve git a whole bunch of people doing it to a whole bunch of notes
They would first have to prove that you were the one who did it. Good luck with that.
with intent to render such […] unfit to be reissued
This isn’t trying to take it out of circulation tho, so that probably wouldn’t apply. They’d have to make an argument that effectively goes against the first amendment to say you can’t write on currency you plan to spend.
“rendering unfit” is when you glue $20 corners to a $10 to pass it off as a 20.
Nah, totally legal. As long as you make sure you don’t draw over anything renders it unfit for reissue
On the other hand, freedom of opinion might save your butt.
It almost certainly would… if you have the money to win a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds, which is far from cheap.
there so much defaced money already out there
you’d have to really make a big scene where it makes a lot of noise to even stand out
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“Money trades hands all over the world”
No, no actually no dollar bills are trading hands in almost any country at all times
I mean, that’s just false. In a lot of countries with weak or unstable local currencies, big purchases like vehicles and real estate (sometimes even rent) are often done in USD to make sure the money keeps (most of) its value until you want to spend it again. I’ve seen it both in Africa and Asia. I’ve had to handle USD bills a lot even though I’ve never even stepped foot in the Americas.
Haha, no
Not even Zimbabwe uses an other countries currency.
It is called US Dollar for a reason.
Both cars I’ve bought and sold in Georgia (the country in the Caucasus) were done with cash USD. This is just how the car market works there. From my experience the situation is similar in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt (maybe not as common), etc…
It is called US Dollar for a reason.
It is also called a “world reserve currency” for a reason; though hopefully not for much longer
Right? A client of mine in Japan have new a hefty tip in USD. While I truly appreciated his kind gesture it was a pain in the ass for me to exchange it without paying for stupid exchange fees.
I don’t think anyone here would want to receive physical USD.
Don’t some Central American countries like to use US dollars in cash, often preferred rather than their own currency? Mainly due to tourism but also probably some shadier stuff.
No they don’t like to use other currencies.
They might accept it, but they will never like it. Since they will have to convert it before it becomes actually useful.
This is mostly the experience of Americans stepping off American cruise ships into American owned shops to buy Chinese goods in the Caribbean.
Two down, hundred ninety to go
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I love the idea but the OP knows physical American cash isn’t used around the world though, right? Like yes a lot of trade is done in USD but most people outside of their country have never seen an American bank note before unless they’ve visited the US or been one of the many people yelled at by American tourists for not accepting USD
You’re kinda wrong man. There’s a bunch of counties where dollars are essentially the main currency. I go to Lebanon often and yeah, USD is the main currency, esp after the financial crisis a few years ago. There’s also Ecuador where USD is the actual official currency.
Bet you there’s more countries using physical euros than American dollars. We’ve got a bunch in Europe :)
I mean, yeah, I realise that but I wasn’t going to write out that there are exceptions with some unstable countries using it. The OP writes as if the whole world like Canadians, Portuguese, French, Chinese, etc, etc, are using USD daily. I wouldn’t point this out if I hadn’t literally met Americans who were confused that the USD isn’t the only currency in the world
Met more than one American in Brazil who was shocked that people there actually lived in Portuguese and didn’t speak English at home.
I guess they thought all of bossa nova was some kind of tourist trap thing?
Yeah American ignorance is something else. Here in Canada, we often do take USD but at an equal exchange rate which means the Americans are just screwing themselves out of more money. I guess it could be considered a currency conversion fee ¯\(ツ)/¯
I was at the Whitecaps game and an American in the crowd actually yelled “our dollar is worth more!” to chirp the Caps.
I yelled back “not for long!”
That doesn’t say it changes hands “all over the world” though. physical USD isn’t used in the vast majority of the world.
physical cash isn’t really used in America either… I mean… I can’t even remember the last time I paid for something with cash or was handed cash. Almost everyone just pays with card (or phone tap, etc etc).
Yeah I had to think for a sec, why do I even have cash? Then I remember bars. Some bars are cash only even. And it’s just easier to pay and tip per round that way sometimes.
Edit: but that’s about it. For people who don’t go to bars, which is probably a good majority of people, I don’t know what they are using cash for. Possibly flea markets and garage sales. But that’s another niche group. Strip clubs, also niche. Drug deals, that’s probably not as niche as some might think. Though I’d guess about equal to the bar crowd in size? People with bad credit history and have problems getting bank accounts? Is cash only still a thing in order to accommodate these various niche use cases? I suppose so.
Yes, but do you not always have some cash on hand, anyway? And btw, Marijuana dispensaries are pretty popular. Cash only, usually.
A lot of places around me have started passing on the fees for using a card to pay, so it costs less to pay with cash.
I strongly prefer that over cash subsidizing those card rewards programs, but it makes using the cards pretty pointless unless it’s for big purchases that tack on a flat fee rather than a percentage, since the rewards programs are usually so limited.
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There is actually more us currency in circulation outside of the us than inside.
Drugs and petroleum trade in dollars
here in Costa Rica people will usually accept USD as payment
the fact that there’s a lot of tourism here contributes to the widespreadness of the US dollar
If Democrats ever regain power, this needs to be official. “Donald Trump is a pedophile” should be by law written on all currency. It will take decades to educate Americans.
Biden tried the quiet “let’s sweep it under the rug and everyone will forget” approach. It didn’t work.
Trump is a pedophile needs to become the modern “Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam”
(In ancient Rome it was traditional to end every speech, no matter what the speech was about, with the phrase, “Carthage must be destroyed.”)
if democrats regain power, it will just be the wheel turning in wait of republicans regaining power later. while that side of the wheel is better than current one, what america needs to do is break the fucking wheel.
Yeah, the danger of a Democratic president is the left growing complacent again, allowing the right to fester and come up with another dictator.
Yep, Republicans break things, and get voted out. Democrats try to fix what they broke, but it takes a long time and is expensive and boring, so they get voted out. The cycle repeats and is grinding us to dust.
Democrats pretend to try to fix what they broke; in reality the Democrats’ idea of “fixing” things is analogous to “fixing” a broken window such that it’s broken into a hundred shards instead of a thousand. Not that they don’t have the time to finish fixing it; their idea of a fixed window is one where all the glass shards on the floor are visible.
It was Cato who was famous for that, he was the Lindsey Graham of the Republic.
educate
and there’s your problem. people don’t even agree on on what to even teach, so there can be no education.
Today it’s tradition to end every tweet with THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION YO THIS IMPORTANT MATTER.
A qr code as a stamp that takes you to an easy list about Trump’s Epstein ties would be easy enough to make
Doesn’t communicate that information as directly as something written on the bill itself
Yeah I’m not scanning an unknown QR code on a grungy bill
Live a little
Found the boomer lol
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There are multiple money stealing scams involving sketchy QR codes…
How can they steal your money when it’s in your hand? /s
Look down again. It’s gone.
¿Por qué no los dos?
My idea was something like:
______ rapes children! Scan here for proof [qr code]
I feel like thatcs even sketchier. Maybe I’ve spent too much time on 4chan, but that reads like “scan this for csam”
4 years ago I would have a problem with it reading like that. Unfortunately, I’ve come to the conclusion that every single person that voted for him is ok with that if not actively involved in that. So the implication that they might see their god king dicking a child will probably get more of them to scan it.
Why not both?
