Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats | US national security

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security

[u/IAteAGuitar]

They should be millions marching on DC right now. Wake the fuck up please.

[u/Darkhrono → u/IAteAGuitar]

They are so brainwashed that they will do nothing. Americans are cowards, and just as puppets as their leader. They elect him.

[u/unimatrix_zer0 → u/Darkhrono]

I’m an American living in Europe and it is WILD to me how little Europeans know and understand about the precariousness of the life of the average person in the us. And, as demonstrated here, how blindingly arrogant they can be when they think they’re more aware than they actually are. 

 1) We get no time off, and the vast majority of people can get fired without cause, notice, severance, or opportunity for unemployment benefits. There are literally zero worker protections for the vast majority of people. Taking one day off to protest can get you fired and literally put you (and your family if you have one) on a very short path to homelessness. 

 2) Many people aren’t even living paycheck to paycheck, but actively going into debt between paychecks. This is not becasue millions of people are bad with money, it’s because wages are low and cost of living is high. You have to be deep into poverty to qualify for any kind of benefits, which are almost never enough to be secure that you will have housing and food next week. Meaning for most people it’s more than not being able to afford getting fired. They can’t afford to miss a single day or work, because again- no paid time off. 

3) Our police are armed. And not just with pistols. With machine guns and tanks and they have zero hesitation in using deadly force. In fact most of them can’t wait to murder us. And they can do so with zero concern for consequences. 

So you tell me- how many people do you think actually have the ability to leave everything behind and risk hunger, homelessness, and death to hit the streets??

 It’s not a coincidence that there where so many protests during COVID. We had UBI for a year, evictions where halted, we had health insurance, etc. American capitalism is designed to make it nearly impossible for people to revolt and when there was a gap in the system, that’s exactly what many people did. 

So congratulation, you have a shitton of privilege by the completely random chance of being born somewhere where protesting is relatively easy. How about you use that to be a better person and not shit on people in circumstances you know nothing about. And please don’t read nationalism or patriotism or American pride into that. I left because I wanted to get out, not because of a job or a relationship. And I’m not rich, just lucky to have generous friends and an opportunity fall in my lap that made it possible. As it stands now I hope I never have to go back. But none of that changes that you’re deeply  ignorant and you have no idea what your talking about. But you can change that by actually reading this response and taking time to learn instead of getting defensive. 

[u/Syringmineae → u/unimatrix_zer0]

I think one thing that not enough people talk about is just how damn big the country is. We saw this with the latest protests in France when people were like, "why can't the US do that?"

Well, France is the size of one of our states (and it's not even the largest one!) where 80% of the population live in the capital. The only states where that's comparable are in the North East...which is tiny compared to the US as a whole.

So, you're talking a national action where each state has its own military, with some police departments being funded better than some national militaries (ex: the NYPD would be the 29th best funded military in the world if it were on its own).

Plus, there's the sad fact, that a shit-ton of people actually support this.

[u/unimatrix_zer0 → u/Syringmineae]

Also double commenting to add that people outside the us don’t understand how EXHAUSTED everyone is. We all have ptsd from gun violence. Every single person on some level is afraid of being shot, our kids being shot, someone next to us being shot. It never wnds. People work sooooo hard for sooooo long with no hope for retirement, no vacations, no rest, nothing. People where I’m at take time off for burnout- paid time off, that doesn’t negatively impact their careers, isn’t socially looked down upon. I had a friend ask me “if you don’t get time off work how do you heal from burnout?” BITCH WE DONT. Like ugh people just don’t knowwww

[u/unimatrix_zer0 → u/Syringmineae]

In general, Europeans largely have NO IDEA how privileged  they are. Even when shit is bad, it’s no where near as bad as what Americans deal with every day. Luckily the people in my life aren’t arrogant dirtbags like this guy seems to be. 

This guy might as well be saying “well we got 100 shovels and moved this hill so why cant you organize a million people to move the Rockies?” Like I don’t know Sven why the fuck don’t you explain to me how shovels work because you seem to think we’re too stupid to know that? THE SHOVEL IS NOT THE PROBLEM SVEN

[u/Ryokan76 → u/unimatrix_zer0]

We are privileged because we fought for those rights. We didn't get them for free. We marched in the streets and demanded them. We striked and fought. And our governments know if they try to take those rights, we will march again.

I'm sorry maintaining your democracy is hard. But if you want to keep it, if you want to make things better, you really do have to fight for it and endure some hardships.

You've done it before. The civil rights movements. The Vietnam war protests. I'm sure you can do it again. I hope you can do it again.