(yes, you could list what they have done, and I could list what Americans have done, but let’s pretend up until this point they have all done “nothing”, as you can’t possibly hold the USA to a higher standard than all of Europe without admitting that the USA is more capable than all of Europe)

There’s a couple things I love about this paragraph:
1: “without admitting that the USA is more capable than all of Europe”
We’re literally talking about how 67% of Americans disapprove of their own leader and still can’t escape American exceptionalism

2: It quietly implies that Europeans who disapprove of Trump (the leader of a different country) are equally responsible for doing something about it as actual American citizens.

3: it neatly avoids all the facts that Europe has done things that are effective, even if it does not remove Trump from power, while Americans gather at their “we don’t like Trump” conventions once every couple of months where they stay out of the way and don’t cause too much trouble before cleaning up nicely after themselves and getting back to work on Monday.

4: Despite the inescapable American Exceptionalism it is still the fault of everyone else for not cleaning up their mess for them.

Do the 67% disapprove enough to do something?

It’s just further evidence to them: “So we can’t have speakers in schools to share Republican values like women shouldn’t vote, immigrants are evil, and they might die as a sacrifice to the 1st amendment, but it’s perfectly fine to teach Leftist talking points like ‘the Nazis and slavery were bad’?”

But what about that big bribe that Trump said Iran gave him?

They’ve going to continue being the Gestapo, just at the airport now.

You’ve seen what they do to people that let them know their opinion of ICE?

Did you ignore everything I said? Nobody is saying “less evil is fine, let’s go for more evil”. Well, nobody who voted against Trump anyway.

Let’s try your analogy again: you were presented with a glass full of poison, and a glass half full of poison, and told you had to choose one to drink. If you did not choose the choice would be made for you.

Instead of choosing the glass half full then trying to find some way to reduce and mitigate the damage, people said “there’s no such thing as a lesser poison” and drank the full glass.

Nobody said “acceptable”. Moving from “more evil” to “less evil” is how you make progress towards “no evil”.

Same amount in Gaza, more in the US.

Lesser evil never leads towards better, it leads to worse.

Even more so with a greater evil.

Nobody is saying “settle for the lesser evil”. They are saying it’s easier to fight for progress against the lesser evil than the greater evil.

You mean some folks are okay with more genocide, as long as they pretend not doing the bare minimum to reduce the account of genocide absolves them of responsibility.

I’m going to blame the guy who tied six people to the tracks as well as the guy that didn’t pull the lever. I’m going to blame the guy who tied them to the tracks a lot more, but I can blame both.

Everyone has lost, and there’s more genocide.

For example, this post last month: https://lemmy.world/comment/21539323

I sent a new reply to that comment with a link to this article and they still replied “that’s how elections work and you need to wait until November”.

The state of Minnesota can wait until there is a more friendly administration

And this is why you can’t "wait until there is a more friendly administration: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/house-passes-gops-sweeping-anti-voting-bill/

They will do everything in their power to make sure there never is a different administration.

To everyone saying people needed to wait until the mid-terms to take action: Fuck You.

There also has to be prosecutions and consequences for the murders.

Something I was just made aware of: after shooting and killing Alex Pretti, ICE officers then stood back and shot him 5 more times.

A lot of Trump’s power comes from the support of the oligarchs. Shutting everything down hurts them, and shows class solidarity which scares the shit out of them.

I agree with “don’t quit, impede” philosophy, but a very public show of support against these fascist actions is not something to dismiss.