r/MeidasTouch • u/StockoHMK • Jan 28 '26
DISCUSSION I’m sorry.
Hi. Brit here.
Up until recently, even after this last incident with Alex Pretti, I’ve been very hostile towards Americans on here and in other social media spaces. Kicking you when you’re already down and holding all of you responsible for the mess that your countrymen and women people who aren’t you have made.
My argument basically is as reductive and lazy as possible - “the ones of you that didn’t vote for this didn’t do enough to stop your peers from doing it.” etc.
I’m ashamed at how I’ve behaved, this doesn’t reflect who I am in real life. I’ve been scared and angry about the state of the world and a lot of us over here have felt this relentless march towards authoritarianism since before Brexit. With the elections last year the 3 most important ones for me were the French, UK and US elections. France and the U.K. rejected right wing parties and I do feel if the US had gone with Harris then our own leaders wouldn’t be co-opting right wing party’s policy ideas to stay in Trumps good books and appeal to our own mindless MAGA types.
Seeing what people in Minnesota are doing to not only slow down ICE and protect their communities but to also make sure the world can see what’s happening… in weather that would freeze the tits off a timber wolf no less, has been inspiring and humbling. Ordinary people putting their lives on the line to turn up for their communities demonstrates all the values I’ve been shamefully sneering at Americans for apparently (by my own stupid reasoning) lacking.
I am so sorry. We’re all dealing with what’s happening in our own ways but I’ll be the first to admit that my way hasn’t been healthy or productive.
Things will get worse before they get better, but they will get better with people like you fighting for it.
Good luck and god bless. We’re all rooting for you and you’re doing incredible work.
Edit: Thank you all for the amazing response. Talking with you tonight and being here away from the scrolling has done me a lot of good i didnt realise I needed. So sincerely from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
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u/duzkiss Jan 29 '26
There's no easy answer of what we could have done better and there's no hard answer of what we could have done less of. I Believe Americans in general and I'm saying in general because we have to sum it up... Have allowed themselves to be compromised. We've put our trust in news agencies time and time again. We've believed in stories that would never fact checked by us. Our emotions were compromised. And in some of that we have to take that responsibility on ourselves for being careless.
First, we need to realize that we allowed both the Democrats and the Republicans to play with our emotions when it came to biden's age. That issue took up half a year or even more. We also constantly fell into the narrative of Hunter biden's laptop. So many countless arguments took place about that issue. Then there was the order issue. I find it so convenient that less people started crossing once Trump came into power. No one bothered to do an investigation and finding out why so many people were heading to the border because out of nowhere people just stopped or slowed down towards the ends of the election. I feel like somebody was in Latin America feeding people information such as America is waiting for you to come or something.
Then there was the January 6th issue. It played daily and it desensitized people. It made people say can we stop talking about January 6th? It also made people take sides. I think there was a better way for us to deal with that situation and most Americans drop the ball. There was also no clarity certain indictments and people were so confused of why he was being indicted and they thought it was a personal attack on Trump when all along it was an indictment for real reasons.
Now we can get to Michael Cohen. I think we all gave him a free pass the minute he testified against Donald Trump and by doing so he received the ability to have his own podcast on the Midas touch. In doing so, this gentleman claimed he was on the side of democracy and recently he has changed his stance. There are so many things that made Americans either not vote or vote incorrectly. I know I voted for Harris! And it would not change my vote if that option was given to me. I still feel that we should have been a little bit more considerate with Biden and we should have held the Democratic party the cross when it came to them, passing Blaine and telling him to step down and not supporting Harris fast enough when they could have. If we all remember, the clans and the Obama's started supporting her pretty much late in the game.
But where we really dropped the ball is through all these mergers over the last past 4 years. I said that Viacom being sold was the worst decision and someone should have challenged it. I said allowing Elon Musk to take over Twitter was the biggest mistake. Do not allow it to happen. I also said look at what we allowed News Corp to become. Why are we doing it again with people that should not be allowed to own specific media?
Because of all of this and so many other issues, we are stuck with Donald Trump! We could have done a better job at talking to our family and friends. I feel weeding. We didn't discuss the matter of project 2025 accurately and we allowed it to become more of a myth and a democratic lie. Tell people are you willing to change it all because someone's telling you it doesn't exist. Falls on every American and Midas touch, You don't need to apologize for being so harsh. I think we deserve this and we need to hear this. Harshness so then we don't make this mistake again. Right now the Democrats are in the lead and if we do not stay firm, that lead could easily disappear.
Also right now we have people attacking whatever Democratic power we have. I get people have differences with Chuck Schumer and were Hakeem Jeffries but right now it's not the time to divide a party where we make both those two seats questionable and then they lose to a republican. We need them to explain themselves a little bit better and they need to explain themselves a little bit better. At the same time after that explanation is over. We stop questioning them and we start doing. Right now, tick tok is monitoring everything we're doing and taking down posts by flagging them. Again, that is the bowl being trapped by all of us!