As someone now living in Europe, I find the US protests mild and small. When Europeans protest, they protest. I mean, my native Greece saw a massive protest in Feb, well over a million went out, in a country of ~9 million. This is how you do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm3vEKMnA-8
The problem, the Americans work too much. If they had the vacation days like the Europeans, these protests would turn French. The demonstrations in Germany are weak compared to the French too.
What you’re failing to understand is the USA is so gigantic that you can’t really get people that don’t have a lot of in one spot easily. It’s costly to fly to one place or even drive to one place. Greece is tiny in comparison. We had people protesting in the millions throughout the USA this weekend but not all together in the same place as I said it’s just too damn expensive. Are you going to help pay to organize that sort of thing or just not think about the logistics of it all and say random things on the internet because you hate the USA or something. USA citizens have had enough and were trying to organize everywhere we can. Greece isn’t even bigger than Texas which is one of 50 states just to put it into perspective. “I have friends everywhere”
You’re basically watching a whole country (re)learn how to do this. Most of us have had it good for a long time, up until very recently. You’re seeing a lot of first-timers in every one of these protests, as the movement grows. Give it time.
As someone now living in Europe, I find the US protests mild and small. When Europeans protest, they protest. I mean, my native Greece saw a massive protest in Feb, well over a million went out, in a country of ~9 million. This is how you do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm3vEKMnA-8
The problem, the Americans work too much. If they had the vacation days like the Europeans, these protests would turn French. The demonstrations in Germany are weak compared to the French too.
What you’re failing to understand is the USA is so gigantic that you can’t really get people that don’t have a lot of in one spot easily. It’s costly to fly to one place or even drive to one place. Greece is tiny in comparison. We had people protesting in the millions throughout the USA this weekend but not all together in the same place as I said it’s just too damn expensive. Are you going to help pay to organize that sort of thing or just not think about the logistics of it all and say random things on the internet because you hate the USA or something. USA citizens have had enough and were trying to organize everywhere we can. Greece isn’t even bigger than Texas which is one of 50 states just to put it into perspective. “I have friends everywhere”
Yep, people dont think about that. Greece is the size of Alabama lol.
USA = 9.8 million kilometers
Greece = 132,000 kilometers
You’re basically watching a whole country (re)learn how to do this. Most of us have had it good for a long time, up until very recently. You’re seeing a lot of first-timers in every one of these protests, as the movement grows. Give it time.
…and in France we get maimed by tear gas grenades and rubber bullets for it. Yay.