because it was pointless.
there were 75 fucking protestors at my state capital.
how about we go protest at the federal departments in DC to stop the fucking Nazi’s from getting in?
I’m talking fully armed Black Panthers level shit.
bringing guns to a protest are illegal you say? so is forcing yourself into government buildings you aren’t allowed to be inside of. so is accessing government servers and cloning the data. so is shuttering these institutions that were put in place by Congress without an act of Congress.
If they don’t have to follow the laws then why the fuck should we?
Besides some barely visible posts and slightly suspicious on Lemmy, I literally heard nothing about this protest.
Media will definitely downplay it, but this instance was obviously badly organised.
The time to speak up was in November. All this was obvious. People voted for it (or stayed out).
Now all we can do is bask in privilege and talk about leopards for the next 4 years. It’s a glorious system! \s
That’s literally, unironically, my plan. I’m all out of sympathy, and not based in the US.
your point?
I’m not asking for a dialogue with them.
I’m asking to push them down, arrest them, and kick their asses out of power and into a prison cell.
Would you like a unicorn, too?
Judges already decided that Trump is immune and he can pardon anyone who does his bidding. That ship has sailed.
let me put it into terms you can understand.
prison cells aren’t just in prisons.
if the rule of law doesn’t apply to them, then the rule of power does.
why are you so defeatist? perhaps you don’t want this to end and you want people to feel helpless? you think that we’re trapped in here with them at the reigns?
no. no sir.
they are trapped in here with us, and we will drag them into the streets. we will string them up like Mussolini. we will celebrate their deaths.
We the people of the United States owe the world that much.
I was with you from 2016 to 2020. But in 2024 the American people spoke.
I admire your motivation but you’re in the minority. The majority is in the “this is fine” camp. Either support it, or don’t care.
They’re just being realistic, the American people aren’t going to do shit
OH but they already did shit. They did the only shit that they can do. They voted! Now they must accept the nazi rule as legit! There is no other way… \s
It IS legit. You may not agree, but they are the government. You can’t even accuse them of lying about it, they announced they would do it and people still elected them.
After Elon’s announcement about the department of Ed, I’m feeling indescribable despair. The systematic dismantling of public education in the U.S. has been happening for decades and is a huge part of the reason we’re in this mess.
I know that’s what they want. For us to feel paralyzed. I’m trying to fight it. But as someone who is convinced the election was tampered with*, I am sick over the fact that they let him in again. Someone should have objected before the inauguration, when an objection actually might have achieved something. I worry that the protests are not going to be enough, as they stay locked in their ivory towers. I’m terrified that a distress signal at the state department was quickly swept under the rug. I thought this is why we developed so many international alliances and treaties after WWII. To prevent fascism from taking hold in our countries. But they’re not doing anything. I live in a blue state and haven’t heard a peep out of my governor. Why? Are they waiting for things to get worse? Does a certain person in a specific role have to contact outside help? If so, who? We know this is going to be disastrous for more than the U.S., we can already see it happening.
I feel like I’m doing everything in my power and it’s still not enough. I have friends who work for the government and they are just as scared and lost as I am. All I can think to do is be prepared for extreme hardship and try to stay involved in my community. What else is there?
*I’m just too tired to debate. If you disagree but are open to changing your mind, I have links in another comment that I encourage you to check out.
“Our little secret” and “he’s very good with computers” “like those counting computers” “landslide in PA”…
I’m rift there with you, man. He openly admitted it because he can’t ever fucking help it, either.
Leopards eat your face much Midwest?
There are people in every state that hate Trump. Unfortunately, in some states, those people are greatly outnumbered.
I hope the whole stadium boos him off the stands at the Superbowl
The media will replace the boos with cheers or block the audio completely so they don’t get sued.
Still would look good to get a visual close up of his face when it starts
protests accomplish nothing, people. when are yall gonna figure that out?
“but it’s cause the media doesn’t cover them!” - do you own the media? can you change that? then they accomplish nothing. like i said.
Man you had to go and set up a protest like 2 months in?
Wow. The stun-lock is happening.
Please do keep tiring yourselves, that will work wonders for your cause
You know what you should do next month? Pickets!
Also throw in a full strike, that will surely get them!
Hahaha oh my god 🤣
It’s been 2 weeks. It only feels like 2 months. Keep laughing though. OMG 🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🙄
By all means, protest. Push these bad actors. Stick up for democracy! But Is anyone else mildly anxious that JD Vance’s hero, Curtis Yarvin, suggested in 2022, that all Trump needs to do is declare a state of emergency to extend executive immunity to prosecution, and to do it early on? So far, project 2025 combined with the manifestos of Dark Gothic Tech Bros are aligned.
“If the institutions deny the President the Constitutional position he has legally won in the election, the voters will have to act directly. Trump will call his people into the streets—not at the end of his term, when he is most powerless; at the start, when he is most powerful. No one wants to see this nuclear option happen. Preparing for it and demonstrating the capacity to execute it will prevent it from having to happen.”
But Is anyone else mildly anxious that JD Vance’s hero, Curtis Yarvin, suggested in 2022, that all Trump needs to do is declare a state of emergency to extend executive immunity to prosecution, and to do it early on? So far, project 2025 combined with the manifestos of Dark Gothic Tech Bros are aligned.
It was on the 5th, not the 6th like in your title.
We have always known that all broadcast and cable news media is tightly controlled. Hundreds of stations across America literally parrot word for word what each other says.
Now we also know that all social media can also be controlled. There is nowhere safe except small communities that are not controlled by corporations or the government.
They want us disorganized, poor, uneducated, and religious. This is their plan to reduce us to their serfs to be controlled and abused.
This morning, I hear reports from neighbors that our “local” newspaper website has experienced some sort of breakdown, and it’s showing the “local” paper from somewhere in Virginia, or Tennessee. They’re all owned by the same company. The media outlets aren’t parroting each other when they are literally the same entity behind the scenes.
Good ole Sinclair.
I just showed my daughter this today. Thanks for posting it.
On Feb. 15, 2003, millions of people marched in over 600 cities against the plans of U.S. President George W. Bush to invade Iraq.
First time?
But there was a massive amount of coverage on how disliked Bush was (man, in fucking comparison…) whereas op’s post is about how major the protest is vs. how little coverage there is of it.
The text in the image says it’s the first time, though. Don’t support misinformation just because it makes us look good
That was my first experience organizing a protest. Fack I am old now.
Was it all 50 states simultaneously?
Many of those protests were shut down too. I was up in MA for the Blood for Oil/WMD protest. We were shut down due to a ‘bad actor’ that not one of us witnessed. Neither the bad actor nor the protest made the papers.
Props to the AP, Newsweek, and USA Today for covering 50501 while the rest show where their loyalty lies.
Where is the ap coverage?
thx, didn’t realize this happened 4 days ago already. I dismissed it because of that
Protest by going out to vote. Only 64% of eligible voters participated in the 2024 election. Trump won the popular vote by a slim margin but got less votes than Biden did in 2020. Had more Democrats voted, we would have won the election.
I was talking to my brother about this the other day and tin foil hatting… Perhaps musk didn’t rig the election in trumps favour by adding votes, but instead deleting the democrats votes. Thus making the left feel helpless while still guaranteeing an election
Yep. You’re not ‘tin foil hatting’, this is just what happened. Can’t believe this still needs to be said, but here’s a post I just made : https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21747932
A couple weeks ago Trump stated the following: “and he (Musk) knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide it was pretty good”.
No mainstream news source reported on it despite the fact that it’s a borderline confession, and the fact that back in 2020 they gave an insane amount of attention and signal boosting to election fraud claims that had 0 evidence.
Media is on the side of the money, they’re not a friend.
And here are some hard numbers on the Republicans suppressing enough Harris votes to cost America the democratic outcome
For y’all who’ve never protested before… The reason why they don’t cover it is because they never cover protests (unless people actually FSU then it’s a “riot”)… Maybe if libs cared when it happened to activists for BLM, anti-genocide, etc… Now it’s just completely normal.
When you own the media…
Now if only all these people upset at Trump could have done something useful about it when they had the chance, like I dunno, voting against him…
Remember the BLM protests under good watch? He just had them gassed so he could have a photo op. I don’t doubt he’s go further this time around. And with him gutting every federal agency that could protect Americans from foreign influence, they’re not getting a useful opposition any time soon…
Biden has us tear gassed too, for protesting a genocide…
