• Teppichbrand@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    I was a Why don’t you fucking protest!?-guy here on Lemmy and I am not, anymore. It takes time to organize. This is beautiful, I’m proud of you. Keep it up!

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The media doesn’t cover protests. Most local channels are owned by mega corps like Sinclair.

      The problem is that information outlets are owned by bad actors.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah same, Americans are finally kind of getting off their asses and doing something. I don’t think it’s gonna be enough but it’s better than nothing.

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        2 months ago

        Crowds like this have been protesting for months. I saw similar images from various cities at the first 50501 protest. As another commenter posted, media simply hasn’t been covering them.

        Please don’t confuse a lack of coverage for a lack of protests.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t understand why you’re getting down-voted. Living abroad and have stopped listening to news since the Trump election. Every 6 months I tune in, and while it seems a lot has happened, no progress has actually been made

        this seems cool, but… so what? cute photo op and a tale for the grandkids…

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          2 months ago

          Exactly. How many peaceful demonstrations that change nothing are they gonna have before they realize what they have to do?

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      2 months ago

      It would be more incredible if those people were armed and swarming the studios of radical fascist media and beating the hell out of pro-trump talking heads.

      Standing around waving signs and cheerleading shitty chants does nothing and will be forgotten in a week.

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        History has overwhelmingly shown that non-violence is more successful than violence. You do you.

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          I don’t think that’s true. There were violent riots accompanying every major social change in at least recent history.

          And famously, it took an entire fucking war to end slavery in the United States.

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            it took an entire fucking war to end slavery in the United States.

            Well… how’s that going?

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              Well I mean, slavery is still illegal. Black people are able to vote, hold office, own property, etc.

              There’s still a lot of social injustice to solve but there’s been a lot of progress, albeit slow.