• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    People really love criticizing the US and fair enough, but man it’s tiring seeing people lambasting the US for not violently resisting when we actively are and it’s just being suppressed by the media. Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch we can’t storm congress, but we’re doing a whole fuckload despite that…

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      Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch

      We cannot protest the government without support from the government.

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        Protests against the second Trump administration

        Gaza war protests in the United States

        2025 United States protests against mass deportation

        United States abortion protests (2022–present)

        United States racial unrest (2020–2023)

        These are just the protests. Note that all these links list multiple, recent protests, which actually get media attention on things.

        If you want the stuff that the media doesn’t tend to cover as well, you have to look hard (and maybe deal with a paywall and local reporting and realizing that what makes the news isn’t all that’s happening): ICE raid in Rochester stymied as 2 workers evade arrest, 200 residents protest

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        Well since local media aren’t covering them and many foreign ones step in line to not upset lord trump, the only way to get examples is to attend them.

        The cities he sent military to were the cities that had largest protests.

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              People are already DYING, what bodycount can your conscience hold?

              Oh and did you miss all the students who were shot and killed in Nepal? You can find videos of them bleeding out in the streets with people desperately trying to save them, kids dying in school uniforms as they protest, but sure billy clubs.

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                Dude, there’s no way you can argue your way into making someone feel bad for not wanting to risk their life in a violent resistance against their own government.

                That’s a choice every person have to make for themselves. You don’t know them. You don’t know their situation.

                You seriously need to take a step back and sit down.

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                Are you just going for a shock reaction, or are you seriously trying to neg other people into dying for you?

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                  I’m trying to convince Americans to do something to stop their fascists from killing people. I’m not there, I can’t support in any other way.

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                    So you’re the very definition of a keyboard warrior, but for some reason you get to decide that things like ‘protesting’ aren’t doing enough, and to demand accountability for us not dying in your place.

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              Setting things in fire, erecting barricades, actively fighting authorities and creating chaos, making it impossible to ignore. For examples see the Maiden revolution in Ukraine, Hong Kong protests a few years ago, or any Tuesday afternoon in France.

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                Orange revolution and Euromaidan in Ukraine were peaceful protests the government responded violently to them which energized more people.

                In Poland Solidarity also was peaceful and the one that created violence was the government.

                Historically peaceful protests like the above are more effective, because more people are willing to join them.

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          You say “plenty” but the LA June protests were for the most part the exception rather than the rule. Can we get something recent and/or from outside LA?

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            Sure, but man, it’s kinda exhausting having a bunch of people jump on “sources please” when the initial comment was about how the lack of easily available reporting on this is a real problem.

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              I mean, even if they’re not covered by most media someone somewhere has to be talking about them. At the very least leftwing media should be frothing at the mouth to cover these things. I guess your link ticks the “outside LA” box so this isn’t/wasn’t a LA-exclusive thing, but still I’d expect even a little reporting to filter through this information blackhole you’re talking about if the resistance is on the scale you’re suggesting. I looked up “anti ice protests violent” and most results were from June with the rest from early July.

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          Wow all the way back in June before the protests fizzled after accomplishing next to nothing

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                But… you were the one that asked for convincing, I’m already convinced. I’m just choosing not to engage in a discussion about this topic because you’re clearly not willing to approach it in good faith. I know it’s kinda wounding to the ego when someone just says “Nah I’m not doing this with you” but you’re just going to have to accept that that’s what’s happening.

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      No your not. Your volunteering to go into the street to be rounded up by the cops. It’s the stupidest fucking thing. You literally have the equivalent of the printing Press giving to every person and you all think it’s easier to organize people to publicly show up in a town three states over then it is to use get those people to use the propaganda machine to spread a message.