I do see people's point about America just being such a passive or incredibly violent country. But, when I went out to the protest, I did notice that you had anarchist, grannies and liberals in the same setting. So we gotta watch and see what happens over time. But I mean, I think collective suffering is going to push people to the edge. Which eventually will awaken something, I hope. In the meantime, I have my eyes set on Europe. At least the cheeseburger kings bday party was an absolute flop. You can see it in his face. Trump is such a little baby bitch.
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That looks like a bigger crowd than trump's birthday war parade.
Might be a bigger crowd than Trump's inauguration too
Republicans should be terrified at this point. The protests are peaceful ... for now.
...nah man, they're just itching for an excuse to roll out deadly force and mass voter suppression...
Big kudos to the No Kings protestors. The parade for Krasnov received what is deserved, it was fucking lame.
Hahahha. I see on Russian forums - they call organization a "communal farm style", and that it looked more like a prisoner of war walk.
And this is after they "cancelled" it.
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!
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.
As long at they keep it up now. If this is it, if this is all, it won't do anything
I was there!
I wondered if that was you! I knew you looked familiar!
are you a beautiful tree
Wow don't dox yourself man
It's too late I've got his social security number
Proof: it contains numbers
Did the arrow taunt you specifically for a reason? Did you steal its tater casserole?
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
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 money in one spot easily. It's costly to fly/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 possibly dislike the USA or something and just felt like taking a little internet jab? USA citizens have had enough and were trying to organize everywhere we can. Greece isn't even bigger than Texas which is just 1 of the 50 states to put it into perspective for you.
Anyways keep it up USA I'm rooting for you guys to pull through "I have friends everywhere"
Also here's a tidbit of the protests this weekend https://i.imgur.com/vR41TqH.gifv
Also fact check as of this post it was the third most attended protest in USA history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size
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.
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.
...and in France we get maimed by tear gas grenades and rubber bullets for it. Yay.
Can I get this side by side with trump’s inaugurations please
This is incredible.
"small protest, one of the smallest. My speeches are bigger, much biggly"
-turnip
Now that's a beautiful protest. Very nice, MN!
More people visible at a cancelled protest than some ego-stroking event that happened in DC...
Americans should be proud of this. This is beautiful.
First time in my adult life I'm genuinely proud to be an american.
I heard that the protests in MN were cancelled, which seems like a cut and dry tactical misstep from protest organizers to me, but I haven't been able to find a lot of details.
This doesn't look cancelled.
Anyone on the ground know more details?
We all knew about the stay home advisory. A lot of folk were only more determined to gather, and there was a general understanding that if there was an attack, it would throw gasoline on the movement as a whole. Crowd energy is weird.
Plus I spent three hours making my sign.
I was there. The organizers were sending updates to anyone who RSVPed. I don't like the idea of RSVPing for something like this, but I did. They announced before the event that they had cancelled any elected officials who were planning to speak. They also said something like, "If you are told that the event is cancelled, that is just a rumor."
Several officials did speak and they were pretty epic, honestly. I don't know if they announced the cancellation as a red herring and had everyone speak as planned, or if the speakers I saw were the late replacements. IMO this was a much bigger crowd than the first Hands Off protest.
According to various news reports, the suspect's car had a manifesto, a hit list of people to target (one report said the list had a bunch of politicians, another said the list had a bunch of pro-choice activists), and apparently the car also had a bunch of No Kings signs in it. I'm guessing they thought he was going to slip into a protest and try to hurt people?
Something important to know about the two people who were shot: until her death, Melissa Hortman was a member of the Minnesota State House of Representatives; and John Hoffman is a member of the Minnesota State Senate. Both were Democrats.
And up until they were shot, the Minnesota House had 134 Members: 66 Republicans vs 67 Democrats (with one seat empty to be filled later). And the Minnesota Senate had 67 members: 33 Republicans and 34 Democrats. If the assassinations had both been successful, both chambers would have been tied. As it is, they're only saying that Hoffman is "stable", but there are no further details.
Now do it again.