arrested for assault against a woman holding a cell phone.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5158030-proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-arrested/
haha, fuck that guy.
this is in no way true. in the US, dozens of Judges are fighting back against executive power, lawyers and civil unions are filing hundreds of lawsuits, many of which are being upheld, and there are nationwide protests happening every few days.
If you aren't referring to the US, European countries are also having massive demonstrations against right-wing parties.
it's a very loud time as many hundreds of thousands of people are fighting for democratic rights worldwide.
they just had riots for the super bowl, so only peaceful protests during the American refractory period.
you are uninformed.
you are, like everyone else, referring to a very small percentage of a single new protest movement that I used as one offhand example that doesn't include any of the other protests simultaneously happening.
The US had 50 million people nationwide protesting racial unrest and Police brutality as recently as 2023, tens of millions in the US marched against gun control, feminism, environmental protection, lgbtq rights, in the last 5 years.
those tens of millions of people are a much higher percentage of the US population than the 250k you cite out of Germany's population.
"After several smaller-scale protests, in the evening of 12 January 2024 around 2,000 protested against the AfD at its Hamburg headquarters. The next day, a rally in Duisburg against an AfD new year's reception attracted around 2,400 protesters according to police, far more than anticipated by organizers at the time of registering the rally with authorities, which was before the Correctiv revelations. Also on 13 January, around 650 protestors .."
If your number is accurate, those protests started out much smaller than you are pretending, and 50501 has them beat hands down in their first week by scale and organization.
I am not saying that the US is better at protesting. I think Germans are very politically aware as a people and Europeans in general are more culturally open to and willing to protest, and don't shy away from it.
I'm trying to shed some light on how inaccurate your assumptions and conclusions about American protesting are.
what a wealth of data you haven't provided to support this claim.
haha, I had the same thought. and completely agree! it is a terrible name to remember and catch on.
Nice of you to say, I'm rooting them on as well.
I feel like between the dozens of judges stepping up, and all of the civil and municipal lawsuits, plus constant nationwide protests against all manner of executive order abolishing civil rights, there's still a way to go before the citizens are down for the count.
in that one location, on that one day, of that single protest, you're very close to getting one of these numbers correct.
congrats!!
"that's where I got my information from."
that is where you read a couple numbers from and then used those few random numbers, extrapolated an incorrect conclusion that you based your harmful advocacy for political apathy on.
"No idea why you are being so aggressive."
you're irritating, I am being irritated.
you aren't taking the time to craft factual sentences or relay correct information, so I have to keep correcting you.
"I would like to end the discussion at this point."
well, I'll give you a hint: talking to someone is a terrible way to end a conversation.
"a few hundred protesters" ,
incorrect, but if it were correct, it still doubles the numbers that you were claiming.
"most of the US seems to be paralyzed."
you have multiple protests going on literally in every single state, every few days, with dozens of active lawsuits filed against the federal government, citizens going door-to-door informing people of their rights against ICE, Judges literally blocking his executive orders, and you think Americans are paralyzed.
active protest is nearly as opposite of paralysis as you can get.
you should get up to date on your information!
you are way off.
Credit to "no banana" for the image and Hobbes_Dent for the title.
Zero credit to me for doomscroll.
Haha yea. CinnamonBunzuh.
awesome
Ax gets a big ol' crush on
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A genocidal sort of asshole.
Still, the heart wants what it wants.
This is a great book, testing ax's loyalty again.
A very good example of people insisting they're doing some necessary thing for the greater good by becoming the thing they're fighting against.
The characters and their Dynamics were very interesting in this book, non-stop action.
I remember this book because as soon as you realize that Jake is gone, you're like oh shit.
Wow! This book is really good, dealing with leadership and Marco's criticisms and how poorly Rachel deals with the leadership she thought she wanted,
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and then the absolutely batshit insane plan at the end that foreshadows Rachel's final act.
I also never understood why the garatron looks so much like an andalite.
Are they just like hey isn't evolution weird? This one thing looks like another thing but they're not the same thing.
I don't get why that was so important.
Also, I was so glad that Jake spoke with Rachel shortly at the end of the book. Perfect ending.
Since I learned the word estreen, the andalite word for an extremely talented morpher, I searched for fanart based on that and found some interesting stuff.
Beautifully colored, is this oil painting?
Artist is artbyLars
Update: Estreen! That's the word. Found it!
An exceptionally talented morpher is an estreen! I knew there was a word for it.
I can't find the word.
Isn't there a specific andalite word for how good Cassie is at morphing?
Artist - iara catunda
I feel like that game literally changed my life in the 2 hours or whatever it took me to play it.
That game is so beautiful. It made me a better person.
I was absolutely entranced.
Yikes, I only remembered one scene from this book, and somehow managed to forget
Title
The Atlanteans slicing open living humans and aliens to harvest their organs in the blood and sowing them back up into mummies.
Pretty hardcore.
And there's some cute Tobias Rachel back and forth.
Man, I wanna morph an orca.
"When?"
Gandhi freed India(1947
The Civil Right Act.(1964)
Women's Suffrage(1920)
nearly every labor right you enjoy(from 200 years ago up to today)
nearly every civil right you enjoy.(sames)
There are literally countless examples.
All of your privileges you take for granted and are blissfully ignorant of were bestowed upon you by caring citizens who took the time to demonstrate their political will.