deleted by creator
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.
deleted by creator
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.
deleted by creator
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.
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.
“oh my god we did this thing for attention and no one is paying attention to us”
Maybe because we’re burnt out because people are outraged every couple of minutes.
Apathy is a part of the problem. The road to Nazi Germany was lined with many of your type that complained that the damn left are complaining too much
Sure.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn’t a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.—Martin Niemöller
Do you work in the government? If not then these protests weren’t for you.
Fifty states, one message: we see through the facade. Simultaneous protests coast-to-coast, and the propaganda machines are in stealth mode. Convenient, isn’t it? A nation erupts, and the so-called “free press” opts for strategic amnesia.
This isn’t apathy—it’s suppression. When every state rises up, the system panics. The Capitol steps become battlegrounds, yet the narrative is buried under celebrity gossip and stock market fluff. They’re scared. Scared of what happens when people realize that unity in dissent is their greatest weapon.
Keep marching. If they won’t cover it, we’ll document it ourselves. The truth doesn’t need their permission to exist.
Why don’t we start confronting news anchors? Start calling them out specifically for being silent. This could be in person or online or both.
How many news anchors are actually journalists? I get that they’re the face of TV news, but most of them are just people with pretty faces who can read from a teleprompter in an engaging way. This doesn’t excuse them from ignoring these issues any more than the producers or so many other people do.
Asking the real questions. Are news reporters real people even? Find out tonight at 11.
deleted by creator
Exactly. They ran the same playbook with Occupy Wall Street—ignore, ridicule, and then unleash the riot squads when the message hits too close to home. It’s not about “safety” or “order”; it’s about silencing dissent before it becomes unmanageable.
Blocking freeways? Sure, it’s inconvenient—but so is systemic corruption, unchecked corporate greed, and a government that treats its people like collateral damage. If a traffic jam is what it takes to make the propaganda machines blink, then so be it.
And yeah, cops love an excuse to escalate. The state’s monopoly on violence doesn’t tolerate competition, even when it’s peaceful resistance. But let them overplay their hand—every raid, every crackdown only fuels the fire they’re desperate to extinguish.
deleted by creator
The system thrives on fear—fear of disruption, fear of unity, fear of people refusing to play by its rules. Blocking freeways isn’t the problem; it’s a mirror held up to a society that values convenience over justice. If ambulances can’t move, that’s not on the protesters—it’s on a government that built a house of cards where one roadblock collapses everything.
But you’re right: fire is their favorite excuse. It’s not the flames they fear; it’s the spark in people’s minds. Every crackdown is their attempt to extinguish that spark before it spreads. The challenge isn’t just to disrupt but to outmaneuver their narratives.
Keep pissing them off, but don’t hand them the script they’re desperate to use against us.
The protests almost always made sure emergency vehicles made it through without delay.
deleted by creator
Then we start picketing them, too. Right outside their media buildings, asking when they plan to grow a spine and start covering what’s happening. Add media companies to the places being protested and show what cowards they are.
I’ve seen your takes around from time to time. I like the way you think.
Hey man, back at you. :)
Nice of the shitlibs in the comments to out themselves as not just do-nothing cowards, but active agents against dissent.
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 his watch? He just had them gassed so he could have a photo op. I don’t doubt he’d 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…
When (no really, I’m genuinely curious, please link me)?
Besides, which is worse: genocide, or a full ethnic cleansing with a war on science, arts, women, BIPOC people, and the LGBT+ community at home?
Because by protesting the former you got the latter. I sure hope you like that moral high ground…
Really?! The worlds largest propaganda machine is playing tricks on us?!1!
Facebook knows who is sensitive to this kind of news, they know who would join a protest and who not. And they can decide to whom to show which news. How many people use Facebook & co. as their main source of information? Or main medium to organize?
Meta has the Meta(data)
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
When you own the media…
Tell me how many people first.
A handful of people in every state is not impressive.
There were a few thousand in California. Not crazy numbers but much more than i expected to see on a Wednesday in Sacramento. There were also protests in Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego, but idk about numbers for those.
LA also had a protest the Saturday before, but it got drowned out in the news by the Grammy’s 🙃
deleted by creator
If the people on lemmy constantly (CONSTANTLY) talking about how small/badly timed/ineffective/waste of time these were actually went to them, or set up their own, man what a sight that would have been.
But no, go to work, that’ll save you next month when ‘people who use leftist platforms’ are put in camps instead of immigrants.
If it’s useless, then why are you spending so much time downplaying them?
Why is it that you require to be impressed? Life isn’t a Hollywood movie. You should hear the truth spoken by a single voice and it should resonate thru you.
Because a half dozen people don’t get politicians attention. Don’t get me wrong, I love that this was pulled off at all, but protests are a numbers game.
Exactly
I doubt a politician would care if 200 people protested divided over 50 states.
We’d need millions to actually make a change.
The fact they said “simultanious protest in every state” and not the amount makes me suspicious that it actually wern’t that many.
More populous states tended to have more people there for obvious reasons. There were hundreds in Oklahoma as a reference.
Nice, that makes me smile. I respect everyone that got out there.
Has any protest actually exceeded 10,000 people?
Honestly, it doesn’t sound like many were protesting. Germany has had more than a million people on the streets in the last couple of days in comparison. Munich alone had 300,000 people protesting.
It’s not a competition but the US also has 4 times the population allowing for much larger protests if there is sufficient public support.
The US has a larger population, but its also massively larger. There were thousands in LA - tens of? No idea. But into the thousands across multiple protests.
That said, it usually takes a bit for momentum. The Great American Boycott (aka a day without an immigrant) had about a million people 20 years ago, but had large scale planning and coordination in other countries as well. The Floyd protests were in the tens of millions of participants, but that was also over a few years of protesting during the pandemic.
Then add in the short timeframe provided on this one (less than 2 weeks if you knew about it early, mostly the day or two before for many more) and its a solid turnout.
This is more like everyone getting to Berlin and protesting, but without good public transportation infrastructure and super short notice. So let’s take that Oklahoma example from earlier - hundreds were there. The population of OK is about 4 million people for the whole state. In terms of population, its about the middle most populous of all states. So this is like the population of Berlin, spread across a state about half the size of Germany.
Its not really a good comparison regardless.
You’re right, but you also have cities like NYC with decent public transit and a higher population density than any German city.
To be fair, the protests were held at state capitals but NYC is the far more nationally and internationally relevant city in that state. A protest with public backing would have little problem getting 100,000 people on the streets there, wouldn’t it?
Even Oklahoma City has 680,000 inhabitants and is larger than all but 5 German cities. If we assume 680 people protested then that’s 0.1% of the city… which isn’t a lot really?
The German protest series also had a somewhat short, though longer notice of around two weeks. Plus large protests are held on the weekend by design, to allow as many people as possible to join in. No clue what the turnout would’ve been on a regular Wednesday.
But in all honesty, the US reaction to open fascism has been rather apathetic so far from what I can tell an ocean away. Which should be particularly concerning because apathy does not defeat fascism, ever.
NYC is not where the protests were - not for this one at least. It was in Albany, about 3 hours from NYC by car, bus, or train. On a random Tuesday with short notice most aren’t going to be able to go.
There are other protests that have happened in NYC, just like with LA. That said - yes, youre going to have trouble getting people out in general despite public support. You’ve got people with families who need someone to watch their kids. You have people who literally can’t afford to miss a day of work. You have people who will get fired for taking a day off unexpectedly.
You’ve got all kinds of protections in the EU that dont exist in the US, and many places intentionally so to prevent exactly this.
The two situations aren’t comparable, as I’ve said.
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
deleted by creator
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
That was my first experience organizing a protest. Fack I am old now.
Was it all 50 states simultaneously?
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.
Elon and the felon: “Does their protesting stop what we’re doing in any way? No? Then why would I care?”
fElon
Leopards eat your face much Midwest?
There are people in every state that hate Trump. Unfortunately, in some states, those people are greatly outnumbered.
The only language fascist speak is violence
Does DuoLingo teach that? I need to brush up.
My partner trying to keep their streak going at 11:57 in bed definitely promotes violence. Also a lesson in anger management. An app that has trained me without installing it is rare.
Fuck around with that owl and find out.
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.
