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    Big kudos to the No Kings protestors. The parade for Krasnov received what is deserved, it was fucking lame.

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    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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    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

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      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

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        I don’t think that was the point. The point was that one ninth of the population was on the street. That’s over 11%.
        To be at the same scale the US being a country of ~340 millions should have a protest of almost 38 millions people.

        In smaller country people may be able to protest together more easily but usually they manifest locally, in their own town or the closest city.

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        Yep, people dont think about that. Greece is the size of Alabama lol.

        USA = 9.8 million kilometers

        Greece = 132,000 kilometers

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      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.

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      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.

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    Republicans should be terrified at this point. The protests are peaceful … for now.

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    I like how all the big media just happened to publish articles about “peaceful protests” to pacify the protestors, “please don’t be violent everyone, the police can’t shoot you all in the leg with rubber bullets”.

    The violent protests are the successful ones. Just ask every country, ever.

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    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 bitch.

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    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!

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      As long at they keep it up now. If this is it, if this is all, it won’t do anything

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      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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        Fortunately Sinclair only has 1 station in Minnesota, WUCW, which is not one of the big ones where most people get their news (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX).

        I think they’re dead last in news market share.

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          Depending on the area. National yes, but look at how local outlets are reporting on them. Lawton OK had one and their local outlets barely covered it par exemple.

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      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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        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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          There were even protests in my tiny town. People have been protesting a lot. Hell, they had a massive one in LA just this week. Anyone who says Americans have not been protesting needs to find different media sources unless the ones used are not meant for international coverage. My workplace is even staging a protest soon.

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

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      I’m just glad there was a protest I didn’t hear about after the fact. Or like the morning of.