Such ferocity.
Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Because the Americans don’t know how to protest.
To a Frenchman a protest is storming and taking control of the representation of authority in the country.
To a Greek a protest is filling the streets of many cities throughout the countries with hundreds of thousands of people.
To an American a protest involves standing in a square by the few hundreds, holding signs with semi-sarcastic or passive aggressive messages written on them.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
protest is storming and taking control of the representation of authority in the country.
Jan 6. 2021… just the other side protesting though.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, I hope every American here realizes that the lunatics behind Jan 6 are more effective protesters than they are.
afronaut@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
J6 was an astroturfed operation by the current dictator in charge. We currently have several grassroots protests around the country being suppressed, and have a long history of protesting and rioting for civil rights in this country.
You clearly get your news from corporate media or else you’d be aware of this.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Jan 6 had a lot of money behind it. People fundamentally do not understand how hamstrung leftists groups in the U.S. are. Yeah, the people who received millions of dollars were able to charter busses to bring people to the capitol, and the people who are receiving tens of dollars are barely able to have a media presence. No shit.
It’d be really cool if maybe some of the people who wanted Americans to be doing more would actually put their money where there mouth is and work to get large donation efforts going towards leftist groups in the U.S. The way I see it, you can start funding partisans here now, or you can start doing it after Trump tries to invade/destabilize whatever country you’re living in.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Yeah, insurrection is a form of protest, I guess.
stickly@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Eh, I feel like every day there’s a new story of Tesla’s being torched. That’s a pretty directed and forceful form of protest that gets no credit.
Also, it’s not like America never has large scale protests. Hundreds of thousands of people fill the National Mall pretty regularly, skimming Wikipedia I counted 14+ since 1950 of over 200,000.
Just 5 years ago 15m-26m people participated in some especially roudy protests across all 50 states, but no credit for that either.
Large protests that get even slightly out of line in the USA usually end with:
If you’re criticizing Americans for anything, it should be for their response to that and not their ability to organize and orchestrate protests.