More ‘we cant do anything because xyz’ arguments. There are protests outside of Paris. Here in Canada, an infintely sparser population, the railroads were shut down over the pipeline in 2020. We literally saw store shelves here on the east coast get emptier because the trains werent running.
Are Americans lacking any and all imagination that all they can think of doing is non-disruptive protests.
Dont get me wrong, Im sure there is creative action happening down there but my god all the comments are full of excuses.
neatchee@piefed.social 1 day ago
Maximum travel time by the lesser of car or train to the Capitol for each country:
Albania 4.5 – 5.5 hours (by car)
Serbia 4 – 4.5 hours (by car)
Spain ~3.5 – 4.5 hours (via AVE high-speed rail)
France ~4.5 – 6.5 hours (via TGV high-speed rail)
United States 43 – 46 hours (by car, excludes Alaska and Hawaii)
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yep, one of my favorite comparisons is that Germany is about the same size as Montana
neatchee@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Even people inside the US have a poor concept of just how big it is.
Like, only India, Russia, and to a lesser degree China compare to the US in terms of livable land area. After that is Brazil at less than half.
I honestly don’t think it’s a coincidence that all four of those countries have a serious authoritarian leadership problem right now.