We had a similar per capita rate of participation in No Kings as France has had in its recent demonstrations. But the US has a much lower population density over a much larger land area, so the protests appeared smaller despite having millions more people in the streets.
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pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Well we had No Kings protests. Police have shot and killed out citizens in the process of that. In my area, during a protest, police grabbed, dragged, and shot a protestor point blank in the eye with a less than lethal gun (he’s blind now)
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
mattyroses@lemmy.librarysocialism.social 9 hours ago
“guys, we went on a permitted march in favor of slightly less shitty authoritarian neoliberals, what more do you want?”
Nobody was shot and killed for No Kings. What the people were shot and killed by ICE for was direct action of rapid response against ICE.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Yeah, that’s the thing about a protest, it doesn’t help unless you have a structure to harness this energy. When police started shooting at protesters in Ukraine in 2014, several political and activist organisations banded together with people, and together they used this fear and anger to resist and ultimately win.
mattyroses@lemmy.librarysocialism.social 9 hours ago
That’s exactly what the Serbian protestors were forced to do as well - and unlike Ukraine, they didn’t have lots of CIA backing to help them.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Well political activist organizations were already banded together going to No Kings protests when those citizens were shot, for some reason we’re not winning yet
Nalivai@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I am very plugged in on the American politics, and yet I have no idea which ones you can mean. This means that either those organisations are small enough so they don’t even break the local social media barrier, or they were so quiet after that, they didn’t even try to do anything on any public level.
Two people were executed on the streets by the regime, and the reaction was less severe than when a shitty musician was shitty.
Hubi@feddit.org 11 hours ago
And people have lost their eyes protesting the redesign of a train station here in Germany. Clashes with law enforcement are to be expected when you protest the government. You don’t tuck in your tail because of that.
Napster153@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Yeah, and the freedom people who once frothed at the mouth about wanting to fight tyrants are now probably the ones shooting protestors happily now.
All for the tribe.