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11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Its crazy to think if I weren’t a US citizen and was reading this, I’d think “man that’s 50 individual locations for everyone to be able to participate if they want.”

When the reality is, if I wanted to attend my New York Stare protest in Albany, id be looking at a 5-6ish one way trip, 10-12hrs round trip just driving. I’m totally guessing tho. Ive never gone from my house to Albany before. Only ever went there from either the adks or NYC coming back to Buffalo.

Tldr: Yo, America’s big as fuck.

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barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Nah, 50 locations is rookie numbers. Like, Germany has 715 cities over 20k pop and I just checked and yep the smallest one did have a protest in 2024 when the AfD “remigration” plans became public.

Protest where you live. Protest where people are. Wait that doesn’t work in the US. Protest on the Walmart parking lot. Fuck trying to hit individual record numbers on prime time news noone cares noone watches that shit if it even gets reported, be visible to your neighbours they can’t censor that.

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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
America’s not a country. It is a continent.

America’s not a government. It is the largest, most varied, and most complex human organization that has ever existed. Also the most powerful. And most of it, to most people, is invisible.

America’s not a culture. It has cultures within in, and some are quite good. Once you’ve tasted, it’s hard to forget. But like the onion it has no center. Once you reach the center of the dream, you realize it is nothing, it never existed.

America is sleeping. America died long ago. America has yet to be born. America was always a lie.

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sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I just plugged in my state capital into my driving app. It says it will take 6 hours and 51 minutes one-way. Yeah, I can’t even afford the gas for that. So I checked public transportation and it said 12 hours one-way and one of the three tickets I’d have to buy was $100. Your tldr is spot on.

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