I’m shocked that I haven’t seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren’t any, why?
35k in Denver today
Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?
Submitted 1 year ago by Yazer@lemmy.ca to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Godofdirt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
rational_lib@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because protests don’t do shit. There were mass protests over police brutality in 2020. Didn’t do shit.
moakley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because protests don’t do shit. There were mass protests over police brutality in 2020.
I get why you feel that way, but it’s just not true.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because protests don’t do shit.
Occupy Wall Street had an impact.
Yoga@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This is not true, protests have a measurable impact and the defeatist nonsense of “there’s no point in trying” is exactly what enemies of democracy want.
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]MortUS@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think the nice thing about a protest is that it’s a show of power, strength, and unity. It sends a message to those on the outside that there is a number of people who believe in a common goal. And really, the message is one all Americans can pretty much agree on and that’s trickle down isn’t tricking and corporate profits are on the rise.
The longer the protests, the worse taxes become from tariffs, the more cuts they make to social services, the more people could snowball this into a movement.
The power of protests are People.
sevenOfKnives@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
protests represent the threat of violence. the threat went away and the rulers stopped listening.
suite403@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thr burning down of tesla cars and dealerships don’t happen during the protests so they have no boogeyman to give yet. Once the protests turn violent, which I have no doubt they will eventually if they keep getting ignored, thr media will be quick to pain all protestors as bad and ask “why didn’t they try peacefully protesting?”
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Quite simply, most americans aren’t that mad at Trump. He’s poking at foreign nations, while the foreign media gets more n more shrill and hysterical. You’re in Canada, dude, he’s trying to piss you off right now.
MortUS@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I personally believe he’s doing so to try and get better USMCA trade agreements, but I believe it’s just going to backfire, which could also just as well be the goal.
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t think he cares if it backfires. Canada has about as much raw power as about 3 midwestern states, with the military and populace to match. It was capable of projecting world power in a world a fuck sight less populated than today, the worlds second largest country but the population of some European country you can drive across in 4 hours.
AidsKitty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We had an election and Trump won fair and square. All you can do is regroup and get prepared for the next election.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are. I’ve been to a few. They don’t get covered by the media.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 year ago
They only get coverage if police get to act a fool.
friendlysoviet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Low density and car based infrastructure neuters protests. I usually work from home but I had jury duty a few weeks ago in the courthouse in my downtown area. There were several protests daily the entire time I was there.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Half of the Americans are in favor of this clown, and the other half either are too drained from the whole thing, can’t afford to miss work, or just don’t know how to protest.
ElleOhh@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Estimates show 65-75% of households live paycheck to paycheck. We financially can’t miss a day of work, let alone long stretches. Or we are allowed so little time off that it has to be saved for sick/emergency days (if you get any at all!).
That’s setting aside things like long hours, multiple jobs, unaffordable daycare, lack of medical care on top of hard hitting inflation without any wage changes.
It’s by design. It’s like intentionally under feeding slaves so they don’t have the energy to run away.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Hang on, that doesn’t sound like the American dream I’ve been told about !
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The American dream was the freedom to pursue your goals, not those rewards being handed to you. Common misconception. You had a bunch of kids before financially ready or didn’t go to the right school, picked up a felony young, whatver you did, that was on you, by the old timers logic. Literal royalty just wasn’t preventing you anymore.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because over half the people voted for him and are convinced of everything he says and does. My f’ing BIL thinks Trump can’t do anything wrong. Just go question him on other social media, especially a state subreddit, and people will say things like “so you are in favor or waste and fraud!?” like it is case closed.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Queue the Democrats that have done the same thing for their own party members.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Because over half the people voted for him
No they didn’t. Only like 60% of eligible voters actually voted in this past election. Which means only about 30% of eligible voters voted for Trump. About 80% of the country’s population are eligible voters, and since only 30% voted for Trump, 80% x 30% = 24% of the population voted for him. Roughly a quarter of people voted for him, not half.
And for anyone who’s wondering, “why did only 60% of eligible voters vote?” The answer is mostly voter suppression in various forms.
PotatoLibre@feddit.it 1 year ago
Politicians should be responsible for the people to vote.
An election with 63% of the voters should not allow a full mandate. Of course politicians will never agree to that on either sides, but it’s how it should be imo.
MisterOwl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Throw around all the numbers you want. The fact remains: the majority of voters voted for trump. I don’t like it either, but this is what America is.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes. The media is suppressing them. See c/50501
Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Explain this?
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 year ago
50501 refers to “Fifty States, Fifty Protests, One Movement” (originally “One Day”). While some states have more presence than others, it has 50 chapters for the 50 states.
I don’t think there’s as much presence on Lemmy, but lots of media gets posted to Reddit at www.reddit.com/r/50501/.
Their website also links to social media accounts covering more of it: www.fiftyfifty.one
Holeshot75@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m pretty shocked by this as well.
I always thought that America was on the ready to stand up against fascism and tyranny.
I guess they aren’t.
MortUS@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The people who were super vocal about stockpiling guns to “stand up to tyranny” dont think this is tyranny. They are actively cheering for it.
They think tyranny is the government passing laws that amount to “don’t be a dick”. They hate that.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because a lot of Americans think he is the warrior fighting the evil gub’ment
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I live in the SF Bay Area. There’s a website that was set up to track protests (www.actiontogetherbayarea.org/calendar). There are more than a dozen today and more than two dozen tomorrow. I think generally the larger protests are at state capitols and Washington DC, which are simply too far for many people to go to. Sacramento is our state capitol and that’s about a 1.5 hour drive from here. CA is a big state, Sacramento would probably be an 8-hour drive from Los Angeles.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tens of millions of Americans can’t afford a sudden $400.00 expense without going further into debt.
That means they can’t afford to miss a day of work.
And that’s by design.
riyehn@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Which just means mass protests aren’t big enough. It’ll take a while, but eventually they’ll realize that with enough mass mobilization missing work and going into debt become irrelevant.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are but its a big country. Not everyone can walk on DC.
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’d take me over a month to reach DC if I walked there.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
We have an extremely effective propaganda system. There are protests. My partner shows me on Instagram videos. But most people are complacent or defeatist.
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Me too
And i live here
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
there are pretty significant protests in recent months. Tesla, the federal government, unions etc. It’s just that nobody really care about them with all the funny shit happening in the federal government right now.
Realistically, they also won’t do much, so you’ll have better reach doing more traditional on the ground campaigning anyway.
toxiczombie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Just went to one for vets against the VA cuts and haven’t heard shit about it since
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
vet’s have literally no administration pool to serve them right now im guessing, even if they did protest, it would probably just lead to the VA going 🤷 because they literally don’t have the people to do that work.
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
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Because the people protesting represent in the single digit percentages of the voter base of America. An extremely vocal minority, but still a minority of Americans.
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Boy who cried wolf situation. Protesting every single thing endlessly for years on end has made the average person stop caring about whatever you’re protesting about. Not saying it’s right but that is how many people view continual protesting.
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The far left protests lost most of their corporate backing this time around. As soon as the bean counters up top realized that pandering to the social stuff on the left wasn’t going to net them record profits they all dropped supporting the issues like a bad habit. They saw the popular vote change and they all dropped their masks immediately. Remember this in 10 years when the balance swings back again and you see target suddenly pretending to give a shit about gay right again or whatever it is at that time. They only ever cared about money.
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Lack of unified direction of protests. There are tons of local and small group protests as many people have linked in the comments, but outside of these small tight-knit online communities planning these things the general public has absolutely no clue any of them are happening. There isn’t a single unifying “thing” to rally around like the BLM protests had with George Floyd. When the angry mob can’t direct their anger all in the same direction it loses power.
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Since modern media runs on outrage (clicks) and they have seen that most people don’t care anymore they have moved onto other things in order to generate the clicks they want to make the money for the big guy.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think you are missing the point. Media is controlling the narrative and purposely ignoring the protests. We have twice as many people protesting right now compared to the peak of the defund the police movement.
They could get a shit ton of clicks by covering protests. This isn’t about random event not being cohesive enough or algorithms ignoring events. It is purposeful manipulation by are newly minted ruling class under Donald Cuck.
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june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did you forget BLM already?
Tilgare@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damn, I wish I lived under the rock you apparently do.
VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
afronaut@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Getting sick of Europeans falling for the blatant suppression and propaganda that our corporate-elite overlords are spoon-feeding them and using that to act superior.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Especially since far-right groups have been falling for Musk’s same bullshit in Europe.
There’s been reports that Germany’s AFD party fell out of favor after their news got to see how Trump played out. I seriously hope that ends up being true in their next election.
EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]Ilandar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why shouldn’t they be? Americans have long had a superiority complex, always confidently mocking the problems of others around the world as if they were immune to them. It may feel bad for you now but the schadenfreude the rest of the world feels is completely justified. Frankly, the way some of you are suddenly crying about the rest of the world being mean to you is only further contributing to this image of Americans thinking they are above everyone else.
RichardDegenne@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That being said, if you have a hard time getting the word out on your protests, then the suppression is working.
Publicizing your actions is part of the protest.
afronaut@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
You’re making the assumption that these protests don’t have designated people to cover and publicize their actions. We already know Meta and Twitter have been literally suppressing and shadow banning leftist associated tags and keywords on their platforms.
mrodri89@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Whenever I attend a protest, there is 0 media stations in attendance or covering it.
By design. They’re under control.
Honestly, I think everyone’s waiting for the masses to be just pissed off enough to kick it up a notch.
arotrios@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why the fuck is the media suppressing them?
amorpheus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair, this doesn’t make any statements about attendance.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not only mass media, but social media algorithms as well. Big tech is complacent in the coup
60d@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Canada here. We see nothing about Murcan protests, if they exist. We just hear Canadians/politicians reacting negatively to pretty much everything coming out of the white house.
We ask each other how can Murcans be okay with being treated like this. Don’t they understand what’s happening?
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I really hope you’re right. I’m actually very scared that they’ll take over our social media this election season and we’ll get fucked as well.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Don’t they understand what’s happening?
No. Overwhelmingly, no, they don’t. The MAGA crowd is stuck to their pants with glee, the liberal crowd is going “oh well, we’ll get em in the midterms,” and about another third of the country is just brain-dead clueless about all of it. Maybe a few thousand people in the US actually understand just how close we are to cascading systemic collapse.
vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Thanks! This is the graph I was looking for
ECB@feddit.org 1 year ago
I visited family/friends in the US recently (ice lived in europe for mant years).
Everyone is super upset about the current state of things, angry at Trump etc.
However, they are also generally just convinced they need to wait out these four years and then everything can return to normal.
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 year ago
There’s considerable more happening now than in 2017. They hust aren’t getting media attention because the media has been folded in.
vvilld@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think this is a factor of your media echo chamber. I’ve personally attended protests nearly every week since January. I’m going to one tomorrow. They are all over my news feeds.
sfu@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Cocopanda@futurology.today 1 year ago
They’re caging and chaining up perfectly innocent people. When do they start calling regular citizens terrorists and start arresting us in mass?
sfu@lemm.ee 1 year ago