Great work to everyone who stands up to hatred and fascism! ❤️
I watched some of the protests when they were live on YouTube. The fact there was apparently so little media coverage of people protesting against a fascist racist who appointed a Nazi as a special government employee and wants to annex Canada is simply mindboggling.
Really?! The worlds largest propaganda machine is playing tricks on us?!1!
Facebook knows who is sensitive to this kind of news, they know who would join a protest and who not. And they can decide to whom to show which news. How many people use Facebook & co. as their main source of information? Or main medium to organize?
Meta has the Meta(data)
Feb 5* also thank you for this post I am glad it is getting reach.
On February 5 (when this was happening) there was an infuriating number of posts saying “why aren’t pro-Palestine protesting?”
And then I’d get downvotes for pointing out people, in fact, protesting.
So many people with their eyes intentionally closed… felt so hopeless.
I hope the whole stadium boos him off the stands at the Superbowl
The media will replace the boos with cheers or block the audio completely so they don’t get sued.
Still would look good to get a visual close up of his face when it starts
For y’all who’ve never protested before… The reason why they don’t cover it is because they never cover protests (unless people actually FSU then it’s a “riot”)… Maybe if libs cared when it happened to activists for BLM, anti-genocide, etc… Now it’s just completely normal.
Protests alone will not stop the nazis. They also didn’t in Germany ~90 years ago. I hooe people get that and organize. Fast.
If you plan to do protesting - i wpuld highly recommend getting a Faraday bag gor your phone. Just turning it off isn’t good enough
Fifty states, one message: we see through the facade. Simultaneous protests coast-to-coast, and the propaganda machines are in stealth mode. Convenient, isn’t it? A nation erupts, and the so-called “free press” opts for strategic amnesia.
This isn’t apathy—it’s suppression. When every state rises up, the system panics. The Capitol steps become battlegrounds, yet the narrative is buried under celebrity gossip and stock market fluff. They’re scared. Scared of what happens when people realize that unity in dissent is their greatest weapon.
Keep marching. If they won’t cover it, we’ll document it ourselves. The truth doesn’t need their permission to exist.
Then we start picketing them, too. Right outside their media buildings, asking when they plan to grow a spine and start covering what’s happening. Add media companies to the places being protested and show what cowards they are.
I’ve seen your takes around from time to time. I like the way you think.
Why don’t we start confronting news anchors? Start calling them out specifically for being silent. This could be in person or online or both.
How many news anchors are actually journalists? I get that they’re the face of TV news, but most of them are just people with pretty faces who can read from a teleprompter in an engaging way. This doesn’t excuse them from ignoring these issues any more than the producers or so many other people do.
Asking the real questions. Are news reporters real people even? Find out tonight at 11.
It took an elected Nazi to unite a country, agaisnt the Nazi.
The revolution will not be televised
I finally understand what that means.
I hate finding out how my great grandparents felt in the early 1900’s – so ironic their children couldn’t care less about repeating history
Many people’s great grandparents saw bad shit happen and then kept enabling it. Is it irony or plain ol’ stupidity?
its safer not to get involved. the downside is that the problem will not go away by itself.
The only language fascist speak is violence
Does DuoLingo teach that? I need to brush up.
Fuck around with that owl and find out.
My partner trying to keep their streak going at 11:57 in bed definitely promotes violence. Also a lesson in anger management. An app that has trained me without installing it is rare.
The largest protests in the history of the world were in opposition to the invasion of Iraq. The invasion of Iraq still happened.
Protesting sends a message but it isn’t enough.
If protests aren’t enough to sway a democratic system, then the democratic system is broken and resistance becomes mandatory. To quote what the german constitution established after Hitler to prevent exactly what’s currently happening again in the US:
Article 20 [Constitutional principles - Right of resistance]
[…]
(4) All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order if no other remedy is available.
I do not know if there’s something akin to this in the US constitution (I know your culture very much thinks there is every time it’s about guns though). But even if it isn’t, fuck it. The system is evidently broken, do what’s necessary to regain the power of the people. Do it the French way if you must.
In US, I think it was the initial intent of 2nd amendment. Arm the population not to resist an enemy or an invasion, but to resist its own government if it endanger a free state.
Well with ±400 million guns circulating nationwide, and one in three people are gun owners, consider how many of them would use them in defense of the current government now. There’s a reason behind allowing 2A to go unchecked, when in the time it was written, it made sense. Now it’s a civilian army that, while keeping the population divided, a not insubstantial percentage will blindly defend any unjust actions this government decides to perpetrate.
This. This kind of unchecked gun permissions only elevate the necessary revolt to a civil war. It doesn’t help fighting against regimes, on the contrary; it makes the fight extremely bloody. Those who wrote it in 17-something couldn’t know that, in the future, it will be the very fascist supporters who are the most heavily armed.
(4) All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order if no other remedy is available.
Wow I love this.
The media did the exact same thing too they had a bunch of Iraq war experts and nobody about why we shouldn’t go to war…
As much as I hate riots, I mean, yeah?
Anyone who knows anything about history has seen this story before
We have always known that all broadcast and cable news media is tightly controlled. Hundreds of stations across America literally parrot word for word what each other says.
Now we also know that all social media can also be controlled. There is nowhere safe except small communities that are not controlled by corporations or the government.
They want us disorganized, poor, uneducated, and religious. This is their plan to reduce us to their serfs to be controlled and abused.
This morning, I hear reports from neighbors that our “local” newspaper website has experienced some sort of breakdown, and it’s showing the “local” paper from somewhere in Virginia, or Tennessee. They’re all owned by the same company. The media outlets aren’t parroting each other when they are literally the same entity behind the scenes.
Good ole Sinclair.
I just showed my daughter this today. Thanks for posting it.
On Feb. 15, 2003, millions of people marched in over 600 cities against the plans of U.S. President George W. Bush to invade Iraq.
First time?
Many of those protests were shut down too. I was up in MA for the Blood for Oil/WMD protest. We were shut down due to a ‘bad actor’ that not one of us witnessed. Neither the bad actor nor the protest made the papers.
Props to the AP, Newsweek, and USA Today for covering 50501 while the rest show where their loyalty lies.
Where is the ap coverage?
thx, didn’t realize this happened 4 days ago already. I dismissed it because of that
But there was a massive amount of coverage on how disliked Bush was (man, in fucking comparison…) whereas op’s post is about how major the protest is vs. how little coverage there is of it.
The text in the image says it’s the first time, though. Don’t support misinformation just because it makes us look good
Was it all 50 states simultaneously?
That was my first experience organizing a protest. Fack I am old now.
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Besides some barely visible posts and slightly suspicious on Lemmy, I literally heard nothing about this protest.
Media will definitely downplay it, but this instance was obviously badly organised.
The time to speak up was in November. All this was obvious. People voted for it (or stayed out).
Now all we can do is bask in privilege and talk about leopards for the next 4 years. It’s a glorious system! \s
That’s literally, unironically, my plan. I’m all out of sympathy, and not based in the US.
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Would you like a unicorn, too?
Judges already decided that Trump is immune and he can pardon anyone who does his bidding. That ship has sailed.
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I was with you from 2016 to 2020. But in 2024 the American people spoke.
I admire your motivation but you’re in the minority. The majority is in the “this is fine” camp. Either support it, or don’t care.
They’re just being realistic, the American people aren’t going to do shit
OH but they already did shit. They did the only shit that they can do. They voted! Now they must accept the nazi rule as legit! There is no other way… \s
It IS legit. You may not agree, but they are the government. You can’t even accuse them of lying about it, they announced they would do it and people still elected them.
