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Imagine there are still people who chose to go to USA voluntarily?
Will Americans really still just look on and do nothing while the Trump administration is tearing the country apart?
There are a lot of protests going on right now - the news isn't covering it.
I think the legal, standing around with signs protest is going to have to have its toothier cousin (the violent riot) starting up again alongside it if we want anything to change. They already painted the 2020 protests as "burning the cities down" despite them being >90% peaceful. We might as well -- to reference Kendrick Lamar's lyrics -- fuck being rational and give em what they asked for.
Yup.
Legal avenues and peaceful protests aren't viable.
Violence will have to be the answer. Historically it always is if legal avenues and peaceful protests fail.
Fascists do not respond to anything other than violence.
It's coming. The question is how much violence will be necessary to bring about change?
And it all could have been avoided if Americans behaved like adults and refrained from empowering a traitorous felon rapist.
Are people supposed to go around committing mass shootings where they believe magats are? Is that the violence we should be committing here in the US? Maybe we get a magat, maybe we get other blue voters and their families? I'm not saying violence won't have it's place if necessary but it needs to be targeted and there are no left wing organized groups out there to coordinate that.
Is that what you think a riot is? A mass shooting?
Dude there are things between holding signs in free speech zones and mass shootings.
Been to three so far in MN already and plenty before that. Things will get wilder as the weather warms up as sad as that is, it is a reality.
Where? how do you know? how does the rest of the world find out about these?
I was curious what would happen if I googled "protests happening right now" and interestingly enough, it sent back this link: https://usprotests.liveuamap.com/
I'd question the credibility at this point. I've spent 0 minutes on there.
Aside from that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN-NxUYGpAo&list=RDNSdN-NxUYGpAo&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieXcaRvKAz4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHitRUYRbdk&list=RDNSNHitRUYRbdk&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tro3pCO0YWY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBMF2OU-xR4
Honestly, just fucking around on Lemmy every other day or so, I always see a new post regarding a protest.
Thanks for the links!... definitely a balm on the shattered trust in the American people
There are images each week of a new protest in my city subreddit on reddit
Being part of three of them myself in MN is how I would know they're happening. Are you just believing the lies that not a single one of us is doing anything whatsoever?
Why are you offended at anone asking for evidence?
Maybe is more people asked for evidence, the world wouldn't be in such a mess now
::Looks at Americans really still just look on and do nothing while the Trump administration is tearing the country apart::
Yes.
Speak for yourself. What have you done to combat injustice in your home today?
Believe it or not yes some of us are trying to do something. You’ll have to forgive us for not having the same resources as the executive branch of the US.
Many idiots who are understandably mad/frustrated as well as foreign trolls/bots are trying to get Americans to become indiscriminate mass shooters regardless of who they end up taking down with them. The normal people telling us to get violent don't understand what it really takes to get an organized militant anti-government group off the ground. Any 'violence' that happens in this country by our side cannot be indiscriminate it must be targeted and reduce collateral damage to other people who support us.
It appears so.
Our checks and balances within our federal government have failed. Categorically. Our government is not equipped to deal with internal threats like this. We have too many weaknesses within our system and too many individuals unwilling to live up to their oaths.
That leaves it up to the general public. Right now, not gonna happen. Not sure what's going to happen over the next few years. Things are going to get progressively worse. People will get more desperate. Violent crime will increase. These factors may push Americans to protest, probably violently, at levels never before seen in this country. That could bring about a positive change. But I'm not really betting on that happening. People are complacent. People are wage slaves. We're going to have to lose our internet and TV and cell phone service before Americans get bloodthirsty on a large scale. Or if they seriously fuck with social security. That'll cause riots.
But if they're even remotely smart fascists they'd know to do this all slowly to prevent Americans from noticing or at least to prevent them from getting super mad super quick. Like, fuck with Social Security a little bit, so people get mad, but not that mad. Then do it some more a year later.
They're not particularly smart though. So we're basically going to see over the next few years if Americans can live up to our rebellious stereotype or if we've become meek and frail through lack of true hardship.
The general public that opposes this isn't organized yet. This needs to happen first. People seem to want Americans who oppose this to go out and do mass shootings in areas we THINK there might be magats and hope for the best. I really think a lot of this is russian/other foreign trolls trying to rage bait someone into doing this. The people who want to go that route need to have intelligence and other leg work done for them to point them to the right places to get the most optimal results with the least collateral damage. I have no clue how to organize in a way that rookie mistakes wouldn't be made and people wouldn't end up getting imprisoned or killed before they were able to get what they wanted to accomplish done.
Absolutely, the whole system was based on the administration respecting the law, when it doesn't do that, all the checks and balances don't work.
Sadly that seems like the best hope we have.
Yeah, pretty likely.