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There is a qulitative change from protest to resistance needed.
Loads of people in this thread saying they're happening but media not covering them...
I don't think that's really what is meant by "mass protests". In the not so distant past I would have thought every american man woman and child would be weeping in the streets at the corruption and despotism.
There are protests, and maybe they're not being covered, but it's not the type of civil unrest I would have expected honestly.
I am convinced people have to die for it to be big enough in the US. I'm not trying to be difficult or obtuse. I think with the state of things, it's the only thing that is going to unify us enough to take to the streets and revolt together.
I don't call them protests. I call them "Opportunity to arrest figure heads of whatever movement in order to eliminate momentum and silently kill the cause since no North American protest seems like anything more than cows being led to a slaughter house by cops getting paid overtime to kick heads"
@Yazer@lemmy.ca my kids didn't have school yesterday because their teachers were protesting.
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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.
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.
There's considerable more happening now than in 2017. They hust aren't getting media attention because the media has been folded in.
I visited family/friends in the US recently (i've lived in europe for many 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.