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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 week ago (4 children)

These protests need to start happening outside of these reps' offices.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Reps need to be taking part in the protests. Preferably Korean-style.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (23 children)

You mean the US representatives that won't set term limits? The US representatives that won't vote to outlaw insider trading? The US representatives who own businesses that benefit from their legislation? Those people? Just gotta be clear here. Because I'm feeling a little uncertain about their loyalties at the moment. At least towards their voters... To their donors, I'm rock solid on where they owe their fealty.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wonderful, dear US friends!

A powerful sign against all the hatred and corruption that Trump and his henchmen stand for.

I think large demonstrations like this are incredibly important, especially nowadays, because the manipulation in social media and the traditional media can so easily give the false impression that a majority would share the inhumane ideology of this regime.

For the tens of thousands on the streets, it is obvious how many decent people there actually are.

Trump and his opinion makers can do little about this - apart from their usual ridiculous conspiracy theories around Soros and other such Bogus. Because not even these unscrupulous fascists can (yet) dare to stop thousands and thousands of people from demonstrating, or even have them all arrested.

Good luck and all the best from Europe!

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It is not tens of thousands.

D.C alone has an estimated 100.000 people marching.

Nationwide the number is believed to be 5 million, i read somewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Now all they have to do this until main stream media cannot widely ignore this in the US.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (15 children)

It'll be right before the false flag attack used to justify repression of dissent

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

It's been a couple of decades since I've lived in the states, but I used to watch some US TV, via satellite and later cable (TV through fiber, actually) I stopped watching US TV 2-3 years prior to COVID. I just can't stand it. Regular TV is pretty bad worldwide, but US TV is on another level of bad.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (27 children)

Finally what? Finally the media is covering the protests that have been going on the entire time? They're growing but they weren't small even a month or two ago.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Great!... now take this momentum and do a general strike! a week should do it

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

I'm so happy to see this, finally some good news from the us.

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