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I wish No Kings protests in the US looked a little more like this. That's fucking awesome.
If they did we'd lose the election in a heartbeat. You keyboard warriors who sit at home and do nothing but whine and criticize are the fucking worst.
In the US they would open fire and kill hundreds of protestors.
Yeah. It's not like people don't remember what happened in Kent State or the Coal mine protest. You can say all you want about the second amendment until you learn the concept of superior firepower.
Perhaps that's exactly what it would take for some people to snap out of it.
I think in the US you would see this if people felt like they were choosing between dying and dying. If it was die in a riot or starve to death or die of exposure for example. Right now it’s suicide by cop or pretend everything is fine. I think if the US didn’t have insane violent thugs in surplus military gear driving armored vehicles as law enforcement you would see a lot more “action”. The math just doesn’t add up if you know acting this way will likely end up with you dying.
This is what the rest of the world doesn't understand. It's been demonstrated in history. Everyone thinks USA Mickey Mouse and Coka Cola! It's more like the saw movies.
Yeah it’s not my fault I’m a coward, the rest of the world never had to fight in the face of death for their rights so they wouldn’t understand.
Huh actually they do understand seeing as most of them did have to do that.
It is all Mickey Mouse and Coca-Cola. And by that I mean they have you fat and distracted.
Speaking of Mickey Mouse go watch andor again and tell yourself how brave and righteous you were while you watched.
You're not a coward. You probably never had a gun to your face or bled for six hours, talk about a roller coaster of thoughts.
They keep telling themselves it’s so much tougher to protest in America than it is for France. Whatever makes you feel better.
Keep playing checkers when you need to play chess.
there aren't quite enough politically motivated suicidal people for that to happen yet
Thats how change is made
Despite everyone saying they want to die on the internet they don’t actually want to die, hope this helps
Good
Go fuck yourself, those would be good people dying
Good people dying for a good cause. The US is catatonicly lumbering towards self destruction. One death won’t snap anyone out of it. Alex Pretti proved that. It’ll take hundreds of people slaughtered for the people to wake up. If the government doesn’t bury it like China does with Tiananmen Square.
If this was an american no kings protest, those cop cars would have been swerving to hit the protesters.
The cops would later say that the protesters stepped in front of their car, and would get no punishment.
Multiple attempts were filmed. At least one attempt by the "anti felony brigade" ("Brigade Anti Criminelle", or "BAC")
Don’t worry, French cops did it at least one time during the high schoolers protests we had the last few days/weeks. We are witnessing a very violent response from the police here in France (nothing close to what ICE is doing in the USA…yet)
Leaving this here
Why should these correlate?
It doesn’t show correlation. They’re probably making a point about priorities, because it shows more people attend furry conventions over the course of a year than ICE protests.
One of those is proven to be safe and the other is not
Absolutely correct. I made the graph out of a joke and did not expect the result. A lot of US people still believe that what they are doing is “heavily protesting the government”.
And how did you define "ICE protest"? We had 8 million at No Kings in one day last year, funny how that isn't in your cherry picked graph.
lmao, I know that education is bad, but at least try to read and understand that graph, where it clearly says those are ICE protests, so your allegation of me cherry picking is simply stupid. And if you believe that No Kings was about protesting ICE, then you most likely did not even understand the message you want to transmit to your government
The No Kings protests grew a large number of participants, because US people love to walk around with cardboard signs together with friends. After the protests, everybody went home happy and the next day everything was as if nothing happened.
Just another one believing you are heavily protesting your government while the rest of the world is laughing at you.
Its not correlation, it's causation.
furries are the opiates of the masses
Oh I mean, If you wanna go back to BLM where Americans set fire and destroyed several businesses sure. People act like Americans have never destroyed property, the problem is that it wasn't properly coordinated and people were burning down random fucking businesses rather than actual places that deserve it. All it lead to was food deserts and small businesses shuttering.
Never mind the fact that we could and would absolutely get shot for rolling up on a cop car like this but, sure man. I do love getting my daily reminder from non-US people that I should go outside and get myself killed today.
That's not what I meant and I'm pretty sure you knew that
You literally just said that you wished no kings protestors were breaking cop car windows, destroying property and setting fires in the street like the video but now you're pretending it's disingenuous to call you out on that?
No, not really, and I mean that genuinely.
There are too many people on here that say shit like "You should firebomb a Walmart" and mean it with their whole heart. We already had that with the Kimberly-Clarke warehouse and we got diaper shortages. Firebombing a Walmart only hurts the locals in the area who won't get food.
Even with bombing a police station, pray that locals actually care about each other and can respond to emergencies appropriately. I absolutely think police need reform but I'm not gonna sit here and go "I don't need to call the cops if someone breaks into my house"
Firebombing a billionaires house? Absolutely, it hurts no one else but them (pray that no house workers are in there). Fireboming cop cars when they're attacking protesters? Sure.
But people are fucking stupid. Luigi ~~shot~~ did nothing to that CEO and that's great and all, but it didn't change anything. Now we got a chucklefuck who shot a random pharmacist because "Big Pharma Bad."
I just think that too many people on here are encouraging senless violence rather than actual, planned, and carefully considerated operations. And i do not want to see innocents get caught up in brash, half-baked bouts of insanity because a person thought they were "helping."
There are entire communities, districts, and sometimes towns, where police on average poses bigger threat than any criminal ever would. Home invasion scenarios almost never happen, and on a rare occasion they do you can at least fight back. Meanwhile, police routinely enters homes, shoots nondiscriminatory, and if destroy people's lives for nothing, and you can't even do shit about it.
And that's before we talk about when police actually tries to do their job, the fuck they gonna do with your twenty scallywags entering your abode, outline your dead body?
I spend a lot of time on Lemmy and I haven't seen a single person say that.
If I ever firebomb anything it will be a data center.
In Minecraft.
surely in minecraft
Lol you must be fortunate. I've seen bloodthirtsty maniacs foaming at the mouth in a thread about kittens.
Link?
Just give it a few days, it will happen again. And again.
Are you talking about the bloodthirsty maniac in threads about kittens? I spend a lot of time in threads about kittens and I don't believe you.
Without seeing the post they're referencing:
Someone probably said they let their cats outside tbh, and then someone chimed in with how they're "personally Holocausting every small bird and lizard within a 600mi radius and for this crime they should be thrown to a tiger and see how they like it."
Yes I was being a little hyperbolic for comedic effect but it's absolutely a thing in the cat comms around here, not sure I've seen death threats specifically about it but people hate outside cats (more to the point, their owners) on lemmy.
i mean i get it, but if everyone kept their cats inside my bike rides would be so boring. i meet new cats every day. it's one of the better parts.
Americans prioritize the flow of treats over any action that might hurt the oligarchy. Even if a warehouse was burned down by an organized revolutionary militia that was actively trying to bring about change, y’all would complain that you can’t get your 10-ply toilet paper.
Pretty sure they are focused on the cops there