The revolution will not be televised
it was pretty clear how fast they try to steer of away from bad news making class issues more prominent, when luigi news was suppressed just after 2 weeks of his capture. on reddit, before i came to lemmy, last dec reddit was trying very hard to suppress posts about him, and tried to bombard the msms with trump only news.
because the less attention that trump gets on the air, the more people are going to realize he doesnt really do anything without being on air.
Expect this from corpo-slop. This is New America, where all legacy media bent to threats from a despot instead of doing their fucking jobs. They're complicit, and they should be standing next to this admin against the wall after the fallout.
the msms owners are mostly trump supporters. besides obvious fox, cnn was the template to make it foxlite to trick would be boomers/xers on the fence politically, but not intuitively to actually verify said news.
This is New America, where all legacy media bent to threats from a despot instead of doing their fucking jobs. They're complicit
Buddy have you every read a history book in your life? This isnt new at all
You are under-reacting to this, or you support it. Why else would you attack me and my credibility when nobody can deny what we're all witnessing?
William Fox (who was a monumental bastard of the highest order) went to prison in the 1940s because he thought FDR would allow him to monopolize the film industry in return for helping to convince Americans to join the war effort. Fox founded the March of Dimes. Yes, that was the original "Fox News" I guess you could say.
So what's happening isn't the new America, it's the old America with the worst possible person in charge. Ever since I could vote, I've been voting for FDR even though I know that's not what I'm going to get. If anything good comes out of this disaster, it will be that an Obama-like figure (I don't give a shit what anybody thinks of him, he was objectively a very good president and historians will remember him as such) will win an election and be able to get things done with an FDR-like mandate. Trump has really opened the hatches for all kinds of horrible backlash.
Okay, now do it every weekend until something changes. That's why protests are successful in places like France, because they repeat until it's no longer possible to ignore.
Edit: Cleaned up that last line.
Okay, now do it every weekend until something changes
Americans on both sides of the political theater have long since given over agency to fantasy ideas about "someone coming" or someone is going to "do something" or that "nothing ever happens." It's why we have Trump and why nobody has done anything about him.
We are far, far from uncomfortable enough to sacrifice our weekends every week to go stand in the sun. We are the wealthiest nation, and thus the most comfortable in our routines.
Yeah, this is crucial here. We also had large protests in Germany last year. Once, maybe twice. Then everyone went home and let the fascists continue to take more influence and the supposed center followed suit and now the country has shifted significantly to the far right and the minister of interior is in open defiance of the courts to abuse refugee seekers.
You have to protest every week and if your demands are not met you have to escalate protests. That includes things like striking, blocking the police/ICE thugs from carrying out their oppressive missions but will also need you to fight back, if you are attacked.
Not keeping up the pressure now would be a great blunder, unfortunately one that many "liberals" or "social democrats" love to fall into.
Protests are successful in places like France because they carry with them the implicit threat that the elites will sonner or later have their heads separated from their shoulders if they don't address the concerns of the rest of the population.
Meanwhile in the US there is not even the risk of the economic damage of a General Strike, much less of the physical integrity of those who actually control how the country is managed.
Several million Americans walking around in their own time holding boards decrying the current puppet of the elites ain't going to scare the elites into letting go of some of their power.
The murder by a single individual of a Healthcare Insurance company CEO had more concrete impact than this march of millions of Americans ever will.
They also burn things in France.
Like Waymos?
They also blockade the ports and spay manure at government buildings in France.
Looks like there's a lesson here.
WSJ reported "tens of thousands" attending trumps parade which was the most honest thing I've seen from major papers. then next sentence was "hundreds of thousands" attending the no kings protests. While that is technically true, it misrepresenta the 5 million who protested across the country and felt like a concession to not make trump's birthday parade look as bad.
I also saw the AP say there were "dozens" of No Kings protests. According to the No Kings site, they had protests in 1,500 cities.
Could you imagine if you asked you spouse to pick up a dozen eggs and they came back with 1,500 instead?
The WSJ is part of the problem.
trump's birthday parade
Me looking on from the provinces: did sum real "our dear leader" shit.
I know we won't, but I really hope we can diversify our security partners somewhat (Australia).
You might want to have another chat with France.
by tens of thousands attending trump parade, they mean that out if thousand of people, only tens attended
It has to continue and be sustained. It's less likely getting everyone to participate in a general strike, but if 10% of the people in the US walked out of their job to protest in the street...? I guarantee there would be immediate change.
It has been continuing. It has been sustained. There has been constant protesting since Trump got back in office, it's just not being covered by mainstream news outlets. These latest No Kings protests have been the biggest protests so far, but they haven't been the only protests, not by a long shot.
The NY Times was a leading cheer leader of the Third Reich, and they are a leading cheer leader of the fourth.
Feel like it's a missed opportunity to not be referring to these guys as the Third Rich as a simple pun.
Nice!
I'd also like to add "Turd Reich" to the submission box.
Did Hitler ever explain what the first and second reiches were? I’m guessing some kind of anthropological pseudoscience involving ice men, but maybe someone can provide a TLDR.
Peaceful protests work because they get you out and you meet like-minded people and act together as a community.
It you go out there hoping for instant change, then you're missing the point. You need to talk to people, exchange contacts, schedule more get-togethers, look to talk with your local government as a group, amass enough votes to get someone among you as a representative or their staff.
Do this in enough cities that the protests took place and then it's done.
Yes, exactly. Protests are an outreach and organizing tool, not something that by itself causes change.
Almost like peaceful protests can be ignored by capital owners or politicians.
they were suspicious not mentioned on most MSMs at all, instead they were focused on the coincidence occuration of israels attack on iran at the same time, and the assasinations of the Dems to distract from.
It's really not. I just checked. At least not in the online version.
The nyt covered it with tons of pictures on the day it happened. But I guess it's not good enough unless they do it exactly how and when you want.
Yeah I don't know when this tweet is from but I imagine that it's talking about the 50501 protests. Which the NY times covered extensively.
Hell right now there's a half dozen articles on their homepage. Or if you don't want that here's an article, and Another article.
Then again, literally every single time I've seen a comment like this online talking about "nobody is talking about this!!!!" every single major newspaper has multiple articles about it. I don't know why people keep falling for this when it's the easiest thing on earth to prove. Like guys, just Google the thing """nobody""" is talking about.
Wait, you mean north America Americans?
Because I'm pretty certain there was much more people than that yesterday in the whole continent of America.
Now, if you mean less than 1.4% of the North Americans, well that might as well be but then again, that's peanuts against the voting population...
Fuck off with this pedantry, it's such a white liberal guilt thing to get up in arms about. I've heard of literally no one from Canada, Central, or South America referring to themselves as "American". They identify by their nationality, as we do with ours.
If he meant north america, then Mexicans would also be protesting?
Thats because peaceful protests are not a threat to the status quo they profit from
There has been no mention of it in Swedish media either. The shooting of Melissa Hortman and her husband was covered, but nothing about the No kings afaik.
