• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    People really love criticizing the US and fair enough, but man it’s tiring seeing people lambasting the US for not violently resisting when we actively are and it’s just being suppressed by the media. Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch we can’t storm congress, but we’re doing a whole fuckload despite that…

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      Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch

      We cannot protest the government without support from the government.

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          17 hours ago

          You say “plenty” but the LA June protests were for the most part the exception rather than the rule. Can we get something recent and/or from outside LA?

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            Sure, but man, it’s kinda exhausting having a bunch of people jump on “sources please” when the initial comment was about how the lack of easily available reporting on this is a real problem.

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              I mean, even they’re not covered by most media someone somewhere has to be talking about them. At the very least leftwing media should be frothing at the mouth to cover these things. I guess your link ticks the “outside LA” box so this isn’t/wasn’t a LA-exclusive thing, but still I’d expect even a little reporting to filter through this information blackhole you’re talking about if the resistance is on the scale you’re suggesting. I looked up “anti ice protests violent” and most results were from June with the rest from early July.

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          18 hours ago

          Wow all the way back in June before the protests fizzled after accomplishing next to nothing

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                But… you were the one that asked for convincing, I’m already convinced. I’m just choosing not to engage in a discussion about this topic because you’re clearly not willing to approach it in good faith. I know it’s kinda wounding to the ego when someone says “Nah I’m not doing this with you” but you’re just going to have to accept that that’s what’s happening.

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      19 hours ago

      No your not. Your volunteering to go into the street to be rounded up by the cops. It’s the stupidest fucking thing. You literally have the equivalent of the printing Press giving to every person and you all think it’s easier to organize people to publicly show up in a town three states over then it is to use get those people to use the propaganda machine to spread a message.