I’m shocked that I haven’t seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren’t any, why?

  • ECB@feddit.org
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    15 days ago

    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.

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Whenever I attend a protest, there is 0 media stations in attendance or covering it.

    By design. They’re under control.

    Honestly, I think everyone’s waiting for the masses to be just pissed off enough to kick it up a notch.

  • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
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    15 days ago

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      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.

        • EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world
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          14 days ago

          Black Lives Matter was not “far left.” It was mainstream liberal. The Overton window has really gotten completely ridiculous in this country.

          No corporations will EVER back anything that is actually far left. Leftism is inherently anathema to them.

          • Paramania@lemmy.world
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            14 days ago

            Also this isn’t corporate backing, this was cynical rainbow capitalism trying to market off the back of a movement. They were not funding protests or the movement in anyway and they were not contributing to people going to protests, Those protests were grass roots and a visceral reaction to the racism of the Trump administration and years of police violence towards people of colour.

            His other points are pretty on point though, fatigue and the media ignoring the protests that do exist is part of the problem for sure. Also a lot of protests back then were promoted and organized through Twitter and Tik Tok and they have been very successful in suppressing both of those.

  • VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    50501 is very active, we’re hitting the streets all the time. I’ve been at a demonstration almost every week for the past month and a half. Please, join us!

    Edit: From one of my other comments in case you’re uneasy about getting involved:

    I don’t even like talking to people in the first place.

    SAME SAME SAME. When I started confronting these [Trump supporters] people in my life my anxiety would flare up to the point my voice would shake lol. And I never in my life thought I’d be out marching in the streets.

    It gets easier, but it takes practice (Prozac helps too). Now the anxiety has become anger. But not anger at them, rather anger at the system. Anger at what we let this country become. Anger at how lazy and complacent I’ve become.

    Do your best, stay safe, and most important of all don’t get scared. Get angry.

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    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”

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
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    15 days ago

    They had that protest in every state did they not? But when I couldn’t find much on it in the Canadian media, I went searching CNN and other American sites and found very little also, which was surprising to me. Here on lemmy, there were all sorts photos being posted from various cities, and it looked like a pretty big deal?

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.caEnglish
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    16 days ago

    There are. Heaps of them.

    The US is just a big place and very spread out. And the ruling government and its media conglomerates are trying to keep them out of the media.

    • whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      15 days ago

      There absolutely are not. There are anemic little marches scattered here and there.

      Americans were protesting George Bush in 2004 more forcefully and in vastly larger numbers than they are protesting now.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Apparently there were about 375,000 people protesting the Iraq War in New York in 2003 compared to about a million people marching for women’s safety in 2004 in DC

        In the years since there have been about 5 protests the same or much larger than that. In 2017 2.3 Million people protested the Trump inauguration, and protestors also showed up for Trump’s 2025 inauguration which was held indoors for reasons including harsh snow. The exact number estimates for the 2025 inauguration protest and the 50501 protests are unknown at the moment, but it is occurring in all 50 states which is comparable to the George Floyd protests.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Because over half the people voted for him and are convinced of everything he says and does. My f’ing BIL thinks Trump can’t do anything wrong. Just go question him on other social media, especially a state subreddit, and people will say things like “so you are in favor or waste and fraud!?” like it is case closed.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      Because over half the people voted for him

      No they didn’t. Only like 60% of eligible voters actually voted in this past election. Which means only about 30% of eligible voters voted for Trump. About 80% of the country’s population are eligible voters, and since only 30% voted for Trump, 80% x 30% = 24% of the population voted for him. Roughly a quarter of people voted for him, not half.

      And for anyone who’s wondering, “why did only 60% of eligible voters vote?” The answer is mostly voter suppression in various forms.

  • blady_blah@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Because, in reality, peaceful protests don’t work. We’ve been taught that they do, but they don’t.

    The most successful protest going on right now is against Tesla. A bit of anonymous property destruction and a boycott, crashing the stock price, those things actually work. Getting together and holding signs doesn’t actually do anything, especially in some place like California.