• foggianism@lemmy.world
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    57 minutes ago

    The White House doesn’t look like that anymore. It is a construction site. That’s what you get when you elect a real estate manager twice.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    BS Americans were getting shot execution style protesting ice. Do we need more. YES but this is garbage

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    These threads are full of useful idiots and propagandists shitting on Americans.

    I’m so bored by this nonsense. At least get more clever if you’re going to try to divide all of us.

    The way I see it, we’re all in this together. Even the Russian people are my ally if they oppose fascism and corruption. These are my people… All people who want a better world.

    But sure, enjoy your indulgences if this thread is your thing. May your lives be as short as Trump’s should be.

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      At least get more clever if you’re going to try to divide all of us.

      Is the opposite is the goal? reunite US against the empire?

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          No I wouldn’t say the Russian people are the enemy either. But their autocratic government invading Ukraine aren’t exactly high on my list of potential allies.

          It’s not the Russian people that were fighting, but we should be fighting autocracy wherever it happens to be, and it happens to be in Russia. Being allies isn’t like being sister cities. Our autocratic govt is in bed with their autocratic govt.

  • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    At least one of those shots is behind a permanent spiked perimeter fence that you get arrested or shot for crossing. Also Trump keeps moving the White House temporary perimeter fence back further from the White House. I need to check if the Capitol Building is currently fenced off

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      I mean, Russia sure, people don’t want to end up in Siberia. But I wonder why Poland, Austria and friends are so empty. Surely Austrian police isn’t worse than fucking Spanish? Also, there is a suspiciously England-shaped hole.

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        Two options:

        • things are so good there they don’t see the need to protest

        • things were so bad for so long that current crisis didn’t make much impact yet

        But seriously, I think it’s a mix of those two. Some things are terrible but were bad for so long people got used to it and lost hope it will get better (like healthcare and corruption in Poland). Other things actually got a lot better over the last couple of decades (like salaries in Poland).

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      Last time you could feasibly organise a protest in that suspiciously white area was 2019. The guy who did it was tortured to death in prison. In 2022 I was exiting the metro station about a kilometer away from a known protest area in Moscow, got detained by police, and beaten so hard I couldn’t walk for a week, just because I attended said protests in 2019, and the camera network remembered my face.
      That might also be the reason for OP picture I assume

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        Looks like you don’t know where Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania among other countries are.

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          Don’t be coy, we all know what it’s in reference to. Especially given that some countries on the list actually have pretty lively political activity

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      15 hours ago

      I’m so angry that I have spent many hours researching various synonyms in other languages and attempting to convey the frothing bloodrage that pulses through me at all moments.

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      Maybe that’s good they’re getting angry, this could help them organise some resistance.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Well we had No Kings protests. Police have shot and killed our citizens in the process of that. In my area, during a protest, police grabbed, dragged, and shot a protestor point blank in the eye with a less than lethal gun (he’s blind now)

    • “guys, we went on a permitted march in favor of slightly less shitty authoritarian neoliberals, what more do you want?”

      Nobody was shot and killed for No Kings. What the people were shot and killed by ICE for was direct action of rapid response against ICE.

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      And people have lost their eyes protesting the redesign of a train station here in Germany. Clashes with law enforcement are to be expected when you protest the government. You don’t tuck in your tail because of that.

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      Yeah, that’s the thing about a protest, it doesn’t help unless you have a structure to harness this energy. When police started shooting at protesters in Ukraine in 2014, several political and activist organisations banded together with people, and together they used this fear and anger to resist and ultimately win.

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        Well political activist organizations were already banded together going to No Kings protests when those citizens were shot, for some reason we’re not winning yet

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          I am very plugged in on the American politics, and yet I have no idea which ones you can mean. This means that either those organisations are small enough so they don’t even break the local social media barrier, or they were so quiet after that, they didn’t even try to do anything on any public level.
          Two people were executed on the streets by the regime, and the reaction was less severe than when a shitty musician was shitty.

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      Yeah, and the freedom people who once frothed at the mouth about wanting to fight tyrants are now probably the ones shooting protestors happily now.

      All for the tribe.

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      We had a similar per capita rate of participation in No Kings as France has had in its recent demonstrations. But the US has a much lower population density over a much larger land area, so the protests appeared smaller despite having millions more people in the streets.