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749 points doener | 3 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.664s | source
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paulyy_y ◴[01 Feb 25 13:52 UTC] No.42898268[source]▶
What's more depressing is this was completely predictable, totally avoidable, but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.
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diggan ◴[01 Feb 25 14:12 UTC] No.42898405[source]▶
> but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.

And the other half? They seem to welcome this as well, but with crossed arms. Where are the protests? Seems most people end up writing upset messages on Twitter/Bluesky, but also seems there are no grassroots movements to actually protest the borderline coup that is happening?

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CalRobert ◴[01 Feb 25 14:17 UTC] No.42898442[source]▶
Protest doesn't do anything. I marched plenty and it accomplished nothing except letting like-minded people blow off a bit of steam and feel like something we did mattered. If anything it was just a distraction.
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diggan ◴[01 Feb 25 15:10 UTC] No.42898887[source]▶
> Protest doesn't do anything.

Most rights that workers have today have been earned through protesting (and sometimes the bloody consequence of protesting while the state is resisting wanted changes). Protests only "doesn't do anything" when you don't do it enough or give up. Maybe I'm too European to understand, but the "pacifist" approach of the US working class seems to not be working out great.

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CalRobert ◴[01 Feb 25 15:22 UTC] No.42898989[source]▶
Protest works when it’s backed by a threat. “Do what we want or we will remove you from power”. What we have now is “do what we want or we’ll be sad”.

The pitchforks aren’t just for show!!

And I’ve lived in Europe for over a decade now and frankly much of Europe is painfully naive about how much people in power care about protestors waving clever signs.

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1. marcosdumay ◴[01 Feb 25 15:54 UTC] No.42899301[source]▶
Just remember, the most successful protest in recent Europe history has been when about 10% of the Iceland population showed up in front of the administration building with literal pitchforks and torches on their hands.

They immediately got what they wanted.

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2. CalRobert ◴[01 Feb 25 16:02 UTC] No.42899372[source]▶
Even the NRA supports gun control when it's the black panthers exercising their rights.

https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-...

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3. mindslight ◴[01 Feb 25 17:52 UTC] No.42900357[source]▶
More recently, don't forget them being completely silent when Breonna Taylor was summarily executed for Kenneth Walker daring to exercise his second amendment right of home defense in the middle of the night. When this movement says "freedom", they mean merely for themselves to do whatever they please - not as a universal societal principle.