A couple weeks ago Trump stated the following: “and he (Musk) knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide it was pretty good”.
No mainstream news source reported on it despite the fact that it’s a borderline confession, and the fact that back in 2020 they gave an insane amount of attention and signal boosting to election fraud claims that had 0 evidence.
Media is on the side of the money, they’re not a friend.
And here are some hard numbers on the Republicans suppressing enough Harris votes to cost America the democratic outcome
because it was pointless.
there were 75 fucking protestors at my state capital.
how about we go protest at the federal departments in DC to stop the fucking Nazi’s from getting in?
I’m talking fully armed Black Panthers level shit.
bringing guns to a protest are illegal you say? so is forcing yourself into government buildings you aren’t allowed to be inside of. so is accessing government servers and cloning the data. so is shuttering these institutions that were put in place by Congress without an act of Congress.
If they don’t have to follow the laws then why the fuck should we?
The time to speak up was in November. All this was obvious. People voted for it (or stayed out).
Now all we can do is bask in privilege and talk about leopards for the next 4 years. It’s a glorious system! \s
That’s literally, unironically, my plan. I’m all out of sympathy, and not based in the US.
your point?
I’m not asking for a dialogue with them.
I’m asking to push them down, arrest them, and kick their asses out of power and into a prison cell.
Would you like a unicorn, too?
Judges already decided that Trump is immune and he can pardon anyone who does his bidding. That ship has sailed.
let me put it into terms you can understand.
prison cells aren’t just in prisons.
if the rule of law doesn’t apply to them, then the rule of power does.
why are you so defeatist? perhaps you don’t want this to end and you want people to feel helpless? you think that we’re trapped in here with them at the reigns?
no. no sir.
they are trapped in here with us, and we will drag them into the streets. we will string them up like Mussolini. we will celebrate their deaths.
We the people of the United States owe the world that much.
I was with you from 2016 to 2020. But in 2024 the American people spoke.
I admire your motivation but you’re in the minority. The majority is in the “this is fine” camp. Either support it, or don’t care.
They’re just being realistic, the American people aren’t going to do shit
OH but they already did shit. They did the only shit that they can do. They voted! Now they must accept the nazi rule as legit! There is no other way… \s
It IS legit. You may not agree, but they are the government. You can’t even accuse them of lying about it, they announced they would do it and people still elected them.
Besides some barely visible posts and slightly suspicious on Lemmy, I literally heard nothing about this protest.
Media will definitely downplay it, but this instance was obviously badly organised.
Fifty states, one message: we see through the facade. Simultaneous protests coast-to-coast, and the propaganda machines are in stealth mode. Convenient, isn’t it? A nation erupts, and the so-called “free press” opts for strategic amnesia.
This isn’t apathy—it’s suppression. When every state rises up, the system panics. The Capitol steps become battlegrounds, yet the narrative is buried under celebrity gossip and stock market fluff. They’re scared. Scared of what happens when people realize that unity in dissent is their greatest weapon.
Keep marching. If they won’t cover it, we’ll document it ourselves. The truth doesn’t need their permission to exist.
Then we start picketing them, too. Right outside their media buildings, asking when they plan to grow a spine and start covering what’s happening. Add media companies to the places being protested and show what cowards they are.
I’ve seen your takes around from time to time. I like the way you think.
Hey man, back at you. :)
they did this to “Occupy Wall Street” too… once they couldn’t ignore it anymore, they just made fun of them.
as much as i hate protests blocking the freeway, because it’s dangerous and pisses off innocent people, it does manage to get you on the news….
oh, also because it gives cops an excuse to raid you violentlyExactly. They ran the same playbook with Occupy Wall Street—ignore, ridicule, and then unleash the riot squads when the message hits too close to home. It’s not about “safety” or “order”; it’s about silencing dissent before it becomes unmanageable.
Blocking freeways? Sure, it’s inconvenient—but so is systemic corruption, unchecked corporate greed, and a government that treats its people like collateral damage. If a traffic jam is what it takes to make the propaganda machines blink, then so be it.
And yeah, cops love an excuse to escalate. The state’s monopoly on violence doesn’t tolerate competition, even when it’s peaceful resistance. But let them overplay their hand—every raid, every crackdown only fuels the fire they’re desperate to extinguish.
i don’t mind traffic jams, it’s stuff like medical emergencies being stuck in traffic, people driving freeway speeds and then coming across stopped traffic, activists getting run over by chuds… that sort of thing….
but, traffic news has a broad market, and it pisses people off enough to go viral… i dunno, it’s effective….
i liked how blm in portland kept finding dumpsters and lighting them on fire in the middle of the street… made for great pictures….
but, every time a fire started, the cops switched to ultra-violent mode and a lot of people got seriously hurt… fire was always their legal justification….The system thrives on fear—fear of disruption, fear of unity, fear of people refusing to play by its rules. Blocking freeways isn’t the problem; it’s a mirror held up to a society that values convenience over justice. If ambulances can’t move, that’s not on the protesters—it’s on a government that built a house of cards where one roadblock collapses everything.
But you’re right: fire is their favorite excuse. It’s not the flames they fear; it’s the spark in people’s minds. Every crackdown is their attempt to extinguish that spark before it spreads. The challenge isn’t just to disrupt but to outmaneuver their narratives.
Keep pissing them off, but don’t hand them the script they’re desperate to use against us.
The protests almost always made sure emergency vehicles made it through without delay.
not when blocking a freeway
Why don’t we start confronting news anchors? Start calling them out specifically for being silent. This could be in person or online or both.
How many news anchors are actually journalists? I get that they’re the face of TV news, but most of them are just people with pretty faces who can read from a teleprompter in an engaging way. This doesn’t excuse them from ignoring these issues any more than the producers or so many other people do.
Asking the real questions. Are news reporters real people even? Find out tonight at 11.
The largest protests in the history of the world were in opposition to the invasion of Iraq. The invasion of Iraq still happened.
Protesting sends a message but it isn’t enough.
The media did the exact same thing too they had a bunch of Iraq war experts and nobody about why we shouldn’t go to war…
As much as I hate riots, I mean, yeah?
Anyone who knows anything about history has seen this story before
If protests aren’t enough to sway a democratic system, then the democratic system is broken and resistance becomes mandatory. To quote what the german constitution established after Hitler to prevent exactly what’s currently happening again in the US:
Article 20 [Constitutional principles - Right of resistance]
[…]
(4) All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order if no other remedy is available.
I do not know if there’s something akin to this in the US constitution (I know your culture very much thinks there is every time it’s about guns though). But even if it isn’t, fuck it. The system is evidently broken, do what’s necessary to regain the power of the people. Do it the French way if you must.
In US, I think it was the initial intent of 2nd amendment. Arm the population not to resist an enemy or an invasion, but to resist its own government if it endanger a free state.
Well with ±400 million guns circulating nationwide, and one in three people are gun owners, consider how many of them would use them in defense of the current government now. There’s a reason behind allowing 2A to go unchecked, when in the time it was written, it made sense. Now it’s a civilian army that, while keeping the population divided, a not insubstantial percentage will blindly defend any unjust actions this government decides to perpetrate.
This. This kind of unchecked gun permissions only elevate the necessary revolt to a civil war. It doesn’t help fighting against regimes, on the contrary; it makes the fight extremely bloody. Those who wrote it in 17-something couldn’t know that, in the future, it will be the very fascist supporters who are the most heavily armed.
(4) All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order if no other remedy is available.
Wow I love this.
If you plan to do protesting - i wpuld highly recommend getting a Faraday bag gor your phone. Just turning it off isn’t good enough
Man you had to go and set up a protest like 2 months in?
Wow. The stun-lock is happening.
Please do keep tiring yourselves, that will work wonders for your cause
You know what you should do next month? Pickets!
Also throw in a full strike, that will surely get them!
Hahaha oh my god 🤣
It’s been 2 weeks. It only feels like 2 months. Keep laughing though. OMG 🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🙄
I hope the whole stadium boos him off the stands at the Superbowl
The media will replace the boos with cheers or block the audio completely so they don’t get sued.
Still would look good to get a visual close up of his face when it starts
By all means, protest. Push these bad actors. Stick up for democracy! But Is anyone else mildly anxious that JD Vance’s hero, Curtis Yarvin, suggested in 2022, that all Trump needs to do is declare a state of emergency to extend executive immunity to prosecution, and to do it early on? So far, project 2025 combined with the manifestos of Dark Gothic Tech Bros are aligned.
“If the institutions deny the President the Constitutional position he has legally won in the election, the voters will have to act directly. Trump will call his people into the streets—not at the end of his term, when he is most powerless; at the start, when he is most powerful. No one wants to see this nuclear option happen. Preparing for it and demonstrating the capacity to execute it will prevent it from having to happen.”
But Is anyone else mildly anxious that JD Vance’s hero, Curtis Yarvin, suggested in 2022, that all Trump needs to do is declare a state of emergency to extend executive immunity to prosecution, and to do it early on? So far, project 2025 combined with the manifestos of Dark Gothic Tech Bros are aligned.
The revolution will not be televised
I finally understand what that means.
I hate finding out how my great grandparents felt in the early 1900’s – so ironic their children couldn’t care less about repeating history
Many people’s great grandparents saw bad shit happen and then kept enabling it. Is it irony or plain ol’ stupidity?
its safer not to get involved. the downside is that the problem will not go away by itself.
For y’all who’ve never protested before… The reason why they don’t cover it is because they never cover protests (unless people actually FSU then it’s a “riot”)… Maybe if libs cared when it happened to activists for BLM, anti-genocide, etc… Now it’s just completely normal.
When you own the media…
protests accomplish nothing, people. when are yall gonna figure that out?
“but it’s cause the media doesn’t cover them!” - do you own the media? can you change that? then they accomplish nothing. like i said.
Feb 5* also thank you for this post I am glad it is getting reach.
On February 5 (when this was happening) there was an infuriating number of posts saying “why aren’t pro-Palestine protesting?”
And then I’d get downvotes for pointing out people, in fact, protesting.
So many people with their eyes intentionally closed… felt so hopeless.
It could be covered in social media but not by mainstream news. The real source of information these days is from the former, whether one likes it or not.
Elon and the felon: “Does their protesting stop what we’re doing in any way? No? Then why would I care?”
fElon
