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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

Great work to everyone who stands up to hatred and fascism! ❤️

I watched some of the protests when they were live on YouTube. The fact there was apparently so little media coverage of people protesting against a fascist racist who appointed a Nazi as a special government employee and wants to annex Canada is simply mindboggling.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Really?! The worlds largest propaganda machine is playing tricks on us?!1!

Facebook knows who is sensitive to this kind of news, they know who would join a protest and who not. And they can decide to whom to show which news. How many people use Facebook & co. as their main source of information? Or main medium to organize?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Meta has the Meta(data)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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.

[–] Sam_Bass 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I hope the whole stadium boos him off the stands at the Superbowl

[–] demizerone 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The media will replace the boos with cheers or block the audio completely so they don't get sued.

[–] Sam_Bass 2 points 8 hours ago

Still would look good to get a visual close up of his face when it starts

[–] ThatGuy46475 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

Protests alone will not stop the nazis. They also didn't in Germany ~90 years ago. I hooe people get that and organize. Fast.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

It took an elected Nazi to unite a country, agaisnt the Nazi.

[–] SoftestSapphic 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The only language fascist speak is violence

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Does DuoLingo teach that? I need to brush up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

My partner trying to keep their streak going at 11:57 in bed definitely promotes violence. Also a lesson in anger management. An app that has trained me without installing it is rare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Fuck around with that owl and find out.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 day ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] Doomsider 28 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We have always known that all broadcast and cable news media is tightly controlled. Hundreds of stations across America literally parrot word for word what each other says.

Now we also know that all social media can also be controlled. There is nowhere safe except small communities that are not controlled by corporations or the government.

They want us disorganized, poor, uneducated, and religious. This is their plan to reduce us to their serfs to be controlled and abused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This morning, I hear reports from neighbors that our "local" newspaper website has experienced some sort of breakdown, and it's showing the "local" paper from somewhere in Virginia, or Tennessee. They're all owned by the same company. The media outlets aren't parroting each other when they are literally the same entity behind the scenes.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

The revolution will not be televised

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