• Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      Hahaha Americans don’t care about children and civilians. They only care about things that affect them directly like gas prices. At best they’ll complain about the other stuff on social media and have 3 single-day protests in a year and make excuses about why they can’t do more.

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        gaza wasnt an issue with voters up until after the election, other than railing and discouraging voters against biden. now the election is over gaza has gained more attention attacks on MSM(controlled by trumpers) has largely subsidized again both parties.

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        3 days ago

        “But, but, the country is huge. It’s massive, and huge. They can’t be expected to drive across thousand of miles to protest. Or expected to go to their local town and protest!!”

        “They’ve got busy lives. They can’t just up and go to a protest”

        “It’s very difficult to get millions of people to all turn up on the same day”

        “Also just wait until the midterms, it’s gonna be a bloodbath. Once November is over things will change, so there’s no point in protesting now.”

        (I put them all in quotes because those are the main excuses -not reasons, excuses- I used to get when I asked about when the next protest is going to happen.
        The “it’s very difficult” excuse is my favourite, whenever I point out that millions of people protested before the age of instant communication they get very snarky)

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          3 days ago

          “I’m tired. I’m struggling to survive”

          They’re gonna be struggling more when they’re dragged off to the concentration camps.

          Unfortunately it seems Americans will only get the motivation to protest after it’s too late.

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            Discourage critical thought and destroy education systems for 50 years specifically to decrease response in effective manner and encourage reactive over proactive response

            Not shocking it was effective.

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          3 days ago

          Then there was January 6th 2021.

          They COULD if they only WANTED.