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These protests feel like the definition of controlled, pointless opposition (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by SootySootySoot@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Lots of protests, lots of people willing to go out and disrupt cities and force the state to listen. Great! I know Americans suffer under a fascist police state, commit genocides, underfund public services, ooh - they have a shitty bourgeois democratic system, maybe they're protesting to fix that, or maybe they're demanding free healthcare, that's long overdue. No, I know, it'll be about the insane amount of school shootings, or serious police violence. I know the LA riots started against ICE, that's cool, so maybe they're protesting for actually fair justice! That'd be a step forward.

Whatever they're protesting, they seem to be in huge numbers, so they'll probably make an actual effort to disrupt things. Occupy buildings. You know, some sort of direct action, they can't all stand around pointlessly. Anyway, enough anticipation let's go look and find out

Oh, the protests are just "Trump bad" in another form. And they're decrying all forms of violence. And the police are literally collaborating with some. Oh.

Americans really took all these years of mistreatment, fascism, genocide with their tax dollars, deliberately being made poorer year after year, violent suppression, being allowed to die in droves, and the mass culmination of that is.. "trump bad, also be polite while saying it"??? And then the protests are used as an excuse to tighten the fascism.

I can't wrap my head around it. Millions(?) of people coming out to protest, and the overwhelming demand is 'replace orange man with another genocidal fascist pls'. ie. basically for nothing to change whatsoever.

At least leftists try to get the fucking goods. Lib organising is the worst.

EDIT: I'mma just be clear - protesting ICE is extremely cool and not the part I'm complaining about.

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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the decent clips we got was some people running those patriot front dinguses off. Some guy bellowed "get in your fucking truck and die!" at them and I laughed at that. So that was nice. Possibly the most American thing to yell at an American that doesn't involve a burger.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

They were all geared up, had shields, and then just... let themselves get run off by like 3 normal people. It's so weird that even the people who chased them away weren't quite expecting it. One of them, you can see his body language go "Huh, they seem to be backing away from me. I guess I'll walk forward?" The unsure aggression of an unaggressive person who just realized they're in a position of strength can be charming to witness when it's against fascist cowards.