I’m shocked that I haven’t seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren’t any, why?

  • afronaut@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    Getting sick of Europeans falling for the blatant suppression and propaganda that our corporate-elite overlords are spoon-feeding them and using that to act superior.

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      13 hours ago

      Europeans are so smug about this shit. It’s not a personal virtue that all of you can just hop on a train or a bike or whatever and be at your nation’s capital in an hour or two for between zero and fifty euros. Some of us are literally thousands of miles from DC. We are still protesting where we are, but it’s purely symbolic and also no one cares.

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        10 hours ago

        Why shouldn’t they be? Americans have long had a superiority complex, always confidently mocking the problems of others around the world as if they were immune to them. It may feel bad for you now but the schadenfreude the rest of the world feels is completely justified. Frankly, the way some of you are suddenly crying about the rest of the world being mean to you is only further contributing to this image of Americans thinking they are above everyone else.

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          Americans’ superiority complex have always been a goddamn embarrassment. You guys also don’t understand Americans at all. The obnoxious American exceptionalists you are talking about are the ones who supported (and still support) Trump. Every negative stereotype associated with Americans is embodied by Trump supporters, not Trump opposers.

          I don’t really care if the world is mean to us. I support every country boycotting the US. I do not consider myself a patriot and never have. I am a cosmopolitan and don’t think being born on a certain patch of dirt makes anyone special. I just wish people could understand that a lot of their “gotchas” about Americans aren’t really gotchas because the people the shoe fits the snuggest are the ones who LIKE Trump. A lot of us are just people who think and act more or less just like you but who just happened to be born on this patch of land.

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      12 hours ago

      Especially since far-right groups have been falling for Musk’s same bullshit in Europe.

      There’s been reports that Germany’s AFD party fell out of favor after their news got to see how Trump played out. I seriously hope that ends up being true in their next election.

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      21 hours ago

      That being said, if you have a hard time getting the word out on your protests, then the suppression is working.

      Publicizing your actions is part of the protest.

      • afronaut@slrpnk.net
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        20 hours ago

        You’re making the assumption that these protests don’t have designated people to cover and publicize their actions. We already know Meta and Twitter have been literally suppressing and shadow banning leftist associated tags and keywords on their platforms.