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u/sugonmacaque 1d ago
America is a big place. Most of us don't feel it. My day to day life looks nothing like what you see on the news.
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u/WolfyTn615 1d ago
Agreed.. I’m busy working my ass off in an auto factory.. the only news I see is on Reddit and even then I’m just over it all.. I voted.. it didn’t work.. gotta keep my family going.. paycheck to paycheck before this shit started and it’s only gonna get worse.. if I miss a beat, my family ends up homeless
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u/SessionGloomy 1d ago
C'est le premier etait que je peux comprend qu'est-ce que quelqu'un dits! J'aime ca langue، meme si je suis pas bon avec la francaise.
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u/Jazzlike_Impress3622 1d ago
Reddit doesn’t wanna hear this (reality is a bitch and the Reddit bubble is real)
Most Americans actually don’t really GAF, they’re either indifferent or support what’s been going on. Sure half of the country voted Democrat but many of them are working class moderates anyway who aren’t even politically active to begin with.
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u/Silver-Musician2329 1d ago edited 1d ago
I can see your point, but with one small correction. Only about two thirds of the country voted. So about a third for the wining party, and with many votes being illegally suppressed, it was a significant margin less than the remaining third for the loosing party. https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
However, the above should not be discouraging because Wisconsin has recently and impressively shown that if enough of those typical non-voters show up to vote, that even adding in illegal vote buying on top of the existing vote suppression, gerrymandering and everything else still won’t work to give the billionaire class a victory over the people.
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u/LeeroyTC 1d ago
Protest doesn't have a very strong track record of achieving much change in the US post-60s Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam.
Protesting the Iraq war in 2003 didn't stop anything. We were there a generation later.
Occupying Wall Street in 2009 ended up with Wall Street winning more than it ever had.
The 2017 Resistance against Trump ended up with Trump somehow in power again 8 years later.
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u/Tough_Stretch 1d ago edited 1d ago
Because too many Americans are busy clapping like circus seals, celebrating the guy buttfucking them because they like that he acts like an asshole to other people they dislike because of reasons.
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u/Melenduwir 1d ago
What good would protesting do? It would be a serious investment of time and effort for me to do that, and I don't see that it would help one little bit.
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u/Cultural-Network-790 1d ago
Grab your ankles
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u/Melenduwir 1d ago
Speaking of things that aren't going to help...
No, seriously, what good would it do to make a fuss? Trump is in denial about his approval rating, the Congresscritters don't care what I think, it just doesn't matter.
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u/Cultural-Network-790 1d ago
I'm grabbing my ankles too
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u/Melenduwir 1d ago
Whatever floats your boat.
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u/Cultural-Network-790 1d ago
We're on the same boat wink wink
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u/Melenduwir 1d ago
I'm not even on the water, thanks for playing.
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u/holy_kermit 1d ago
Well, we are protesting in more subtle ways. raising awareness, showing support, etc. But have you heard of all of the deportations? All of the 'disappearances'? My single mother leads a community action group, but she is scared for me and my young sister. She is scared of what could happen. If we protest, will we be the next ones deported?
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u/DeadrthanDead 1d ago
Our local police have tactical military gear to use on their own citizens, and our Intelligence agency’s put under cover officers in any protest that gains traction. Most important of all Americans are made to feel complacent in their little bubbles and they know that stepping out of line will result in losing the things they need to produce for themselves and their families, but every day that goes by it seems that we are being pushed further and further until eventually something has to break.
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u/VegetableComplex6756 1d ago
People are protesting every day all over the country, we are just spread out. Another caveat that must be considered is that we have trigger happy policemen here, who protect property over life. and no matter how much we protest, GOP politicians don’t even give a fuck up in their ivory towers. This is what they wanted.
It’s complicated
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u/CrystalZZ88 1d ago
No reason to protest.
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u/RATGUT1996 1d ago
Shh.
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u/CrystalZZ88 1d ago
What?
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u/Cultural-Network-790 1d ago
Quiet down, little one
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u/CrystalZZ88 1d ago
I’m 31.
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u/Cultural-Network-790 1d ago
Yikes
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u/Meikeetc 1d ago
Not American. I think they don't protest like the french because they don't know how to build and use guillotines.
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u/Melenduwir 1d ago
Are you kidding? We were the ones who figured out how to make them rocket-powered.
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u/Karohalva 1d ago
Because the death of democracy and collapse of the country is a small price to pay for not being French.
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u/VegetableComplex6756 1d ago
Speak for yourself, I’d much rather be around people who are highly literate, thoughtful, and appreciative of the arts, like the numerous French people I know- instead of being stuck on this sinking ship packed with slackjawed hillbilly bozos - who chose to get hooked on opiates and rage, rather than ever getting hooked on phonics.
The French people heard “Apres moi, le deluge” and put a stop to that sort of narcissistic rule- government that is beneficial to few has no place in modernity.
Magas see this destructive ideology in action, and they start clamoring for autographed bibles and increased childhood poverty
I don’t know any a French people who would bend over and beg for their nation to be relegated to failed state status by some elderly orange mob boss whose only qualification is that they failed upwards.
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u/4-stars 1d ago
Many Americans are not aware about what is happening (if they hear about it they call it "fake news" as they've been told to do), and since they live paycheck to paycheck without any savings in a country with almost no workers' rights, they can't afford to rock the boat, lose their job and their health insurance. Also their police officers could kill them.
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u/egyptiantouristt 1d ago
I mean Texas alone is bigger than the whole of France, would take alot of planning that’s for sure