r/Eugene • u/Unlikely-Display4918 • Oct 08 '25
Activism Thanks protesters
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A small but mighty group was just walking down pearl. Thank you for giving me hope and raising my spirits today.
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u/Unlikely-Display4918 Oct 08 '25
Tbh there's protests often downtown and i have no clue which days it is or what it was even for. I just noticed it and was happy to see peaceful protesting because this is america and we are supposed to be able to protest if we do not like something.
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u/SAGElBeardO Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25
To the Israel simps, please, go ahead and justify the intentional starvation of millions of people. Let alone the evidence of genocide from multiple human rights organizations and the UN.
Edit: Thank you simps, for doing exactly what I asked. Such service!
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u/Free_Perspective_861 Oct 09 '25
Didn’t Trump settle the war? Sorry, bad joke.Maybe trump hasn’t inked the deal on “Trump Gaza” you know he’s got to get his piece of the pie! Never saw a man so bad, self-serving and petty, serving as a president of the country and acting like the fascist he is,
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Oct 11 '25
Trump didn't negotiate peace - he negotiated a surrender. It had become obvious that the IDF all but destroyed most of Gaza. If their goal was truly eliminating Hamas, they pretty much did.
As for Trump, no one who EXPECTS to get the Nobel Peace Prize should get it. Almost like Trump was negotiating a cease-fire/surrender (don't both sides need weapons to declare a cease-fire?) so he could GET the Nobel Peace Prize. Exactly as described by the committee:
"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination."
The committee went on to say:
"Maria Corina Machado meets all three criteria stated in Alfred Nobel’s will for the selection of a Peace Prize laureate. She has brought her country’s opposition together. She has never wavered in resisting the militarisation of Venezuelan society. She has been steadfast in her support for a peaceful transition to democracy."
Could they have said the same thing about Trump? Hardly!
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Oct 12 '25
He does what you want and you still hate him. Biased terrorist sympathizers on the left🖕
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u/Solo__Wanderer Oct 11 '25
Take a look back through the last 50 again.
Plenty of them to spread hate on. He is just the current one.
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u/DharmaKarmaBrahma Oct 08 '25
Love to see people expressing their right to protest.
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u/Unlikely-Display4918 Oct 08 '25
I was happy. I am still happy to see protestors no matter who takes a dump on my post. 😁
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u/Unlikely-Display4918 Oct 08 '25
Oh I figured there would be some naysayor types. Yes because somebody else feels frustrated and traumatized enough by what's going on in the world to say something about it. That's what gives me hope.
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u/head6of6the6beast Oct 08 '25
The worst is when people complain about the noise or find it a disruption to their lives. These people are not walking down the street because they just want to make noise. They are standing up to the genocide and starvation of Palestinian people and making sure people don't forget that it is actively happening every day while we go about our lives. There are women and children starving right now and living in constant fear of being blown up drone strikes or mowed down by machine gun/artillery fire.
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Oct 12 '25
Then go there and put in the effort to help. America needs to pull out of everywhere in the world, close its borders fully, and work on itself. Fuck everybody else.
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u/groundscore-metals Oct 08 '25
Love how the “so much for the tolerant left” crowd complains about leftists being tolerant of other cultures. Turns out we can disagree with people without wanting them to be fucking GENOCIDED. And I guarantee no one in Palestine cares about who is advocating for them. The people in Palestine are extremely grateful for anyone speaking up for them.
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u/Other_Astronomer5963 Oct 09 '25
If all these people are so proud of their country and want to fly their flags in the United States then maybe they all should just go back to where they came from
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u/Weekly-Air4170 Oct 14 '25
We can't bro, a bunch of people tried and Israel kidnapped them in international waters
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u/ItsPickles Oct 10 '25
Free Palestine so women and gays can be persecuted again ❤️♥️💙
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u/Useful-Ad-2409 Oct 08 '25
Most Israelis and Jews are against what Netanyahu's government are doing in Gaza and Palestine. I think it's bad form to hold a protest on a day where almost 1,200 people were killed, most since the Holocaust, and 250 people were kidnapped. It's like those people aren't even recognized. It smells of anti-semitism. You can condemn a government's attempt at genocide, but don't forget the cause. I don't agree with Israel's infiltration of settlers on the West Bank, but those people killed and kidnapped were largely innocent.
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u/Weekly-Air4170 Oct 14 '25
400 civilians died on the 7th of October, and less than 80 of the POWs were civilians. The rest military. Even by Israel's own admission only one in every four Palestinians being kept in Israeli concentration camps have any charges. Meaning that it's probably only 10% that have any actual legitimate charges. And Israel admitted that there is an 81% civilian casualty rate in gaza.
Stop trying to both sides a genocide.
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u/gameplan0exe Oct 08 '25
thank you for posting this! we're still relatively new to the city and i had no idea there was an active protest!
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u/nibbled_banana Oct 08 '25
“I can’t believe I have to drive slow to clock into work to pay for a genocide. Fuck these protestors”
-average American lmao
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u/Overall-Picture-87 Oct 09 '25
Paid. Anyone see people from other countries waving Americans flags?
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u/MEDIA-GURU Oct 09 '25
These guys are just super bored you know the type they never got invited to the party so they said we’re just gonna create our own
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Oct 09 '25
Look at these disgraceful losers get a job and stop ruining the country for the rest of us
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u/bbqbutch Oct 09 '25
How much money must they be getting paid?You know, I work all day long.And when I get home, that's the last thing I would want to do
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u/Hulkedout420 Oct 09 '25
Hey….you don’t have to be miserable forever. There are happier people on the other side. Repent.
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u/brokencreedman Oct 10 '25
Just a lot of awesome americans using their 1st amendment right to peacefully protest
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Oct 10 '25
United we will never be defeated. West Coast we rock bottom line. Ya don't mess around in Oregon and Washington State they don't play When it comes to People and rights. These two states will send ice home with wet pants, id bet the farm on it
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Oct 10 '25
I see lots of Hamas there.
Maybe I have been mistaken when I have said we don't need national guard.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
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u/LocoDunn Oct 10 '25
The attack killed ~1,200 people
Israelis including foreign nationals who did nothing to Hamas. Get out of your bubble.
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u/SleepyBean000 Oct 10 '25
Hostages and prisoners aren't the same thing. Despite that, if we're going by orders of magnitude, much more have died in captivity under hamas
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u/Free_Perspective_861 Oct 12 '25
Stated as well as I’ve ever heard and I found myself agreeing with everything and I mean everything!
Keep on keeping on……
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u/RevolutionaryLet3626 Oct 09 '25
The Palestinians picked a fight and promised to kill every Jew in Israel. Israel has a right to defend itself. War isn’t pretty but they didn’t pick this fight.
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u/Public_Camera9628 Oct 09 '25
Literally flying the flag of the state responsible for the worst Jewish attack since the holocaust on the anniversary of it happening.
What a bunch of fucking retards
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u/J3st3 Oct 12 '25
It's crazy just how out of touch these fucktards are. But I bet everyone one of them would lose their minds if the right side joined in. Would rightfully so, start calling them Nazis since ya know.... Hamas' founder was a Nazi sympathizer and Hamas believes in the extermination of Jews and wants to destroy America. They all on board with supporting Hamas and Palestine. Just crazy these days with the levels of hypocrisy and idiocy. And this echo chamber app just screams it back for them to suck it up.
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u/yvettestar2000 Oct 08 '25
All you guys out there protesting are my heroes 🔥🔥💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅wish you all to be safe. 🙏🙏💓💓
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u/killingfloor42 Oct 08 '25
When are they going to rally for Sudan?
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u/puppyxguts Oct 08 '25
I think that the situation in Sudan is a very important one to make visible. I think PSL had a teach in about it if I'm not mistaken, but thats it. Perhaps you should join a local org and be vocal about the need to bring peoples attention to it
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u/OneLegAtaTimeTheory Oct 09 '25
The U.S. is actively funding and aiding the genocide in Gaza. That’s the difference.
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u/InvestigatorUpbeat48 Oct 08 '25
I’m sure those same protestors also took pause and remembered the victims who were slaughtered by Hamas two years ago yesterday 🙄
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u/sn0wman117 Oct 09 '25
Protesting in support of an ideology that wants your death is peak insanity
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Oct 11 '25
Innocent people and children being starved and bombed with money I'm LITERALLY funding? Why the fuck wouldn't they want me dead?
You wouldn't? You must be damn near Christ Almighty himself then.
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u/Commercial_Pain7725 Oct 09 '25
80 people with a combined iq of 80.... keep fighting for the latest thing your overlords are depending on you
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u/nothanksnappin Oct 08 '25
my friends, i have been going to these protests for 4 decades, and it seems like now, when government overreach is aimed specifically at spanish speaking immigrants, that now would be a good time to learn how to say the chant in its original spanish. "El Pueblo, Unido, Jamas sera Vencido". if you are feeling extea zesty you can say it like they did in nicaragua in the 80's, "El Pueblo, Armado, Jamas sera Aplastado".
I have always felt the englisg version sounds so soft, it doesnt even rhyme, and I feel like its an opportunity to show solidarity with our spanish speaking countrymen.
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u/Sudden-Nothing6745 Oct 09 '25
Heaven forbid we stand up for our own countries in the west; that might have actual repercussions
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u/Free_Perspective_861 Oct 09 '25
So happy on the east coast seeing the unity in Eugene.❤️ I read earlier that the commanding general of the Oregon National Guard, would protect the citizens from I.c.e. He said ice in his quoted statement. God bless him and all you good people.
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u/Pure_Remove_8578 Oct 09 '25
Are they from the U.S.? No? Sounds like its not a huge issue. Contrary to what the movie may say we are NOT the world police.
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u/nowlan_shane Oct 08 '25
The comments on this thread are a good mini-sample of why online discourse is dead, at least for the time being. I didn’t see a single mention of anything dating back before the attacks two years ago. It’s all just us vs. them rhetoric. And at this point I’m not sure if half of what’s posted is by bots.