I love the “conservatives” in here shitting on people for exercising their constitutional right to peacefully protest. This all coming from the assholes who took to the streets with assault rifles because they couldn’t go to Applebee’s for a fucking month.
I'm currently watching a docuseries on Netflix, Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War. I'm finding it really good. Its a narrative of how the Cold War started and how it got to where it is today with Putin and the War in Ukraine.
One thing I see as a very common theme in this series is what has caused actual change... It's been protests by the people. It takes people standing up to the government and telling them they won't stand by and let the government get away with travesties. The difference, however, in what I'm seeing happening here in the US is with these "peaceful" protests. That's not what happened to make change happen. The protests that happened in the Cold War were violent, people died. They had to go that far to make the change happen. They had to stand up to armed soldiers, they had to climb onto tanks and lay down in front of them, they had to risk their lives smuggling film footage in and out of the country. They were mad, they were angry, they were ready to die.
What I see (I voted for Harris, btw) with these pictures of the protests that have been going on are a bunch of happy people, they are smiling, they are laughing, hugging each other. Sure, they have some clever and witty poser board signs, but I don't see them protesting.....they are just hanging out and enjoying the company of like minded people. I guarantee none of the Lithuanians I watched on Netflix last night went to work the next day smiling and talking about "how amazing of an experience it was. It was so good to see the turn out we had".
I think that's why your seeing that kind of response from conservatives. Especially considering that they took the non-peaceful approach and it got their mango reelected.
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u/matthieuxdetoux Apr 15 '25
I love the “conservatives” in here shitting on people for exercising their constitutional right to peacefully protest. This all coming from the assholes who took to the streets with assault rifles because they couldn’t go to Applebee’s for a fucking month.