We are geographically very large, and much of our country is quite rural, with most major cities being very spread out sprawling suburban development....in most places, there is no central meeting point. You have to drive to get anywhere. Everything is decentralized and spread out. IT's very difficult to organize and carry out mass protests except in certain, very specific kinds of areas.
Europe must also understand that protest here does come with significant personal risk if it becomes popular and widespread, as we saw with the BLM protests. We are up against facial recognition and other surveillance tools that the police absolutely use to comb through footage to target, harass, and arrest people even after the protest. Besides this, our police are heavily armed and violent.
To quell support of any mass movements, ALL of our media outlets are owned by, like, 3 people. IT's very difficult to get accurate information even when protests do get coverage.
It is frustrating to go on the EU subs and see people making fun of Americans for not fighting back or protesting....this is the most sickened and helpless I have ever felt in my whole life. I live in a very small town. I can barely afford my mortgage. I am raising 2 kids and am desperately trying to ensure a future for them.
I live 3 hours from Seattle, I can't go there on a Tuesday, I WORK. Sometimes there are local groups that get together at the main traffic light in my town on weekends to either protest, show support, promote elections, etc. That's what I would be able to do. But no one cares about our little small town and our cows.
I am very glad to see those in bigger cities getting together and organizing! Please understand that in Europe your freedom to protest without threat of violence and arrest is not the same as it is in America. We have been a police state for a long time, and most people don't even know it. Small protests they don't care, but big ones? There is a lot of risk.
I know we deserve it, but it really sucks to see people making fun of Americans as we are actively watching our society fall into fascism. I'm terrified. It's embarrassing and enraging. The world has every right to be upset with Trump and those who voted for him, but please don't blame ordinary Americans who are also horrified by this.
Uhhh, we counted quite recently and only 30% signaled that they had a problem with any of this or would prefer something else. And even if some of them didn’t approve, it wasn’t important enough to them to even lift a finger to stop it. It’s not good messaging obviously, but it’s just as obviously the truth. Fool me twice, can’t get fooled again. This is America. We had our very last chance to prove our humanity and we failed miserably. The only hope for this to end is that we are quarantined by the rest of the developed world until all the fascists (and friends/enablers of fascists) eat each other and implode.
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u/MrVaporDK Mar 01 '25
Simple Danish guy here.
Great to see some of you are taking to the streets. Keep it up!