This is honestly the first time I’ve seen pretty much anything about it.
Nope, I haven’t seen a single news article about it. Guess our propaganda machine is better than we thought it was.
Seems like it hasn’t been this bad since when Bush launched Iraq war 2… basically every major city in the US and Europe had huge protests, and it got almost exactly 0 coverage outside of local news covering your local city.
Now all the local news in the US are just Sinclair subsidiaries/franchises.
I don’t think it’s the propaganda machine (or maybe this is), but in the US, almost nothing is reported from other countries. If 100,000 people died in some wild natural disaster outside the US, we would get almost no real details, but we would get the full life story of the one American that was killed who was from New Jersey. It’s just the way our media is. No real information. Just dumb sap stories.
It’s the same reason the Republicans haven’t been able to identify when they’re ingesting blatant Russian propaganda. They’ve never seen or heard it before outside of their favorite American talking head.
Meanwhile in the rest of the world the news was flooded with information surrounding Trump. It’s a weird time we live in.
Because protests accomplish absolutely nothing in America without violence. The billionaires are nice and comfy in their ivory towers, they have no concern for the peasants on the streets. If they are comfortable then nothing changes.
And if the prospective protestors are comfortable, they’ll stop short of their goals. Perhaps very short, if they start at all.
The violent protests didn’t do shit either, they just pissed off the rest of the citizenship. When protests turn to violence, all too often it’s against the businesses that the peasants frequent.
Also true, those are the wrong targets. There’s a much more pragmatic approach.
Scary part is that the protests within America were not covered, or were barely mentioned.
The 20th was Trump’s inauguration + MLK, so a LOT of people marched across the US. That said, most of the coverage is from small local papers and broadcasters. The big new orgs shied away.
The revolution will NOT be televised
Every time someone posts the latest daily poll that shows change is impossible and what they’re predicting is inevitable, I need to remember that quote.
Scary part is that the protests within America were not covered, or were barely mentioned.
You can NOT rely on the media to cover the important stuff, or to tell you what is important. This is because (1) the billion owned media wants you do be apathetic so they can get gigantic GOP tax cuts for the rich, and (2) the average journalist does not have any special skill set in letting them know what is important, and (3) journalists and editors are lazy and only cover what other outlets are covering.
You have to work extra hard to understand reality, and things like Lemmy help with that.
Just wait for the German Fasching (Carnival) parades, we will bring back the floats depicting Don taking it up the ass from Vlad.
LOLOLO! That was one of the floats! Danke!
They’ve got their work cut out for them this year! Now that the US government has gone full fucking Nazi I’m expecting some well-deserved brutally scathing criticism.
Saving this one for the next time I’m hit with the “the whole world thinks we’re a joke with [democrat] in charge. This is why Trump is great. The world respects us with him leading.”
I’ll be honest: The world thinks y’all are a joke no matter who’s in charge, though Trump is a worse joke.
We liked Obama, what’s he up to now? Think you could convince him to grey his hair a little more due to actually taking the job seriously?
Unfortunately he respects the rules to much to run for a third term
It’s ok, trump is fixing that rule, so Obama can come back even following the rules. But even if not, I bet there is probably at least 1 more person that would be a good president, we haven’t seen much evidence of that… but they must exist.
Trump is changing the rules so that only he can run again
I mean Obama’s anti-war stuff turned out to be an unfunny joke so yeah.
Drones were gonna happen at that point in time, no matter who the president was. It’s not like US was the only ones using them.
The drones are part of it, but more broadly remember he ran on ending the Iraq war and shutting down Guantanamo bay and yet he did neither.
That is a fact, and many don’t like to remember it. Obama was better than some presidents obviously but he was a disappointment to every anti-war voter.
When Clinton was president, we were a sex joke. When Bush jr. was president, we were a funny joke. When Obama was president, we were a meme. When Trump was president, we were a sad joke. When Biden was president we were a dad joke. With trump president again, we’re now a sick joke.
With trump president again, we’re now a sick joke.
Sure seems like we’re heading towards literal gallows humor. (Whose gallows remains an open question.)
4 countries are hardly the whole world
Good thing I wasn’t the one claiming the “whole world” believes anything.
It wasn’t showing up on Lemmy either.
I’m seeing it on lemmy right now
Did you see it on Inauguration Day?
I didn’t see shit about this on Inauguration Day
I saw nothing about this as an American living in a blue state.
This is being presented as a sort of cover-up, but the fact of the matter is that most protests never get much attention unless they are extraordinary in scale or in regards to any violence, or anything else. There will always be some protests, so that begs the question, is this always newsworthy? Trump is inaugurated and quite some people don’t like this… well aint that surprising? No. I don’t think it’s a cover up, I think it’s deemed rather irrelevant, obvious, nothing out of the ordinary. Had the protests been more massive in scale perhaps that would be different though. Or had people stormed the capitol,. ouch…
The majority of our media outlets are not covering any dissent about Trump. All major social media companies are censoring negative information about Trump. This is purposeful and blatant. The media is most definitely helping this administration to manufacture consent.
This is nothing new though as the media has helped project bizarre concepts like the US is the defender of democracy for decades. In fact, the US has done more to stop Democracy than any other country.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/understanding-democratic-decline-in-the-united-states/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/18/american-democracy-political-system-failures/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1240435.shtml
Not only is US democracy in decline because of concerted efforts to undermine it by the wealthy, but this is also projected around the world with the US attacking and destroying foreign democracies.
So it is a cover up and it has been going on a long time. The US is not the country it portrays itself to be and that takes a universal effort in our media to help project.
Is this newsworthy is not the question. Who determines what is newsworthy is the question.
What the hell, I had no idea. I heard nothing.
Now everyone will hear something.
I heard about the effigy in Italy, but that’s about it
Am I missing something? Is there text to this article? I only see a handful of captioned pictures, and nearly half of those are from the US.
Sent this to my mother, who probably thinks I’m full of hyperbole when I talk about how we’re seen around the world.
It’s like 4 countries, calm your tits
I’m sorry, do you normally see people protesting leadership in other countries when they get elected? Perhaps I didn’t notice that Americans were out in droves protesting the election of Kier Starmer. /s
Starmer is a shitbag, btw. I’m not trying to support him with the above comment.
Yes? Lots of people marching together, worldwide protested Nicolas Maduro, venezuelan dictator, after stealing the elections and declaring himself the winner
After Obama and Biden got elected, they also got protests in all south America and Russia if I remember correctly
After the Iranian elections, there were massive protests worldwide as well.
After da Silva and Bolsonaro got elected in Brazil, they also got worldwide protests.
Same with Bukele in el Salvador, same with Milei in Argentina. Same with Netanyahu and Palestine.
Maybe there is people living abroad who are still citizens and care about the country? Or people who just don’t plain agree. But there are.
It’s not something new, certainly not abnormal , obviously not all countries protesting, but it happens. Still, it’s not like the whole planet is protesting against them. People have shit to do
Wow, thanks for the support everyone. We’ll try to hold out for the next four years
How do people even hear about protests in order to participate? I really hope it’s not Facebook.
I saw signs around Portland for a January 21 protest. From what I’ve heard, it was a lot smaller than what Portland saw in 2017. It’s hard to read the tea leaves on why that is.
Most of these pictures are from NYC and DC, bar a few from London, Brussels, Panama, and the US Embassy in Mexico
I’m starting to think is community is actually a bunch of refugees from Twitter.
They literally think the world is 4 countries
No but also I don’t really care? What did their protests accomplish before?
This is what we call “bitch energy”.
Everything helps.
Actually working about the issues of the people and actually listening to them in the last 4 years instead of pandering to a minority niche within the in group would have helped like, a lot
