This is honestly the first time I’ve seen pretty much anything about it.
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.
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.
And if the prospective protestors are comfortable, they’ll stop short of their goals. Perhaps very short, if they start at all.
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.
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.
I saw nothing about this as an American living in a blue state.
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
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.
What the hell, I had no idea. I heard nothing.
Now everyone will hear something.
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.
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.)
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?
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.
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
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.
Wow, thanks for the support everyone. We’ll try to hold out for the next four years
No but I don’t really care what non-americans think of my president
I stand by what I said, what is wrong with it?
You mean apart from the bigotry and hate?
Because there’s also the “how dare you care about your child more than people you aren’t personally responsible for!” thing.
There is no bigotry or hate, just a lack of empathy from the person I’m replying to. It sucks what’s happening to their son, but what’s happening in gaza is 10x worse by any metric.
No, a lack of empathy is telling someone they should care less about their own child’s life being at risk, and who cares because they’re trans, than people on the other side of the world.
That is about as unempathetic as you can get. And I’m amazed you don’t realize it.
The premise that parent puts forward is that I should be OK with genocide as long as his kid is ok. That’s unemphatic. By any metric of the situation, one issue is far more important and extreme than the other.
They said nothing of the sort. That’s just a lie.
And no, by any metric of the situation, a person’s child is far more important than anything else in their life. Or should be. Because that child didn’t ask to be born. They are owed everything.
And in this case, this child’s life is in danger because of a genocide of trans people that is already well underway and that you apparently don’t give a shit about. I guess there’s only one genocide that matters.
And what exactly have you done about it other than berate people for caring more about their own children than they do the genocide in Palestine? Because I spend hours each week contacting politicians for JVP. Before I escaped on Monday with my own queer child (who you probably think I should also not care about), the staffers at Larry Buschon’s regional office were sick of me going there twice a month.
Have you done anything other than sit on your ass and tell people not to care about their kids?
Proofing again how dumb and ignorant the maga cult is
Panama, Mexico, London and Belgium are hardly “THE WORLD 🌎 ™️”
I’m in Argentina and no one here was protesting about or against Trump.
Nothing in Venezuela either
Weird not to see Canada jumping on that action
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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.
BBC Mentioned the one in Washington but it was just as an add on when explaining that it was too cold for trump to have it outside. Doesn’t really matter how big the protests were in America as they literally voted for it.
More people voted against Trump than for him.
- nope
- but also, I did my best to sleep through the inauguration out of spite, and also as political commentary on how the Democratic party’s strategic leadership slept through the entire fucking election cycle, because the only other explanation is that they were playing to loose
