Demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s early actions, decrying everything from the president’s immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

The protests were a result of a movement that has organized online under the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501, which stands for 50 protests, 50 states, one day. Websites and accounts across social media issued calls for action, with messages such as “reject fascism” and “defend our democracy.”

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    12 hours ago

    You know not everything on the internet is necessarily directed at you

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      9 hours ago

      Sure, and because Americans believe they’re heliocentric, they can just ask literally the entire world to ignore their generalisations.

      How are you so self-important and haven’t drowned like narcissus yet?

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        I am not from the USA (or any other part of the American continent for that matter). In a thread about protests against fascism in the US, taking place in the US, I think it’s fair to assume the “you” refers to US citizens. If there was a thread about Brazilian politics I would assume a similar post refers to Brazilians and that’s fine IMO. US exceptionalism is real and no doubt many US Lemmy users also fall into that trap, but this particular post just doesn’t seem problematic to me.