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They start being hunted down.
That doesn’t happen in America. They’d rather wait for some magical government institution to save them. Canadian cities protested at Tesla dealerships this past weekend harder than any Americans did for their own country in this last couple of months.
My only conclusion I can come to as a non-American is that the vast majority of Americans want this and approve of this either fully or somewhat.
On the protest side, Americans are turning out in droves across the nation regularly. At capitol buildings and Tesla centers and more. Our media just doesn't over it because they're trying to squash the efforts.
Despite that, I'm still making plans to leave the country.
I haven’t seen a single picture or video of any of this. I’ve looked for it too. I saw a single coordinated protest of a 100 or so people called 50501 or something. That’s it.
Editing to add the 50501 bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social
50501 was the first time there have been simultaneous protests in every state capital in the US, ever. There were more than 100 people on the capital steps in my backwater state of Missouri.
Could we do better? Hell yes, but to say we're not doing anything is disingenuous when major media outlets are owned by opponents of the protests and therefore under-reporting, obfuscating, omitting or lying about protests happening.
Must not be looking very hard because they've been all over my general lemmy feed every few days and span multiple states, cities, and even countries.
I guess it must not have been very newsworthy then and not many people brought cameras. I’ll surely take your word for it though!
Yes I’m well aware of every country except for the us.
It's being blocked from the main pages of every mainstream American media source, including social media and mainstream "alternative media", usually relegated to the second or third page, but you can usually see it on !politics@lemmy.world, !news@lemmy.world, and !50501@piefed.social as well as on Mastodon. There's millions of people protesting, tens of thousands at some places.
https://www.newsweek.com/photos-show-trump-musk-50501-protests-across-us-2032448
I was just at a Tesla protest in my local town last weekend. There are literally zero articles about it. We don’t have freedom of the press here anymore.
Because American police do not fuck around, they do a little more than ask you politely to stop. Nowadays protesting in America could get you killed or handicaped. They don't care how old you are either, they won't aim their rubber bullets at the ground like they're supposed to, (that is, if they are using rubber bullets) they will kill if they feel remotely "threatened". But Yea, all Americans are fat, stupid, ignorant, inbred, Bible-thumping, morons that just love watching the world burn, they all adore what's happening.
There’s also the fact that the entire American education system is set up to teach Americans that peaceful protest is the only acceptable form of protest. History classes teach about the American revolution as if it was a fully justified break from an oppressive monarchy… And then as soon as it’s done, there’s a hard turn towards “but that was the only time violence was justified. In every other case, you’re expected to peacefully protest instead. Here, have another portrait of MLK Jr in case you forgot what he looked like.”
The Black Panthers were barely even a footnote in my history books. There weren’t any mentions of the union riots, where factory workers threatened to drag the owners out of their offices and lynch them. Because those would show that violence is effective.
The tree of liberty must at times be watered with the blood of patriots. What is the Second Amendment for, if not for moments such as this? "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
I always thought the second amendment was supposed to prevent this