The one question every single person in Europe asks me

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

Tell them that there is nothing to strike and riot for. Majority of Americans don't want the sh*tshow of the last 4 years anyway even if they aren't happy about current administration moves

What shitshow? You mean economy rebounding from pandemic?

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Anonymous wrote:Upper middle class striver white Dems always underestimate how important black votes are to the party.

😩

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Anonymous wrote:All my trips to Europe since January, the most common sentiment is that they wish a Trump-like leader would help them with their immigration issues. They are envious of a leader who actually gets things done

Troll.

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Anonymous wrote:People dont protest anymore because the funding dried up. Its as simple as that.

No one was ever, every getting paid to protest.

Wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't agree with a lot of what Trump says and does. Trump won an election fair and square, so what should I be protesting? He's allowed to completely overhaul trade, security, taxation, and the way the govt is run. That's what the people voted for. I do agree with him on some big issues like it was a catastrophic mistake listening to the elite tell us we needed to offshore everything in terms of manufacturing. Complete decimation of our manufacturing base was so epically stupid. I agree that many of our allies have taken advantage of our generosity for far too long and wow, look at that, all of the sudden Europe finds $800B to spend on their own defense. Amazing. I do agree we need to get very rough on people for flooding our country with fentanyl. DEI at work got completely out of hand.Trump is absolutely right on immigration.

Again, I may disagree with what a lot of what Trump does wrt constitutional law, crypto, and firing of feds. But he won the election.

? first off, I don't think he really won. I think he stole the election.

Secondly, protests are about disagreeing with the government. That's the point.

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Anonymous wrote:^ The fear part is the area most Europeans don't understand. Their jobs/health care etc. is not tied directly to their employment.

Critical point here!

They also don't fear that their leader will find any way to go after their livelihood, even in the private sector.

We have a fascist dictator. Western Europe does not.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

Because we don’t want democrats

We want borders shut. And democrats abandoned us

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Most European countries are freer than here. If there are significant protests they will find ways to shut them down like the pro-Palestinian stuff. The can always just make stuff up to suit their purposes.

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Anonymous wrote:POC here. In my subculture there is a large group of activists that are choosing to intentionally stand down and protest differently. Why? Too much race baiting and attempts to get us into the streets. There is concern that Trump would enact martial law or abuse some sort of power to punish protesters and honestly we are sick and tired of fighting after we showed up to the polls and people still showed us who they were. We aren't going into the streets, except for those in our own community to build coalitions at the local level.

Black men did not show up.

Is your Google finger broken? 78% of Black men voted for Harris. That is the second largest demographic bloc behind Black women at 92%.
If Black Americans had the only votes that counted, Harris would have overwhelmingly won in a landslide .
Who are you lying to PP? Black people know what’s up, the MAGAs probably don’t care, and the rest of the Democrats know better than to trust “facts” thrown out there by anonymous sources with zero data to support their assertions.

tldr: If Black people were a larger percentage of the US population, we would all have health care and would still be friends with Canada.

But more black men voted for Biden in 2020 than they did for Harris. They didn’t show up or voted for Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

Because we don’t want democrats

We want borders shut. And democrats abandoned us

If you want borders shut then move to Iran, N Korea, Russia, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

It is harder to pay protesters when the USAID money and other back channels have been cut off.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

It is harder to pay protesters when the USAID money and other back channels have been cut off.

USAID never paid protesters.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

Ignore them. They are no better than the insufferable dorks that live here that spend their lives trying to find ways to be oppressed by politics instead of living their lives.

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Anonymous wrote:All my trips to Europe since January, the most common sentiment is that they wish a Trump-like leader would help them with their immigration issues. They are envious of a leader who actually gets things done

You know you didn't go to Europe. MAGAs don't leave the US

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been in london, France and Germany and everyone wants to talk politics and every single person has the same q: why are Americans not at very least protesting if not striking or rioting in the streets. I don’t know, bc I grew up in the uk where we do strike and protest I think more, what to tell them. Why aren’t we? Why are we just rolling over and letting Trump do this to our country?

Lack of organization- people don’t know about it.
I recently went to two rallies.
1 was great in terms of speakers and organization but poorly publicized. Even after knowing that there was a rally, and when and where, details were really hard to find.
No 2 was word of mouth, more people showed up than expected, no sound system, and again, poor info online.
As an aside, with all the boomer bashing, it’s actually the 60+ year olds that are showing up.