Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, any feedback from people you talk to about the protests that occurred all over the country in all 50 states on April 5th?
Np I’d never heard about these protests until they happened.
It was a grassroots movement that started on social media. Imagine how much more powerful it would have been if mainstream media reported and picked up on it.
+1 The April 5 protest at the W Memorial was huge but there was very little media coverage. That’s the problem.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, any feedback from people you talk to about the protests that occurred all over the country in all 50 states on April 5th?
Np I’d never heard about these protests until they happened.
It was a grassroots movement that started on social media. Imagine how much more powerful it would have been if mainstream media reported and picked up on it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There have been protests - ie last Sat. But we live in a different system than Europe's - we aren't a system that responds to protests. The French for example protest like 10x every day somewhere. We're just not that kind of people culturally either - we don't take 30 day holidays for exampleThe Europeans are much more emotional as the Latin Americans are and Asians to some extent. Puritan Americans are not taught to really protest.
This +100.
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?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There have been protests - ie last Sat. But we live in a different system than Europe's - we aren't a system that responds to protests. The French for example protest like 10x every day somewhere. We're just not that kind of people culturally either - we don't take 30 day holidays for exampleThe Europeans are much more emotional as the Latin Americans are and Asians to some extent. Puritan Americans are not taught to really protest.
So, do the Boston Tea Party and the Revolutionary War ring a bell with you PP? The United States was founded in “protest”.
Anonymous wrote:There have been protests - ie last Sat. But we live in a different system than Europe's - we aren't a system that responds to protests. The French for example protest like 10x every day somewhere. We're just not that kind of people culturally either - we don't take 30 day holidays for exampleThe Europeans are much more emotional as the Latin Americans are and Asians to some extent. Puritan Americans are not taught to really protest.
Anonymous wrote:There have been protests - ie last Sat. But we live in a different system than Europe's - we aren't a system that responds to protests. The French for example protest like 10x every day somewhere. We're just not that kind of people culturally either - we don't take 30 day holidays for exampleThe Europeans are much more emotional as the Latin Americans are and Asians to some extent. Puritan Americans are not taught to really protest.
Anonymous wrote:Because until the recent stock market crash, the average American hasn’t been affected. Really, exactly what has HAPPENED? What are concrete things that change the lives of ordinary Americans? Truly nothing.
Europeans are rather gullible and believe everything in the news. They also are rather anti-American.
Anonymous wrote:Because until the recent stock market crash, the average American hasn’t been affected. Really, exactly what has HAPPENED? What are concrete things that change the lives of ordinary Americans? Truly nothing.
Europeans are rather gullible and believe everything in the news. They also are rather anti-American.
Anonymous wrote:We haven't had effective protests in the US since the Vietnam era. These days, street protests are associated with Gaza and BLM. The vast majority of people who are appalled by Trump don't want to be associated with progressive activists. It's a problem. Most Americans don't care for the looting and burning and pro-terrorism slogans that progressives tend to bring. And progressive looters and nihilists will take over any march. So those street protests tend to work in favor of Republicans - see the Gaza and BLM protests. It's not effective.
Anonymous wrote:Taxpayers don’t tend to protest layoffs in the bureaucracy
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, any feedback from people you talk to about the protests that occurred all over the country in all 50 states on April 5th?
Np I’d never heard about these protests until they happened.
It was a grassroots movement that started on social media. Imagine how much more powerful it would have been if mainstream media reported and picked up on it.
Liar.