Ah yes, any successful act of violence on the system will definitely be told to me by the system, which is owned by like, 4 people. Sometime about the revolution and television
I think people in America are at just the right amount of comfortable to want to protest but afraid of losing the life they have to oppression they may face for participating in the protest. Most people who aren’t minorities are not directly facing the governments oppression until recently when they started shooting white people, so they can limit themselves to posting hashtags and strongly worded comments online, but active disobedience could cost them their job and thus access to semi affordable healthcare and the ability to pay their bills and debts. Aka its the system working as designed to keep the masses complacent, it will take actual starvation and deprivation to happen to the majority for them to fully participate in fighting the system
That has a name. “Cowardice”.
Divide and conquer
Exactly.
I hate posts like this. If people on the left could unite against capitalist billionaires we would stand a chance.
Instead, we attack each other while they laugh all the way to the bank.
Haha yeah you guys sure did a good job at standing up to those brexit blokes!
Edit: Forgot to mention the Germans and French throwing soup at paintings. Wherever will us yanks find such creativity.
Or, we could stop believing this online bullshiteant to divide the movements and stop judging each other based on our worst examples.
throwing soup at paintings
That was Just Stop Oil, also a UK group. Their goal was to make people talk about them and what they stand for. Here we are, 4 years later, talking about it, so I guess that was a success.
Not only you missed the mark, but you named two countries that are quite known for people successfully standing up to the government in recent decades, Germany through unions and strikes, and France through throwing bricks at rich people’s buildings and setting some stuff on fire. Both seem to be something yanks need to actually learn.That was great britain. Fuckers don’t even wanna be european it seems. Their little island location sure has rotted their brains into thinking they’re something special.
Just to let you know the approx stats of the population: 1/4 voted leave, 1/4 votes remain, 1/4 didn’t bother turning up to vote, 1/4 weren’t registered/too young to vote
Yeah I really don’t know how that close of a result justified actually leaving.
iT wAs ThE wiLL oF tHe PEople!!! Based on a none binding referendum
If 90% voted leave then sure. Bit yeah we all know it was a sham
As a German, I often find the French protests inspiring. They seem enthusiastic and convinced that they can make a difference, whereas in Germany many people use their perceived insignificance as an excuse for why it’s pointless to even try.
Can confirm. Germans are the most pathetic, docile people. Love nothing more than moaning and complaining about everything, but don’t you dare break any rules or norms to do something about it!
(Source: am German)
The American farmers seem to grumble for a handout and if it doesn’t come shrug and go bust. The french farmers on the other hand, engage honey badger mode!
To be more specific, American farmers vote against handouts and vote for things that ruin the economy, then beg for handouts, then go bust and blame leftists for it
Is it too much to ask for them to dump some manure on the mar-a-largo driveway?
Minnesota farmers seem to be closest to the European
Hungarian here, all we get is chronic alcoholism, then after enough cognitive decline, they become Fidesz supporters.
It’s not even like they don’t protest (eg No Kings just now) & don’t have truly inspiring figures, but damn they have to fight for every little bit of anything with way more fronts than they could ever keep up.
And as anywhere, protesting where it hurts (ie financial/power results) gets violent immediately.
Maybe that’s the issue, they respect (rich people’s) private property too much, and it’s too well protected in various ways.
looks at Hungary
Riiiiiiiight 🙄
What the US doesn’t do enough compared to Europe are General Strikes, rather than protesting.
Protests don’t really hit the Owner classe were it hurts them the most and can easilly be portrayed as a violent rabble or simply not talked about (both things which in countries were the entirety of the Press is captured, are the norm in terms of news coverage).
For all the feeling of release of righteous rage they give to protestors, Protests by themselves are just people walking and shouting (with at most small shops rather than big companies suffering) and thus are easy for the powerful to ignore.
General Strikes, on the other hand, have a way bigger impact on the money making of the people who have a disproportionate amount of power and there are even more impactfull options when the HQs of certain companies or the homes of very rich people are targetted.
Unless they’re properly inconveniences the powerful only pay attention to Protests when they’re a signal that there is insatisfaction amongst the general population which, if not addressed, will lead to things much worse than Protests, and in countries were things don’t actually go further than protesting like the US, the powerful can easilly not care about protests.
We have some monstrously large hurdles to clear in this regard. What’s working against a general strike:
- No social safety net for housing or medical until you’re below the poverty line for a tax year
- Bankruptcy, poor credit, limits future employment options (e.g. background checks)
- Most industries are not unionized, so your job can easily be filled in your absence
- Really high unemployment right now for skilled sectors like IT
- A lot of people are paycheck-to-paycheck thanks to a host of factors like high rent
To say nothing of all the illegal shit government and private business will do to end and/or prevent a strike.
It’s not impossible, but it does mean that any reasonable person would like to know that millions upon millions of others will be striking alongside them. Support networks for unemployed strikers along with strategies to deal with scabs would be a good start, too.
Absolutelly: the system in the US is designed to remove choice from the “riff-raff”.
Then again to a large extent in the past it was also so in those EU countries talked about here (and, as an EU resident, let me tell that there’s a lot of effort going on around here slowly reverting things back to those days)
Further, people too have make it so in the US, for example by not joining Unions or by parroting propaganda about how Free a country America is (which is pretty close the opposite of true: real Freedom in America is something only the rich have).
Whilst I dislike the near-religious take on the “Founding Fathers” of America (who at best were “progressive” for slave owners) the “American Constitution” (a prototype for Democracy which is riddled with problems, hence the current situation), many things from that time including some said by American Founding Fathers are eternal truths, such as the one about “eternal vigilance”, and the one about the tree of freedom needing to be periodically refreshed with the blood of patriots.
Maybe it’s because the law enforcement shoots you dead and shoot you again if you act up.
Maybe it’s because they know you don’t have the guts to shoot back.
Where are the flock cameras and local PD with tanks in the top picture?
Starts feeling pride
Remembers UK isnt EU
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It doesn’t say EU anywhere
Post title. But it can mean European Union or just be short for Europe.
lel, totally overread that.
I’ve never seen it being used as a short hand for Europe.
But Europe gets used as a totum pro parte for EU like America for USA.
Getting really tired of Eurotrash acting like they don’t depend on US imperialism to have their standard of living today, and pretending that they’ve never heard of the Black Panthers. Did COVID rot your brains? You forget Minneapolis?
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Sure, the OP for some weird reason didn’t use a modern picture, but he’s a video from 2 years ago:
Have people already forgotten the summers of 2016 and 2018? I can promise you Americans can riot with the best of them.
The difference is they have the capability to completely censor riots now.
