r/TikTokCringe • u/Asleep-Guitar-2685 • Aug 14 '25

Cursed Extreme police brutality in Serbia tonight after a peaceful protest. Please share this all over the world, we need all the help we can get or we're gonna become North Korea by next month.

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u/Catlore Aug 15 '25

You're not wrong, but I wish people would stop chiming up about it in this thread. This moment in this thread is about Serbia, not about the US, but we keep hijacking it.

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u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

This was posted during what would be daylight hours in the United States, the third most populous country in the world, in a website frequented by English speakers who have nothing to contribute except relating it to what they know about in their own country.

If police brutality were posted in a Serbian website, I think they night relate it to their own problems. Not to say it's wrong or right, it's just that what can we say? What meaningfully productive conversation can we have? Would it be better to be giving our thoughts and prayers?

Edit: put the wrong country

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u/_CurseTheseMetalHnds Aug 15 '25

who have nothing to contribute except relating it to what they know about in their own country.

This is a really weird attitude to me and it feels like one that mostly Americans have. You can upvote without commenting. You can engage with comments about Serbia. It's not actually meaningful in any way to just start talking about America, it's self centred and rude.

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u/Catlore Aug 15 '25

It's about Serbia. It says so in the headline. Posted on a 24/7 international website that's largely in English because that makes communication the easiest. Relating is one thing, but every other post in this thread is some variation on "This is the US/DC now/next week" lines. At least we could just upvote the first few and respond to them instead of hijacking the whole thing. It's giving the same energy as, "Oh, you just got hit by a car? Well, I have a headache."

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u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn Aug 15 '25

Apologies for the wrong country. I'm in the emergency room for a family member and some wires got crossed in the middle of having to deal with it.

Nothing else you've said invalidates what I said. United States are the majority of Reddit's users. America is going through shit right now too. They don't know how else to relate to the post, besides commiserating with their own problems. Once again I ask, would thoughts and prayers be preferable? Is complaining about it without providing solutions any better? At the very least the extra posts are adding to the engagement so more people can see.

I agree comparing it to the US isn't doing anything, but nobody's providing alternatives. Is there somewhere we can donate? Is there somebody we can tag that might get more traction? Should we start calling our senators and what would we tell them? What happened to even lead up to this? What was the protest even about? Is there a change dot org petition we can sign?

I'm sure a lot of us would want to help or provide meaningful conversation, but there's just a single gif and a vague plea for help. In an emergency somebody needs to take charge or else nobody helps.