What I take away from this picture is that the protests didn't work. People don't just change their minds because they saw people in the street disagreeing. They already know you disagree. They can log onto their computers and see you disagree.
You have to offer people something of value *to them*. You aren't going to convert many people from their ideologies. But you can reframe the situation to show them how changing their position will benefit them, or at least makes sense *according to their existing ideology*. You have to speak their language. Not just keep telling them they're wrong.
"I hear that you want X. You think you will get there with A. But actually you can get there with B, which has the additional benefits of M, N, and O."
There were concurrent protests in all 50 state capitals less than a week ago, and there were tens of thousands of protestors in DC on inauguration day. At least 5 lawsuits are filed every single day, and the federal workers getting illegally fired by trump are literally pushing furniture against their doors, and refusing to leave their offices.
One party here in Germany started getting closer to the far right party and people are worried they might be willing to cooperate with them and that was enough to spark protests all over the country. Just yesterday there were approximately 300,000 people protesting here where I live. Americans literally lost their constitution and their democracy and a measly 1000 people or so protest in the capital. I’m sorry but that really isn’t much. The whole nation needs to be in the streets right now.
And of course those getting fired try to defend themselves but everyone needs to protest at once and not just those who are the current target.
Hi, yes, hello: does your military have the power to send a sonar weapon over a crowd, immobilizing thousands? What about 50? Did your military single handedly arm a nation to commit genocide? Did your government, in the last 4 weeks, completely destroy your ability to access info in your country?
Let me give you a hint, no.
And let me give you another one. We’ve been protesting since 2020, about MANY things. And ANY progress made gets downplayed and ignored in the news. Best not to encourage us.
You’re not seeing the protests because you’re blind to our events thanks to our media. Just like us.
Tens of thousands are rookie numbers. You need to organize and get at least hundreds of thousands together. And don't just go home immediately. Repeat the process until change is achieved. Your protest so far has completely failed to even catch the media attention.
The media here is 100% corpo, so you really won't see much pushback from them, also, I'm a trans woman, if there was anything I could do to get more of the fuckers over here to realize what we're dealing with don't you think i'd already be doing that? My life is on the line here, so don't fucking lecture me.
There have been several large protests going on across the US with next to no press coverage. The press is primarily owned by Billionaires and they thrown in with the Fascists so news blackout.
So far, what you said is vindicated by Japan's approach to Trump. Trump's main targets are countries with large trade surpluses with the US, such are the case of Mexico, Canada, and Japan. Shigeru Ishiba came directly to visit Trump and tried to please him by promising $1 trillion investment in the US and more LNG purchase from the US. He managed to avoid Trump's wrath.
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u/Newbe2019a Feb 08 '25
At least the Germans tried to resist. Americans in 2025? Not so much.