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I'm shocked that I haven't seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren't any, why?

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[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 136 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Mass media is actively suppressing them:

Link to full article from WagingNonViolence.org

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, this doesn't make any statements about attendance.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Denver yesterday - 34,000 people:

Also:

March 25th: Tempe, AZ - 11,300 people

Feb 18th: Nationwide Presidents Day Protest - multiple locations

Feb 5th: First 50501 Protest - all 50 capitals

There wasn't a unified protest movement at the beginning of Trump's first term. It wasn't until BLM started gaining traction that we started seeing real action on the streets. This time around, despite the total lack of leadership from the DNC, there were boots on the ground from day one.

It's important to note that unlike Trump's first term, the mass media now has a vested interest in not reporting the scale and size of the unrest, so they're tamping down coverage wherever they can, and actively manufacturing consent by minimizing the impact of the protests.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 37 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Not only mass media, but social media algorithms as well. Big tech is complicit in the coup

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Canada here. We see nothing about Murcan protests, if they exist. We just hear Canadians/politicians reacting negatively to pretty much everything coming out of the white house.

We ask each other how can Murcans be okay with being treated like this. Don't they understand what's happening?

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I really hope you're right. I'm actually very scared that they'll take over our social media this election season and we'll get fucked as well.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

They already took over social media, that was the final push that put a literal conman back in the Whitehouse.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

I really hope our people are smart enough to know when they're being manipulated as the MAGAts have been. It looks like our cons are waking up though, and realizing that it's not the time for smöl ~PP~

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 18 points 21 hours ago

Don’t they understand what’s happening?

No. Overwhelmingly, no, they don't. The MAGA crowd is stuck to their pants with glee, the liberal crowd is going "oh well, we'll get em in the midterms," and about another third of the country is just brain-dead clueless about all of it. Maybe a few thousand people in the US actually understand just how close we are to cascading systemic collapse.

[–] vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago

Thanks! This is the graph I was looking for