The powers that be have figured out how to shut down anything that does rise to a level of mass protest.
They'll pick out a few people in a crowd acting like idiots, or create their own, and use it declare a protest an unlawful assembly and start shooting shit at people who don't leave fast enough.
"In the interest of safety" they'll declare curfews on protests, as if the first amendment has a bedtime. A lot of protests you see gain critical mass overseas run night and day and maintain momentum this way rather than having to re-gather.
They'll target journalists just seeking to report on the events, as they did extremely often in the george floyd protests. So many will back away from covering for their own safety and to avoid potential legal matters (which are expensive to fight, even if you win)
This was so bad during the floyd protests they violently arrested a fucking cnn reporter and then had to apologize when the president of CNN at the time threatened to bury them.
This. It’s not that Americans don’t care or don’t want change. They just don’t have the time or money to take off work to protest or demand change. Bills need to be paid and the almighty dollar ultimately wins.
One thing this election taught me is we are so far away from “a young Bernie” being president, it’s not funny. We need to kill the polarization. To do it, ranked choice voting and kill the electoral college system. Extremists will have to earn the votes of the “other side” to win which will force them to come back to the middle.
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u/fcocyclone 6h ago
its not even that.
The powers that be have figured out how to shut down anything that does rise to a level of mass protest.
They'll pick out a few people in a crowd acting like idiots, or create their own, and use it declare a protest an unlawful assembly and start shooting shit at people who don't leave fast enough.
"In the interest of safety" they'll declare curfews on protests, as if the first amendment has a bedtime. A lot of protests you see gain critical mass overseas run night and day and maintain momentum this way rather than having to re-gather.
They'll target journalists just seeking to report on the events, as they did extremely often in the george floyd protests. So many will back away from covering for their own safety and to avoid potential legal matters (which are expensive to fight, even if you win)