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How soon until you think the riots and protests from Europe reach the USA? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 59 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Why would European riots/protests spill over to America? That's not how this works.

Americans have been protesting. Rioting, not so much. Those are much more rare in the US than France.

Mass movements spring from the ground up, and the American working class quite famously doesn't see themselves as part of the global working class. Solidarity protests are few and far between.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Americans have been picnicking at unprecedented scale.

    I saw a thread about it where someone asked "Ok, but what are our demands this time? All this turnout is useless if we don't do anything with it".

    The answer given? Vote.

    ... That was all. ...

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago* (1 child)

    People are getting tear gassed, pepper sprayed, beaten, shot, etc., how is that a picnic exactly? You lose an eye picnicking? Pretty hardcore picnics over here in the states...

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  • [–] -1 points 4 days ago

    The comment was on the fecklessness of the 'resistance', not downplaying the brutality of the established order.

    Americans have been taught "the right way" to resist by their class enemies. At this rate they'll frog-costume-dance all the way into the camps holding hands and chanting "this is the way".

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