They stole my cereal.

They tried to kill Jennifer Aniston.

It’s me trying to convince my otherwise VERY progressive friend who just happens to be in a cult (Mormon). She’s horrified by everything Trump stands for and her entire family being deeply in love with the biblical antichrist.

But somehow she keeps falling for ‘those biological men are coming for you sports’. She isn’t even into any sport, but keeps getting easily duped by it. She understands that trans folk were some of the earliest victims of the Nazis and is repulsed by the Group Of Pedos being so obsessed with examining women for the ‘right parts’ in bathrooms and at schools.

I won’t stop pushing back, but it’s exhausting seeing someone who is otherwise a good person fall for this shit every time it’s presented.

Basically. Expanding on that:

A slight oversimplification here, but there are two categories of problems in the world right now: class issues, and purposeful distractions from class issues.

Same thing with strikes and I"m still sickened by people who said essentially "Fuck them" during the rail strikes in the USA. We don't have worker solidarity at all because of this toxic individualist mentality.

He didn't resign. "He resigned but Macron refused" is their usual shtick to prevent just that.

Oh please, when they raised retirement age in France there was a bunch of protests that lead to... The retirement age being raised. I say this as someone who observed, you are full of it.

You are just trying to romanticise violence as France has not protested its way out of being a fascist shithole and won't anytime soon.

It's also virtually impossible to drive for more than 15 minutes without seeing an "À l'aise Breizh" sticker on a car. Why are they like this?

Classique.

I've literally never seen that flag in my life. Thanks for naming it so I can look it up.

Really makes our (the US) flag look like a ripoff, to be honest. Then again, many flags are.

Sure do. The big prorests have been the "No Kings" protests. They were really good at slapping Trump right in the ego. I think it was the largest (in some fashion or another). We got a load of changes coming from that. Right?

If I start driving now and don't sleep, I can be at the Capitol in 1d17hrs. Let's get there!!! /s

I don’t care what there doing, I’m telling what I’m doing, keeping money in my bank and my mortgage paid, as long as I can do those things I’m good. You all do what you gotta do.

a huge budget increase in education sector and rehiring several thousand teachers

nice!

do appreciate the insight.

Your “protests” have no demands and disrupt nothing

Plainly untrue.

The coverage of the protests don't list demands. The impact of the protests regularly get downplayed and dismissed. The policing of the protests is what ultimately squelches demands and stymies disruption.

Americans aren’t protesting

Americans are alienated from one another. They are gulled into believing falsehoods. They are told that protests aren't happening, that protests have ended when they have not, that protests have no leadership, that the leadership is infiltrated by bad actors (Russians, Iranians, The Other Party manipulators, the Mafia, the Gay Mafia, lizard people, whatever), that protests are counterproductive, that their False Flags, and that actually the only real form of protest is voting.

No more crystal clear example of this was the J6 protest in DC. News coverage of the riot was blacked out for hours, even as people were storming straight into Nancy Pelosi's office and shitting on the desk.

The immediate coverage of the protest was that it was a Fifth Column False Flag my Antifa.

Subsequent news reports claimed it was caused by Russian disinformation.

None of the actual funders or organizers of the riot were prosecuted, but a bunch of idiot influencers took the fall.

And liberals went into 2021 thinking J6 had put an end to Trump's legitimacy.

I was too, before several media channels opposed to domination/oppression/exploitation systems revealed it.

Well, most information traveling through continental european ("mainland") part of France are "mainland"-centric. These are even often centered around specifically some big cities or the Île-de-Frane région (including Paris).

Those of us who, like me, are not descendants of colonised people will have to follow decolonial or anticolonial circles to get decent information about what happens outside of our bubble. I mean when even a ministre, now president, confuses Guyane with an island, we've got some serious progress to make toward equality...

Like some people from independant media say, colonial empires never really ended, they just transformed their surface-level appearance.

Right?

Oh you have a legal right to own a gun? Shot and killed.

You're unarmed? Shot and killed.

Maybe it's time to just kill them first.

Police violence is the reason French protesters go so hard. If you have to go in with the assumption that your protest will be met with violence you have to be aggressive in your tactics.

I have been to protests in the US where the organizers were able to make a clear distinction between the few who are risking arrest, and the rest who were under no risk, to the extent that very old retired people with mobility issues were comfortable joining; despite the intentions to commit crimes and have arrests. American protests are usually peaceful because you have a right to protest, and organizers can plan around the assumption of that right being respected.

Blaming guns for American having weak protests is a fundimential misrepresentation.