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People really love criticizing the US and fair enough, but man it's tiring seeing people lambasting the US for not violently resisting when we actively are and it's just being suppressed by the media. Without cooperation from the head of the executive branch we can't storm congress, but we're doing a whole fuckload despite that...
Examples?
Well since local media aren't covering them and many foreign ones step in line to not upset lord trump, the only way to get examples is to attend them.
The cities he sent military to were the cities that had largest protests.
Protests against the second Trump administration
Gaza war protests in the United States
2025 United States protests against mass deportation
United States abortion protests (2022–present)
United States racial unrest (2020–2023)
These are just the protests. Note that all these links list multiple, recent protests, which actually get media attention on things.
If you want the stuff that the media doesn't tend to cover as well, you have to look hard (and maybe deal with a paywall and local reporting and realizing that what makes the news isn't all that's happening): ICE raid in Rochester stymied as 2 workers evade arrest, 200 residents protest
We cannot protest the government without support from the government.
Now that just ain't what I said.
Please give examples
It's a little difficult to provide specific novel examples without doxxing myself (the whole "suppression by the media" thing), but heck there's plenty of examples even just from what's in the news media.
You say "plenty" but the LA June protests were for the most part the exception rather than the rule. Can we get something recent and/or from outside LA?
Sure, but man, it's kinda exhausting having a bunch of people jump on "sources please" when the initial comment was about how the lack of easily available reporting on this is a real problem.
I mean, even if they're not covered by most media someone somewhere has to be talking about them. At the very least leftwing media should be frothing at the mouth to cover these things. I guess your link ticks the "outside LA" box so this isn't/wasn't a LA-exclusive thing, but still I'd expect even a little reporting to filter through this information blackhole you're talking about if the resistance is on the scale you're suggesting. I looked up "anti ice protests violent" and most results were from June with the rest from early July.
Wow all the way back in June before the protests fizzled after accomplishing next to nothing
Just keep on shifting those goalposts, you'll get there eventually.
Whatever you gotta say to convince yourself I guess
But... you were the one that asked for convincing, I'm already convinced. I'm just choosing not to engage in a discussion about this topic because you're clearly not willing to approach it in good faith. I know it's kinda wounding to the ego when someone says "Nah I'm not doing this with you" but you're just going to have to accept that that's what's happening.
K
Thank you! I'm genuinely grateful you're being mature about it and moving on.
^edit:^ ^Nevermind^ ^:(^
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No your not. Your volunteering to go into the street to be rounded up by the cops. It's the stupidest fucking thing. You literally have the equivalent of the printing Press giving to every person and you all think it's easier to organize people to publicly show up in a town three states over then it is to use get those people to use the propaganda machine to spread a message.
Thank you, this is a wonderful example of exactly the kind of ignorance I was talking about. I appreciate the support!
And they all clapped
Just know you're no different than r/the_donald users
you're*