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Then you've not engaged your brain.

How easy was communication in 1986 compared to now?

How easy was mobilisation, in an island nation, under a dictatorship?

Americans still have most of their freedoms, use them before you lose them.

4 years of the alarm ringing, a 4 year snooze, and then 6 months of the alarm ringing again is an awfully long time to take to wake up. All whilst living in the "richest" country in the world, with the freedom to carry guns, and say what you want. That's... Even more pathetic than I first thought.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed seeing the pictures and videos of thousands, millions, of people marching, but you can do better.

For context:

5% of the Italian population protested the Iraq war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests

Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 690 kilometres (430 mi) across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which at the time were occupied and annexed by the USSR and had a combined population of approximately eight million.[2]

That's 25% of the population.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way

3.3% of the Phillipines population protested in 1986 whilst under a dictatorship.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution

Edit:

37.5% of the US population watched the Super Bowl in 2025 but less than 2% protested a fascist takeover of the country. Shows your priorities. The downvotes also really tell that your feels are hurt more than caring about the reals of the situation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings

Edit 2: 200k just marched in The Netherlands against genocide. That's 1.09% of their population marching for an issue that doesn't even personally affect them, because they have principles. But y'all can't even get double that for an issue that will personally effect the rest of your lives. Shame.

https://lemmy.world/post/31485267

With a U.S. population of 340.11 million (Wikipedia number) that's 1.18 - 1.76%. That's... pretty pathetic considering what was being protested.

1 - 2 people out of every 100 in America stand against fascism, the rest... who knows?

Edit: at this rate more Americans will have downvoted my comments than bothered to say they're opposed to fascism. No wonder you elected a reality TV star with mush for brains as your leader. Well done, you took to the streets, but not enough of you, not while you're still free to do so. Get good or suffer the consequences. You've seen what's coming, do something about it. If only 1-2 out of 100 of you can be arsed to say no, then the jackboots will take that as a green light to do what they want. After that, getting more numbers to show up will become increasingly difficult. Now is your chance, seize it while you still can. Don't just clap yourself on the back, say "well done, we showed them" and go back to your day job as if life is back to normal. Do as the French do, keep protesting until your demands are met.

The English. £9,000 a year isn't easy when you're 18, throw on top rent, food, transport, socialising, many people go into debt.

Student loans have more generous terms than ordinary loans, and you only pay them back when earning more than ~£25k (depends on the loan) but that's still debt.

Not according to ICE.

Ministers can fuck off unless they're willing to be replaced by AI too.

Don't watch the series of Taskmaster that she's in then. You'll lose respect for her, she crashes and burns so hard it's cringe and difficult to watch

The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

Rude.

Never believe that anti‐ Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.

• Jean-Paul Sartre

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre

For those who haven't seen the cowardly tough guys in action that Sc00ter is referring to:

https://lemmy.world/post/31196039

Can't watch without installing the Reddit app 👎

To be honest, I've no idea. All I know is the BBC can't be trusted.

I've not heard anything bad about Reuters and as they're the journalists' journalists then they're probably alright, but I don't really know.

Drop Site News spoke to 13 current and former staffers who mapped out the extensive bias in the BBC’s coverage and how their demands for change have been largely met with silence from management. At times, these journalists point out, the coverage has been more credulous about Israeli claims than the UK’s own Conservative leaders and the Israeli media, while devaluing Palestinian life, ignoring atrocities, and creating a false equivalence in an entirely unbalanced conflict.

In November, the journalists’ outrage at the Corporation’s overall coverage spilled out into the open after more than 100 BBC employees signed a letter accusing the organization, along with other broadcasters, of failing to adhere to its own editorial standards. The BBC lacked “consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza” across its platforms, they wrote.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage

The BBC are a captured organisation.

Drop Site News are new to me, I have no idea of their credibility. But Owen Jones (the journalist who wrote this) is a famous journalist who regularly writes for The Guardian.

It looks like you've made 61 posts in the last 24 hours. That's a lot of content to provide!

If you're enjoying it, then there's no harm in carrying on. Well done, thank you!

But if you're not enjoying it, then slow down. Stop posting or just post less frequently, whatever it takes to feel like you're doing something you find worth doing. Otherwise, what's the point?

But to your original questions, I don't think you're wasting your time and posting is definitely useful for the Fediverse ecosystem.

Frustrated, modern (whatever that means in this context), professional, and yet, still willing to point a gun at peaceful civilian protestors.

The jackboot is coming down on your head, but at least it's polished, neatly tied, and only coming down hard enough to knock you out, not kill you.

Their servers are located in Portugal I believe and do indeed run on solar power! They gave details of their set up on their wiki page but... that was on the server that's gone down so... have a read in July I guess?

And a scheme to charge the phone, and a scheme to replace your phone if you drop it, and a scheme to criminalise you if you forget your phone at your mates or down the pub.

This scheme is an authoritarian over reach into day to day life.

No comrade, is glorious Russian engineering.

Collapsible bridge makes for easier movement to new location to where bridge is needed. Don't listen to Western pig lies, mighty mother Russia is safe place.

Now please, this way to nearest conscription centre for help powerful Putin to make Russia great again, spasibo.