This is honestly the first time I’ve seen pretty much anything about it.
Nope, I haven’t seen a single news article about it. Guess our propaganda machine is better than we thought it was.
It wasn’t showing up on Lemmy either.
I’m seeing it on lemmy right now
Did you see it on Inauguration Day?
I didn’t see shit about this on Inauguration Day
Yes?
Do we have some reason to believe that information about these protests (from three days ago, which we are currently discussing and looking at photos of) is being suppressed on lemmy? Or was being suppressed? Would that be evident in checking the mod logs?
Edit: even OP just said in another comment that they “saw an article about it” after all. I guess I just don’t understand the framing of the question
The opposite. I think Lemmy is so open that the fact that none of these protests made it onto my feed tells me it wasn’t big enough news. Maybe news sites weren’t suppressing it, it just wasn’t bigger news than what was showing up.
Honestly, Musk’s Nazi salute kind of overshadowed every other news story coming out that day.
Honestly, Musk’s Nazi salute kind of overshadowed every other news story coming out that day.
Then it did it’s job.
Damn. Good point.
Yeah that is concerning honestly. Three days wasted on nothing but arguing whether or not he is a nazi. Reddit banning twitter links is bigger news than the ICE raid
Which might have been partially the point.
I saw nothing about this as an American living in a blue state.
Saving this one for the next time I’m hit with the “the whole world thinks we’re a joke with [democrat] in charge. This is why Trump is great. The world respects us with him leading.”
4 countries are hardly the whole world
Good thing I wasn’t the one claiming the “whole world” believes anything.
Scary part is that the protests within America were not covered, or were barely mentioned.
The 20th was Trump’s inauguration + MLK, so a LOT of people marched across the US. That said, most of the coverage is from small local papers and broadcasters. The big new orgs shied away.
The revolution will NOT be televised
Every time someone posts the latest daily poll that shows change is impossible and what they’re predicting is inevitable, I need to remember that quote.
Scary part is that the protests within America were not covered, or were barely mentioned.
You can NOT rely on the media to cover the important stuff, or to tell you what is important. This is because (1) the billion owned media wants you do be apathetic so they can get gigantic GOP tax cuts for the rich, and (2) the average journalist does not have any special skill set in letting them know what is important, and (3) journalists and editors are lazy and only cover what other outlets are covering.
You have to work extra hard to understand reality, and things like Lemmy help with that.
Wow, thanks for the support everyone. We’ll try to hold out for the next four years
Because protests accomplish absolutely nothing in America without violence. The billionaires are nice and comfy in their ivory towers, they have no concern for the peasants on the streets. If they are comfortable then nothing changes.
And if the prospective protestors are comfortable, they’ll stop short of their goals. Perhaps very short, if they start at all.
The violent protests didn’t do shit either, they just pissed off the rest of the citizenship. When protests turn to violence, all too often it’s against the businesses that the peasants frequent.
Also true, those are the wrong targets. There’s a much more pragmatic approach.
The last photo behind the “A Better World is Possible Sign” is worth a mention:
“You can only get what you are Organized to Take”.
Just wait for the German Fasching (Carnival) parades, we will bring back the floats depicting Don taking it up the ass from Vlad.
LOLOLO! That was one of the floats! Danke!
They’ve got their work cut out for them this year! Now that the US government has gone full fucking Nazi I’m expecting some well-deserved brutally scathing criticism.
Florida man reporting… I heard nothing of this from my usual news outlets, apnews, CNN, NPR…zero
First time I’m seeing this and I only browse Lemmy
There’s a protest in Chicago today: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protesters-rally-against-trumps-policies-trump-tower/
- nope
- but also, I did my best to sleep through the inauguration out of spite, and also as political commentary on how the Democratic party’s strategic leadership slept through the entire fucking election cycle, because the only other explanation is that they were playing to loose
Hadn’t heard a thing, wow
People are talking. They are saying many great things.
So, which news sites should I be following?
This is starting to become scary
Starting?!
