A couple weeks ago Trump stated the following: “and he (Musk) knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide it was pretty good”.
No mainstream news source reported on it despite the fact that it’s a borderline confession, and the fact that back in 2020 they gave an insane amount of attention and signal boosting to election fraud claims that had 0 evidence.
Media is on the side of the money, they’re not a friend.
And here are some hard numbers on the Republicans suppressing enough Harris votes to cost America the democratic outcome
The only language fascist speak is violence
Does DuoLingo teach that? I need to brush up.
Fuck around with that owl and find out.
My partner trying to keep their streak going at 11:57 in bed definitely promotes violence. Also a lesson in anger management. An app that has trained me without installing it is rare.
Fifty states, one message: we see through the facade. Simultaneous protests coast-to-coast, and the propaganda machines are in stealth mode. Convenient, isn’t it? A nation erupts, and the so-called “free press” opts for strategic amnesia.
This isn’t apathy—it’s suppression. When every state rises up, the system panics. The Capitol steps become battlegrounds, yet the narrative is buried under celebrity gossip and stock market fluff. They’re scared. Scared of what happens when people realize that unity in dissent is their greatest weapon.
Keep marching. If they won’t cover it, we’ll document it ourselves. The truth doesn’t need their permission to exist.
they did this to “Occupy Wall Street” too… once they couldn’t ignore it anymore, they just made fun of them.
as much as i hate protests blocking the freeway, because it’s dangerous and pisses off innocent people, it does manage to get you on the news….
oh, also because it gives cops an excuse to raid you violentlyExactly. They ran the same playbook with Occupy Wall Street—ignore, ridicule, and then unleash the riot squads when the message hits too close to home. It’s not about “safety” or “order”; it’s about silencing dissent before it becomes unmanageable.
Blocking freeways? Sure, it’s inconvenient—but so is systemic corruption, unchecked corporate greed, and a government that treats its people like collateral damage. If a traffic jam is what it takes to make the propaganda machines blink, then so be it.
And yeah, cops love an excuse to escalate. The state’s monopoly on violence doesn’t tolerate competition, even when it’s peaceful resistance. But let them overplay their hand—every raid, every crackdown only fuels the fire they’re desperate to extinguish.
i don’t mind traffic jams, it’s stuff like medical emergencies being stuck in traffic, people driving freeway speeds and then coming across stopped traffic, activists getting run over by chuds… that sort of thing….
but, traffic news has a broad market, and it pisses people off enough to go viral… i dunno, it’s effective….
i liked how blm in portland kept finding dumpsters and lighting them on fire in the middle of the street… made for great pictures….
but, every time a fire started, the cops switched to ultra-violent mode and a lot of people got seriously hurt… fire was always their legal justification….The system thrives on fear—fear of disruption, fear of unity, fear of people refusing to play by its rules. Blocking freeways isn’t the problem; it’s a mirror held up to a society that values convenience over justice. If ambulances can’t move, that’s not on the protesters—it’s on a government that built a house of cards where one roadblock collapses everything.
But you’re right: fire is their favorite excuse. It’s not the flames they fear; it’s the spark in people’s minds. Every crackdown is their attempt to extinguish that spark before it spreads. The challenge isn’t just to disrupt but to outmaneuver their narratives.
Keep pissing them off, but don’t hand them the script they’re desperate to use against us.
The protests almost always made sure emergency vehicles made it through without delay.
not when blocking a freeway
Why don’t we start confronting news anchors? Start calling them out specifically for being silent. This could be in person or online or both.
How many news anchors are actually journalists? I get that they’re the face of TV news, but most of them are just people with pretty faces who can read from a teleprompter in an engaging way. This doesn’t excuse them from ignoring these issues any more than the producers or so many other people do.
Asking the real questions. Are news reporters real people even? Find out tonight at 11.
Then we start picketing them, too. Right outside their media buildings, asking when they plan to grow a spine and start covering what’s happening. Add media companies to the places being protested and show what cowards they are.
I’ve seen your takes around from time to time. I like the way you think.
Hey man, back at you. :)
The largest protests in the history of the world were in opposition to the invasion of Iraq. The invasion of Iraq still happened.
Protesting sends a message but it isn’t enough.
If protests aren’t enough to sway a democratic system, then the democratic system is broken and resistance becomes mandatory. To quote what the german constitution established after Hitler to prevent exactly what’s currently happening again in the US:
Article 20 [Constitutional principles - Right of resistance]
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(4) All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order if no other remedy is available.
I do not know if there’s something akin to this in the US constitution (I know your culture very much thinks there is every time it’s about guns though). But even if it isn’t, fuck it. The system is evidently broken, do what’s necessary to regain the power of the people. Do it the French way if you must.
In US, I think it was the initial intent of 2nd amendment. Arm the population not to resist an enemy or an invasion, but to resist its own government if it endanger a free state.
Well with ±400 million guns circulating nationwide, and one in three people are gun owners, consider how many of them would use them in defense of the current government now. There’s a reason behind allowing 2A to go unchecked, when in the time it was written, it made sense. Now it’s a civilian army that, while keeping the population divided, a not insubstantial percentage will blindly defend any unjust actions this government decides to perpetrate.
This. This kind of unchecked gun permissions only elevate the necessary revolt to a civil war. It doesn’t help fighting against regimes, on the contrary; it makes the fight extremely bloody. Those who wrote it in 17-something couldn’t know that, in the future, it will be the very fascist supporters who are the most heavily armed.
(4) All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order if no other remedy is available.
Wow I love this.
As much as I hate riots, I mean, yeah?
Anyone who knows anything about history has seen this story before
The media did the exact same thing too they had a bunch of Iraq war experts and nobody about why we shouldn’t go to war…
It took an elected Nazi to unite a country, agaisnt the Nazi.
When you own the media…
Fun fact, this is the first time we get someone really serious about fixing anything and the left completely ostracized and scared about the absurd amount of people that will go to jail and/or lose their bullshit DEI jobs funding transgender plays in another country.
This kind of comment admits really only 2 possibilities:
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This is the standard authoritarian tactic of flooding the zone with shit, spewing verbal diarrhea without regard to truth, but rather to disrupt discourse, to intimidate and disconcert, as Sartre famously said.
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The writer is actually dumb enough to believe it, against all available evidence.
I guess there’s also:
- All of the above.
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Musk, a non-government official who gave a Nazis salite multiple times on video, is going through federal organizations and accessing data he shouldn’t be and denying people access when they should have it.
That honestly doesn’t scare you at all?
Brother name one way your life has improved by MAGA efforts.
You can’t because your life more or less sucks and you just get off on performative dunking.
Oy, sometimes I wish I could be as deluded as this, biggest fears being DEI (ahem, brown/black) and trans people. AHHHHH, so scary for the alpha males.
Okay, but fascism apart, how can you explain USIAD wasting money on transgender plays and DEI initiatives… there’s something wrong here there for sure.
this is the first time we get someone really serious about fixing anything
Who? Fix what? Trump and musk? They’re fixing things the way the fire “fixed” the Palisades.
Fun fact, billions of dollars go through USAID for global health and humanitarian needs and idiots cry to dismantle it because of $30k on a theater play. When actual legal paths to contest specific spending do exist.
You’re lost my friend, go back to yours in Asmongold youtube comment
Fun fact, this is the first time we get a literal Nazi who is actively working on dismantling any securities we had about a single person having unlimited power (= dictatorship).
But hey, at least we got rid of those oh so scary Trans and Gay people…
Do some serious research and go to Congress.gov and read bills that Republicans never brought to vote the last two years and then try to tell who’s serious about fixing things.
Protest by going out to vote. Only 64% of eligible voters participated in the 2024 election. Trump won the popular vote by a slim margin but got less votes than Biden did in 2020. Had more Democrats voted, we would have won the election.
I was talking to my brother about this the other day and tin foil hatting… Perhaps musk didn’t rig the election in trumps favour by adding votes, but instead deleting the democrats votes. Thus making the left feel helpless while still guaranteeing an election
Yep. Can’t believe this still needs to be said, but here’s a post I just made : https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21747932
It could be covered in social media but not by mainstream news. The real source of information these days is from the former, whether one likes it or not.
Really?! The worlds largest propaganda machine is playing tricks on us?!1!
Facebook knows who is sensitive to this kind of news, they know who would join a protest and who not. And they can decide to whom to show which news. How many people use Facebook & co. as their main source of information? Or main medium to organize?
Meta has the Meta(data)
And they’re still in control and breaking things…
I asked before, why was the set up to be the middle of the work week, in the middle of the day?
Protests need to be disruptive and get coverage to work. They must be inconvient for everyone involved. Think of it like a Union strike there is a reason you generally hear about package delivery strikes around the holidays and not just in the middle of the year. The issue is most people in the US cant afford to just leave their job in the middle of the day currently cause they have something to lose. Though the less they have to lose the more they will skip their jobs to show up and protest. The average US citizen has not gotten desperate enough for these protests to rally enough people and as such work. There is also a problem with how the news and people in power have portrayed these strikes and protests as inconveniences to the common person, which reduces the solidarity the working class should have for each other.
Protests alone will not stop the nazis. They also didn’t in Germany ~90 years ago. I hooe people get that and organize. Fast.
Elon and the felon: “Does their protesting stop what we’re doing in any way? No? Then why would I care?”
fElon
Nice of the shitlibs in the comments to out themselves as not just do-nothing cowards, but active agents against dissent.
