Friendly reminder: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/yes-science-is-political/
“…illegal protest…”?
Oh right, the US Constitution doesn’t exist any more.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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Hey Muricans, this is what you wanted and voted for (or could't be bother voting to prevent)... enjoy
or, hit the streets and remove the fascist gov you elected
I feel like the overlap of fediverse users and trump voters is close to 0
Yeah but there are a bunch of "I'm going to not vote to 'send a message'! who cares if that makes the nazis win?" types
I wonder how many of those were Russian bots
I don't think Lemmy was really big enough to have THAT many bots. And at least of the ones I saw, if they were bots they're doing an incredibly good job of making them blend, since many had a history of generally normal commenting before that time, and have continued posting normally since.
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Honestly I'm just scared. I tried the civil way and voted and protested and went to marches and told everyone I knew. But now I'm just scared, it seems like the only option left is action of a violent nature and I don't know if I'm mentally prepared to throw my life away in prison or dead to try and stop the fascism. I know I have guns and if it tries to take me from my home I won't go down quietly, but I'm just scared to make the first move only to end up a martyr.
Boy, you really told those rednecks who have no idea how to use the internet outside of Facebook! I'll bet they won't make that mistake again!
Well that's easy. The protests aren't illegal. Therefore this amounts to nothing.
Fuck this dude.
The amount of times I've heard salty right wing grifters complain about Orwellian censorship on literally everything. But I guess it's just fine if cult leader Trump does it, because he stands for what's right and sticks it to those progressive plebs, right?
He didn't win by being consistent. Hypocrisy is WHY people voted for him. They thought he was the only one who would "do the hard things" by being cruel to the people who are hurting everyone. That's the narrative at least, and while you can literally write libraries on the flaws, inconsistencies and logical discrepancies in Trump and the Republican narratives, the fact remains that most people are vulnerable to storylines.
Not moral flaws. Not character. Not record or experience. The only thing people largely, as a group, care about is JUST how someone makes them feel in that moment. And a lot of poorly educated, mentally unwell people saw and heard Trump lying to the people they believe were the cause of all our woes, and that's why they voted for him.
If we ever want another democracy that works, we have to understand that our population is genetically and physically identical to the beings who were clubbing each other's heads in during ten thousand years of ice age glaciers and primitive hardship. We survived those times by forming tight-knight groups and telling ourselves stories for how to survive. We're doing the same things right now, but someone else is guiding those stories. Either we stop the storytellers or we make better stories that people will want to repeat. Those are our only options.
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Last time I checked, people had a right to peaceful assembly and to protest.
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Full on free speech is dead if this is the norm, fuck them keep up the protests
Illegal protests? Isn't protesting legal? Freedom of speech and all that...
Is the President trying to tell private institutions who they can do business with?
Why I never!
You heard the man, fire any employee and expel any student who participated in the January 6 insurrection.
Mask up. Leave your phones at home. Break shit.
What does he think "illegal" means? Is he getting rid of the first amendment?
That's the weasel word that lets the right know exactly what he means but still able to pretend like it isn't what he means.
Well he also did an executive order, that only he is allowed to interpret the law, so... Whatever he feels like is illegal is illegal.
He also thinks he can order a private school to expell students.. he's just not smart.
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Jesus wept.
If only y'all had some sort of constitution with some sort of amendment that ment you had free speech and another that said you had weapons with which to defend said constitution.
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