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Yes, those are acting... the apathetic ones are the US Voters as OP pointed out
There have been 2 large marches... on weekends. For the first one, the rapist king literally send a video shitting on the protesters, that should have made it clear a weekend protest would mean nothing.
Yes, some Minnesotans did rally harder, not on weekends, and weakened ICE stance... maybe the rest of the country should learn from them and not wait until it's literally life or death as Minnesotans did
Even if the people of the USA who claim to hate this regime bothered to do a free act en mass, like closing your Meta and Xitter accounts, it would be noticeable... alas, nothing of significance can be done and all we (the rest of the world) get from Americans is some victim complex cry
We've repeatedly hit record high turnout during Presidential cycles, even in the face of widespread disenfranchisement.
Far more than two. They're heavily underreported, but I see (and periodically participate in) marches and rallies at Houston City Hall twice a month, easy.
Slacktivism Will Save Us
Dude, please touch some grass
If you are referring to voter turn out, still the largest group belongs to those who could but did not vote
Happy to fill my brain with this good news if you can provide any source
Definitely would be more efficient than just slacking...
As soon as your rapist dictator stops killing people around the world, I will take a day off... I know this is likely not something that causes you ANY concern but in this last year, literally tens of thousands of people have been slaughtered by your country's actions with not even a flimsy justification for it
Makes a declaration with no substance, is refuted, asks for a source.
What's your .ml/hexbear account?
This isn't a Tankie. They're a TurboLib.
What is that?
How can you tell?
Tankies aren't into electoralism
Honestly, I'm sort of just angry at .mlers so I didn't even really think here — I just accused.
I should probably reign in my stigma towards them, it isn't productive. Thanks.
You should also get some political education. Hating 'tankies' so much you confuse a liberal for a tankie has a lot of Republican 'anyone to the left of hunting people for sport is a communist, every demoncrat is a communist' energy.
Oh I don't doubt I should be more careful, being blind isn't productive.
That being said, I'm not going to be re-vealuating my opinion on tankies at this time. While I admit I jumped the gun and made a mistake, that doesn't somehow open the door to supporting Xi and Putin.
I think, you still need some political education. Russia is, in some ways, more capitalist that America is.
The fact that you say this as if it's a net positive is baffling.
As I stated, I will not be re-evaluating my opinion on tankies at this time.
Why are you extracting intention from that?
I was correcting a factual error you were making.
You need political education because you say factually wrong things and don't know what you are talking about at all.
I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I don't care about the opinions of the proudly stupid. I'm just trying to pick up after you mess the fucking floor.
Mmk, run along now .mler.
Buddy, you claimed, with no source, that there are protests twice a month. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt but would like some evidence of your claim
No, no — see you made the declaration that no protests are happening. Do you understand what the burden of proof means? You made the declaration, they refuted it using 0 sources because you didn't provide any sources for your claims.
Because you don't have any.
Edit: oh, I looked into the protests they mentioned — they're absolutely happening, so not only do they not need to provide sources because you are arguing in bad faith, they don't need to because what they're saying is true.
... and again no evidence of these biweekly protests that are totally happening