• AlecSadler
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    9 hours ago

    On the protest side, Americans are turning out in droves across the nation regularly. At capitol buildings and Tesla centers and more. Our media just doesn’t over it because they’re trying to squash the efforts.

    Despite that, I’m still making plans to leave the country.

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      9 hours ago

      I haven’t seen a single picture or video of any of this. I’ve looked for it too. I saw a single coordinated protest of a 100 or so people called 50501 or something. That’s it.

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        7 hours ago

        Editing to add the 50501 bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social

        50501 was the first time there have been simultaneous protests in every state capital in the US, ever. There were more than 100 people on the capital steps in my backwater state of Missouri.

        Could we do better? Hell yes, but to say we’re not doing anything is disingenuous when major media outlets are owned by opponents of the protests and therefore under-reporting, obfuscating, omitting or lying about protests happening.

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        8 hours ago

        Must not be looking very hard because they’ve been all over my general lemmy feed every few days and span multiple states, cities, and even countries.

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          8 hours ago

          I guess it must not have been very newsworthy then and not many people brought cameras. I’ll surely take your word for it though!

          and countries

          Yes I’m well aware of every country except for the us.

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        7 hours ago

        It’s being blocked from the main pages of every mainstream American media source, including social media and mainstream “alternative media”, usually relegated to the second or third page, but you can usually see it on [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] as well as on Mastodon. There’s millions of people protesting, tens of thousands at some places.

        https://www.newsweek.com/photos-show-trump-musk-50501-protests-across-us-2032448

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        8 hours ago

        I was just at a Tesla protest in my local town last weekend. There are literally zero articles about it. We don’t have freedom of the press here anymore.