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lysium 3 hours ago

I understand your point, however I don’t buy „there's just no legal way to remove him“. With so low ratings where are the daily protests against such type of government? Surely, nationwide daily protests would make elected officials reconsider their positions, given an upcoming midterm election, while there still is one.

Don’t get me wrong, I know the thousands reasons why you won’t join a protest, I’m „guilty“ myself. I just want to argue against your argument that I quoted because this puts all of us in an unhelpful victim mentality.

throwaway27448 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Surely, nationwide daily protests would make elected officials reconsider their positions, given an upcoming midterm election, while there still is one.

Hah. When was the last time a non-violent protest yielded some kind of result by itself? Certainly never in american history.

Anyway, there are daily protests. They just aren't covered by the media. Hell, the protests for palestine never stopped... the media just never wanted to cover them.

rob74 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Then again, nationwide daily protests would give the Trump administration an excuse to send ICE / the army / whoever else they can send to the cities where the protests take place (I guess they would be mostly blue-leaning ones) to "restore order", and at the same time lay the groundwork for influencing the November elections.

But the turnout at the periodic nationwide "No Kings" protests has been very good, and they have fortunately stayed peaceful.

throwaway27448 an hour ago | parent [-]

You'd think a "no oligarchs" protest would be a little more useful given that we aren't likely to revert to a monarchy any time soon.

checks notes what's this? The protests were organized by oligarchic lackeys? Hmm