The last protests in the USA also made a point of minimalizing any disruption they might cause as much as possible so they could be easily and safely ignored.

Boy do Americans roll over and show their belly at the slightest bit of difficulty.

“If there’s no one telling me what to do how will I know what to do?”

population that will riot in the streets of the president so much as sneezes wrong.

Right, the citizens of France hold their elected officials accountable. Americans don’t.

Beyond labor, the No Kings protests were, numerically, some of the largest in US history. They didn’t do much…

I agee, the “don’t actually cause any trouble” protests, despite being some of the largest in US history, seem to have not slowed the decent into fascism at all. Maybe it was the whole “everyone clean up after yourselves and go back to work tomorrow like nothing happened so this can be easily ignored and forgotten” strategy.

I’m in an org that’s currently seeding strategic industries in the area, in preparation for 2028.

If there’s no resistance before 2028 then the US will have gone full Handmaid’s Tale by then.

“You don’t understand, France has a significantly smaller population! That makes it easier for them to get more people to protest for some reason! The larger population of the US means there’s nothing we can do but go about our lives like this is acceptable and hope we can vote our way out of fascism in 3 years!”

You don’t all need to be at the same place to protest. Everyone in <community a> should be protesting outside their local government offices. People across the country at <community b> should be protesting in front of their local government offices.

Because you think you have a full monopoly and everyone has no option but to put up with it.

On the 26 of October 22 the government of France announced plans to increase the retirement age by 2 years.
Less than 3 months later protests began which led to massive disruption to the country.

The US decends into a full blown fascist dictatorship following the Hitler playbook (imprison/deport “undesirables” and invade a nearby country) and citizens say no action can be taken for over 2 years because it’s too hard to stand up for principles and morals.

Don’t worry, Congress plans to hold a vote 3 weeks after Trump starts World War 3 to ask him to please stop.

Hard to build a new political party when anyone involved in the building can get deported by the state.

if others click the downvote button on my posts/comments, nothing happens at all as far as I know.

I think it shares the downvotes within that instance (possibly with other instances that allow downvoting) so anyone else viewing the post from the same instance as the user who downvoted will still see it and their browser will use that when sorting the posts.

Sometimes I miss old forums where content was brought back up by simply posting within the topic

That’s how forums on Steam work and it makes them almost useless. The only posts you see are the rage bait from people farming Steam points from ‘Clown’ awards. Any meaningful post doesn’t get the same engagement as people trying to ‘slam the trolls into submission’ (FFS, how do people still not know you don’t feed the trolls?) so it gets pushed under all the bullshit.

Lemmy’s system is good because there is no account wide total, so it really doesn’t matter if one of your posts gets a lot of upvotes and another gets a lot of downvotes, it just means one was good and other wasn’t.

… And then you get people who really want some kind of account wide total for some reason so they go to websites that total up the number of times a user has given upvotes and downvotes…

Because “everyone else is doing the same thing” isn’t a form of dismissing the problem and burying your head in the sand.

US exceptionalism once again.

“We’re not shit, everyone is shit! But we’re better at being shit than everyone else!”

Okay then.

Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).

The US is reaching the average lifespan of an Empire. Capitalism has not been particularly good at preventing collapse, it has been about average.

I’m forced to give it the worst possible reading

You’re literally not, in any way, forced to do that. That is a decision you have made.

We have no knowledge of why it was there in the first place

So you admit you have no knowledge of this, yet assume it fucks the public to have it moved a few feet to the left?

Americans: haha “France surrenders”

Also Americans: “I can’t stop buying from Amazon, other people still are! The mildest of inconveniences is too much effort on my part to resist fascism! Can’t you do it for me?”

I wasn’t allowed to choose me?

Look who suddenly understands “Pro-choice”

Pre-school kids can get fucked.

And some take that literally.

There is no requirement listed that the assignment be written in English, or submitted on paper. An assignment written in Latin on the side of a cow (with a 1 inch margin) is not explicitly forbidden.

It takes less effort to block an account than it does to create one. Feel free to waste your time.