Pretty sure they probably got deported after Trump signed that executive order to deport pro-palestinian protestors.
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Ok, Fuck Israel. I confess, it's been a while since I typed that here.
because they were all protesting biden and the left, now we can't protest biden and left because he's retired on a beach somewhere.
You could protest trump, i guess.
Realistically, i think the protests just died out when the college students stopped caring, those were the only people actually protesting.
People were/are protesting at the White House literally today.
We are still protesting?
I haven’t seen a single group of protesters on my daily like i used to before the election and I’m in Canada. People have short attention spans and move on, just ask Ukraine who was forgotten by non Ukrainians as soon as the next one came up. In Canada we’re on to the fuck American products movement. People don’t actually care as much as they yell out. Commenting on Reddit and Lemmy is about all they do now.
I'm seeing ton of leftists post about it on the good parts of Lemmy like hexbear. Don't know why libs don't care about genocide 🤷
Nah, tankies only care about Gaza to dunk on the west. You don't care about the suffering. Fuck Israel btw.
Tell me in so many words why Russia was forced into a genocidal war again.
You can be against the genocide in Palestine and against Russians expansionist war in Ukraine.
You should try it some time.
You're not a tankie then. Good for you mate
I don't care what you think. Stop punching left and start punching Nazis
Some of our lefty brothers need to know that no state or social oppression and violence for any reason is acceptable. I apologize for my prejudice. Intolerance to the intolerant.
Neoliberal good cop/fascist bad cop was always a race to the bottom. This was inevitable so long as we fail to cut the capitalists down to size, and both parties are paid to defend their con game from us by stoking social issue division to stop the peasants from looking up at the oligarchs, our common enemies whether you've been brainwashed into worshipping them or not.
I voted for Harris out of attempted harm reduction as I do like clockwork for the lesser evil, but voting Neoliberal only slowed the sinking, it was never going to make things better, just worse a little slower as the Neoliberals kept meeting their opposition in the new middle every cycle to keep up with the market's demands for new, crueler ways to privately profit off human misery both parties are paid to defend and expand. A vote for continued quiet capitalist slaughter over loud, bragging capitalist slaughter. Not peace. Under Harris, healthcare rackets would still be murdering Americans legally, homeless Americans would still be dying in droves literally as a point to keep the laborers fearful as it would be cheaper to house them then deal with the fallout of them being homeless, etc.
But by all means keep the focus of your ire on the people who had nothing to vote for, only against for the last half century. You're basically attacking the silent cowards in 1930 Germany and not the Nazis.
There are only 2 ways this ends, either the Mario's brother method, or capitalist enforced climate change will collapse the capitalist's con game and human civilization for us if humanity is too chickenshit to depose the economic metastasis, growth ~~or~~ and die capitalist cult and embrace economic equilibrium with environmental homeostasis. The parties are captured. No amount of voting will fix this. Reagan and Kemp saw to that when they captured their opposition. The last vote Americans had on the shape and priorities of our inhuman economy was in 1980, we only get a vote on how to address the social wedge symptoms of it, and only if addressing those symptoms won't meaningfully effect quarterly earnings expectations.
Whether it was Trump in 2020, this, or one of his mutant children in another 4 years, our tolerance and worship of greed was going to lead to this. Maga, Trump's rise as more than a gameshow host con-man, and imperialism are symptoms of our avarice rot induced collapse, not the causes. The cause are the capital markets being allowed to infect our politics and override any societal values we ever had prior to other than metastasize at all human cost.
Fully agree. There are exactly two options for people at this point: fully capitulate and gargle fascist balls (this hastens world death), or kill fascist scum at every opportunity (this may slow world death if done with enough gusto)
They are no longer getting paid by republican PACs trying to foment dissent
Fediverse is fucking glowing
Those same folks where never going to support anything regardless. Biden is too old! Genocide Joe! Trump will fix it! Nothing but bullshit all the way down.
Yeah I'm sure that's it, you nailed it. It turns out that everyone that disagreed with you last year was actually a secret Russian agent. It's definitely not that primaries and the run up to the presidential election are unique opportunities to push the Democratic candidates father left. Who knew?!
Idk if you know this but there is a ceasefire right now. Most of the protests i went to were in response to some escalation or atrocity: new "aid" package being sent, expansion of the war into Rafah, expansion into Lebanon, ground forces going in etc. People tend to protest against escalation events but we are currently in a period of deescalation.
You should expect to see them again in response to trump's latest proposal, it's not going to happen overnight since this came out of nowhere, or when the first phase of the ceasefire expires and people protest to keep it going.
Also wtf is this aneurysm posting "it went from free Palestine to the Rivera of the middle east in 16 days" what does that even mean? And they say the pro-palestine people are bots.
We do. If we couldn't convince fucking Biden why do you think Trump is gonna care
Literally today. Just because you don't give a shit about Palestine and are ignoring their struggle, doesn't suddenly make it stop. The same groups who were protesting the genocide when it was happening under Biden are still out there protesting.
I can't help but feel like the Dems end goal with this kinda bullshit is to try and manufacture this idea that leftist outrage over Gaza is entirely fabricated. We couldn't really care about brown people, we must have made up a bunch of nasty lies to make Kamala Harris look bad! It's really self-telling that they can't imagine genocide would be a bridge too far.
I don’t think the dems care about leftists it’s other leftists who are saying yous have been had.
If you seriously think the Dems haven't been spending every day since they lost the election punching left, I've a bridge to sell you.
Examples? Top posts of the past month for r/politics there’s literally nothing. Got bored scrolling.
I think we just thought it was pretty silly of them to think Trump was gonna be better.
Pretty much no one thought he'd be better, more like not worse in a meaningful way. Obviously saying the US is going to turn Gaza into a resort is worse than not saying that, but that distinction is pretty unimportant to everyone who would be killed or driven out under a democratic president anyway. The end goal has always been to fully settle Palestine, what exact form that takes or whether the US funds it with a smile or a frown doesn't change that.
Pretty much everyone thought he would be much worse, and that's what we've got.
Worse in general or just in regard to Palestine? Obviously he's so much worse in general, which is why I did vote for Harris. But specifically on the issue of Palestine no matter what the genocide wasn't stopping, the Biden admin made it pretty clear there wasn't actually a red line Israel could cross that would end the supply of weapons, considering every one they did make was blown past with no consequences. And Harris repeatedly signified that wouldn't have changed.
But it's also not productive to try and assign blame to people who didn't vote, or voted 3rd party, though. The problem isn't that people didn't want to vote for the conservative party instead of the fascist party, its that we only had those 2 options to pick from. Obviously one of them was less harmful overall, but that doesn't make them meaningfully better for Palestine, or even a good/appealing choice. Our entire political system was built to represent slaveowners and rich white men, and that's so deeply ingrained into every aspect of its design that there's no way to move away from those roots from within the system. Even if Trump lost this time, what's stopping him from running again? Or the next version of him? Or what about the continued corporate capture of the government and both parties? None of those can just be voted away, and placing responsibility for fixing things entirely on voting just wastes time that would be better spent organizing while they continue to fester and grow.
We correctly thought Trump would be worse in regard to Palestine, e.g. with things like supporting forced removal/ethnic cleansing like he did yesterday.
Like I said, coming out and saying he supports the forced removal of Palestinians is awful, and neither Biden or Harris would have done that obviously. It seems pretty obvious neither of them are actually happy with Israel. But whether the US president is happy about it or not, lsraels end goal is and always has been ethnic cleansing either way. So while it is worse to express support for that goal than to express disapproval, as long as the US keeps up the supply of weapons - which we will almost assuredly do no matter what, Trump or otherwise - then to all the people being ethnically cleansed it doesn't mean anything. The Biden administration has been expressing support for this since at least 2023, via its actions rather than words. That's what people mean by Trump not being meaningfully worse for Palestine. Not that he isn't worse than Biden or Harris, but that the ways in which he is worse on this specific issue don't matter to the people who are actively the targets of the genocide. If you're being bombed by US funded weapons then who gives a shit what the person approving those weapons says about it, they sent them either way.
you don't give a shit about Palestine and are ignoring their struggle
Beggaring the question is bad-faith.
Making posts asking why something that’s literally happening and being reported in the news isn’t happening is also bad faith so..
Which protests did you go to today?
It matters if lay people are aware. I think the post is a useful signal that awareness of the issue is getting drowned out by everything else falling apart.
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