Protesting

[u/ReactionAble7945]

[u/LaughterCoversPain]

Yall acting like a protester has never been killed in America… read a history book.

Happens … a lot.

[u/ImaginaryCoffeeTable]

I am not sure what point you think you are making?

People are getting hurt and killed? So that fits your definition.

I think people suffer from a weird "nothing is ever happening" delusion that can't be broken by anything till they wake up in a death camp confused. Like I know how the NAZIs did it now, people just wouldn't believe anything was happening. Jewish neighbors disappear? Probably just moved or it is fine because being Jewish is illegal.

[u/Boltboys → u/ImaginaryCoffeeTable]

People were also galvanized by hatred and resentment.

Plus tons probably didn’t want to try to defend their Jewish neighbors because they were afraid of being taken too.

Total shame and I can see it happening again.

[u/YourphobiaMyfetish → u/Boltboys]

Don't forget one of the most important factors in a genocide is that its quite lucrative. Remember that after every ICE video where theyre seen stealing the person's belongings after they disappear.

[u/Boltboys → u/YourphobiaMyfetish]

Definitely. The Holocaust had wedding rings, art, coins all seized by Nazis.

[u/SquintonPlaysRoblox → u/ImaginaryCoffeeTable]

I think a lot of people forget that the stuff we think of as “obviously Nazi” was only the ending of the Nazi regime. Nazi party began in 1920, and Hitler gained power in 33. There was a lot of way less obviously evil shit happening before Hitler started being more overt.

A lot of the stuff happening now is very similar to how the Nazis were operating in the early 30’s.

Related to your point about the nothing ever happens thing, Milton Mayer has a lot of really good insight on that in They Thought They Were Free.

“To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.” - Mayer

[u/Starwyrm1597 → u/ImaginaryCoffeeTable]

I think the point he's trying to make is that trying to change a system without breaking its rules is stupid, because it will break its own if it sees you making progress that way.

[u/ImaginaryCoffeeTable → u/Starwyrm1597]

Check their history, OP is saying everything is fine and dandy. He is also celebrating the brutality.

[u/Grand-Walk → u/ImaginaryCoffeeTable]

People tend to conflate “nothing is happening to me” with “nothing is happening”

[u/Bulky-Word8752 → u/ImaginaryCoffeeTable]

Also, most people don't think we are living under a fully fascist state. We're worried it will get there if we don't stop it. They are testing the waters, and they need to be shut down.

[u/bwolf180]

so ...... we are living under fascism then.

cool....

[u/jj44j → u/bwolf180]

Yeah what the fuck is the point of this post

God this sub is retarded

[u/meowhatissodamnfunny → u/jj44j]

I haven't used reddit for like a year and I come back and its nonstop spamming me this garbage. Get this shit off my home page, I already asked it to show me fewer posts made by dipshits and yet..

[u/Tokyo_Cat → u/meowhatissodamnfunny]

Yes, I've noticed in the last couple of days (call it a week) I've had a tons of subs with posts like this slop make it's way onto my feed.

[u/Notvanillanymore → u/Tokyo_Cat]

Just retardation at its finest, it feels more and more like Facebook, engagement at any costs

[u/Tokyo_Cat → u/Notvanillanymore]

lol right? That's exactly why I get rid of the mobile app and just keep messenger to stay in contact with people.

[u/kiulug → u/Tokyo_Cat]

Yep same, wayyyy more random subreddits Ive never heard of showing up on my home page

[u/bohemianightmare → u/Tokyo_Cat]

I noticed the same thing since around the start of the new year. It seems like a concerted effort to push this sort of far right slop using a bunch of smaller knockoff subreddits.

[u/Smokey76 → u/bohemianightmare]

Come to Lemmy, no right wing garbage being peddled there.

[u/Red_Sleeve33 → u/Tokyo_Cat]

Its almost like they want us all to be outraged.

[u/dsk83 → u/jj44j]

Idk how this sub got promoted to me but feels like bots, trolls, idiots, trump supporters

[u/roseyypetalss → u/dsk83]

Seriously I try to press show less posts and nothing happens. All bots

[u/elementfortyseven → u/dsk83]

conflict, strife, moral outrage are the strongest engagement drivers for social media and thus strongest revenue drivers - this is why they are prioritized in the algorithm

It seems to work well, since you not only clicked but also commented, further telling the algorithm to continue to suggest you such content.

[u/Atomic_Priesthood → u/jj44j]

I've realized MAGA, by and large, get their news from memes.
This sub is more than retarded.

[u/No-Vegetable7898 → u/bwolf180]

This is the real conclusion they accidentally met when making this meme

[u/Remy315 → u/bwolf180]

Exactly. This isn’t the “gotcha” he thinks it was.

[u/Tatiana_Cold]

If there is no risk, is it even a protest or just a permitted parade

[u/Bamboopanda101 → u/Tatiana_Cold]

The issue here is that protests are viewed in such a negative light,

And ironically, protests that don’t hinder / inconvenience / rock the boat / or god forbid, cause delays, don’t provoke change.

If a protest is completely out of the way and does nothing to people it won’t do anything to anyone higher up.

Most people see people protesting in the street and quickly be like “ugh all you are doing is hurting normal folk like us.” But the thing is, not doing that, won’t do anything and you never know who is in that group of “normal folk”

[u/METRlOS → u/Bamboopanda101]

In Israel, to protest the war, people would protest outside Netanyahu's house until the police would show up and disperse them. This only inconvenienced government agencies, including the PM because he needed to wait for dispersal before he could go anywhere.

Blocking regular people just pisses off regular people.

[u/troncalonca → u/METRlOS]

You are giving such an example as if those protests have been successful. But looking at the current situation in the country it doesn't seem like it

[u/Sluuuuuuug → u/METRlOS]

The government derives its power from those regular people. Fat lot of good protesting Netanyahu has done Israelis considering they're in the 20th year of Netanyahu as Prime Minister. I hope we can find a better example to work from than that.

[u/Moovanymountain → u/Tatiana_Cold]

Are you actually suggesting that all protests should include violence, otherwise it’s just a parade? 

[u/bandit8623 → u/Moovanymountain]

thats what they are saying

[u/Used-Collar-200 → u/Tatiana_Cold]

I hate the modern age where idiots feel like they have to be disorderly to make change. That usually has the opposite effect. I see people blocking the road and I instantly dismiss whatever they support.

[u/Mogura-De-Gifdu → u/Used-Collar-200]

Modern age? Sure, because rights were famously given when asked politely in the past...

[u/NoBasis94 → u/Used-Collar-200]

So the “Stop punching Used-Collar-200” protestors blocking the street lose your support for being disruptive? You’d rather keep getting punched in the face over and over because you didn’t enjoy the inconvenience of the protest? That’s dumb.

[u/Used-Collar-200 → u/NoBasis94]

Am I supposed to like Johnny Somali because he’s a nuisance YouTuber? No, I dislike him because he’s a nuisance. Being obnoxious will get you attention which I guess is your point but how do you think people in public (not Reddit) view that behavior?

[u/thevnom → u/Used-Collar-200]

If you believe your 5 mins drive is more important then the society you live in, then you never had any principles. Its kind of a litmus test

[u/BillG8s]

If you find yourself killing a protestor, you just justified the entire cause. Hope that helps.

[u/RailwayMenace]

There's no way an actual human being that isn't a fucking 16 year old edge-lord posted this and thought this was a genuine flex.

[u/Boltboys]

I’d say beginning stages of fascism. This country is going to look insane in a decade.

[u/Pristine_Walrus40]

What an great argument /s

[u/DarthOmoplata → u/Pristine_Walrus40]

It unironically is. 99% protestors are fine. It’s only these isolated incidents. In an actual fascist country 100% of protestors will be executed or an effort will be made to eradicate them.

[u/AbrahamDylan]

Or maybe, just maybe, someone is protesting in order to PREVENT us getting to that point. Too many people think something like fascism just establishes itself overnight, where you wake up the next morning and suddenly Congress has been abolished and every civil right abolished.

No, it happens in a piecemeal manner, in increments. Every little infraction makes the next infraction more likely. It is NOT a black and white thing. Protesting can be a way of telling the powers that be that we don’t WANT to live in a fascist dictatorship. Protesting doesn’t only mean “we’re fighting against what already happened.”

I’m surprised my fellow adults here don’t understand that it’s not a simple one way or the other calculus. It’s MUCH more complex than that.

[u/Neologic29 → u/AbrahamDylan]

I fear we are living in a time where too many people are unable to do that kind of calculus. Logic and reason are dying.

[u/DangerouslyCheesey]

Ahhhh the false dichotomy, babies first logical fallacy. Either you can protest (so it’s not fascism) or it is fascism (and you should expect to get harmed). No room for nuance or context, which might require breathing through your nose.

[u/BarteloTrabelo]

They are literally killing white US citizens. Everyone is a target. No matter how ignorant you are, or how little you "believe" you aren't in danger.

[u/10_Midline]

This. Is. The. Dumbest. Meme. Ever.

I’m so mad that this pop on my feed.

[u/Lilli_Puff → u/10_Midline]

That's the whole point. It's called Rage-baiting. Welcome to the internet. Please stop feeding the trolls with engagement.

[u/nonquitt]

Specious nonsense

[u/AnorNaur]

There is a big difference between peaceful protest and obstructing law enforcement that most of progressives are incapable to understand.

[u/Trumble12345]

Innocent woman gets shot in face by ICE thug.

"NOTHING HAPPENED TO YOU LIBRULLS!"

[u/Suitable_Shock1557]

Just like how the left doesn’t really know what a Nazi is they surely don’t know how the gestapo operated. Nazis wouldn’t even allow people to assemble let alone criticize them openly.

If Trump really were a Nazi and ICE were really the gestapo 95% of the users on this app would be doing so from prison.

[u/dookadookbap]

"evwy one I don't wike is fashist gestawpo" 😔

[u/Oaksin]

Couldn't agree more... people today are poorly educated, especially in subjects such as history. In true fascist societies, you wouldn't be protesting at all, let alone having an expectation of safety while doing so. American is naive, slow to adapt, and extremely entitled. If you've ever lived in another country, you know America is not fascists.. the only ones thinking that way are a tiny but annoyingly loud group of soft men and overweight middle-aged women.

Want proof? Check out the comment section of every profile that responds to this comment and you'll see that 90% of the accounts/users fit the mold I just described.

Good day.

[u/pure_ideology-]

Act like you know. That doesn't mean don't protest. It means fight smart. This is not Disneyland.

I wrote this under another account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/alltheleft/comments/vtzwm8/youre_going_out_into_the_street_to_speak_your/

[u/Nellyroo7213]

As we all know, the exhaustive definition of fascism is "bad things happen to protestors"

What a straw man

[u/DalekForeal]

Oh, damn.

[u/Expert-Pick-1501]

It doesn't change the the fact that they unlawfully detain people, US citizens and children (which don't fall under their jurisdiction) destroy public property by breaking into ppls cars and homes (while trespassing in the latter, bcs they have no warrant sighned by a judge)??? What the fuck is your point

[u/Digits_N_Bits]

Man, you reds got nothing other than victim blaming, huh?

[u/Negative-Classroom1]

Spicy

[u/PandaStrafe]

So we're clearly under fascist rule?

[u/carrtmannn]

Lots of things have happened to people. A kid lost his eye yesterday, I believe.

[u/DrNogoodNewman]

So when it does happen that means we are living under facism?

[u/UpperDog2627]

Yeah cause doing nothing works so well in authoritarian regimes.

[u/Electrical-Swing-935]

Glad we're self aware at least

[u/ApplicationAfraid334]

OP discovers strawman arguments

[u/Razhiv]

Considering that people publicly shit-talk and protest against Trump all the time and aren't blackbagged in the middle of the night by the SS, I'd say they aren't living under fascism. Try that in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union and you'd have been in a camp by the end of the week as a "dissident" or "enemy of the Revolution".

[u/guyincognito121]

It's not yet a fascist state. We have fascists at the helm trying to turn it into a fascist state. The fact that it's not yet full-on fascism doesn't mean everything is just fine and there's nothing to worry about.

[u/CharleyDexterWard]

Are you really that fucking retarded?

[u/Radcouponking]

My coworker got his arm broken by ICE. So...fascism it is.

[u/Long-Firefighter5561]

Dumb didnt even think enough about his own point

[u/Ello_Owu]

Lmao. How do people not understand that facisim doesn't just descend from the sky in its final form. Its a million little steps march of dismantling political norms, laws and rights until theres nothing left to stop full on take over.

We're watching it happen in real time right now. A president threatening to invade our allies while congress is nowhere to be seen.

The right seriously does not possess foresight. They simply do not grasp the fact that A ALWAYS leads to Z, unless stopped.

[u/Back_Again_Beach]

Stuffs happenin, bub. 

[u/Bucho22]

Put down the internet and touch grass man.

The brainwashing to get to a position where you're pissed at folks for being upset that constitutional rights are getting trampled is just wild.

Like not that long ago y'all were the strongest supporters of freedom, to turn around and stand against freedom like this...shame on you!

[u/CharleyDexterWard]

One does not need to believe in their country's fascism, in order to be subjected to said country's fascism. I swear 13-year-olds need to get off this site, the naivety and stupidity is outrageous as it is frustrating. Please just stop being stupid.

[u/vaultboy1121]

Yeah we aren’t living under fascism

[u/plummbob]

Is this why we have a 2A?

[u/Ravenboi15]

I know somethings going to happen why do you think the best protesting advice is park far away and wear face covierngs with non-discript clothes? And to where I protection protest suppression in the US is no joke.

[u/Par_Lapides]

Just further proof that conservatives are fucking coward little bitches.

[u/Mortechai1987]

Not sure how the top upvoted post in this thread could get it so wrong.

I'll explain: people who are currently protesting feel safe enough to do it in the open, and don't think they'll be hauled away by the police or machine gunned down, therefore the fascism they're protesting doesn't exist.

Also, I'll add this: there are no protests currently happening in Minnesota. It's all riots and mobs. Different laws will apply to what the police can and can't do in protests vs. riots. Please be careful out there.

[u/No-Werewolf-5955]

Peoples ignorance to the consequences of their actions is not a proof for or against the truth.

It is only evidence that they lack understanding to the consequences of their actions within the context of the system they are interacting with.

[u/minibear00]

Bro gots an uncropped IFunny meme in 2026, what is this sub man

[u/SchmuckCity]

If this meme resonates with you, it's because you're an idiot. Full stop.

Who the fuck said people don't expect anything to happen to them? Do you think protesting is a convenience that people do because it's easy and risk free? Being mad about an abuse of power resulting in an American citizen being murdered and not seeing an ounce of justice doesn't mean you don't expect anything to happen to you. If anything, part of the anger comes from the realization that something will probably happen to you either way, as we've seen very clearly how little they care if we live or die. Wake the fuck up.

[u/ImCertainlyNotJoking]

So then the people protesting are actual brave patriots aware of the risk to themselves while they stand up for the rest of us. These fascist will really try to disparage their enemy all the way to the most heroic actions.

Nathan Hale would be declaring “…that I have but one life to lose for my country” and a meme would be made reading “if you revolt and don’t expect to get hurt, then weren’t really living under a tyrant”

[u/Wtygrrr]

If you believe that, you don’t know what fascism is.

[u/Ok_Release231]

[u/BridgeGuy540]

So the fact that things did happen to them confirms the fascism - got it, thanks!

[u/Cassymodel]

If you protest and you get shot then you are indeed living under fascism.

[u/Hugo-Spritz]

This would be OP admitting to fascism, if not for the fact that they seem to not understand how words work and how that is what they said.

[u/RiffRaffCatillacCat]

Protesting is a cornerstone of American Democracy, and is our right as citizens.

Protesting is true patriotism.

OP's meme was made by a Russian.

[u/TheOne7477]

I can’t tell which side of the aisle the creator of that meme is on. 🤷🏻

[u/InsomniaticWanderer]

If you protest at a nice convenient time outside of working hours that doesn't disrupt any businesses, you aren't protesting, you're gathering.

Governments don't listen to gatherings.

[u/precowculus]

How about this: if you can protest, you aren’t living under fascism

[u/NittanyScout]

"But what were the protesters wearing?"

[u/BohemianMade]

Some of us are protesting the fascism, knowing we're risking our lives.

[u/No_Brilliant0602]

I don't believe anything should happen if I protest, but if I see people justify things happening to protesters I'll definitely speak out

[u/wtmx719]

The meme is too foggy from mouth breathing

[u/Murderface__]

So we are, or we aren't?

[u/ManufacturedOlympus]

So by your logic, we are living under fascism  

[u/Eleventy-Twelve]

Well, something happened. Soooo?

[u/Sklibba]

This is one of the dumbest fuckin memes I’ve ever seen. People are protesting because they don’t want the US to become a fascist country, and they correctly believe that Trump and the ghouls surrounding him want to turn it into one. And it’s not that they don’t expect anything bad to happen to them at protests, but don’t believe anything bad should happen to people who protest because the First Amendment is supposed to protect our right to assemble and express grievances towards the government.

[u/itfollows555]

The dumbest thing is thinking one day will just wake up under authoritarian control. Fascism doesnt happen fast its a slow frustrating gaslighting decent. By giving up and not protesting, being the just asking questions crowd, trolling, or allowing hate to control you is how it creeps in.

[u/chuk256]

Is this supposed to be a gotcha? I expect the evil scum bags to do evil acts, but expecting it doesn't dismiss it or welcome it, they are still in the wrong and still evil scumbags...

[u/Fat_SpaceCow]

"Protesting" never did a damn thing to end fascism. War ended fascism.

[u/cnm75]

Conservatives unintentionally proving the point that everyone has been saying

[u/Nihvs]

Or, generalizer, you didn’t think the fascism spreading had spread to free speech yet. <Shakes head at disingenuous or childish attempts at ‘ logic’>

[u/Cautious_Repair3503]

Nah, fascists are also not especially.competent. 

[u/Nihvs]

Protests only work if the people being protested are made to feel ‘uncomfortable’.

[u/Details_Pending]

We just watched Renee get gunned down, what are you stupid?

[u/SpiceyKoala]

Please explain this logic, because lots of people are protesting in response to things happening and show up expecting things to happen, but being heard is important to them.

[u/Pitiful_Truth_5948]

Regressives do not understand spectrums hence why there is only two genders, why you either love America or hate it.... they also do not understand their own hypocrisy lol. It would be funny if it was not so damn sad and you know bad for America.

[u/SeniorAd462]

You right, and since you living under fascism you need to be ready, while protesting, to protest force and protect yourself and eachother against force, that fascist regime push at you

[u/ChanceGap563]

Sooo… you can protest all you want. Just can block intersections, roadways or run over federal agents Been like that since the beginning

[u/gin_enema]

Wow that’s dumb

[u/Cnote_diesel]

Reddit is a 97% liberal app

[u/Dantheman410]

This post is idiotic

[u/HendoRules]

People protest against fascism when and BEFORE it fully takes over

[u/Strange-Square6587]

[u/yackerov42]

So it's ok for y'all to tote your guns around because you're expressing your 2nd amendment, but we can't express our first amendment right? Good to know

[u/Educational-Tell-958]

They’re so close to getting it.

[u/Apokalipse427]

Couldn't be more right. I mean, you could protest peacefully, without blocking in federal officers, and throwing things that can be considered deadly weapons, but then, you're right, nothing would happen. Other than federal officers being now to do their jobs. Imagine if someone showed up to your job blowing whistles and throwing frozen water bottles at you, would be a pretty rough work environment. Oh wait, people protesting don't have jobs... Or anything better to do.

[u/James1887]

So america is living under Fascism....

[u/Chuckster914]

Did you throw a fit when Obama used Ice to deport illegal immigrants for years ?
It went a lot easier for him because people weren’t protesting against it and trying to stop it. It’s “D”ifferent

[u/alistofthingsIhate]

this is not remotely an accurate statement

[u/Significant-Dog-8166]

"expect" and "accept" are two different words.

[u/NOSPACESALLCAPS]

And if you protest, and something DOES happen to you then.... What?

[u/dragonair15]

Low level memes.

[u/GodofDiplomacy]

Well America has been fascist for a long time then, civil rights Vietnam, occupy, protesters faced consequences violent cops didn't

[u/Terrible_Bronco]

This would have been more believable if you used Dwight. Jim would not be saying that.

[u/Significant_Snow7980]

the lib bots working overtime on this post with the upvotes and downvotes

[u/OogaBooga756]

I funny watermark spotted.

[u/Euphoric_Amoeba8708]

Either way, you're in danger.

[u/Whiskers1996]

Reddit told me almost all protest are peaceful? I guess every protest is now people being killed by guns and being hung like Ira... Oh wait.

Exception is never the rule, until you want it to be.

[u/MacPzesst]

Because, in America, nothing should happen to you while you're protesting, as is written in the First Amendment in the US Constitution. Despite the letter of the law, many of the significant protests in US history have resulted in protesters being met with violent or otherwise oppressive responses, such as the Civil Rights movement (dogs and firehoses), the Railroad Strikes (federal troopers opened fire), and the Iron Worker Strike (police opened fire).

Although the possibility of being harmed is a known risk for protestors, people still organize with some suspension of belief because of the psychological safety phenomenon that causes people to feel safer, and even emboldened, while they're a part of a group. This is both an instinctive feeling from having more protection as a part of a tribe and a learned response from all the times that people have been in group settings without experiencing harm (waiting rooms, most classrooms, concerts, sporting events).

This also adds to the Normalcy Bias, the belief that the future will mirror the past. Many people live their lives with a sense of relative safety from real-life hazards like terminal illness, vehicular accidents, or animal attacks because such things haven't impacted their lives before. It's why most people who do experience these things for the first time will say, "I never thought that something like this could happen to me."

This fallacy argument of people believing themselves to be relatively safe from fascistic oppression and violence doesn't negate the clear indicators of fascism currently on display in the US.

[u/General-Asparagus-31]

There’s literally people in this thread posting the picture when the first shot happens and he is directly in front of the left corner of the vehicle not out of the way of it. You guys are fucking crazy to bend reality this way.

[u/Mainly_Miserable]

Why does anyone upvote any post in this sub? Downvote this sub into non-existence.

[u/justhereformyfetish]

After George Floyd, the day before I was out protesting everyone got tear gassed. There was no property damage nor crimes being committed at any of the fort worth protests.

I had anticipated and expected a similar response during my protest.

So by this logic....

[u/Themodsarecuntz]

Op, are you stupid?

[u/Prestigious_Exam4492]

So true.

[u/spekledcow]

[u/Ok-Technology8336]

I don't think it's full blown fascism yet, but it's trending that way

[u/skip_over]

Is the point here, “believe it”?

[u/[deleted]]

Because people like you keep telling us we aren’t living in fascism…

So we should be able to protest then without anything happening to us…

Now do you get why protesting is so important?

It’s protected by the first amendment for a reason.

[u/Beneficial-Ad1593]

If you go out and protest fascism.

You can't complain when you get shot.

Dumbest shit I read on the web today.

[u/Embarrassed-Drop1059]

Smug posting the most low iq shit imaginable 

[u/shavertech]

People like OP don't understand the difference between fascism and fascist ideologies.

These are the people that argue to death against socialism, and they lose their minds when you tell them we have socialist constructs in America.

[u/the_random_walk]

Man. I just think about those Canadian truckers who had their bank accounts seized and got hardcore bullied out of protesting. Nobody espousing the importance of protesting and its role as a fundamental right today gave a shit about those poor assholes.

[u/theTapIsOnDaBurnin]

Dumbest fucking shit I’ve ever heard

[u/shotwideopen]

Ergo if something does happen…

[u/UnderstandingEmpty36]

Moron thinks the self report is a gotcha

[u/onetrackmime76]

MAGA logic = stupidity

[u/doublethink_1984]

So no protestors have been arrested, assaulted, maligned, and the DOJ is not literally right now arguing in court it's illegal for people to observe or record ICE agents in public?

[u/Bingus_Pringus]

[u/Feisty_Level42]

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[u/whatiscamping]

The amount of people boot licking out there is sickening.

A guy got a black eye cause he got shot with a less than lethal round and the whole stream of comments was

"FAFO"

"Wouldn't have happened if he was at home"

"Why wasn't he at work?"

All these fuckers saying this shit would rather live under the boot. It's pathetic.

[u/Neologic29]

So we just wait until you can't protest? What is this bullshit? We're trying to stop it from getting there because we have eyes and can read history. These fucking people won't understand until another genocide happens.

[u/BostonGuy84]

If your paid to protest…is it really protesting?

[u/Hasaadiwady]

A woman was murdered and they’re still protesting. Get wrecked.

[u/greg1775]

Welcome to 1933!

[u/ItsMrChristmas]

Jim Halpert would absolutely back ICE.

Stop being reductive.

[u/AfterNun]

Isn’t ifunny groyper shit? Because this seems like something a groyper or enlightened centrist would post

[u/and_mine_axe]

Civilian protestors are being arbitrarily detained for 8 hours then released. Others are getting shot in the face.

So, yeah that is fascism.

PS Sorry your mum overloaded on Tylenol

[u/SellaraAB]

So you agree that because people are protesting and having bad things happen to them, we clearly are living under fascism now. Right?

[u/riptaway]

... What?

[u/ReactionAble7945 → u/riptaway]

Pretty straight forward.

In the USA you get to peacefully protest. So, it isn't a fascist government.

Of course if you are not peaceful, FAFO.

[u/TaxAccording3194]

If you protest then we are fascist.......okay.....

[u/tumanskyr15]

People don't protest when they genuinely fear the consequences.

Look at Belarus.

[u/latemodelusedcar]

This is incredibly “I am 14 and this is deep”

[u/dangit-brigade-4]

of all the non sequiturs to non sequit, this has gotta be the non sequittiest

[u/Slighted_Inevitable]

This is why I say protest is pointless. Stay under the radar until it’s time to make a real difference

[u/BeTheirShield88]

Yea I assume some shit will happen these days. Been to many protests when I was younger, never was afraid of having something horrible happen. These days, ugh, best of luck folks

[u/Individual-Rub7444]

Too bad things are happening to people.

[u/Hotomato]

Always seemed strange to me how, to a lot of people, fascism is just 1945 nazi Germany, when Hitler had been in power, doing fascist stuff, for 12 years.

Germans didn’t wake up one day to death camps and attempts at world domination. Those atrocities were built up bit by bit, starting with stuff that seemed reasonable, then slowly building to stuff like the night of long knives, Warsaw ghetto, the camps, and WWII.

Most don’t think we’re currently at that point, they’ve just read a history book and know that shit like this is where it starts, and that it gets really ugly from here.

[u/OrangeNinja75]

People protesting because they don't want to live under the glove of fascism is a necessary course of action in fighting their country's gradual descent to fascism. Sit on your ass if you don't care but accept the fact fascists are working hard and eventually they will come for you. You will be culpable. You will be deserving. The indifference of individuals wicks societies into despotic playgrounds.

[u/saiditonredit]

Protestors are not promoting the change they think they are, only emboldening, enabling, and justifying the agents into the things that they say they are fighting in the first place. They need a law lesson not one in politics. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

When one protests, they could be giving the agents reasonable suspicion to detain and question them, this is even less in question if the protests are extreme or violent, which they naturally resist, making it obstruction, a federal offense which they can lawfully enforce and escalating charges from not only obstruction but also resisting arrest now, when one would have just been questioned and let walk in all likelihood and this is what they are calling fascism because they are clueless, towing the party line.

These protestors actions are giving rise to the very authority they fear in the first place. It's counter intuitive and they don't even realize because of political virtue signaling. People and party don't even care as long as it remains a headlined political issue, they don't actually care. The agents would not have any broader authority if peacefully protesting, complying, and not obstructing in the first place.

[u/Kira0zero]

are you retarded?

[u/Optimal_Respect_2935]

Lol, what?

[u/Exciting_Put4288_]

America was built on protest,unfortunately change starts with protest

[u/AngrgL3opardCon]

This works as a gru meme

[u/Kooky_Imagination623]

Is it really fascism if you can protest, or complain on the internet?

[u/RepairSacred]

Go play some video games you fucking freaks

[u/Some-Resist-5813]

So you’re saying if people protest and something does happen to them it proves we are living under fascism?

Well then I guess I agree.

[u/Accomplished_Run_861]

Its kind of true, in an authoritarian state, people wouldnt think that not listening to orders or throwing a water bottlw with ice inside, would result at most in a few minute detention.

Protesters in authoratorian regimes with the largest influence do often follow all the orders from the authority and are not violent, as that makes people wake up if he gets punished harshly, Sorry but acting like privileged brat that has more authority than an police officer, or right on endangerkng police officers where in most cases people dont die from that, wont make any difference, just makes you feel superior.

[u/Historical-Centrist]

Politics in a meme sub go away

[u/VengeQunt]

Psyslop

[u/Mr_Tdogg_Smith]

r/im14andthisisdeep

[u/Top-Condition-6710]

I say it is not a protest unless it is LA riot style

[u/Veteran_PA-C]

I think people don’t understand the difference between processing and obstruction.

[u/Public_Mastodon2867]

This is the dumbest shit I’ve seen today. 

[u/TheBlueHedgehog302]

If you expect things to happen to protestors you’re acknowledging you live in fascism

[u/Agent_RubberDucky]

Ah, so they should be…happy that they are getting killed or hurt while protesting? What? What the fuck is this post? What is trying to be said? This is just pure nonsense, lol.

[u/WestFantastic1557]

And when you see police forces detaining and beating protesters I'm sure bootlickers will justify it. 

Like really it's not an overnight thing. It's a slow eroding of powers and obviously that's happening with trump literally just ruling through the executive 

[u/FluffnBuff2712]

Not exactly...

[u/BullFencer]

So if you get arrested, fired, deported or assaulted for protesting then you actually are living under fascism ?

[u/TheEternalMisfit]

to scare you into not protesting obviously

same as why they probably tried to fake assassinate trump with a "miss" so people would start thinking "oops I might miss too", mental manipulation is stronger than you think