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Curious european here. Do you think we will see some serious mass protests in big USA cities if this continues? By this I mean "reckless" action by Musk and Tru

• Night_Thastus 2y ago
  The vast majority of Americans either voted for this, or don't care. Will there be some protests? Sure. Nothing will come of it, though. The only thing that will enact any real change is if big corporations start losing any profits due to all this upheaval, in which case they may put pressure to get things settled down.
  • accrual 2y ago
    A lot of voters didn't turn out, so it's not accurate to say most Americans voted for this. There's also the issue of Trump saying Musk helped him win two key states during his inauguration speech, which some consider just short of an admission to rigging the election. Only something like 3% of the population needs to actively strike and protest to start affecting corporations.
    • kelnos 2y ago
      Abstaining from voting means "I am ok with whatever the rest of you decide". While that's not an active vote in favor, it's close enough. I don't care about non-voters. If they don't care enough to vote, they're not worth considering when we try to assign "blame" for the current situation. The American public voted for this, full stop.
• wyager 2y ago
  This is exactly the type of thing that Trump said he wanted to do. Who is protesting that who wouldn't be unconditionally protesting Trump anyway? Plus, with the federal NGO money spigot cut off, a lot of the NGOs that organize protests are probably having operational problems.
• energy123 2y ago
  Only if there's inflation. If there's no inflation then people won't do anything. Most people don't know what's going on because they get their information from social media echo chambers. Truly a dystopia in the making.
• int_19h 2y ago
  Maybe. The first test will be on February, 5, when there are scheduled protests in all state capitols. There's also https://generalstrikeus.com https://generalstrikeus.com.
  • barbazoo 2y ago
    I'm a pessimist sometimes so I can't imagine any real uprising coming out of this. At the end of the day, people in the US have to pay the bills, people live beyond their means whether they know it or not, no one can afford to sacrifice any of their time to a real revolution save for a small minority.
    • int_19h 2y ago
      Everything you say is true. But it was also true in many other countries in which real uprisings happened. Ukrainians had to pay the bills etc back in 2014 as well.
  • krainboltgreene 2y ago
    Oh sweet, we're at the honeypot general strike stage of a Trump presidency. Glad we're just hoping trade union consciousness springs forth from the lowest union rate in american history.
• fullshark 2y ago
  No one cares about protests even if they happen. Remember all the women's march / pussy hat protests? What a great instagram opportunity that was. They are chances for people to cosplay as "members of the resistance" as they live their day to day lives as urban PMC drones.
  • drawkward 2y ago
    I marched in NYC against the war in Iraq; they didnt care then either.
• anigbrowl 2y ago
  Yes. Lots of people in this thread have collective amnesia about 2020.