> We (Eastern Europeans) could not do neither of those things without risking jail time and we still managed to topple dictatorships. Jail time (and now deport

> We (Eastern Europeans) could not do neither of those things without risking jail time and we still managed to topple dictatorships. Jail time (and now deportation) has been a risk for protesting for quite a while in the US. I can see why someone that doesn’t live here would see America’s longstanding reputation of being a cool place to protest in and assume that that is still the case, but that is outdated information. Heck, quite a few Americans insist that is still the case, but the ones that insist that there is no risk are mostly folks that “protest” through tweets https://www.axios.com/2025/05/08/columbia-university-protest-arrests-nypd https://www.axios.com/2025/05/08/columbia-university-protest... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/2/ucla-students-arrested-amid-gaza-protests-all-you-need-to-know https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/2/ucla-students-arrest... https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us...