• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    Lack of job protection

    Lack of healthcare protection

    Inability to miss or reduce even a single paycheck due to cost of living

    It’s winter, and most major cities North of Texas have had below freezing temps with brutal wind chill for the past several weeks

    The recognition that no protest in the last 20 years has accomplished anything in the US.

    Put that all together, and is it any surprise people aren’t protesting?

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      And being 4 times the distance from Washington DC as London is from Berlin.

      If I were to protest at my governors office, he’d just be agreeing with me in my blue state. And even my governors office is over 600km away.

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        I agree with your point but as another blue state resident I will be protesting in hopes that the blue states will collectively secede

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      We had what I call the Derek Chavin moment. Cities burned. We haven’t seen another one of those. Go ahead and research that — we shutdown several cities and we stopped that shit!

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        Stopped what shit? At the end of the day, what did it accomplish? Cops still kill black people, and most face very little repercussions.

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          I’m not sure what you are talking about.

          The George Floyd assassination was an unprecedented cold blooded murder on video for the propagandizement of racial violence. We have not had another one of those. It took cities on flame, but we have not had another one of those. In fact, please link to a video of another Derek Chavin moment.