Why are the journalist bending over to Musk?
because the police has army grade weapons and vehicles and will wreck dissidents like its Tien An Men 2.0
Because rules and decorum are what “good people” think is most important to protect rather than people and actual morals.
Cause they’re spineless
You’ve asked two different questions.
- Why don’t the democratic voters actually riot
- First, riots are illegal. I think you mean protest.
- Protest what? He was just elected president. A bit more than the majority of the electorate made this choice so we all have to deal with it. It’s called democracy.
- He ran a relatively transparent campaign. So far, all he’s done is sign executive orders we all knew he was going to do. A majority of Americans voted for these actions.
- Why are the journalist bending over to Musk?
- Why aren’t they calling his nazi salute a nazi solute? Fear.
- I read an article saying Jon Stewart was the only one the mentioned Musk’s salute. I watched the segment and, while he did mention it, he did not call it a nazi salute. He tried to, in Jon’s funny way, make an excuse for what he was doing.
- I suspect there are legal reasons for not calling this a nazi salute. Likely defamation.
- There’s also people / organizations (like the ADL) who, for whatever reason, need to be kept in the good grace’s of these powerful people or who need to maintain their seat at one table or another.
Every single part of this comment just screams “It just wouldn’t be proper!”
And I’m sorry, but I can’t seem to care about what’s “proper” when half my friends now have reasonable fear for their lives, not just “comfort of living” just because they are lgbtq+ living in deep red country.
Protest what?
Didn’t stop Republicans on Jan 6. The truth seems to be that one side is willing to do anything to gain power, and the other is unwilling to do anything to keep it.
You want the real answer?
Inertia.
Think about the scene in Fight Club where the homework is to go out and start a fight. It isn’t easy. Most people have never hit another person their entire lives. Men who punch walls or tear their shirts off to throw down with someone over perceived offenses are not the normal. That’s tail of the bell curve behavior. If it wasn’t, people would be fighting in parking lots everywhere you go.
The inertia of most peoples lives is to avoid conflict. This is why only a handful of people in any building you happen to be standing in are suited to leadership roles.
Now, if you can get one of those guys in the right conditions to stir up a mob hive mind then the game changes. Until then, most people will be propelled forward by inertia and conflict avoidance.
This is 100% correct.
Also don’t discount the economic system working as intended. If I get off the hamster wheel to “riot,” my family quickly loses basic necessities.
Once my best alternative to a negotiated resolution moves off that reality (meaning keep my head down and my family will get through this) more options become available. The system is designed to keep a critical majority on the wheel.
This is exactly the reason these Natalists are “pro-forced-birth”. Childless adults are a threat because they don’t have to think about their minor dependents before revolting. They want everyone tied down with families so we can’t even consider getting off the wheel.
Deomcrats have the center while republicans have the far right and to more than half a degree the far left (granted the more than are the true crazies who are so far left they go right and then the fifty is just the virtual effect of if I can’t have far left I will accept far right over center). The center wants a functioning government that runs by the rules set down by the consitution. Unlike some on the right who feels the constitution is frozen at the way society was at its birth the center looks for change by using the mechanisms of change put into the government. So many will protest but rightly view rioting as just hurting the common man. Musk and friends don’t live in neighborhoods that have ever been burned down by a riot. Its never even reached their gates. This is why luigi had such broad appeal. It was an action that did not hurt any innocents.
Why are the journalist bending over to Musk?
Because performative protest like wearing pussy hats isn’t actually as effective as general strikes or direct action.
The McResistance fades because that’s all it ever was.
God all the fucking rich elite throwing literally abortion themed parties around the DNC meeting before the election was so fucking tone deaf and the exact kind of thing people will use against the party in an election and yet they still went through with it because performance is all that they know.
Because liberals are cowards.
That’s the real answer.
If you can’t even get people to care enough to lift a pen and mark a ballot (or press a button on some machine), how do you get people to riot?
There was a lot more demonstrations and outrage during Trump’s first term. I think now everyone is just exhausted and over it. Dems got beaten pretty bad in the election, and are probably very demoralized after this outcome. Maybe it will add up to a landslide in the next senate/congress election, maybe not.
They weren’t beaten badly, it was barely a 1.5% margin. Electoral votes….different story. But even then, this illustrates that a few more votes in key states would have had a drastically different outcome.
I think they mean “beaten badly” as in “lost control of all three branches of government” not so much “Trump landslide vote.”
The person you responded to even said “Dems got beaten pretty bad” not “Harris got beaten pretty bad.”
By the metric of losing the house, losing the senate, losing the judiciary, and losing the presidency is a pretty deep blow.
I didn’t think “Dems got beaten pretty bad in the election” was open to mean all elections.
Ok, you’re right in this sense. However, I meant beaten badly in the sense of expectations vs. reality. If you followed any media, it was supposed to be a slight edge for Kamala, or at least a good chance for an upset. In the end the R’s got president, senate and congress. And the outcome was clear after the first few hours, unlike something like Gore vs. Bush.
I agree. I certainly felt the outcome was going to be much different.
Maybe next time they’ll lose by even less! That’s about the best progress I can hope for in this country in my lifetime.
There were more variables than just Trump.
COVID and all the conditions it created.
Because for many people, political unrest is the problem they’re trying to avoid, and their problem with the new administration is that it is a catalyst for unrest.
Someone mad that our 45/7th President upsets the applecart isn’t going to go flip an applecart themselves in protest.
British and France tried to appease Hitler for peace sake too during ww2, and look where it got them. You shouldn’t sacrifice freedom and rights for peace
I’m not saying it’s right, I’m saying it’s happening.
peace without justice isn’t peace. justice without peace isn’t justice.
appeasement doesn’t work because you attempt to trade justice for peace, but that just erodes your peace. the justice system claims to provide us justice, but violence is sown all throughout it, meaning it cannot give us justice as true justice is restoration from this system
To what end? People were warned. People lived through 4 years of this. People remember the shortages and inept handling og COVID. People voted for this.
Should I explain why having a totalitarian govt with the modern technologies is a VERY bad idea?
Not to me, and not to them either. I already know, and Trump supports don’t care. These people don’t read history and were brought up through a poor quality education system that told them the US was the greatest nation on earth and we never did anything bad, and if we did, well, it worked out in the end didn’t it?
Those who read history are doomed to watch those who don’t read history repeat it.
Because the left never does anything. They’ll whine and say this is unfair not how it’s supposed to be, that’s illegal. And that is as far as it goes. The right does shit and here we are. Only going to get worse and anyone who says ohbits only 4 years sure maybe till the next one.
(IMO) Because many people don’t want a solution to the things that bother them. People need a villian regardless of how they have to manipulate their own narrative
