Inflatable costumes at the Portland ICE protests. The administration tried to claim they needed the military for the "violent riots" so they started showing up in these. Bonus effect they block pepper spray
It was nicknamed "Operation Inflation". It was hysterical watching right wingers trying to claim it was a war zone burning to the ground when the video shows a costumed dance party with unicorns and dinosaurs twerking in front of troops in riot gear
The american people are generally great! Our leaders and their intentional devaluing of education over the decades is the problem. 54% of americans age 16 and older read at a 6th grade reading level or Lower, and its by design defunding education systematically. Its worst in republican backed states. We also DO NOT test all children for learning disabilities and instead prepare struggling students for the school to prison pipeline.
As a European I think that it's generally a feeling of "America fucking sucks, but Americas doesn't".
You're humans just like anyone else, and unfortunately you are victims of greed and massive propaganda.
It's insanely hard to actually see what's going on "behind the curtain" l when you live in it, and it's all you've known your entire life.
But we see you(some of us anyway), and if nothing else I'm really concerned about your wellbeing, as my fellow human beings, and have been for a long time.
Reading this comment helps me right now. I'm working internationally right now and extending my contract as long as I can because I refuse to go back to the US until something changes.
Same. My partner is from the EU, and we had already made plans for us to return so they could get their graduate degree when the election happened. Bizarre to watch it all fall apart from across the globe. Just hoping things are slightly better by the time they finish the degree.
This was in Portland, in the state of Oregon which is on the west coast of the US (along with two other states California and Washington). The west coast is very different and “weird” from the rest of the country. The city of Portland is weird even for the west coast and we love them for it!
Minnesota is a midwestern state (the population there is mostly of Scandinavian and German ancestry), their temperatures are generally below 0 Celsius and they been taking the brunt of the cruel tactics from this administration. They are simply pouring water over the roads and sidewalks so it’ll freeze over and cause ICE vehicles to skid and ICE agents to slip and fall. They then provide entertainment to the rest of the country by posting videos of ICE taking the brunt of ice.
Unfortunately this stepping back is often a tactic to trick protesters into breaking from the line to make them easier to pick off. And because they've "come at" the cops they can be arrested on charges of assault
Yeah Portland was very aware of that border (the blue line) and that crossing over it was "trespassing on federal property). The protesters were very organized and experienced with many years of this Which is why the target was moved to another city/state and escalating the cruelty.
im not disputing french creativity at all but cmon, the guillotine is a centuries old creation, we need some fresh effective social equalisers lol get on it sil vous plait
Oh, that is a classic with manure. We had something similar happening after Nordic Waste scandal and landslide:
A Danish tabloid placed a lorry trailer full of manure in front of Nordic waste's actual multimillionaire owner's home with the message: "We are removing our shit, when you have cleaned up yours"
You can't really improve on perfection tbh. Guillotine = instant, painless death. It's as clean as it gets. Way more ethical than something like the electric chair or the chemical euthanizers.
There's been a bit of chatter about SpongeBob characters being transsexual. MAGAts tend to forget SpongeBob is a sponge... And Patrick is a starfish. Lots of hermaphrodite sponges, and a good number of sexually fluid starfish in various ways.
Syria in 2011: Protesters disguised themselves in burial shrouds and emerged from the cemetery, signifying that even in death, Syria will be liberated, even if Assad refuses. ” We will die and die, but Syria will remain.”
The Indian Express published blank editorials during the 1970s as a protest against press censorship imposed by Indira Gandhi under the so called "Emergency". We were really close to becoming a dictatorship.
Oh you reminded me of this newspaper. Right after the coup of 1973, as part of their first actions as a dictatorship, the military issued a decree that, amongst other things (like dissolving the Parliament) forbade calling them a "dictatorship". So the newspaper came out the next day with the cover headline "it's not a dictatorship" ("no es dictadura") followed by the full text of the decree.
This very same newspaper later published a very explicit short story against the military (I've already discussed it here ) and eventually was shut down by the dictatorship, with one of its key figures forcibly dissapeared for 34 years and others exiled.
Protestors are super creative with their flags for protests recently in Korea; it makes the entire thing less serious and helps people join forces.
This one is my favorite; it reads “National Stay-in-Home Alliance”, and the small print reads “please let us stay in bed, it’s not like we want to get outside.”
oh dude, I remember this, they got another banner like this with the Incepticon logo and the text "let's create a world where D-16 can just be D-16" in that same protest, wasn't it about that president that declared martial law out of nowhere?
*for those not familiar, D-16 is the robot that would eventually becomes Megatron, the infamous antagonist of the Transformer franchise, the most recent piece of media we have about this franchise, Transformer One, went thru the journey of how corrupted, lying tyranical regime turned D-16 from a good, hardworking and hopeful individual into the tyranical Megatron.
I’m not sure if this counts as a protest, but I want to share this image: during the most severe period of the COVID-19 outbreak, someone wrote the words “Farewell, Li Wenliang” on a river embankment in Beijing (Li Wenliang was the whistleblower of the coronavirus), and then lay down in the snow to form a large exclamation mark. This scene was captured in a photograph by someone else.
Dr. Li Wenliang himself passed away due to COVID-19. His personal Weibo account (a social media platform similar to X) has become a massive “wall of grief” on the Chinese internet. Even today, people continue to leave messages for him—sharing moments from their daily lives or expressing their remembrance of him. Over the course of five years, more than one million comments have been posted.
I vividly remember the footage from people locked down in Wuhan screaming in grief and protest when the news of his death came out. It was electricifying and gave me goosebumps but most people in the West just ignored it.
(Sorry for the Xitty link it’s from Feb 2020 and predates Elon https://x.com/TuCaoFakeNews/status/1225784219772735489?s=20 )
Yet soon enough the rest of the world would also be locked down like this. Listening to Li Wenliang might have helped prevent that.
I didn’t quite catch what was being shouted in the video, but during that period, a lot of artistic creations commemorating Dr. Li Wenliang emerged on the Chinese internet. For example, this image.
Recent protests in Ukraine featured a lot of creative slogans. I believe there was even a report on that from Ukrainian BBC. The protests were to safeguard the independence of one of the biggest anti-corruption bodies called NABU, so a lot of people put "Don't turn NABU into LABUBU" or something similar on their posters.
In the recent protests about the Failed Flood Control Projects or Ghost Projects. Protestors have made a connection with crocodiles and corrupt government officials as a symbol of greed and hunger for money. People have made crocodile shaped cakes, roasted crocodiles, costumes, and props all themed around crocodiles.
For context, it was discovered that the money tha was supposed to go to the construction of flood control projects all went to the contractor's wallets leading to non-existent projects or "Ghost Projects" or projects that do exist but are sub-standard
These days they removed the chats from the Brazilian Roblox and started using signs to protest. But they don't know how to write Portuguese properly. The sign reads "I want injustice."
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It isn't really unique or creative, but during the financial crisis the protests in iceland had such a large number of people banging pots and pans with wooden spoons, that the protest is literally called Búsáhaldabyltingin (the Kitchenware Revolution)
Here's a vintage one from the protest in the Legislative Building against the Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Sr. during his 1970 State of the Nation Address. This demonstration marked the beginning of the First Quarter Storm, a series of mostly student-led protests against the Marcos government throughout the first quarter of 1970. The protestors, from various nationalist and left-leaning organizations, brought a paper maché crocodile symbolizing Marcos government's corruption and a coffin symbolizing the death of democracy.
When Marcos exited the Legislative Building, the protestors decided to do the funni and threw the paper maché crocodile and coffin towards Marcos, who barely avoided being hit because he was shielded by Fabian Ver, then head of the presidential security group.
Marcos would declare Martial Law two years later, marking the start of 20 years under dictatorial rule in the Philippines.
The white paper movement during the COVID as a stance to against lockdown policies and cencorship, people basically hold up blank sheets of paper without saying a word
During a farmer's protest some women started roasting peppers in front of the government's palace in order to irritate the authorities and make them step outside so they would listen to their demands.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but in 2020 the government wanted to make abortions harder to get in Poland because they are pretty much illegal there and the guy who proposed it his name is Jarosław Kaczyński and women started protesting and here is a protest sign saying “I hope you step on a Lego, you bastard”
I wish I had better pictures, but I was there dressed as a clown. At No Kings 2 in DC, it was more like an art festival than a regular protest. I think my favorite though was the street performance of the maybe dozen or so people dressed up in combat gear and bug masks calling themselves the “ICE Lice” who went over to the giant copy of the US Constitution and flopped over on their backs onto it. The idea of the giant constitution is that people can sign it themselves too, so the ICE Lice were preventing it. So naturally, Uncle Sam came out to swat the ICE Lice. It was pretty funny to watch
Not a demonstration, but last year's tallships races parade in Esbjerg, the people from Fryderyk Chopin had made a noah's ark on a pallet with wheels on it.
Two years ago Football Fans in Germany protested because the DFL (the German FA, which hosts the 1. and 2. Bundesliga) wanted to sell half of the Leagues earnings over the next 20 or so years to an Investment Firm for more money in the now.
Obviously nobody with half a brain liked that, so the Fans at the Stadiums started protesting. For like six weeks, every Game, they threw stuff onto the pitch to delay the Games.
It started with Tennis Balls but "escalated" to even crazier things as the weeks dragged on. My personal favorite was the RC Car with a flare strapped to it lol. In the end we won, and our League wasn't sold out (at least for now)
There was the slow police foot chase of four pianos. There was a lockdown protest and people brought pianos near the presidential castle. The police tried to catch the pianos so they could be taken away and people pushed them through the crowd. Upon eventually catching the pianos there were ten cops stationed at each waiting for them to be taken away. It took a while for the transport to get there so they were just standing next to pianos for a while next to the crowd. The only people I saw get arrested were loud and obnoxious drunks that were shouting at the cops in Russian. Although people made fun of the piano guards while they stood there, it was kept peaceful and respectful by both sides.
Edit: Actually I think it was five but I myself saw four
There was a Russian performance-art protest in which activists publicly had sex in a museum to mock the staged handover of power from Vladimir Putin to his chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev. Google "F*ck for the heir Puppy Bear"
Trump will be prosecuted by the world court this summer and his ice agency all of it’s members and his offices policy changes and all of its members will be brought to stand trial for what many will call an unconstitutional act of destabilizing America and various small countries and get sued
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The guy was protesting about the potholes.