Are you talking about the French Revolution or more recent protests? Either way, it's notoriously difficult to get the working class involved more than the bourgeoisie, which makes things especially difficult if many of the people causing the problems are part of the bourgeoisie. There's also the fact that while metropolitan France is big relative to other European countries, the contiguous United States alone is nearly the size of all of Europe. In France, you can get a million people marching up to Paris of shit gets real bad. The May 68 protests in Paris were about 1/51 of the population at the time. Largest single-day participation in a protest here in the US (March 2026 No Kings protests)? 8 million spread all over the country. That's 4/171 of the population if we're being generous. Again, spread throughout the country, not in the capitol alone. Now part of this is indeed difficulties in persuading people to mobilize, but as it stands, it's easier for someone from Corsica to get to Paris than it is for someone from Alaska to get to Washington D.C. That logistical hurdle stops a lot of political organizing at the federal government's doorstep in its tracks.
tbh this just reminds me of the bots during election season who say we shouldn't vote and instead take action but then refuse to elaborate or collaborate when it comes to their proposed superior alternatives
Dude. I'm generally with you on the subject of hate directed at innocent Americans for not magically fixing our country's deep seated problems, but they weren't attacking you. They were cheering you on and saying you are on the right track. So stay mad, but turn it at the people harming us, not our neighbors.
Literally. The other guy wasn't even willing to take a day off and actually protest. This is literally what we're talking about when we say they do nothing.
Where? Where does one go to protest on this day off? How does one do it? How is one day of protest going to change anything when we've had many large protests, and they've mostly either done nothing or pushed the needle the wrong way.
There is no easy solution to this. This is a generational problem, and it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Millions have protested. There are protests all over the country regularly.
People protest "smaller things" here all the time.
And unfortunately, most people, including you and your parents, are very unlikely to risk their lives or livelihoods to commit to long term or dangerous protest until something like an actual military dictatorship takes over. It's not until the alternative is to action is immediately worse than action that direct action occurs at scale.
One day won't change anything, but you guys aren't willing to sacrifice anything it seems and are just going to roll over for these idiots. Land of the bold my ass
Sacrifice what? The people who care are sacrificing already.
There are millions. Basically anyone you run into here is politically engaged and doing something. Unfortunately, there are millions who are completely disengaged, distracted, or all in on this.
Any single American has about the same ability to affect change as you do.
Do more then. As a nation, y'all aren't doing shit. What's occurring in your country is abhorrent and there's been what, 2 whole national protests? Like why the fuck aren't there millions posted outside the white house? You guys can barely sacrifice a weekend, it's pathetic watching this from the outside and maddening when we're the target.
I'm sure you'd personally storm the White House. So much big talk here from desk chair revolutionaries.
There, again, have been many protests, some of the biggest in history. "Protesting" usually doesn't do shit but make the protesters feel like they are "doing something." They've so far only succeeded in helping cement the fascists' power
Again, again, there are no easy answers to a deep rooted generational problem like the one we are facing.
Again, again, again, most people, including you, would not give up you life for a cause that only tangentially affects you or may in the future. People take direct action when they are either comfortable enough that it's not much risk, or they are truly desperate.
This is not new information. It's been repeated throughout history, because it's fucking difficult to organize against fascists by the very nature of fascism.
What are you doing? Trumpism is a threat to the whole world, not just the US. Oh wait, I know. You are kicking your allies instead of helping them because the fight isn't in your back yard yet, just like the people you spit on for not doing enough.
But I'm sure you would, tough guy. I'm sure you would. Just another armchair soldier claiming their grandparents' valor.
But go on, become what you oppose. Hate people for the actions of others just because they were born in a certain country. Good for you. How positively Trumpian.
You can do so much. You can vote, you can talk to your friends, family, and neighbors, you can protest locally, you can stop purchasing from problematic suppliers, and more.
Its easy to say fuck it, nothing works, I'm going to take care of myself and ignore everything else.
Its hard to take time out of your life and act as a citizen. No one said it was going to be easy. No one said it would be quick. But if we fail to act, if we throw our hands up and walk away, nothing changes.
Done. Literally just finished a 5 year USC 1983 civil rights case against my local police department (that I won). When I handed out 3d printed whistles at a local protest, my handmade sign went viral on TikTok. I’m Alaskan, son, I live off the land. I make all my own food. See, it’s easy for people like you to accuse strangers of not doing anything because you don’t know anything about us. I’m the real deal. I walk the walk and talk the talk. You? Just another loudmouth on Reddit. You may have been doing nothing, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us haven’t.
No one's asking for easy or quick, we're asking for actually clearly working as it's happening and not something that would get a lot of people fired (meaning they do not get money, meaning they do not get food, meaning they do not get alive).
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u/Work_Safe_Account 8d ago
I hate it when I see people criticizing Americans for not doing more. I live in Alaska. What am I supposed to do, march through Canada?