Did you know the world was protesting against Trump on inauguration day? Or was this news hidden from you?
People worldwide take to the streets after Donald Trump was sworn in as US president on Monday
This is honestly the first time I've seen pretty much anything about it.
Nope, I haven't seen a single news article about it. Guess our propaganda machine is better than we thought it was.
Seems like it hasn't been this bad since when Bush launched Iraq war 2... basically every major city in the US and Europe had huge protests, and it got almost exactly 0 coverage outside of local news covering your local city.
Now all the local news in the US are just Sinclair subsidiaries/franchises.
I don't think it's the propaganda machine (or maybe this is), but in the US, almost nothing is reported from other countries. If 100,000 people died in some wild natural disaster outside the US, we would get almost no real details, but we would get the full life story of the one American that was killed who was from New Jersey. It's just the way our media is. No real information. Just dumb sap stories.
It's the same reason the Republicans haven't been able to identify when they're ingesting blatant Russian propaganda. They've never seen or heard it before outside of their favorite American talking head.
Meanwhile in the rest of the world the news was flooded with information surrounding Trump. It’s a weird time we live in.
Scary part is that the protests within America were not covered, or were barely mentioned.
The 20th was Trump's inauguration + MLK, so a LOT of people marched across the US. That said, most of the coverage is from small local papers and broadcasters. The big new orgs shied away.
The revolution will NOT be televised
Every time someone posts the latest daily poll that shows change is impossible and what they're predicting is inevitable, I need to remember that quote.
Scary part is that the protests within America were not covered, or were barely mentioned.
You can NOT rely on the media to cover the important stuff, or to tell you what is important. This is because (1) the billion owned media wants you do be apathetic so they can get gigantic GOP tax cuts for the rich, and (2) the average journalist does not have any special skill set in letting them know what is important, and (3) journalists and editors are lazy and only cover what other outlets are covering.
You have to work extra hard to understand reality, and things like Lemmy help with that.
Because protests accomplish absolutely nothing in America without violence. The billionaires are nice and comfy in their ivory towers, they have no concern for the peasants on the streets. If they are comfortable then nothing changes.
And if the prospective protestors are comfortable, they'll stop short of their goals. Perhaps very short, if they start at all.
The violent protests didn't do shit either, they just pissed off the rest of the citizenship. When protests turn to violence, all too often it's against the businesses that the peasants frequent.
Also true, those are the wrong targets. There's a much more pragmatic approach.
What the hell, I had no idea. I heard nothing.
Now everyone will hear something.
Everyone? I wish. :(
I saw nothing about this as an American living in a blue state.
There's a protest in Chicago today: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protesters-rally-against-trumps-policies-trump-tower/
This is being presented as a sort of cover-up, but the fact of the matter is that most protests never get much attention unless they are extraordinary in scale or in regards to any violence, or anything else. There will always be some protests, so that begs the question, is this always newsworthy? Trump is inaugurated and quite some people don't like this... well aint that surprising? No. I don't think it's a cover up, I think it's deemed rather irrelevant, obvious, nothing out of the ordinary. Had the protests been more massive in scale perhaps that would be different though. Or had people stormed the capitol,. ouch....
The majority of our media outlets are not covering any dissent about Trump. All major social media companies are censoring negative information about Trump. This is purposeful and blatant. The media is most definitely helping this administration to manufacture consent.
This is nothing new though as the media has helped project bizarre concepts like the US is the defender of democracy for decades. In fact, the US has done more to stop Democracy than any other country.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/understanding-democratic-decline-in-the-united-states/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/18/american-democracy-political-system-failures/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1240435.shtml
Not only is US democracy in decline because of concerted efforts to undermine it by the wealthy, but this is also projected around the world with the US attacking and destroying foreign democracies.
So it is a cover up and it has been going on a long time. The US is not the country it portrays itself to be and that takes a universal effort in our media to help project.
Is this newsworthy is not the question. Who determines what is newsworthy is the question.
Saving this one for the next time I'm hit with the "the whole world thinks we're a joke with [democrat] in charge. This is why Trump is great. The world respects us with him leading."
I'll be honest: The world thinks y'all are a joke no matter who's in charge, though Trump is a worse joke.
4 countries are hardly the whole world
Good thing I wasn't the one claiming the "whole world" believes anything.
Bruh
The Great Firewall of America is beginning
Buy more Hard Drives, we're gonna need a lot more of those.
(I'm not a datahoarder myself, I only got like 2 1TB external SSDs and so far have like the wikipedia downloaded, idk what to download, honestly just too tired...)
Grab stuff from the internet archive, copies of shows, movies, and music. Anytime you catch yourself streaming something, download it instead.
Like something? Save it. You can always delete it later to free up space but there's no guarantee you'll get the chance to download it again.
You can always delete it later to free up space
You underestimate my laziness. I'll just rsync to a bigger and bigger drive each time.
For example, my phone's SD card currently stores some 12,754 files totalling 244.5GB. I really want a 1TB card. Storage is magic. The files always adjust to the media size.
I just always rsync everything over to a new card. And also copy the partition UUID because I don't remember which apps use it, plus I likely have a bunch of symlinks in Termux that would break. Oh, yes, Termux I copy over in the same manner of course.
I mean, I probably pointed them to ~/storage/card symlink, but I am not sure.
I did have to delete a bunch of stuff already though, DVD ISO files and baseband satellite signal recordings to replace them with Wikipedia and other zim files.
Preferably, I'd have all files on every device. That's the dream.
Wikipedia's a good one. They might start fucking with that. I'd learn to use Tor as well if you're not familiar with it, just in case it's needed.
Any good guides?
how about the arch wiki?
Wow, thanks for the support everyone. We’ll try to hold out for the next four years
Four? Haven't you been reading the news?
Yes, it was on news@lemmy.world
Eight years ago 500,000 marched in DC against Trump. He has returned and so has the protest - just on a smaller scale
Florida man reporting... I heard nothing of this from my usual news outlets, apnews, CNN, NPR.....zero
First time I'm seeing this and I only browse Lemmy
The last photo behind the "A Better World is Possible Sign" is worth a mention:
"You can only get what you are Organized to Take".
How do people even hear about protests in order to participate? I really hope it's not Facebook.
I saw signs around Portland for a January 21 protest. From what I've heard, it was a lot smaller than what Portland saw in 2017. It's hard to read the tea leaves on why that is.
This is the first time I heard that anything like that happened. And I do not live in America.
Hadn't heard a thing, wow
People are talking. They are saying many great things.
This is starting to become scary
Starting?!
So, which news sites should I be following?
Completely ignored by all UK media but the Guardian.
I knew. I was at one of the protests.
Panama, Mexico, London and Belgium are hardly "THE WORLD 🌎 ™️"
I'm in Argentina and no one here was protesting about or against Trump.
Nothing in Venezuela either
Weird not to see Canada jumping on that action
Well of course not, y’all are too busy dealing with your own Trump
Your president is a Trump ally. I mean duh.
Why would Venezuelans protest the interim president of the United States, Juan Guaidó?
I mean there were a bunch of posters about it all over my neighborhood
Havent heard about this either. But I live in Switzerland, so I'am quite confident the newssites and agencies were occupied with covering all the shit that went down during inauguartion and the few days before and after it. Plus our Europe and National and Regional news. So I am not really surprised to missing it.
I did see an article about the big blimp making a comeback in UK, not sure when that was though. Around a week ago I think. Ironically it felt like it was trying hard not to say protest.
I heard about the effigy in Italy, but that’s about it
Am I missing something? Is there text to this article? I only see a handful of captioned pictures, and nearly half of those are from the US.
Which is totally fair. But at the same time i never even saw these pictures. For me it's just the fact that either nobody was reporting on it or it got drowned out by all the noise. Basically it was censored or the distractions are working.
I wouldn't call it "hidden". It was there. It just got kinda completely overshadowed by the 37,017 articles talking about Elon and his "salute".
If you guys hadn't been circle jerking so hard about that you would have seen the other things going on in the news that day. Unfortunately modern news runs on clicks and y'all were clicking on every single article that had the same softball takes on the same event.
Nobody to blame for that one but yourselves really.
Flooding the zone with shit works, who knew.
Is that the new hot term fresh off the presses? Hadn't heard that term once in my life and since the Elon thing I've seen it like 12 times.
I know what it means but I find it really funny how you guys keep coming up for new ways of explaining that you're easily distracted by stupid shit while they continue to collect wealth and power.
If the masses are busy bickering amongst themselves they will never realize that it's actually a class issue and not a race or gender issue. They just stoke the fire every few weeks and they let you lot do the rest of the work for them.
That makes sense. I saw one article, but as soon as the salute came out literally everything was about that.
The only thing I saw was a youtube video with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog from The Daily Show at an anti-Trump rally on the 20th.
I did not see a single news article about that until now.
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Yeah, I participated in the one that was a few days before the inauguration. Heard about it from the front page of the New York Times. I'm pretty sure I heard about the other 700 marches planned for inauguration day here on Lemmy since this is the only social media site I use.
It was on CBS six days ago on Jan 18th:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE2F7n9OVU
It mostly focuses on the US women's march, but it does make brief mention of ongoing worldwide protests, without really discussing them. The Chyron focuses its message on the "worldwide" aspect of it through the whole story, however.
EDIT:
Here it is on CNN on January 21st:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/trump-women-march-on-washington/index.html
The Women’s March extended beyond the United States, as similar protests cropped up around the world over women’s rights and other issues the marchers fear could be under threat from Donald Trump’s presidency.
Although the focus of the day was the Women’s March on Washington, many people attended the hundreds of “sister marches” that occurred around the US and the globe.
People are checked out my dudes. Women's march was expecting 50k and 5k showed, I think people are broken and losing hope.
Which is fair, these media organizations failed us miserably and continue to fail us miserably for not being able to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute, which calls into question what little is left of their credibility. So yeah people are checked out while this is happening and being covered.
Large American media outlets have been failing the people for the entirety of their existence.
They have been successfully serving the interests of the wealthy and powerful.
BBC Mentioned the one in Washington but it was just as an add on when explaining that it was too cold for trump to have it outside. Doesn't really matter how big the protests were in America as they literally voted for it.
More people voted against Trump than for him.
We didn't notice because we were too busy holding back tears.
It wasn’t covered at all in my area.
Where, specifically?
Southern Central Valley of California about a 2 hour drive from LA.
I mean… the world is pretty much protesting against trump every day.
Most of these pictures are from NYC and DC, bar a few from London, Brussels, Panama, and the US Embassy in Mexico
I'm starting to think is community is actually a bunch of refugees from Twitter.
They literally think the world is 4 countries
This was not hidden here in the pnw. There was a protest that walked by my house. Joined in for a bit
Pacific NorthWest?
Yah, sorry. everyoneontheinternerisamerican :tm:
Here in the states we have a region called the PNW it's basically Washington (state not DC) and Oregon
Sent this to my mother, who probably thinks I’m full of hyperbole when I talk about how we’re seen around the world.
It's like 4 countries, calm your tits
I knew it was happening but not a word about it beyond that reached my ears (blue state, USA). Was straight up bullshit
I heard NPR gloss over it, just mentioning that the number a protesters seem to have been less than the last time.
It didn't really give any estimate as to the number of people where they were at what their issues were. They didn't interview any of them, they gave it like maybe 5 to 10 seconds.
I've not seen much about it in American "liberal media", but, to be fair, I've not consumed a lot of media in the past month or so.
Oh yes, the lie about liberal media. I was very confused during AOTUS's last administration about all the talk in regards to liberal media. There is no mainstream far left outlet. There is not even a popular left leaning news outlet. They often cited CNN and that is a joke.
I don't consume American propaganda and I live in the states. The talking heads never talk about what is really going on, they omit the important details, and they non-stop bootlick corporations.
Did not know. Good to hear. This nitwit is bound to fail or find enough support to take the USA as a dictator.
An interesting unrelated note is that the average lifespan for a US male was about 77 years in 2022. Also good to hear.
The average american doesn't have a personal team of doctors
The BBC mentioned it on inauguration day (UK) showed the protestors burning a flag and did a small interview with someone.
lol, as though I’ve been watching or reading the news for the last three weeks
I honestly wouldn't upvote if I did see it. Sure, the people participating might feel good about it and I'm glad they are there but the whole, march around and protest thing, feels like slipping a note into an unchecked suggestion box.
Nope. The Great American Firewall on our wholly right wing owned major media ensured I didn’t hear a peep about this.
Thanks, world. Good to know you’re still out there.
So you're telling me you dont read any actual news, despite there being numerous great news orgs in the US...you intentionally only subscribe to the shitty corporate ones? Huh.
Way to make my world up for me, dude.
I dont care if this is unpopular bc it's a commentary on how we fucking got here... Notice the amount of Gaza-support in the photos of US protests vs internationally. The useful idiots aren't even marching for their own country's oxygen mask in the protests about this country.
I saw articles about it on both Reddit and Lemmy. But they were filled with toxic comments from doomers, fascists, or just other overly negative people so I suspect they were downvoted and this might be why people didn’t see them.
No but I don't really care what non-americans think of my president
Proofing again how dumb and ignorant the maga cult is
Whatever happened to "Trump is making the rest of the world respect America again!"?
Convenient time to suddenly start not caring about what other people think, right when people start telling you exactly how they feel about the felon king.
Ok, then what about censoring the american protests?
If you search for January 20th March, all of the google results are from small local papers. The big boys didn't pick it up, or if they did, they mentioned it and moved on.
Non Americans think the same thing Americans do. That Traitorapist Trump is a narcisstic buffoon not worth your attention. That he is a notorious Liar who is going to lie 30000+ times in the next 4 years like his average last time. And that he is going to throw food on the wall at the White House an average of 1-2 times per week like his average last time.
I agree with what you said, but I don't care what non Americans think
How TF do you read the headlines and double down on supporting that piece of shit?!?
Average MAGAT: ohhh nooo, Biden makes us look so weak to the rest of the world
Wtf. Its amazing how many people on Lemmy didn't see this. If you missed it, you need to pay attention to the news.
How did you not see this?
No but also I don't really care? What did their protests accomplish before?
This is what we call "bitch energy".
Everything helps.
I've been through enough elections to know that they do this for every president. So it's not really news.
