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   Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 02:25:16 JST Peter

   for the people in Europe wondering why Americans don't protest, they did. 2020-2021 saw the biggest protest movement in American history. and then the cops beat the shit out of everyone, and when the Democrats re-took power on the backs of those protesters, they gave all the cops raises and threw the movement under a bus.

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     Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 02:26:04 JST Peter

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     the people who typically lead protest movements--students, people of color, people with values--have been systematically maligned and marginalized by mainstream Democrats and their allies in the conservative media (New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc.). most of the national lawmakers who aligned with the protest movement were removed from office.

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     Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 02:26:51 JST Peter

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     there is no strong opposition movement in the United States because the mainstream Democrats **don't want one** and they have done everything possible to discourage the formation of one.

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     Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 02:27:48 JST Peter

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     all my love and support goes out to the people trying to bootstrap a new opposition movement. the Tesla Takedown, the pro-Palestine organizers, the people who shout obscenities at townhalls. these people are heroes, but the institutional Democratic Party is always working behind the scenes to undermine them.