This is honestly the first time I’ve seen pretty much anything about it.
The BBC mentioned it on inauguration day (UK) showed the protestors burning a flag and did a small interview with someone.
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
This is starting to become scary
Starting?!
It wasn’t covered at all in my area.
Where, specifically?
Southern Central Valley of California about a 2 hour drive from LA.
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, 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.
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.
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?
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.
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’ve been through enough elections to know that they do this for every president. So it’s not really news.
Really? You remember all those international anti-Obama and anti-Clinton protests on their respective Inaugural Day?
Yes. That’s what I said. Obama was very unpopular innhis second term and many Europeans hated Clinton’s free trade agreements.
Cool! Do you have any links to those protests?
No, I saw an article about it. It was just overshadowed by Elon.
How did you not see this?
lol, as though I’ve been watching or reading the news for the last three weeks
Fair enough lol.
I love how people say this like ignorance is a flex or something
It’s a defense mechanism. They know what’s been going on. You’re being ignorant blaming people for hating the situation.
Lots of objectively unhealthy actions are defense mechanisms.
Ok?
It means don’t bury your head in the sand just because reality sucks.
Just makes you look like a fuckin tool.
Sadly we should be vigilant, and the majority of news that is being broadcasted is a distraction, they actual evil shit they do is done quietly.
For example majority of EO he signed are from project 2025, schedule F was signed, he renamed one department to DOGE, and mandated 4 “DOGE” people to be part of every US agency. The whole DOGE thing doesn’t look like it was about efficiency, but about having tight control over other departments.
the majority of news that is being broadcasted is a distraction
Im gonna make fun of you not following every piece of news
Which lane is it?
This is a misrepresentation of what they’re saying (setting aside that these are two different people who might believe different things). The original comment said they haven’t paid attention to the news at all these last few weeks, not that they “haven’t been following every piece of news”. Categorically, not paying attention at all, paying attention to literally every piece of news, and trying to be vigilant and find the relevant news are three completely separate things, and you brought up one that nobody was doing or suggesting.
Your misreading what op meant, and you know it.
If you don’t know it then you’re just flat out wrong.Don’t need a wall of text to say that.
A wall of text
Fewer than 90 words
Attention span is fucking dead.
Look at their instance. They’re just here to jerk off
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.
