Progressive Politics

It was purposely kept undeveloped. At cost to taxpayers, conserved for local wildlife.

But our paychecks depend on keeping billionaires in charge, how do you convince everyone to dislike their paychecks more than they like eating? Whether we like it or not we're in a situation where we rely on billionaires to feed our families. That's why everyone keeps saying "I can't protest or take strong action otherwise my family would be penniless." It's an excuse most people make. How do we fix that?

Yes, though the owners were clever and taught us wrong on purpose. Americans think waving signs in the park on a Saturday morning in a festival like environment is the highest form of protesting because "non-violent" protest was pushed in K-12 as if that's how it works. Seriously, ask an American about MLK or Gandhi and they'll sing their praises (to the point Conservative "thinkers" will genuinely praise MLK and think they would be on the same side, somehow). Then ask them about the Civil Right movement and Indian Independence - they know between jack and shit other than talking about those two men. Now ask them about labor protests that happened just down the street, breaking company towns, or literally any other kind of protest in the long, blood history of protesting domestic and abroad- again, crickets.

Also, our cities and towns are designed to make protesting difficult, ineffective, and easy to break up. Again, clever owners.

certain US citizens do. The majority have been just fine with how things were. They saved the riots and car fires for sports events.

Americans have been selectively bred and conditioned to follow orders and be nice over many generations. Sounds horrible, but they've effectively been turned into domesticated cattle.

Successfully? Probably not fully, since more and more are waking up. Or at least protesting. But still scarry as hell how close US governments got.

Woah, don't bring other star systems into our BS!

Jared Kushner went on a trip on a Rotschild (yes that one) mega yacht diving around Europe. Then the Albanian prime minister came to their boat and promised to sell them a massive island for a low price (in exchange for political support or bribes from daddy Trump most likely). Shortly after the boat visit the Albanian government privatized the island and sold it to Jared.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjDXjcNU2rw

The trumpians are all over free real estate in eastern Europe, which started with blackmailing Ukraine for personal mineral rights in exchange for not blocking arms and interfering with the war, then went south from there.

Oh, and if you meant an actual link, don't have one.

Ivanka and Kushner are planning to build a bunch of shit there.

Should, but never will

You realize we've been having large protests, right? For example, the city I live in is not even one of the top 10 largest cities in the US, but it has had multiple anti-Trump protests within the last year with a turnout of over 50k people. There were also other cities within 130 km of mine that had crowds with over 10k people.

The turnout in Tirana is similar in scale, but when you account for how small of a country Albania is and the fact that the entire country can easily travel to the capital to protest, the Albanian turnout is actually far less. The farthest anyone has to travel in Albania to reach the capital is 300 km. You don't even need a car. You can take an 8 hour bus ride.

In comparison, if I wanted to go to the US capital to protest, it is over 2500km away. That's like traveling from Tirana to Estonia, but without the option of easy public transportation. Not only that, but US politicians live in highly secure areas far away from where the public can reach. They never have to face us if they don't want to. No politicians even go to the building of my state capital except for a single 5 month period every two years. So the last several protests in my state capital have been people protesting at an empty building. Look dude, just because the media doesn't report stuff doesn't mean people aren't protesting. But a protest is going to be a lot more effective when you live in a tiny country with an easy way to travel.

Can the average person in your country afford to potentially lose their job while simultaneously being disqualified from unemployment benefits? My current job has 0 days PTO, and yes, I would be fired and disqualified from unemployment benefits. Can the average person in your country spend over $620 per person to fly to Washington DC? Yes, it costs that much for me. And going by bus would be even more expensive and take me over a week in travel time round trip. Can the average person in your country afford to spend over $500 in hotel costs even when splitting a room? If not, please kindly shut the fuck up. Me and many other people have been protesting regularly. But it's not possible for most of us, me included, to protest where the politicians are. Not to mention, the politicians don't care in the least. They mock us regularly. It's difficult to coordinate anything across a country that is as massive as the US, but we're at least trying.

Americans have been breaking records on protest turnout.

They probably just reversed the clip so it's movement matched the adjacent clips. The big red flag in the shot is all the way at the far end of the street. The drone probably just went down and back and they just chopped up the whole clip.