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Patrick Powers's avatar

If 100,000s of Americans protested our wars would they end?

Ha ha ha.

How about millions?

No dice, say I.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

I remember there being over 100,000 alone in San Francisco before W. went into Iraq again.

I remember we used to have a local protest that gathered thousands in our small community.

Then the reality of what happened in 2016 followed by 2020 and we just walked away.

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Michael's avatar

Those same people and their offspring now support wars led by democrat administrations and now think George Bush is a cuddly grandpa figure

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Patrick Powers's avatar

The reach of post-truth media is not what they are getting you to think it is. CNN 2023 viewership was down a whopping 33%. Joe Rogan gets 16 times more viewers than does CNN.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

I dunno, Rogan was all a gaga over some guy saying that China was on the verge of falling apart. Evidence that Peter Zeihan was just spouting the story that the Oligarchy wanted to hear was ignored.

Rogan isn't God.

He just knows how to coo and woo at the right time. Alex Jones in drag so to speak.

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Patrick Powers's avatar

I don't listen to Joe Rogan and have little to no idea what he says or thinks. The point is that an outsider is far more popular than the insiders. This tells us something.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

I sincerely doubt that the folks who protested against the war believe what you're accusing them of. No one pay attention to W. any longer other than to laugh at him and hiss at Obama.

There were people at the SF protest mooning the crowds out of their apartment windows.

Yes, the political environment in the US is awful. But that doesn't mean everyone has been turned into a Zombie.

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Vayu's avatar

You have a point. Before the Iraq war I saw seas of people protesting in San Francisco. Not just one protest, weekend after weekend. Enough people that wall to wall people took 4 hours to walk two miles from The Embarcadaro to the Civic Center. I knew that NY, DC and LA all had equally as many people, for each of the many protests. It seemed like there were enough aware people that no one could stop their intent. Then I'd get home and the media made it seem like a couple thousand of people who were destroying store fronts were there.

Our media is so controlled It might be that no matter if every one of the people don't want what's happening it will still look like they are a minority.

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Nostradamus's avatar

80+ million Americans protested against the ongoing injectable bioweapons' genocide and the "Experimental Countermeasures" continue as if nothing has happened..

https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/lisa-marie-vaxxed-2.jpg

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