Because local cops, fucking billionaire celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld, shady internet ops funded by Israel, the entire media establishment, and their own fucking schools colluded to terrorize the youth for exercising their rights and demonstrating at their halls of learning.
And literally, they told us not to. And we’re doing what they told us to. Why aren’t they happy we are being the good conformists they want us to be? We’re already more right wing than boomers and they still think gen z isn’t racist enough.
Are they just allergic to giving us any credit? (Of course, I AM left-wing. But I’m just saying that the actual establishment doesn’t deserve the blind loyalty they get from zoomers.)
That’s the part I can’t get over. They told the kids to stifle their youthful impulses and said “we might ruin the entire rest of your life over this” and wondered why they weren’t enthused about the whole event
Everyone knows the score at this point.
Palantir, the bloated police state and the absolute refusal to listen to even the milquetoast request to stop funding a genocide (not even fight to stop the genocide!) all have shown that protest results in beatings and ostracization from the economy.
What does that mean? Who knows.
Narrative salience and history would teach us that it's the hero's journey. You'd have some disillusioned youth who hates the status quo find their way out of their comfort zone. They'd find a mentor who tells them about the stakes and teaches them a new way to interact. They'd then confront the powers that be with this new found capacity. Presumably this would be like someone reacting to the brutal violence and impotence of asking nicely. For legal reasons I can't imagine what an adapted response to fascist violence that's not asking nicely would be. I genuinely cannot even fathom a single guess as to what that that might look like.
I think it means more burnt down warehouses.
Not that I approve of that, of course.
I condemn and disavow vandalizing defense contractors!
I disavow extremely cool industrial sabotage
The kids have correctly recognized that protesting, and only protesting, is only effective at wearing yourself out
Getting jailed, permanently injured or killed to mill around in a street saying "down with this sort of thing" isn't helpful?? i'm shocked
Another factor, Twenge noted, may be that the left overplayed its hand on controversial issues such as transgender women in sports, equity versus equality, cancel culture, defunding the police, affirmative action,
Thanks for the analysis new york warcrimes, its wokeness, not that protest just means nothing anymore
Yeah, we "overplayed our hand" by actually having material demands instead of just chanting vague pablum about kings and "authoritarianism" interrupting brunch.
Defund the police is a thing the left went for, the rest was stuff the right over reacted to. People didnt go out on the streets over fucking equity vs equality, they did it cause cops keep murdering black people. This is why you dont use academic terminology to express wanting basic rights, they will use it against you. Be blunt
They’ll use anything they want against you, whether it’s a Marxist academic phrase like “critical theory”, corpo jargon like “DEI”, or online slang phrases like “stay woke”. Hence the phrase “When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist”. You can say the most innocuous thing and they’ll spit blood at you.
They were out protesting against Trump in Minneapolis. Then the mayor amd the governor cut backdoor deals with Trump to sic the police and national guard on the protestors so that ICE could work in peace.
Hmm... a similar thing before with a Basel Al Araj Palestine protest in Columbia University
On May 7, 2025, student protesters at Columbia University entered and took over the Lawrence A. Wien Reading Room of Butler Library, naming it the "Basel Al-Araj Popular University" as part of a broader protest movement demanding disinvestment from Israel amid the Gaza genocide.[41][42] At the order of Columbia's administration, students were blocked in by Columbia's Public Safety and prevented from leaving unless they showed their student ID cards, causing a standoff for hours until the administration summoned the NYPD to arrest the students.[43] The Trump administration praised Columbia's response as showing "fortitude and conviction",[44] highlighting the enforcement of campus policies amid federal scrutiny over the university's handling of antisemitism allegations.[45][46][47] The day before Columbia formalized its settlement with the Trump administration, its University Judicial Board issued expulsions, suspensions, and degree revocations to over 70 students who participated in the "Basel Al-Araj Popular University" occupation of Butler Library.[48][49]
This is what happened to those actually anti-Trump elements
“Hey, why aren’t you lining up to impotently shout for no one who will listen to you? How am I supposed to ignore you if I have nothing to ignore?”
Mass anti ice action isn't a protest? Lmao
he isn't bad because he's genociding people of color with his own personal gestapo you frikkin tankie. he's bad because he wants to be a dictator like his lover putin. no kings!!
No thats terrorism. Basically 9/11 every time somebody blows a whistle.
[the protests] People in frog costumes doing yoga
Because the kids are starting warehouse fires.
I hate it when a lava fire torches my :minecraft: storage.
Partially democrats heavily outlawed protests and trump isn't hesitating to take advantage of the more than usual "illegality" of protests.
Some of the biggest protests in US history have been against Trump, including the women protests, 50501 ones, and the anti-ICE ones. There have also been numerous smaller ones, including anti-War with Iran protests and pro-Palestinian ones. Wtf are they talking about?
They aren't demonized by the media anymore so it doesn't exist
I've seen pro-Palestine people show up at these Lib ass NO KINGS protests and other related marches. People are still doing stuff it's just the campus protests fizzled out cuz I think people realized the whole encampment thing isn't that effective.
Kids were expelled and banned from campus. That's why it fizzled out.
And teachers who participated were fired, immigrants who participated were deported, etc. They came down hard on them, which is why you know we need to keep doing that.
The encampments and disruptions were effective, that's why college kids were getting their skulls cracked and pepper sprayed. The No Kings marches are ineffective, out of sight, out of mind, that's why noone bothered
it was the most effective of any anti-genocide protesting in the USA, that's why it was cracked down on with an iron fist. It stopped not because it was ineffective but because the core of activists was arrested, expelled and beaten
Yeah actually it's an indication that it was being effective, and would have continued being effective, which is why the state used its security forces to suppress those tactics.
there were a few famous and effective encampments but there were also many groups that didn't correctly follow the escalation ladder just so they could join the encampment wave and therefore were successfully destroyed with little to no actual impact
Why aren't the kids out protesting against Trump?! 
Why isnt the democratic party doing anything against Trump? Im aware why, but its the headline that any decent journalist would have.
since we all know that they are and have been is this like a call for a bunch of zoomers to leeroy jenkins themselves in futility against the white house lethal defense grid in a sort of lib J6?
"we spent years brutalizing young people for good and righteous protesting and now we want them to get mowed down so we can start a conversation or something" - nyt
this is what canadalibs and eurolibs have been dancing around asking for, though not for any of the actually bad things 
has done, but because tronald drumpf was mean to them on tweeters.
yea i see that in reddit comments constantly (why i read those i don't know)
i fucking hate liberals
The irony here..
The author is asking why kids aren't protesting yet they have done some of the largest protests in US history. It's the reason you have to search "Music Festivals" to see protests.
Media conglomerates.
I'm talking out of my ass here but there aren't any locally owned and operated media companies like there used to be. Most media is controlled by a large corporation.
not that locally owned and operated media companies are much better. petty bourgies vs. haute bourgies, either way they're just shoving various flavor of boogie ideology in your face. Small "local" news, even before they were monopolized, spent all their time on fearmongering about crime and putting out useless feel-good puff pieces. It's not like they were putting out cutting critiques of the system or anything. An actual exposé revealing local corruption or scandals was extremely rare, and some of those were probably bullshit smear pieces and opposition hit pieces in a political game.
If anything, it's better that the small news stations are monopolized now because it's more obviously bullshit, and it will be easier to seize when the time comes.
Protests against Trump's support for genocide don't count?
No. Thats just anti-semitism. If uou get rid of genocide, there literally is no more jewish culture¹. How dare you spread this antisemitic garbage.
¹weak diaspora jews whose grand parents were not from britain or new york dont count
Does archive.is even work for anyone? It never lets me get past the captcha and I’m pretty sure I am human
Try using your mobile data or VPN, or any other method to change your IP. Some ISP might wrongly id' as spam (false positive flag), I had the exact same problem with my home internet.
Yeah I’m on VPN so it is probably the VPN itself. Thanks!
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