Asklemmy

There have been tons of protests and there have been some pretty widespread ones outside of Tesla this weekend. The media is just hardly covering it making them seem way smaller than they are

Here's a map of recent Tesla Takedown protests alone

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

Here's just a handful of photos from yesterday

Most people within the US aren't aware these protests are happening either. There are also broader nationwide protests planned on April 5th as part of the 50501 movement. This will be the 4th nationwide 50501 protest

There are. It's just the US is a large car-centric country which makes travel difficult and the ruling party controls almost all of the media and thus there is a media blackout on protests.

“Why are there no” should be “why aren’t news outlets covering the”

Search for the hashtag #50501 on any social media platform. Check c/50501.

The protests are happening. News media just wants to suck Trump’s dick so they can “survive” the fascist takeover so they’re not covering them. Same reason Reddit is censoring criticism of Musk (source)

There are many protests, more than there were in 2017, but they are mostly smaller in attendance. The difference is the media coverage. And you are right, there hasn't been a single event like the Women's March that has broken through to international coverage.

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/

America is massive

The media is controlled by the elite to not cover demonstrations

They’re getting bigger every week

As others are pointing out, there are mass protests going on—but I think there’s more to it than that.

The general message of all protests is “listen to us or else”. In the US for the last fifty years, “or else” has been understood to mean “or else you’ll lose the next election”—but it’s becoming clear that this threat has no leverage with Trump, either because he’s confident he can manipulate elections (through whatever means) or because he intends to accomplish his goals in his current term and doesn’t care what happens after that.

So protests need to find some other goal and some other message. Right now they’re looking for other weak points (e.g., Tesla dealerships), but once it’s clear they’ve got a strategy Trump is actually afraid of, the numbers will grow.

wdym? Every single week there's protests. Are you part of an org? If you're part of an org maybe you'll hear about them more?

It's a perfect example of how the media are complicit in the rise of fascism.

because you're only seeing through a lense that is controlled by capital, and they refuse to show the demonstrations. I went to one yesterday, there were thousands of us and we took to the streets to demand trans rights. I won't speak to the efficacy of the protests, but they are happening. News of them is just being suppressed.

There were well over 1000 people at the protest I was at on Saturday...

Next Saturday (April 5) is supposed to be a huge day of protest across the country, notably with a very large demonstration planned for the National Mall in DC. I plan to be at that one.

The revolution will not be televised

I've seen three at my state's Capital building. All three got about 5 seconds of local media coverage and zero national media coverage.

If 2020 taught us anything at all, it was that despite whatever horrors, challenges, and/or desperate situations, we are still expected to show up for work on time. Don’t want to lose insurance, and most people are like a paycheck or two away from being unhoused, or at least seriously close that it would be near impossible to catch back up. They’ve made it impossible to do anything except show up for work on time.

Everyone should be protesting who can protest in relative safety. You'll probably wish you knew the people you met at the protests when we can't legally protest any longer.

A lack of organization. There's no one central voice organizing large scale protests, so you get hundreds or thousands of smaller protests that don't attract media attention.

Do you know they omitted the first sentence from that poem which has a prominent place on the wall of the US holocaust museum?
Americans are so scared of the C-word.

!General@50501.chat

Demonstrations have become so predictable that people ignore them now. Politicians know that if you wait a few days they will be forgotten. What you really need to do is shut down the nation like the French rail unions do.

There needs to be a US wide worker’s strike. ATC workers, military, everything. The police won’t be on strike but they have already demonstrated that they are fascists, but everybody else should be striking.

Why would they show you the who and where to congregate to fight? Streisand effect real

In 2020, the DNC struck a devil's bargain to ally themselves with the corporate media and social media platforms over their own activist base. This led to the media doing massive coverage of what was, other than the women's march, not particularly impressive "resistance." Now that the corporate media and social media have realized that the DNC is so dysfunctional and unable to do any institutional accountability for poor performance, it is unlikely we will see them in power for decades (ala the GOP for most of the 20th century) they switched sides and allied themselves with the GOP, so their incentive is to just not cover protest at all to suppress dissent and please their new allies on the MAGA right.

define large, because every major city is already hitting frequent protests in the thousands

Any place to find good protests near me? I wanna join one for fun

I think initially people felt broken by the election. The fact that so many of our people voted for him seemed crazy and crushing.

For me and people I know that fog is starting to lift and neighbors are getting organized, but it's still in small pockets. There is no consensus leadership but there are actually lots of protests going on, like at the Tesla dealership. Interestingly, I learned that was happening from my dental hygienist while she was cleaning my teeth, not from any media.

Elon is taking the blame

Because the US doesn't have any opposition parties or any local leadership that can organize anything. Protests in other places are usually organized by unions, for example. In America everyone just sits at their own couch thinking "someone should be doing something by now" and it never crosses their minds that they should be that someone.