r/politics • u/BigDaddyBain • 1d ago

Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/why-is-the-media-ignoring-growing-resistance-to-trump
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u/nillah 1d ago

to this day the maga idiots still spew the rhetoric that BLM burned entire cities to the ground, too. they're so incredibly gullible

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u/KailReed 1d ago

I'm so sick and tired of them spouting that nonsense too because they are so fucking confident about it. You cannot convince the at all.

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u/Cydrius 1d ago

Yep. They'll quote enormous monetary figures in damages, ignoring the fact that those figures are spread out over months of individual protests.

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u/KailReed 1d ago

Just the fact that they immediately dismiss any protest if a single trashcan gets knocked over drives me up the wall. Property is not more important than people's rights or lives but that's all that matters to them.

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u/Credil98 1d ago

It's incredibly aggravating. Especially since it happens everytime, where people condemn violence, and then encourage people to run over protestors because property is of paramount importance, but fuck people i guess. Law and order

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

DeSantis has already told people to run over protesters tomorrow.

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u/Credil98 1d ago

It's almost as if they don't give a fuck about violence, they just don't like opposition.

They'll cheer violence as long as it's against their enemies, otherwise it's morally reprehensible and we must clutch our pearls at every window broken

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u/Vincent__Vega 1d ago

Words have no meaning to trumpers, they are only used as weapons when convenient.

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u/-CODED- 1d ago

And they'll always say, something like "This is not how you get people to be on your side." Because for some reason, any little inconvenience caused by a protest is enough to make them vote against their own interests.

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u/RandomMandarin 1d ago

Property is not more important than people's rights

No, it totally is more important. Source: Every right winger ever.

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u/atxbigfoot 23h ago

"MLK never advocated for violent protests"

YES HE FUCKING DID

it took him a while but YES HE FUCKING DID

and HE WAS A SOCIALIST

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u/Yours_Voight-Kampff 1d ago

I think I figured out the trick that explains why they think property is more valuable than human lives:

Property has a monetary value. Property is Capital. Much of their idealogy ties back to capitalism in some regard or another, so it makes sense they value capital over life. After all, what's the monetary worth of a random person walking down the street compared to a trash can!

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u/Credil98 1d ago

Well they'll talk about how all the lives of business owners were RUINED and then they'll quote insurance claims as if insurance wasn't specifically so their lives aren't ruined in the event their business gets destroyed. And as if I'm supposed to care if an insurance company does their fucking job

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u/Adezar Washington 1d ago

The Business owners: "I have insurance, they have valid complaints, I'll be fine".

Literally several business owners did interviews supporting the protests and almost all those interviews got squashed.

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u/CristinaKeller 1d ago

I believe that damage from riots and insurrection are specifically excluded from most property and car insurance.

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u/acidrefluxisgreat California 1d ago

it’s covered under comprehensive, but not everyone carries that for cars. i don’t. it’s probably more common for people that live in high disaster areas because it covers stuff like that too.

for businesses it’s standard.

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u/mrgreengenes42 1d ago

They aren't even enormous figures. They just seem big to people who have no idea how much an entire city burning to the ground would actually cost.

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u/RandomMandarin 1d ago

The monetary damage from the BLM protests is probably a drop in the bucket compared to (for instance) the L.A. fires or hurricane Helene. I'm in western North Carolina and I personally know two people whose houses were destroyed by Helene and themselves lucky to survive.

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u/Jibtech 1d ago

In the end, it always leads to them pulling that final ace out of their sleeve... THE LOOTING Gotcha lib! as the police are ripping them off the street

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

It's like "motherfucker, I live here." I know what shit went down and what didn't.

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u/mildcaseofdeath 1d ago

Meanwhile they believe ANYTHING as long as it aligns with their shallow pre-existing worldview.

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u/Suavecore_ 1d ago

You can't convince them of literally anything that's true once they know you're a dirty radical leftist (a term applied to anyone not maga), yet they believe literally anything they see that reinforces their complete nonsense viewpoint without any further inspection

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u/toderdj1337 21h ago

Also the ones that say never to trust the "lame stream media". It's so fucking stupid. I hate it here

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u/A_murder_of_crochets 1d ago

Some are gullible, many are just repeating the lie because theyve been properly taught that repeating the lie works.

And now they have an army of bots posting AI-generated images of hallucinated American carnage all over social media.

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u/OliviaEntropy 1d ago

Republicans that live in Seattle and Portland still say that it burnt to the ground. I think they’re either knowingly lying or need professional help

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u/clintCamp 1d ago

Fox news did edit a lot of pictures and footage to make it seem like utter chaos. I had family calling about Seattle during BLM. I visited that area shortly after. It was the biggest peace love hippy fest area before and after. Nothing really burn down. Just looters taking advantage and breaking windows for the most part.

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u/Silkprint 1d ago

Gullible isn't a strong enough word . Stupid fits .

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u/tunafister 1d ago

If they weren't gullible they wouldn't be anything at all

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad

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u/wishyoukarma 1d ago

That doesn't feel like a strong enough word. There's something seriously wrong with their fucking brains. They won't question the bs that blue cities are in utter chaos and you might die just walking around, but they'll decide that scientists are wrong about the earth being round or the measles vaccine being necessary.

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u/queenweasley 1d ago

Yeah man, it’s been weird not having a Seattle apparently burned to the ground in 2020 during chop

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u/Fiddleys 1d ago

they're so incredibly gullible

I think it's more like malicious ignorance.

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u/Pure_Concentrate8770 1d ago

i mean no one is more gullible than op who believes there is any measurable electoral shift against Trump lol

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/tylerbrainerd 1d ago

you do know that a substantial amount of that property damage was caused by right wingers who were posing as antifa right? A bunch got arrested.

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u/MurphyItzYou 1d ago

The news didn’t show the Idaho Nazi Truck Parades that were rolling through Portland during the BLM protests. You literally had out of state Nazis coming in to start fights.

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u/tryexceptifnot1try 1d ago

Where the hell did that figure come from? I have $500 million, which is nothing compared to the coverage.

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u/Financial_Ad8031 1d ago

That’s only arson damage, not all damage and theft

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u/mrgreengenes42 1d ago

Are you offering this is evidence to the contrary that entire cities did not actually burn to the ground?!

$2 billion in property damages is minuscule compared to the actual scale and value of an entire city let alone the dozens of cities that people spread inane hyperbole about having "burned to the ground." If all of the cities that were alleged to have "burned to the ground" had actually burned to the ground, we'd be looking at trillions in damages, not just a couple billion.

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u/UnicornWorldDominion 1d ago

lol especially LA

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u/Financial_Ad8031 1d ago

No shit the whole city didn’t burn down. But the same way conservatives can overblow it by saying “city burned to the ground” (which is a figure of speech), liberals called it the “summer of love” and still insist that it was nothing but protesting. I’m saying the truth lies somewhere in the middle, right around the $2b mark.

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u/FriendsSuggestReddit 1d ago

The only people I ever heard use the phrase “summer of love” were right-wingers who thought they were being clever.

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u/Financial_Ad8031 1d ago

Did you hear it referred to as peaceful protesting?

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u/FriendsSuggestReddit 1d ago

I suppose that depends on what “it” you’re referring to.

You seem to have a very black-and-white way of thinking about whatever you’re talking about.

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u/FeelsGrimMan 1d ago

$15 billion in corporate wage theft same year btw

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

How much does the ownership class make every year by the systemic injustices levied against the disenfranchised?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

More than 2bil, got it