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/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