cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42177433
Sat 24 Jan 2026 21.32 EST
Large protests spread across US cities on Saturday – including Minneapolis, New York City, San Francisco, Boston and Providence, Rhode Island – after 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a registered nurse living in Minneapolis, was shot dead by federal agents.
The wave of demonstrations come just one day after thousands marched through the streets of Minneapolis to protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Protesters again braved the extreme cold to speak out against the agency and show support for Pretti and others who have been harmed by the surge of immigration agents who have flooded the city in recent week.
Thousands more rallied in Union Square in New York City, with footage showing demonstrators shouting: “Say it once, say it twice, we will not put up with ICE!”
So you gave up, okay, but it’s really no good sportsmanship to demotivate the other players.
Lemmy is filled with these operatives, urging us to surrender, it’s too late, you’re too weak, nobody will do anything, waaah!
They were all over Reddit before the election, just like this. They are Russian, or Muskian, or MAGA, and the objective is to keep us demoralized. Ignore them.
Seriously I fucking hate people like OP.
Even if all you do is shit post online, you can still contribute by being resistant and encouraging.
Yea, you might be removedmade not wanting to protest, but somone else more brave might go out after reading another positive comment.
These negative comments add NOTHING, except emboldening the fascists.
It’s like those WW2 motivational posters, if the internet was around back then, OP would be shitting on them because “what’s a poster going to do? Give a Nazi a paper cut???” - he said smugly from his mother’s basement computer
Exactly. Ignore naysayers–their agenda is to sit on their fat asses and support fascism by discouraging its enemies.
Protests help immensely. We see we aren’t alone, we realize how many people feel the same as we do and join them. Strength in numbers. Not just in protests but in all the other work. Observe, film, document. Boycott bootlicker companies. Do not feed the oligarchs, do not comply.
Encourage and support each other, aid those being oppressed. Everyone can contribute however they can contribute, each action or dollar small in itself but a major force taken as a whole. Large numbers showing up in the open enables the smaller numbers working behind the scenes.