[a2tech]

Between this and Minneapolis I guess the water temperature just keeps on being turned up, and us frogs are just chilling out in our warm baths.

[imzadi]

There were over 1000 protests over the weekend. The one I went to in Surprise, AZ had almost 1000 people, in a fairly conservative area with mostly older, white demographics. I think the tide is turning.

[INTPenis]

Serious question from a clueless european here, who should they vote for?

To us on the outside, getting filtered news that trickles down, it just seems like there are no candidates. One is 79 and one is 83, where are all the young politicians? Why does the media choose to only emphasize a few of them at the time?

[GJim]

> There were over 1000 protests OVER THE WEEKEND

At the risk of sounding sarky, you are going to have to do more than protest at the weekend (!) to stop what is happening to you.

[FrustratedMonky]

That was one of the main plot points in Andor.

The rebellion had to raise the temperature faster, more dramatically, in order to wake people up. To make the frogs realize it was hot and jump out.

Lonni Jung: "You realize what you've set in motion? People will suffer."

Luthen Rael: "That's the plan."

Luthen believes that to succeed, they need to anger the Empire and make them come down hard on the citizens, which in turn will fuel the rebellion.

[ortusdux]

Reminds me of the West Wing:

C.J. Cregg: Leo, we need to be investigated by someone who wants to kill us just to watch us die. We need someone perceived by the American people to be irresponsible, untrustworthy, partisan, ambitious, and thirsty for the limelight. Am I crazy, or is this not a job for the U. S. House of Representatives?

Leo McGarry: Well, they'll get around to it sooner or later.

C.J. Cregg: So let's make it sooner - let's make it now.

[anon84873628]

We have left wing accelerationists in the US too.

[FrustratedMonky]

Did people not like Andor? Or the same Russian Bots that downvote any anti-right-wing/brown-shirt sentiment.

[HumblyTossed]

Woah woah woah! I still haven't watched this. (I know, I know...)

[lobsterthief]

Not everyone is chilling. Some of us are protesting and/or moving our families out of the country.

[njovin]

I don't know if it's fair to say we're chilling - there have been fairly organized (although admittedly not very large) protests around the nation related to the killing of Nicole Renee Good. I live in southern California and there were at least 6 within easy driving distance this past weekend.

Whenever ICE goes into a new city, they're meeting more and more community resistance. The protestors have mostly been very smart about remaining civil, which continues making ICE look worse and worse as they tear gas and arrest peaceful protestors.

The supreme court has ruled (somewhat surprisingly) that Trump can't deploy the National Guard into cities any longer.

Trump's approval rating has continued steadily declining since he took office, and the midterms are shaping up to be a bloodbath.

I'm mid-40s and this is the best-organized and most successful demonstration movement I've witnessed in my lifetime. Occupy got close, but that felt like something that the more 'extreme' ones were actively participating in, with more passive support from the populace. Now it feels like everyone is getting directly involved in one way or another.

[peab]

I understand protesting ICE for better accountability, they certainly need to be held accountable. But I don't understand those who protest the presence of ICE as a concept. Are there any countries that don't enforce their immigration laws?

[fzeroracer]

I live in Seattle and I've seen multiple large protests around the ICE murder of Renee Good. Part of the problem is that the US is too large as the people responsible for the jackbooted thugs kicking in doors and killing citizens are on the other side of the country. Business in Minneapolis is practically grinding to a halt as stores and businesses close their door out of fear.

I think we're one or two bad incidents away from wide-scale rioting.

[therobots927]

We have the tech elite to thank for this disaster

[squigz]

Why has this analogy been repeated so much lately? Did someone famous use it or something?

Edit: just to clarify, I'm not denying it's appropriate; it just seems remarkable to me that it's being used so often lately.

[embedding-shape]

> Why has this analogy been repeated so much lately?

Probably because a country that was famous for trying to spread their idea of "freedom" all across the world, seemingly can't notice themselves that the country is rapidly declining into full on authoritarian dictatorship, with a very skewed perspective of "freedom", and the people who are opposing it, aren't rioting (yet at least).

The judicial arm of the government aren't even enforcing the laws of the country anymore! Not sure how, but it'll get worse before it gets better. Quite literally a fitting analogy in this case.

[lm28469]

It's a 100+ years old metaphor widely used at virtually any point in time since then to describe all kind of situations

[sowbug]

Have fun seeing "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" everywhere.

[nutjob2]

Because it's appropriate and descriptive?

[relaxing]

Baader-Meinhof effect.