r/law • u/RoyalChris • Mar 05 '25

Legal News Rep. James Comer (R-KY) crashes out and refuses to let Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) enter evidence into the record - “You can go with Mr. Frost and Mr. Green.”

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u/Testiculus_ Mar 05 '25

This is what baffles me most. Where are the mass protests and marches? You guys took to the streets on mass for BLM, Me Too and whatnot but now that your democracy is being dismantled there's fuck all.

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u/trampolinebears Mar 05 '25

BLM protests happened when the weather was warm and millions of people were laid off or working from home.

I expect this summer should be wild.

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u/Testiculus_ Mar 05 '25

At this pace, this summer is too late. The weather is too uncomfy for protests? Really?

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u/AlternativeParty5126 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

The BLM protests were the largest gathering of protestors in American history. It had unprecedented media coverage and support. Nothing came of it. No large wide sweeping police reform got pushed and actually, the opposite tended to happen. It clearly didnt work against the Trump campaign. Nothing works. The time for us to act was this election and people decided they just don't care anymore. "Nothing ever happens". Republicans and Maga won't listen to any reason or discourse and any action just emboldens them. There's nothing we can fucking do. They control every part of Congress, every regulatory board is being replaced or repealed. Regular people have been fighting this for 12 years and nothing has come of it. We don't have the power that all the lobbyists and wealthy billionaires have. We lost when the supreme court ruled in favor of Citizens United in 2010.

The best I can do is volunteer at the local university's pride events. Which I do. I don't know what else you expect of us besides throwing our lives away for nothing.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Mar 06 '25

It's because all of our effort keeps being directed into the democratic party where it goes to slowly die.

If we aren't going to switch parties then it's time to take back the people's party so that we can get actual action done. People wouldn't feel such apathy if they knew they efforts could get things done.

I'm sick of Dem presidents being powerless while Trump is a fucking king...

Primaries are where we can do something. No more incumbents except the few who are actually trying.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Mar 06 '25

Look at where people live and then look at how far it is to get to DC. Compare that line to Europe or wherever you live.

Maybe then it'll make sense. Just getting to DC is usually a day or two of driving.

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u/kimchiMushrromBurger Mar 05 '25

People are tired and burned out. They have not seen protests affect meaningful change. People want to do something but it's not clear what is effective.

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u/Centurian128 Mar 05 '25

r/50501

There are mass protests occurring, but the news isn't covering them.

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u/FartsbinRonshireIII Mar 05 '25

I think it’s partly the media landscape we’re in right now. I see protests daily and larger ones weekly in my city, but I never hear or see anything about it in the media.

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u/Testiculus_ Mar 05 '25

I have not seen or heard of large scale protests anywhere. Reddit should be full of posts about them, but it isn't.

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u/Dapeople Mar 05 '25

That's weird because I have 100% seen multiple posts about the protests on multiple different subreddits.

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u/cissytiffy Mar 05 '25

Protests have started. They're not as large as they need to be, but it's starting. Slowly. People are slowly getting more fed up. Very very fucking stupidly slowly.

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u/gigawattwarlock Mar 05 '25

Mass protests are happening and building steam. The news is burying it for reasons(tm)

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u/KazooDumpkins Mar 05 '25

There are protests, they’re just not big enough for the media to be forced to cover yet.

But besides that we’re not there yet because some people are genuinely rooting for this, others can’t be fucked to pay attention, and that total number is unfortunately larger than those who do care right now.

BLM was a mass protest sparked on years and years of police injustice in communities across the country, shit happening in Washington rn just doesn’t affect the average person in that same way. And the BLM protests did morph into something bigger, but they took a single spark to start it first.

It took an obvious example of injustice being disseminated to the public in a way that wasn’t narrated by the media or officials. We dont have that yet because all the bad shit going on is behind closed doors, and spoken about from behind podiums and fancy tables

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u/Adorable_Raccoon Mar 06 '25

They already started and more people will show up when the weather gets better. Also not everyone can afford to protest. Most americans are 1 paycheck away from not paying their rent. Meaning, if they miss a week of pay they could lose their home. People are afraid to take the time off because they don't want to lose a day of pay. If we want people out in the street, we might need help people get there.

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u/Subtlerranean Mar 05 '25

on mass

en masse*

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u/Testiculus_ Mar 06 '25

Yeah blame my phone

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u/askaboutmynewsletter Mar 06 '25

Ok frenchie.

Literally the translation of those words. Let it go.

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u/Subtlerranean Mar 06 '25

It's literally not the translation you moron. Saying "on mass" makes you sound like a tool. At the very least say "in a mass" or even better "as a group" - but really, only saying en masse alludes to the feeling of a big group as intended here.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/en%20masse

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u/Lord-of-Goats Mar 05 '25

They are happening but many of the young protesters are not joining because Democrats brutalized them with police during the Palestine protests. Same reason they didn’t do get out the vote work, Democrats betrayed them

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u/Accomplished_Egg6239 Mar 05 '25

Nah, they helped gets us into this mess by protest voting/not voting

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u/Lord-of-Goats Mar 06 '25

Biden got us in this mess by not holding a primary and funding a genocide being done by a guy who wanted Trump to win

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u/Accomplished_Egg6239 Mar 06 '25

Not voting for Kamala was a stupid fucking decision. Do you think ANY OF THIS would be happening with Kamala on power?

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u/Lord-of-Goats Mar 06 '25

Nope. A lot of people will never vote for a genocider though. Kamala did say she agreed with all of Joe’s decisions, if she wanted the anti-genocide vote she could have been vocally anti-genocide

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u/Testiculus_ Mar 05 '25

By not voting and protesting they betray their democracy and themselves.

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u/Lord-of-Goats Mar 05 '25

They were beaten by the police while trying to protest a genocide by the democrats who want them to organize for them. Why would they doorknock for the same people who arrested and beat them?

Joe Biden could have stopped supplying weapons for a genocide at any time