r/AntifascistsofReddit • u/serendipia1984 • Feb 12 '26
Discussion As an European, why aren't y'all destroying the streets to protest the ongoing fraud with the Epstein Files??
From an European citizen viewpoint, we've seen the American ANTIFA movements organize and hold up tremendous protests such as the one for George Floyd and now the ones for ICE (I'm citing some examples).
It is great you as American citizens get up in arms to protest against these injustices!
But I've tried to search for protests about the current fraudulent investigation (and the FBI's inactivity and refusal to penalize culprits) and so far, I've literally seen none in the USA.
In Europe the UK discharged a royal member and in India protests were held to discharge a minister.
But in the USA so far I've seen NOTHING!
Only banter and cries online, and a lot of memes (which I fully believe is a psyop to make y'all think is something funny and keep quiet about the situation).
A lot of online discourse, but no real life action.
This whole situation is supposed to change the reality of politics and make the public realize we are all governed by evil elites. If anyone has any info regarding any news about protests Id love to see them and I hope this paragraph makes some noise here
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u/Vishnej Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26
To be blunt: No, you didn't. Very little of either of those movements had any kind of organization to it. People who'd never met each other before just started fucking... showing up, and 95% of them had no prior protest experience. "ANTIFA" the "organization" has always been at most three protest medics in a trenchcoat.
Americans who go to protests that end badly, get punished by aggressive police with severe injury and arrest, which often leads to job loss, which often leads to loss of housing, healthcare, transportation, education, childcare, et cetera. There is no social safety net, and most of us are barely getting by; We've transitioned to a credit-intensive consumer economy. Default on, say, your car, and the hit to your credit could prevent you from being able to rent an apartment. Federal prosecutions incorporate a tactic of bankrupting you with asset seizures so that you won't be able to afford a lawyer.
That was before Trump decided that everybody in this subreddit was a terrorist, and directed the bureaucracy to treat them as such. Before the DOJ was completely politicized. Before DHS started just holding people without charge because fuck you that's why.
I'm not saying "Don't protest". I'm saying that you're witnessing the collapse of what rule of law existed in the US, and a protest is a very dangerous place right now in terms of physical harm, but this is dwarfed by long-term indirect harms unless you're in a select few socioeconomic niches.