> We (Eastern Europeans) could not do neither of those things without risking jail time and we still managed to topple dictatorships.
Jail time (and now deportation) has been a risk for protesting for quite a while in the US. I can see why someone that doesn’t live here would see America’s longstanding reputation of being a cool place to protest in and assume that that is still the case, but that is outdated information. Heck, quite a few Americans insist that is still the case, but the ones that insist that there is no risk are mostly folks that “protest” through tweets
Jail time (and now deportation) has been a risk for protesting for quite a while in the US. I can see why someone that doesn’t live here would see America’s longstanding reputation of being a cool place to protest in and assume that that is still the case, but that is outdated information. Heck, quite a few Americans insist that is still the case, but the ones that insist that there is no risk are mostly folks that “protest” through tweets
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/08/columbia-university-protest...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/2/ucla-students-arrest...
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us...