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My options were because I work Saturdays, where the closest protest is over 90 miles away:
So I lose our on $138 dollars to help pay rent/food, and then spend $90+ dollars on the motel and food, to attend the protest.
If there was one in my hillbilly area I'd consider it before wondering if the redneck dipshits might shoot a chubby queer.
Many Europeans genuinely do not understand the sheer size of our country. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to everything else they seem to not understand about our shitty culture that's been glorified and lied about on TV for generations.
The fact I can cross that via a bus is pretty nice. But the fact I don't own a car nor have to drive (never needed to, the buses here are pretty decent and have decent rates), does impact me for a lot of events. I've been able to attend some about a mayor in my area when he falsely accused a homeless shelter of a gunshot wound, but the police officer who said it faked it all for attention.
So the mayor made shit up, about something that was made up. A protest was organized in front of city hall, and it was very close to a bus stop for me. Attended, hung out with some organizers and helped sign some ballot initiatives. Overall a decent time telling a Republican mayor to fuck off.
Edit: Sorry that I have a job to provide my family PugJesus. I know you hate that I have a life outside of Lemmy, unlike you.
I get it, this is a very pragmatic response. The problem, however, is that if everyone has this response (and let's face it, it's America, most people are so fucked over with their jobs, income, medical expenses, etc that they're all in your same boat) that these protests will never swell to a tipping point.
Meanwhile maga turns more powerful every day and son enough they'll be able to stop protesting altogether. Them it will be too late and then what will you do, especially being a person somewhere on the LGBT line?
I get it, you make a whole lotta sense and under any other circumstances I'd say that you're totally right but I think it's hard not to feel like we're in Germany 1939, and there are rapidly shrinking amounts of options left to stop this before the jailing of LGBT "for their own protection or some other bullshit" will start