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No they hate the US and NATO in general. The hotel was going to be build on the ruins of a military headquarter that NATO bombed because the Serbian army under Mladić didn’t want to surrender. Remember many Serbs see Mladić as a hero and they deny that the Bosnian genocide ever happened. Some of these protesters are pro ethnic cleansing. There are no heroes here.
Some of these protesters are pro ethnic cleansing. There are no heroes here.
I may not like the protesters’ motivation, but I like the outcome - Kushner’s an autocrat, and whenever he looses, it’s a win.
Same with Anthony Joshua beating the shit out of Jake Paul. I may not like that Joshua supported Robert Mugabe in 2017. But when he breaks Paul’s jaw, I like the outcome, it’s a win.
Please be aware that Serbia had months of protests because a poorly built cement overhang fell and killed a bunch of people in Novi Sad in 2024. Corruption leading to death triggered huge protests admit a while huge range of things people were already pissed about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad_railway_station_canopy_collapse
Jarred’s hotel deal just perpetuates the same corruption issues.
Feels to me like they’re protesting their own government more than Trump & Co. But of course, both can be true.
Very much so, this is all about the government and corruption.
Of course I want people responsible for deaths to be held accountable, not allow the country to cross a dangerous threshold where people can be killed willy-nilly.
Would love it if Trump could just keel over too, but that’s a bit much to ask for.
If they protest their government catering to Trump & Co., that’ll be enough. They can’t directly influence US politics anyway, so focusing on their own is reasonable.
Jesus this man has aged horribly these past 10 years
Haven’t we all…
I’ve gotten much younger and overall just a joy to look at.
Because it’s so amusing?
I’ve gotten much hotter actually!
Climate change is a bitch
Evil ages your face. Look at Trump, Rudy Guiliani, Rupert Murdoch, Putin, Xi, former prince Andrew, etc. Disgusting creatures.
Think how much worse he’d look if he feared for his life for what he’s done in the orange paedos name? And, let’s face it, he really should live in fear.
Fortunately, errors like this can be rectified…No Mar a lago face for him!
Now see, that’s the kind of welcome he rightfully deserves to get everywhere.
Dear Scotland…
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This is the kind of news i like to see
Americans, and I don’t say this to be rude but more to say reflect on yourself. I’m not saying I’d be a hero. I’m not saying we’d all know what to do or do better, but there doesn’t seem to be any kind of working class solidarity as even a figment of the American psyche is seems.
Anyway, getting off track.
What has America done on the path all the way the brought us to today, and what have you done, your state, your municipality. Community, whatever. From the outside looking in it doesn’t seem like a lot, and even now while trump casually casts aside clear restraints and limits on power established in the courts and constitution. Daily behaves like a tinpot dictator, and goes unopposed, because nobody says boo.
It’s illegal, doesn’t matter he does it
It’s unconstitutional, says who? He does it.
He’s taking your people in the night, with unmarked soldiers, working outside the law, but it keeps happening. And that’s your citizens .
The treatment of non citizens, of any status now seems to be treated the same. With suspicion and bias, and the threat of deportation to be hung above them to keep them in line. I say non citizens, but many citizens and green card holders are caught up in this. People have been jailed for weeks without contact with lawyers or family, this is PREPOSTEROUS in America, it’s lunacy. It is vile and cruel and a betrayal of the values your nation was supposed to uphold.
Even citizens now are expected to stay inline or shut up, not to criticize the emperor and by extension all his little royal henchdweebs. Your social medias will be scoured 5 years thence, so ordered
And you seem to largely be allowing this to go on occuring, in many cases without much let or hindrance.
Is this the America you want and if not please do something.
Signed, a concerned Canadian.
If not us then who? If not now then when?
His evil acts are being done on our behalf and with our power. I agree it should piss off every American to be associated with it.
We have a duty to at least say it. A duty to tell our reps and senators. Our state goveners and legislators. Our mayors and councils. Our employers and coworkers. To tell them to reject complicity with unconditional acts, with ethnic cleansing, with the genocide. To call for protections at any level we can. To call for the removal from office of anyone that is complicit.
We have the power. People are acting, but it needs to be any concionable person, any person who will be or someone they now will be affected by a government violating let alone failing to protect human rights.
What about Serbia though
We are causing some uh stirring, but I have a feeling if our president gets overthrown, some right-wing grifter will use this as an opportunity to hop on.
I mean, Serbians hate Americans in general
Which is fair.
We don’t have the kinds of protections other folks have with regard to free speech. It’s not about balls. Our first amendment gives you the right to carry a sign down the sidewalk. If you stop walking you can be arrested. The arrest can affect your employment / you can be fired for being arrested. There’s no unemployment if you get fired. There’s no social safety net. People miss two paychecks and they can’t eat.
Exercising free speech in America is super high stakes. Once again, it’s not about balls.
You’ve just described why it is about balls though. Willingness to do something with risk.
If you literally don’t see the difference, I don’t know what to say.
Ok maybe one thing: I’ve been in demonstrations all over the world, major protests like Arab Spring and the second penguin revolution in Chile. Actions that changed governments. I’ve met so, so, so many people who do what’s in the OP. And you will never convince me that not wanting to potentially lose everything their family’s ever worked for their whole lives to protest against billionaires doing routine billionaire shit makes someone a pussy.
What IS it that you need to face such risks, then?
You think Serbia is cool about free speech?
Trump branded toilets where the bottom of the bowl was his face with mouth open, might be a very hot international seller.
I personally would like one of his golden statues where the gold is sprayed on so badly that it starts to come off pretty much immediately, revealing the mud-colored recycled plastic underneath.
Let’s have all billionaires receive that kind of welcome everywhere they go.
I like to think events like this can usher in a golden age in a nations history… I mean, what a show of national unity, right? Powerful.
he has the eyes of a soulless predator
The top protest image looks fake. I’ve seen too many AI images with signs that read like that one. The protest sign with that perspective just looks AI. I hope and believe the protests happen. The image just looks odd.
Sorry, I don’t mean to be contrarian here; but “Try Japanese Hotel In Pearl Harbor?” looks exactly like the kind of convoluted language you’d see in some FaceBook post begging for likes for an AI disabled veteran or homeless single mother.
Edit: I was clearly wrong here. I saw the lettering and the spacing and phrasing and got fixated on a bunch of actually AI signs I had seen a few days prior. I didn’t fully think this comment through. I apologize for my comment.
No, the sign makes sense and highlights the main reason the Serbs are so opposed to the hotel. The proposed site was a historical building that was bombed by NATO during the war for Kosovo’s independence. Serbs pretty universally see those events as “American” bombings and often cite them as cause to despise the US. So, the sign is pointing out the insensitivity of an American developer building a hotel in that location by comparing it to a Japanese developer building a hotel in Pearl Harbor.
Given how deeply Serbia is within the sphere of Russian influence, I doubt they care one way or the other that it’s affiliated with Jared Kushner, they just don’t like that it would have been owned by an American.
The problem is neither him, nor America. The problem is the building is protected architecture, doubly so for it’s history, and has been illegally offered to Kushner as a gift, to try and get the deeply unpopular government into the good graces of the Trump regime. It’s a story of a traitor selling off the country piecemeal to foreign powers so he could cling on to power.
Not everything in the world revolves around the latest US boogeyman.
And yet, that explains absolutely nothing about the relevance of Pearl Harbor to this situation, which is what this particular thread of the discussion was related to. Thanks for the downvote anyway, though.
The Pearl Harbour part is a message made to be understandable for Americans. That’s why it’s in English. If they were giving it to Putin, the reaction would be the same, except the banner would be in Russian, and be about something else. And yes, the braindead “Russian sphere of influence” take every idiot has on here about a country they know less than nothing about earns you a downvote fair and square.
Two seconds of the big bad google surrendered this screen grab of all the peeps who were fooled:
Less time than it took for you to compose your reply.
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