Cool. Give them where their hurts the Most: their ego
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This is the third post i made today related to the wedding protests. I hope you people enjoy. I'm sharing these because many of the protesters behind it are getting arrested.
I'm glad you are. I love the "No Kings" slogan and that other countries are taking it up. I wish they would call the next protest in America "No Kings II, then whatever they were going to call it here." I guess we could could call it unofficially, "No Kings II."
UK here - dearly wish we would take up the No Kings thing... 😔
From the outside looking in, the pageantry of it all is probably why it sticks. You also have someone to talk about. We get the drama of US citizens and immigrants being sent to concentration camps or prisons in other countries.
Also outside looking in:
From what I’ve heard the royals bring in a lot of tourism money.. or used to anyway.. idk about this -ahem- new fella..
Just give him time, I'm sure people will start respecting him if he does a good job for 20-30 years
Not all heroes wear capes, and you’re a magnificent human for helping spread this content. It’s important.
Why are the protestors getting arrested?
Italy has a fascist government, and the council of Venice is pro Bezos, claiming that somehow he has more right to rent Venice than its citizens have to live in it.
Ugh, that sucks.
Italy has a fascist government
How?
The granddaughter of the guy that literally invented fascism is in Italian parliament right now.
And she's really proud of her granddaddy.
Law after law the government is criminalizing protests. In St Mark's Square any non-authorized protest is prohibited so even a sit-in could result in breaking the law. Here's the moment they arrested someone in a wheelchair:
Keep going, ~~King~~ buddy.
Great work. Way to stick your neck out.
(Accidentally dropped the comment on the main post instead of this comment, oops)
I hope knowing that people all over the world viscerally hate him damages his calm on an ongoing basis.
It is just a reinforcement for us. He has probably never had more than the ever-elusive 'fleeting high'. He's in a skinner box, where he has already maxed out the ill effects of one of our more powerful tools (money). He has to go to ever further extents to quiet the demons that most of us had to cope with since adolescence.
To drive the point home, he'll never be able to make any new authentic connections in his life (if he ever could in the past). While it is a bit copium, and I am as frothy in the mouth about his antics as any well-meaning individual, I do find it one of the constant, if smallest, wins.
It's always projection with these people!
Love it!! Just needs a little Luigi emoji 👌
This will come out nicely on the wedding pictures.
It's probably pretty easy to shop out
I haven’t been reading too much news lately. What is going on with Jeff Bezos and why are people protesting him? 
He's getting married in Venice with all of his friends there. People are protesting because Venice is pretty crowded with tourists and vulnerable to climate change. Also he's Jeff Bezos.
$20 million wedding in Venice.
With an absurd number of billionaires flying in on private jets to attend
And celebrities
https://people.com/celebrities-arriving-at-jeff-bezos-and-lauren-sanchezs-wedding-photos-11761650
Just as tonedeaf as them pretending "we're just like you" when COVID happened and they were forced to stay in their mansions as everyone struggled.
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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez
Lmao well, I'd hope they went to the wedding
Yeah what a dumb part of the article lol. That being said, I'm sure there were more celebrities that managed to sneak in without being recognized
I don't even care who goes. It's a big party. Why not.
I love the publics response though. We need more of that.
It's not the wedding. It's that he wanted to take over the entire centre of Venice.
Honestly, that doesn't strike me as a ton of money for his wedding. He must not care too much for this wife.
Most of the dowery went into her face
Wow, and it still failed.
And the orange menace's POS daughter is attending, as icing on the cake.
Which is probably like $100 to him
It's like Italy doesn't even have their own politics anymore, it's only America. Not a single politician in Italy. No Mafia, no fascists, Mussolini didn't have a daughter, nothing. Absolutely nothing that they could be distracted from. Just America.
A photo related to an American billionaire attempting to take over a whole Italian city with their wedding
Italians are concerning themselves too much with America
gr8 b8, m8.
There are many protests happening in italy against the current fascist government but they are not much of interest for international media.
People can be upset about multiple things.
Single issue voters heads explode
I’ll see myself out
You have absolutely no idea what's going on in Italy, do you.
Why did you even bother commenting?
Amazon's business and presence impacts globally. His personal presence and this event are affecting Venice locally.
If you don't understand those two things you should check your head. Go white knight a giant company on reddit lol the fuck are you even on about
It's time for Led by Donkeys to get involved.
Forza a qeui ragazzi