Published 2024-10-1 by NAITO Yoru
Throughout the world, the Mox Lives Matter movement, acronymized as MLM, has been gaining criticism for its increasingly destructive actions. What started as a protest to the arrest of Moxistan's leader, NightMox, has become an issue of nationalism and foreign policy.
Mox Lives Matter was established years ago when in Verspottetstadt, Germany for diplomatic purposes, NightMox was arrested for battery after a heated argument allegedly involving "fillies, gun ownership, Germany's ban on nuclear power, and lack of free speech in Germany" the police report said. In response to this, protests erupted in Moxistan and worldwide by expatriated and traveling Moxistanis. Many non-Moxistani people also joined in the protests to voice their support for the Moxistani people.
NightMox was released from the jail in Verspottetstadt within 48 hours after the charges were dropped but protests continued. Even though NightMox had been released, thousands of Moxistanis had already traveled to Verspottetstadt and seemingly weren't about to just return after just arriving. Protests began erupting around the city and police from neighboring towns had to come to the assistance of the Verspottetstadt police as the protests became too large for the local police to contain.
Soon after the protesting started, the protesters began shouting and holding up signs saying "Mox Lives Matter". This phrase was chosen because of the perception by the protesters that the German police were discriminating against Moxistani people and disregarding them as lesser with this being the reason they thought NightMox was arrested. Although police and government officials tried to explain that they did not view Moxistanis as lesser, the protests continued with this seemingly doing nothing to quell the issue.
The next day, more Moxistanis arrived in Germany and protests began erupting in multiple cities around the country. This continued throughout the week and although NightMox had returned to Moxistan days prior, the Moxistani people still protested against the perceived discrimination by the German police. Moxistanis worldwide had also began protesting where they were too to voice their support for Moxistani people. Many online spaces were flooded with support for Mox Lives Matter with many websites either banning all mention of Mox Lives Matter or voicing their support and banning anyone that voiced criticism of the movement.
After about a month of protests and damages estimated to be in the hundreds of millions if not billions of Euros, protests within Germany began dying down and Moxistanis began returning to Moxistan. Germany then banned all travel from Moxistan. Seeing this as another act of discrimination, Moxistanis that were still in Germany began protesting again with other Moxistanis trying to enter the country again to continue their protests. Because Moxistanis were banned from Germany and thousands were trying to enter, Germany's customs experienced major delays for the next month. Moxistanis who couldn't enter Germany began protesting at its border and in towns and cities of other countries nearby.
After the second wave of protests died down, most of the Moxistanis returned home once again. Throughout the world however, many smaller protests would occur along with a lot of political discussion about the Mox Lives Matter movement. The discussions were split between people accusing Mox Lives Matter of being a destructive force that only harms the places of its protests calling them riots instead while others claim that Mox Lives Matter is a mostly peaceful movement that wishes to stop the discrimination of Moxistanis and claims anyone that criticizes any aspect of it is xenophobic towards Moxistanis.
Many charity organizations have since sprung up amidst the Mox Lives Matter protests although the Moxistani people claim that these charities are illegitimate and no money raised by these charities actually goes towards promoting anti-discrimination towards Moxistanis. Moxistan News launched an investigation into these charities and found that the majority of them are funded by upper class liberals for purposes of self-promotion on social media. We also found that the majority of the charities themselves had none of the money ever being sent to any actual Mox Lives Matter organization ran by actual Moxistanis and was instead used to sustain and advertise the charities themselves with the executives of these charities embezzling the majority of the funds for themselves.
About a year after the initial protests in Germany, NightMox received a three-day ban in an online video game because of a Dutch wannabe rapper. As a result of this, Moxistanis traveled to the Netherlands and Mox Lives Matter protests as large as the ones in Germany sprouted up in various cities. The economy of the Netherlands was massively affected and the country was sent into a recession with the Dutch police not having enough power to stop the protests. These became known as De Mox-Dagen (The Mox Days) and lasted for about two months.
Discussion around Mox Lives Matter and whether it was a good movement or not began again with the topic becoming more controversial than before with even websites that would otherwise have no relation at all to the movement having massive divides within their userbases and exodi to other online spaces such as what happened with a website dedicated to posting art relating to children's show about ponies when it underwent a massive fracturing in its userbase when an image was posted supporting Mox Lives Matter.
Since then, many protests have sprouted up in various parts of the world and the Mox Lives Matter movement doesn't seem to be dying down any time soon. Discussion around the topic still remains heated and controversial. Germany has retained its ban on Moxistani travel to the country and the Netherlands still hasn't fully recovered. Many counter-protests have started in protest areas of Mox Lives Matter and this has resulted in even more destruction. Online spaces continue to fracture over the topic with mass-censorship campaigns conducted by both sides. Social media addicts continue to fund illegitimate charities while trying to convince their followers to do the same.
Whether you support Mox Lives Matter or not, one thing that's for certain is that it's here to stay and nothing is immune to the will of the Moxistani people.
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