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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35928296
What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history
leaders with the most prominent Trump-resistance group organizing “No Kings” answered that complaint Saturday when Indivisible’s Ezra Levin took to the stage in Minneapolis and announced that a nationwide general strike is planned for May 1, modeled after a successful local action that shut down much of that region in January
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It’s great and important, but even a 100,000,000 person march with turnouts in every major city every weekend isn’t worth a FRACTION of JUST GOING TO VOTE. All the protesting in the world won’t change the fact that failure to do that has the US stuck with this for AT LEAST the next 3 years.
It’s easy to think protests don’t matter.
They do. Just not directly.
8 million people in the streets aren’t going to make literal traitors admit they were wrong and willingly leave their positions.
But 8 million people in the streets sends a signal to everyone else that the opinions they already hold about this treasonous government are valid and that they are not alone.
It’s a snowball effect. It’ll get bigger, if we’re persistent. Gotta keep the momentum building.
Oh yea? And then everything STILL votes between 2 asshole parties that both need to be dethroned and the cycle resumes.
Baby steps
Baby step IS voting in a neutral party, even without an agenda, and letting things settle down a bit.
Oh look, a brand new account using the “both sides” rhetoric. Fuck off with that bullshit. Have such an overwhelming blue wave that the current Republican Party has no chance of ever winning again, then it makes it much easier for the progressives within the Democrat party to differentiate themselves from the corpo-Dems.
Vote for all the progressives you want in the primaries, but come the general, sitting out or throwing away your vote is voting for a Republican.
In before the doomers start complaining that it was a protest and not <insert favorite civil disobedience here>
I’ll do you one better: even with fuel prices doubling and a completely unprovoked war starting without even a clear goal, all whilst the biggest coverup in the DOJ’s history, significantly smelling like the rotting mango may have done pretty sick shit with children, yanks together managed to care to the extent of not quite 2.5% of their population.
As a non yank, you bet I feel uplifted, and you bet protesting is really the absolute bare fucking minimum, preferably not just a few times per year.
The real uplifting news is that this level of civil obedience and inaction sure is fast-tracking that civil war which hopefully will result in the ones that still believe non whites need to be slaves will have their leader “dealt with”.
Who would have thought the country that pumps out hero movies faster than we watch them, has no heroes after all.
USA has uniquely bad public transport systems, which makes these events harder than in Europe.
Without suitable public transport, if you drive your own car, Americans often have to park several kilometers away from the event, and walk for hours to get there.I have criticized Americans a lot for their inaction against Trump. But at least this is something.
I’d wager most in the USA would have difficulty getting time off work or childcare to have the ability to attend a protest. Also for those living hand to mouth its as much a financial decision as it is a political statement.
USA has uniquely bad public transport systems
Letting aside you have known this for years and never done anything about it either… this does not stop the average American from participating in their soul crushing jobs. It only seems to be a problem when it has to be done for other reasons
Americans certainly get the gold medal in making up excuses
No, soul crushing jobs have a predictable amount of people in a larger distributed area so the infrastructure is planned and built for that many people to be there. It’s mass gatherings in a centralized place (like a protest) that are underserved by our infrastructure design. This is of course intentional by the powers that be.
as if everyone in the USA, or their neighbours, or some friends would not have a car already PRECISELY because your public transportation infrastructure is horrendous
Next excuse up: “I didn’t have protest-appropriate clothes to wear”
My feeling is that like the occupy wall street movement, this one doesn’t really have an objective which will cause it to fail or peter out. Yes, people got out and said they hate trump but what did that accomplish? He’s still president and his ilk are still fucking up our democracy and will continue to do so for at least 2 3/4 more years.
Umm, the objective is literally the title, no?
We already don’t have kings.
My local protest had, easily, twice the turnout as June.
And a lot of Republicans were there. November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party. (Just wish it were possible to elect actual progressive Dems.)
November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party.
They said that during the 2 last midterms, too. I’m not certain.
Oh I am.
Donald’s candidates have lost every election in 2025 and 2026, most by double digits, in both red and blue states. The majority of these losses occurred in districts he won by double digits in 2024.
And he’s doubling down on unpopular governance.
He’s so unpopular they can’t even gerrymander because they can’t adequately project where it will help them.
I hope you’re right, and I still plan to vote, but my confidence in this society has been plummeting since covid.
Let’s hope the planet becomes friendlier by the end of this decade.
