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Cool cool cool schedule the protest for the day after the "tonight" in the "civilization will die tonight"
How much do the commemorative buttons cost, can I get a beer cozy too?
Realistically no amount of protests or even outright violent riots that pop up on short notice in response to a tweet are likely to dissuade Trump's course of action in the short time remaining. He's living in an info bubble for one so most likely he'd just see limited amount of violence on Fox called "Iranian agents cause chaos in last ditch attempt to stop Trump" without understanding anything of the scale or breadth of it. For another short notice protests are smaller than bigger ones. An emergency protest attended by all American cadres and a handful of liberals will do even less of a nothing than a big set-up protest that has time to gather a greater participation rate. Feeling good about yourself by setting up an immediate protest is not important. It's not that Trump will see it and reconsider, that won't happen, so it's about materially getting as many people together as you can on a short notice and unfortunately Trump was not kind enough to tell us he'd do this days ago so he and the empire have the element of timing on their side.
So no matter what we were looking at a post-event protest which is bad but let's be honest Americans are a lost cause who care mainly about themselves and if Trump were to nuke Iran and gas prices dropped in two weeks most Americans would shrug indifferently, say they disagree with the methods but like the result and life would continue on in the empire. Fact is Americans should have been mobilizing en mass since the start of the war on Iran but they haven't. Trump lives in an info bubble and doesn't know, doesn't care anything not fed to him by his advisors and sees things only through that lens. Nixon at least saw the protestors and knew what they were upset about and who they were (not foreign agents, not smuggled in commies but angry Americans), Trump doesn't even know that, I think he really believes his advisors when they tell him they're all paid undocumented immigrants sent by Soros and China.
But it's already April 8th in Beijing time
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