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Another No Kings protest will show them!
The No Kings protests have been an amazing show of opposition to Trump and the Republican party. Are you mocking them?
At least use your fucking brain and call them rallies. They are not protests. Nearly at all...
Why would anyone mock state-sanctioned weekend protests?
They really seem to be affected by it. Trump may finally step down after seeing all those witty signs.
No Kings isn't for Trump, he's too stupid and self-delusional to understand anything. It's for all the other MAGA leadership, who are quickly understanding that it is all falling apart at an increasing rate. Once you have major supporters openly condemning them, it's over.
No Kings isn't supposed to do anything but demonstrate opposition numbers, and since each one grows larger, that is making a HUGE psychological impact on MAGA. Many got on board MAGA because they thought it was the winning side, and they want to be winners. When they see that they are on the unpopular side, many will walk away from MAGA. NO Kings helps drive that home to these dipshits.
It also helps energize those at home, who think MAGA is in total control, and there's nothing they can do. No Kings demonstrates to those people that they aren't alone, there are millions of others fighting for them.
There is MAGA leadership outside of Usa??
What do you think those people should do instead?
Strike. Protest during the weekday. Throw molotov cocktails. Revolt. Storm the capital. Anything at this point.
Scenario:
Me: throws molotov
White Americans: "See, these immigrants are violent! He's probably a CCP member. Lets deport all the Chinese! "
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_sentiment_in_the_United_States Am I supposed to do things that would provoke more incidents to this wiki-page?)
I mean, first thing would to hide my identity and try not to be caught. Have other like minded inviduals. Do it when theres more people around to hide from authority. Idk. I dont have the answers but peaceful protests havent done anything. The admin just keeps getting worse and worse.
This is a great way to get thrown in prison and accomplish nothing. Building cohesive local mutual aid networks and progressively larger protests accomplishes way more as far as resistance to Trump
We'll get thrown in prison sooner or later for being considered antifa. Too late for a peaceful approach.
What have you done?
I was very active last year with being an organizer with 50501 and Indivisible in my city. Ig people need an outlet, but no one I met wanted to do something more then help for the next protest. The leader of my city Indivisible stated they would only do events that national approved. 50501 dissolved because they were too paranoid to be in public.
On the assumption you're American, where's your molotov?
If you aren't, you really don't understand what you're asking. Most people would have to drive hours or days to be anywhere worth rebelling, lose everything they care about in the process of just not showing up for work regardless of actions taken, and do it all alone because everyone else is under the same threat. All against the most powerful military in the world.
The US is big. Someone in LA coordinating with someone in NYC is culturally and geographically similar to someone in ~~Barcelona~~ Lisbon coordinating with someone in Berlin. And they have safety nets.
Barcelona and Moscow are closer to each other than LA and NY, fyi
Otherwise, I totally agree with you.
Oops, you're right. I meant Lisbon, not Barcelona. Dat American education right?
Edit: To clarify, the first time I cooked up this relationship (copying someone else), Lisbon to Berlin was what I landed on. Barcelona to Moscow also works.
checks what instance we're on
No comment.
What are you suggesting here? The no kings protests have shown how the opposition to this tyranny can be shown peacefully rather than through violence. Any publicity is good, its spreading the message in a peaceful manner and changing peoples mind to the regime without violence. Thats pretty good, really. Sure it's not changing anything over night, but at least they're building momentum and doing something rather than nothing at all.
Still hilarious they haven't renamed it to no pedos
That's actually a great idea lol. No Epstein class.