Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Boycott:
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!antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
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Better than nothing. Can combine with picnic to add some fun to process.
@username_1
That's just a No Kings rally, and we've seen how effective those are.
I am in Spain right now on a trip planned months ago. Since I've been here there's been a sit in occupation in one of the main squares, multiple marches for housing costs, a pro Palestine march, and a pro Ukraine march. At the same time, there've been marches on multiple other Spanish cities including one that breached a housing convention, there's protests in France over education (where a Nazi got severally beaten :)), and protests in Germany over militarization.
In the US? Well we have one numbered and scheduled in 2 weeks, just like a movie release!
Consider it training, experience grinding. Read about other modern revolutions. Here in Ukraine we gave such a buttkick to our president decade ago that he landed in Russian Rostov.
To be effective they would have had to happen more often, and for longer periods of time and with a helluva lot more people.
At best, the "no kings" rallies were a somewhat good first step. But they didn't follow through with anything after that.
@kent_eh
No Kings was never intended to have any follow-through. I check the website periodically and it's almost never updated until the next big rally is coming up. No resources, no sustained effort to strengthen and entrench the resistance, just "Find a rally near you!" every 4-6 months.
I think its only purpose has been to keep liberals minimally activated to vote in the midterms, and that's it. If it were anything more than that, we'd be seeing more French-style direct action by now.
@KentNavalesi @kent_eh Yeah. Sigh.
@kent_eh
And to be honest, I think the real goal was to coopt and neutralize any leftist movements for real change that might arise in reaction to Trump. Can't have real protests demanding universal health care or free college -the Democratic donors wouldn't like that. Better to make it into a picnic and to focus on how Trump is personally a big fat meanie stupid face. Anything to keep them from questioning the broader capitalist system that both parties support.
The People have so much power, but they don't exercise it. Case in point: ABC/Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. Calls for a Disney boycott began spreading rapidly. People specifically urged Disney+ and Hulu subscribers to cancel their subscriptions, with the hashtag #BoycottDisney appearing on social media. The campaign became more prominent, with celebrities and other public figures joining calls to cancel Disney+, Hulu and ESPN. They also said they were canceling Disney trips. Result? Disney announced that Kimmel would return. There it is, right there. That is one example of the power of the people. You don't like something? Fucking band together!! BOYCOTT, RESIST