Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31730469
To redirect revolutionary energy from destroying to the system to just criticizing Trump. It is a way for them to gain popular support and show themselves as anti-establishment instead of the bourgeoisie that they are who need to be overthrown
2025 No Kings 
2010 Tea Party
Astroturfed by billionaires 
Packed with boomers
Larping as 1776 colonial minutemen
Does not fundamentally challenge capitalism
Obsessed with opposing the current president only
2025 libs are literally just 2010 tea party people now. Embarrassing. in 6 years they'll be 2016 Trump republicans.
Walmart was also one of the sponsors of the military parade 
iplaybothsides.tar
As I have said before, the service and finance sector are growing worried by the incoherence and audacious nature of the military industrial complex. We will see much more of this in the future as the waning geopolitical might of the U.S. is eroded.
Capitalist in-fightings is an opportunity for us!
That remains to be seen. I personally think one side or the other must win out, and that will be when the opportunity presents itself, because they both need to exist for the empire to continue running. If one side wins, it will destabilize the entire project, and that is where opportunity lies.
It's not the in-fighting that benefits us, it is the assumed total victory against their greatest challenger that will leave them open.
This looked like a shop to me, but Snopes verfied as true with sources: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-walmart-heiress-nyt-protest-ad/
Fuck me, I was convinced it was a shop
I hate to break it to you all but PSL and Young Communists league both participated and co-sponsored the event
Kind of says a lot about those orgs if they are on the same side as a billionaire
To be fair, like thousands of orgs participated and co-sponsored it including multiple socialist, trade unionist and progressive groups. It was extremely big tent, so big tent that it's basically meaningless
I'm sure they all had their own agendas. The Waltons would want a President who doesn't tariff everything. The PSL and similar orgs used the opportunity to find dissent to recruit.
Yeah it's a good opportunity for agitation and recruitment, not surprised to hear the PSL was there.
Well, that's fair. I didn't realize it was that big.
Sounds like 3-4 million people showed up. Pretty damn big
where do i get my Walton check for protesting?
The libs going to these protests aren't joining the left anytime soon.
They're most likely a scratch away from going full fascist vs. comrades in waiting. Think about it: these protests are on a weekend midday attended by a whole lot of well-off-enough white people with their "brunch" signs and costumes. This is a performance that they can say they did to their coworkers in their comfy office jobs on Monday.
You know who wasn't there? All the service workers who had to work during the weekend. All the people working 2+ jobs to survive. People without childcare. Neurodiverse people who get overloaded by the sensory input. People experiencing homelessness. Those people are potential comrades because they are the ones most exploited by Capital right now. The people serving brunch to these libs are the people to talk to, start slipping flyers, having those 1:1 organizing conversations with.
I'm a neurodivergent who was working from home and taking care of my 2 kids while my wife was working an extra shift. I would've slipped out for a bit and brought the kids if the air wasn't litterally toxic yesterday where I am due to an ongoing forest fire burning down one of my favorite local state parks.
What "revolutionary energy"
To be completely fair, it's not Walmart the corporation. That framing is a bit disingenuous.
How is that being "fair" or the original framing "disingenuous"? She's the Walmart heiress! So what if it wasn't the actual direct corporate funds that the money was shelled out from, it was still a top member of the Walton Family who owns the corporation. No one is saying "Ew look, Walmart funded this" we're saying "Ew look, some of the filthiest and most notorious of the bourgeoisie funded this."
Walmart heiress Christy Walton promoted a planned nationwide protest against President Trump by placing a full-page advertisement that ran in the New York Times on Sunday. The ad, which the billionaire heiress paid for, calls on people to participate in the "No Kings" protest.
Pretending that because the Walmart board of trustees weren't directly the ones funding it, this criticism is some kind of misdirection, that is what's disingenuous.
It's not misdirection to be more specific. I do think it's a bit disingenuous to imply the entire corp sponsored the protest lol
distinction without a difference
Yeah that's fair.