Chicago
That sign is amazing.
To be honest I feel like this is a candle that’s going to burn bright too fast and the country will quickly fall into complacency.
Prove me wrong, America, prove me wrong.
The cycle of people protesting; politicians not doing shit; conditions getting worse… has been stuck on loop for decades. Yelling and holding signs isn’t going to cut it. Until oppressing becomes a significant mortal liability, the oppression will continue.
On this week’s John Oliver he ended with a brief segment about messages from people in government positions saying how past protests have encouraged their belief that they were doing the right thing by resisting. Just holding signs won’t fix everything, but it isn’t nothing.
100%, but is that actually helpful?
Our gold is being hoarded away from us and our livestock ravaged every night: we don’t need to encourage the town blacksmith (we’ve tried that - he’s worthless), we need to slay the fucking dragon.
So the question is - who will be in Gandalf’s company of dwarves (+1 hobbit)?
Hrm, so what do you think? Accelerationism? Don’t want no unnecessary violence but don’t see sucking establishment dick werkin’ to whit.
Honestly, the only thing I see actually working is more Luigis. Gotta have the fucks in charge scared enough to comply, or just outta the way entirely. I’m not advocating violence, obviously, but I honestly don’t see anything else bringing about change. Protest doesn’t seem to work, and none of the Democrat politicians care enough to actually act. Voting doesn’t seem to be worth a damn, but I still do it anyway because it’s something I can do and takes like 5 mins. I can’t protest because I work, and I can’t be loud on online forums where I can be identified because I don’t want anyone who knows me professionally (clients) to know my true opinions.
Voting takes you V minutes?! Wish I were that lucky, it was a day long ordeal for me. Feels like the sort of thing you should just be able to do on an app given modern technology.
I live in a super rural area, so there’s like no wait time if you go first thing in the morning
Online voting is a surprisingly hard issue
it was a day long ordeal
Isn’t , or wasn’t, there an agency that was supposed to watch for voting rights? How isn’t this a violation of your voting rights by placing an unreasonable burden in your right?
I also had about 5 minute voting time, maybe 15 round trip from home and back. There’s nothing stopping every state from ensuring this, except for politicians who want to suppress votes or who don’t think they have to care about voters.
Out of curiosity, how are your voting places defined, or for what scale? I’ve always had them at every elementary school, which greatly limits how much of a line there can be, and you only need a dozen or so stations per
Many minority heavy areas in red states are intentionally underserved, including/especially polling places.
I think “seize the means of production” is an supplement to Luigi. If protesters take over the Xitter servers, for example, they can change the algorithm. Ditto for Faux News. This would catch a great deal of attention. Same with federal workers seizing the US Treasury, DOGE offices, and so on. Make our own t-shirts, manage the diners, run the farms, hospitals minus unreasonable costs, and so forth.
The big problem is getting enough people for it, and coordinating their supply chains to replace corporate-controlled shackles on cooperative commerce. The way Dogey America is going, however, has freed up many civil servants who are familiar with what it means to keep things running smoothly.
There is a chance that we will be able to have a reset of America, depending on how capitalists and cooperatives play their respective hands.
I would argue the next step that would really make a difference is economic warfare, such as ceasing buying any nonessential goods, and a national general strike. That would have a dramatic effect.
In the meantime, the best option is to organize in your local community to lay tge groundwork for such a thing to happen.
You’re not wrong. I’ve seen all this before. We always give up and go home eventually. It’s the American way.
Remember the BLM protests and their “5 demands”? They tried to copy the Hong Kong protests, but unlike Hong Kong they couldn’t even last more than a few days before giving up. Not a single demand was met.
To be fair, I believe COVID disrupted a lot of that.
If that were possible, then I think it proves their point that people are overreacting to the “fake news media”.
But I don’t think that will be possible, because it really seems like there’s no way all of these piss poor executive orders won’t have very tangible repercussions on the working class. It’s already starting with govt workers being laid off, all retail chains telling shareholders that they’ll be raising prices in response to tariffs, grocery prices continuing to rise, and people having loved ones shipped off to Guantanamo.
IMO, today it’s protests, and in a year if it continues on this course, it will turn into outrage. Many many people are at their breaking point, not politically, but just from the ability to survive. He’s going to say it’s AntiFa, BLM, and Communists trying to stop him from saving the country, but only his core base will continue to accept that. Rhetoric and excuses don’t put food on the table.
Grand Junction
Eugene Oregon
Orlando
March in Philly
Thanks for sharing all these pics. It does help to remind we’re not alone, and that other people are willing to take action, and need us to take action.
Welcome! I wish I could have posted more and the many videos too. I’m just a guy trying to spread the word best I can.
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Christiansburg, VA We have a weekly protest outside of the Trump store
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