• Hemingways_Shotgun
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    Now all of these people converge on Mar-a-Lago and burn it to the ground. Preferably with Trump and Musk inside.

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        Calls to violence you mean?

        You want a circlejerk with no barriers, whereas I wish we could discuss the reasons why hes putting in tariffs and cutting spending. Project 2025 versus ETS2 for instance, or the fact China is buying fewer and fewer treasuries every year; leading to higher borrowing costs on leveraged economies globally as money is sucked into the US, to fund the spending they also cant afford.

        Even the global demographics look bleak given the amount of debt we’ve taken on, and people are still living in an MMT fantasyland as they roll over their mortgages from 2% to 6%.

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          Yeah those tariffs on Canada are certainly going to help that, and he certainly never said they’d be lifted if Canada became a, what was it? Ah yes, “beloved 51st state”

          As for 6% mortgages, that’s not a particularly high number actually. If you went in a 2% expecting that to last forever, maybe.

    • @vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      That’s not really how a general strike works. You can’t just post on the internet “do a general strike” and expect it to happen or be effective. Where are the strike funds to help feed people and pay their rent when they stop getting paychecks? Where are your strike captains to organize demonstration events? Where is your army of strike lawyers to defend people when they inevitably get arrested?

      General strikes take a long time and a lot of resources to plan. Only then can one be effective.

        • @vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          And you’re never going to get people on board if the solution (general strike) doesn’t meet their material needs. If people have to starve and lose their homes while under threat of arrest or more violent action, you need a way to support them or they won’t stick with it. Revolutions are built on mutual aide and community organizing, not empty platitudes and gumption. Or, worse yet, shit posting and cynicism.

          • @Jhex@lemmy.world
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            then fascism it is, sadly you are waaaay past signs and petitions

            hopefully I’m wrong

              • @Jhex@lemmy.world
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                Not buying American, cancelling trips to NY, being extra Canadian

                I hope the best for you and all of us but I fear if your revolution awaits for someone to organise it so that it’s painless and requires no sacrifices, it’ll simply never happen

  • BoofStroke
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    It’d be nice if all of these protesters had bothered to vote and not with protest votes.

    • Kairos
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      I think these people are the ones to have voted.

      • @Chrispyswords@lemmy.world
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        Let’s not forget that there are more than two choices. I understand there is certainly a duopoly, but that only continues as long as we continue voting for only one or the other.

    • John
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      Oh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.

    • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      “proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”

    • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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      What makes you think they didn’t?

      75 million people voted for Harris. We likely won’t know the count of today’s protests, but I feel safe saying it was far fewer than 75 million.

      • Billiam
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        The estimate was 5 million people across 1300 cities.

        A lot of people complaining about these protests seem to think that level of coordinated protesting isn’t impressive.

        Those numbers alone should make anyone stop and think about what’s going on.

  • Venia Silente
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    it’s everywhere

    And they are doing what that is useful? The amount of people in any of these pictures could easily enter the White House and unseat Trump, yet here we they are, performativelizing.

    • Attack the head of the snake and chances are you’ll get bit. He’ll be in a chopper before a window gets broken and the National Guard will be there in minutes.

      The GOP are getting cold feet, Musk is close to leaving, and Trump is starting to throw his appointees under the bus. Sorry you probably won’t get to see Trump tied up and crowd surfed into a van to never be seen again but this is the process.

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        Sorry you probably won’t get to see Trump tied up and crowd surfed into a van to never be seen again but this is the process.

        Sure, whatever process that works works. My point is I’m not seeing a process - I’m no seeing progress. Just complaining, which is something the elites can already and have always burrowed their heads in the sand at.

        • @stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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          The process is broken because the people in charge of the processes hadn’t had a reminder that the American people wants them to perform their job. This is that reminder. In order for the reminder to be more effective, we need more people to join in, not more people trying to douse cold water on the movement just to promote more drastic actions that lacks the foundation to do anything effective. You want people to be able to drag fascists out of the White House if the situation calls for it? Then, you need more people that is able to fight against fascism. Easiest method to do that is to protest together and show more people that there is enough people fighting against it for them to come out fighting as well.

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      And they are doing what that is useful?

      Protesting, making their voices heard. Showing the world that not all Americans are fascists.

      The amount of people in any of these pictures could easily enter the White House and unseat Trump

      You clearly don’t have any idea how overzealous the security in and around the white house is.

      Even IF they somehow got to the oval office after suffering hundreds if not thousands of casualties, the Mango Mussolini would have long since been whisked into a bunker and secret service and the military would arrest or kill all of them.

      yet here we they are, performativelizing

      The first person part was correct, the plural wasn’t. What’s performative is your insistence that the obviously impossible is easy.

      • Honestly though. I thought it would take hundreds of casualties to get into the capital building. And really, is trump actually in the white house much? Golf ain’t going to play itself. But these protests build up the confidence of people who want to do more. It makes them feel like the people are behind them. So maybe these are warm ups for taking the white house.

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          If there is a warmup, I think the Mar-a-Lago would be a good place to make things toasty. It makes it clear what waits for Trump if he continues to use the Oval Office as a toilet bowl.

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          I thought it would take hundreds of casualties to get into the capital building

          It would have if they hadn’t been almost exclusively white members of the MAGA cult. One reason why there were so few cops hindering them was that Trump ordered a standdown, and another was the fact that there were more cops participating in the coup attempt than resisting it.

          If it had been a diverse leftist group, you better believe there’d be both cops and military shooting to kill rather than the suspiciously restrained tactics employed that day.

      • Would it even get that far? Gathering that many people in one spot, at the same time, with a coherent plan would take… a lot of communication. And we know for a fact that the spooks are listening in.

        But, hell, @veniasilente@lemm.ee, start organizing people. I’m interested in seeing how far it gets.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness
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      I do agree that the resistance needs to become more radical, but you don’t just enter the seat of power and unseat the democratically elected president. Like it or not he still has a popular mandate and that needs to be destroyed first; that’s ultimately what civic resistance is all about. Also he has armed security, which can just shoot any intruders in part because of said popular mandate.

      • Venia Silente
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        Like it or not he still has a popular mandate and that needs to be destroyed first;

        Okay, then how? Because from what I have seen pretty much every official in a position of civil service just resigns to let Trump do as he pleases, so there’s not much of a resistance. Who in civil service is supposed to unseat Trump? DOGE is certainly not gonna do it.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness
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          Who in civil service is supposed to unseat Trump?

          Absolutely nobody. Trump’s mandate has to be destroyed by widespread popular resistance. Think what Ukraine and Tunisia did and Turkey is doing right now.

    • @Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works
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      Classic astroturfing right here. “let’s bitch about people getting involved but not yet murdering people!” cut this shit out. And get involved!

      • @theLetterJ@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Also classic astroturfing is complaining about astroturfing. Fact is you never know who posts a comment. But mostly, I agree with your sentiment here.

      • @Klear@lemmy.world
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        Doesn’t look like that. I skimmed the profile very briefly, and it looks like a bad take on an otherwise active and normal account.

    • @slickgoat@lemmy.world
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      You want the people to “Maga hat” riot the white house? You think that’s the plan?

      Were you dropped on your head as a baby?

    • @Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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      It’s performative.

      It’s the same reason sports games have hype crews in the form of bands or a cheer squad. It livens the audience up.

      In politics it also sends a message to their reps that they could/should be a little bit more aggressive in promoting what their people are saying.

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    I don’t think we’ll see the upheaval of a fascist regime by picketers carrying signs any time soon.

    • No but it’s the first step. As momentum builds more people are emboldened to protest, and the scope of the protests widen and get more effective.

      This sort of statement is typically made by people who want to stall and prevent action. You see it all the time in various forums: “if this activity doesn’t 100% fix everything immediately then there is no point in doing anything”.

      Unfortunately we don’t live in a black and white world where a switch can be flipped from awful to wonderful (as if it was even possible for everyone to agree on that). You get there in small incremental steps with messy interactions and disagreements along the way.

      Protests like this can lead to ongoing effective resistance like strikes, work to rules and etc. But you don’t get someone to go from never having protested in their lives to manning a blockade of a govt building in one step.

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        Exactly. For the past month I’ve read many people here saying protest are useless because of various bullshit reasons. Protest are just a starting point. At protest, people talk, organize, that can lead to more massive protest, a new ideology, a revolution, or nothing. You never know.

        I’m French. I have been to many protests. Some ended in massive movement for no reasons. Some died while the cause was very important. You never know.

    • @Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
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      you speak truth and they downvote it because they don’t want to face that fact that one day of standing around accomplishes nothing. they want to think this will be easy and won’t require real sacrifice. they’re lazy and naive.

      please bookmark this post. show me what changes one month from now. one year from now. please prove me wrong.

      • @stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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        If you can’t even bother to stand around to protest, how tf are you supposed to get people to do more extreme actions when the time such drastic actions are required comes around? Your apathetic response to protesting will only lead to a more fractured society that cannot attempt any meaningful resistance to the fascist in the white house.

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            People who are serious doesn’t balk at the idea of protesting. If you can’t even bother sacrificing time to sit around to show people that its safe for them to come fight against fascism, there is no way you’d have the guts to sacrifice your life to actually fight against the fascist when the time comes. It’s probably better if you just sit at home and don’t bother talking about fighting or protesting. At this point, you’re more of an asset to the fascists than anything, even if you didnt know it yet.

            • @Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
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              how about i do WTF i want? you’re not the judge of what works and what doesn’t. please. bookmark this comment. come back to me in a year and prove how i was wrong. the proof is in the pudding, pacifist.

              • @stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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                Can you even read? I said your type of action is what will result in protests being ineffective at uniting the people that will fight against fascism.

                People failing to remove fascism a year from now will only prove me right if you still decide to continue what you’re doing. To prove your point, you would need to join up with the protest and stop trying to kill it in its infancy and still fail to remove fascism.

                So go ahead and continue what you’re doing and you might prove me right.

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                  if the people don’t have the spine for what it takes, then it’s hopeless.

                  have you ever considered that a lot of these people are going to feel defeated after they waste their time protesting and nothing gets accomplished? there’s no guarantee that getting a bunch of people together for feelgood BS leads to more effective resistance. this is the same as saying “just go to college and follow your dreams and everything will magically work out”. it’s a lie. people need to understand where western civilization is at.

              • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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                how about i do WTF i want? you’re not the judge of what works and what doesn’t.

                Says the person judging what other people do, and what works and what doesn’t.

      • @VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world
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        because they don’t want to face that fact that one day of standing around accomplishes nothing.

        Well it’s a good thing it hasn’t been just one day, and there are many more planned for the future. Come get involved!

      • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        they want to think this will be easy and won’t require real sacrifice. they’re lazy and naive.

        That’s not at all what the responses (that have been up for hours before you posted this) have been saying.

    • @WuceBrillis@lemm.ee
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      This is to show the people who are feeling alone with their despair, that they are in fact not alone.

      And it is to recruit people for the upcoming general strike.

      For a general strike to take effect, it needs about 10mil people, and it is estimated that there are about 5mil people demonstrating in America today.

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    Wonderful, dear US friends!

    A powerful sign against all the hatred and corruption that Trump and his henchmen stand for.

    I think large demonstrations like this are incredibly important, especially nowadays, because the manipulation in social media and the traditional media can so easily give the false impression that a majority would share the inhumane ideology of this regime.

    For the tens of thousands on the streets, it is obvious how many decent people there actually are.

    Trump and his opinion makers can do little about this - apart from their usual ridiculous conspiracy theories around Soros and other such Bogus. Because not even these unscrupulous fascists can (yet) dare to stop thousands and thousands of people from demonstrating, or even have them all arrested.

    Good luck and all the best from Europe!

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      Thank you; finally someone from Europe that sees Americans are struggling to fight. Over there you’re unlikely to see the whole picture about what’s going on. I understand that Europeans are mad and I don’t blame them, but I wish more Europeans understood that division is exactly what the powers want and your media is likely being manipulated as well, albeit to perhaps a much lesser degree, in order to sow that division.

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      It is not tens of thousands.

      D.C alone has an estimated 100.000 people marching.

      Nationwide the number is believed to be 5 million, i read somewhere.

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    Now you have the numbers go physically remove the shit head and all his lackies, cause he’s not going to go willingly.

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        For heavens sake, I’m not a regular watcher of US mainstream “media”. There is only so much junk a human can stand. I was just observing the coverage of this particular event out of curiosity what they would do about it.

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      It’s been a couple of decades since I’ve lived in the states, but I used to watch some US TV, via satellite and later cable (TV through fiber, actually) I stopped watching US TV 2-3 years prior to COVID. I just can’t stand it. Regular TV is pretty bad worldwide, but US TV is on another level of bad.

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      Their mansions are in gated communities with security keeping out the “undesirables”. Remember “I really don’t care, do you” is the truth about them.

      • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Why not gather the masses outside their mansions? Why do people keep gathering at the most calculatedly ineffectual areas where they’re ignored time and time again?

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            Ikr? Those protestors really went out of their way (on their day off) to really stick it to trump (who was happily playing golf). Goes to show how ineffective and purely symbolic these protests are.

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              You do realize these are regular ass people who have jobs and rent and mortgages and bills to pay and kids to support? Like, we can’t be out on the street every single day.

              How often are you out in the streets?

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                I’ve been out protesting for 14 years before last august when a fascist pig threw a brick at my knee during the pogroms in the UK. Now I can’t walk and have been diagnosed with numerous autoimmune disorders, so I physically can’t even leave my house. Perhaps it’s too much to ask you to pick up the torch.

                And for the record, you’re already seeing MAGA rat out anti-MAGA to deport them, pretty soon you’ll be seeing anti-MAGA reporting other anti-MAGA to protect themselves from MAGA, and the “I have kids to take care of” crowd will be the first to turn on their own for the sake of self preservation. Your job, rent, mortgage, bills, and kids are all at stake here, and more of a reason to start knocking on the oligarchs door. Are you saying you prefer your own protection vs the future for your children?

                “Mommy/daddy, did you fight for our future?” “No, I continued going to work because the mortgage was more important.”

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                  Is your argument is that anyone who is unwilling to nuke their entire life for the movement is insufficiently motivated and shouldn’t even bother getting involved?

                  If that’s your stance, then you’re just plain wrong and you should probably keep quiet about it because your working against the movement.

                  Vanguard revolutions don’t work. They just replace one set of shitty authoritarians with another. The ONLY way this can ever work is if we make the movement accessible to as broad a swath of people as humanly possible.

                  I’ve been a political activist for 22 years now. I cut my teeth on the front lines of the anti-Iraq War movement in 2003. I was at Occupy. I spent my early-to-mid 20s with little regard for my personal safety and financial stability. But nobody keeps that up forever. I’m pretty sure I did it longer than most. But that’s not all I want from life.

                  Yes, fighting fascism is important to protecting my kids’ future (I have 2 kids). You know what else is equally important to that, though? Making sure they have a stable home and food on their plates now. And I can’t do that if I nuke my life by spending every single day in the streets, losing my job, and getting arrested.

                  My kids won’t have to ask me what I did because they’re there with me. Both my 3 yo and 5 yo were at the DC protest on Saturday. And this wasn’t either of their first action. My 5 yo was with us at the 2020 uprising when she was less than a year old.

                  A successful movement takes all kinds. Yes, there are some who can take greater risks and more radical actions, but I’m not at that place in my life anymore and that’s fine. If we can’t find a way to include people who have other responsibilities in life, too, without insulting them or implying they’re not really interested in change, then the entire movement is cooked.

                  So, thank you for your past service to the cause, but if you don’t have anything constructive to say, kindly fuck off.

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                  Don’t limit the size of your movement or it’s popular support because you’re unwilling to include people who aren’t able nuke their lives. If I don’t keep my job my children go hungry and lose their home. I’m unwilling to do that to them.

        • @obvs@lemmy.world
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          Have you ever been to the U.S.? We can’t all drive 3,000 km. We live in a country with drastically lower population density than European countries.

          • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            People drove across the country to go to Washington yesterday, organizers supplied coaches from every major city. Same with BLM, Occupy, and many movements before it. But god forbid we do that towards a location that could actually make a difference.

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              People downvote, but i am not very convinced that the protest will do anything. I also wonder why we protest where we do and when we do. I suppose the intention is that we are still in the politicians fuck around part, but not quite up to politicians find out part.

              Hopefully i am proven wrong and something will happen, but even then i fear that people will settle for things being only nominally worse then normal after the scalding.

    • @VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world
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      These are the precursors to a general strike. There’s are a lot of great people out here building support networks for when it finally happens.

      Please come get involved!

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      because America is big, like really big. Its not like EU countries where you can just hop on a train and get to the capital in a day. for someone in South Dakota its at least a three day commitment to travel and protest in DC, and encase you didn’t notice most people in this country can’t afford that.

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              I’m talking about right now. The present. Millions of people actively protesting in the present is not good enough for you.

              Yup, the election was a huge fuck up. It’s already happened and over with. What would you prefer people doright now? Bitch on Lemmy that people fucked up in the past instead of actually doing something?

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              you’re either terribly uninformed or willfully ignorant. lack of transportation, accommodation, childcare, time off work, current identification all contribute. gerrymandering minimizes the effects of successfully voting as well.

              also, you’re not helping anything.

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          Who do I vote for to put insurrections in prison? Democrats showed it wouldn’t be them and clearly Republicans won’t. So who, I ask, should I have I voted for that would have prevented this.

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          Sure it would, they should have a vote right now. And not the kind of vote where people in the States with lower population get more say.

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      I think most of these protests were properly permitted (I know my local one was). Protestors in residential areas would likely get arrested for stuff like disturbing the peace, even if they stayed on public property such as roads. They’d probably try to charge the organizers for something too, which is probably why they aren’t being organized. But, I agree there should be protests at these people’s homes regardless.

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        I feel off about this. Permits. Like ok, you are given permission by the powers that be that as long as it’s in a specific area and don’t cause a disturbance… why would a protest want to play by these rules? Isn’t the point to cause a disturbance? Wouldn’t getting a permit be a direct message that the protest has no chance at obtaining actual change?

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      The U.S. is pretty much as big as Europe.

      It’s not easy to drive thousands of kilometers to get to their mansions. These marches happened all over the place, in major cities and capital cities.

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        People drove from all across the country to go to Washington yesterday, organizers supplied coaches from every major city. Same with BLM, Occupy, and many movements before it. But god forbid we do that towards a location that could actually make a difference.

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          The White House is more than 40 hours away from here driving non-stop.

          The number of people from here who could have participated in a march at the White House (maybe taking a week off work in order to get there and back traveling 16 hours a day by bus) would have been very small. Instead, thousands of us marched in our local downtown yesterday in a solid throng.

          Protests at a specific location convey a message, but mass protests everywhere convey a message too.

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            Yep. Which is why there were a disproportionate number of small business owners, landlords, and other nonwage “workers” on January 6th. The people that could actually afford to fly out and storm the capital are people already in a very financially sound and privileged position. They either do not do actual work or have a job they can easily take time off for and not fear being fired.

            And these people are the base of the Republican party and the MAGA movement. It’s why it’s so mucher harder to get leftist organized in places like this. There are just not as many of us that can afford to do something like that.

        • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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          Showing massive crowds in every major American city does a lot more good that anything else.

          Most people are followers, and many people are Republicans simply because they are cowards, and are afraid of everything that the Conservative Propaganda Machine has screamed at them about. So they think MAGAs will protect them better than weak-willed spinless Democrats. The MAGAs are also telling them that there is very little support for Democrats, and they believe it.

          But if they see massive crowds of angry Democrats, many will realize that there is a LOT of opposition to the Nazis, and it will sway many to our side.

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      Which, specifically? They all have several.

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      Whose mansions are you talking about? Just protesting at some random Sociopathic Oligarch’s palace isn’t going to do anything, they’ll never even see it. These people configure their lives so they never have to be touched by real life. They’ll just spend the day on their yacht or at a different palace. If they are in town, they’ll just chopper in/out at the residence, which will be behind walls and gates a quarter mile away.

      Nope, flood the streets in every major city, disrupt everything, block Federal buildings, be as inconvenient as possible. That’s far more effective.

      If you want to piss off a Sociopathic Oligarch, then protest at their place of business. Block their entrances, interrupt the flow of business, make it difficult to do business, inconvenience their employees, irritate their neighbors, embarrass them to their neighbors, etc.

      • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        If you want to piss off a Sociopathic Oligarch, then protest at their place of business. Block their entrances, interrupt the flow of business, make it difficult to do business, inconvenience their employees, irritate their neighbors, embarrass them to their neighbors, etc.

        So how does gathering outside the White House or town halls move us towards this goal?

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          It gets SEEN. Sociopathic Oligarchs generally live far away from every one else, so you are a tree screaming in an empty forest - nobody hears it.

          Instead, fill the streets in front of their offices, so neither they, nor (more importantly) their employees can get to work. It will piss off the other tenants in the building, the building owner, the buildings and businesses next door and across the street, etc. The message gets sent that it’s this Sociopathic Oligarch’s behavior that is causing all this trouble, and they’ll want him gone, too.

          Make their lives miserable.

          • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Instead, fill the streets in front of their offices, so neither they, nor (more importantly) their employees can get to work. It will piss off the other tenants in the building, the building owner, the buildings and businesses next door and across the street, etc. The message gets sent that it’s this Sociopathic Oligarch’s behavior that is causing all this trouble, and they’ll want him gone, too.

            You’re living in a fantasy world if you think people getting blocked on their way to work by protestors are going to blame the oligarchs and not the protestors, they get mad at the protestors every time. Literally zero of them go “Hey maybe they have a point” and skip work that day to join the rally. No, they go “Fucking hippies” and roll their eyes before laughing at them with their work colleagues and taking loyalty paychecks from the oligarchs that employ them. Rather than pissing off fellow workers in an attempt to convince them (which it famously doesn’t) perhaps actually directing the attack towards the actual culprits. Again, it seems like everyone (and you) seem to try their best to figure out how NOT to go after the oligarchs, and that we should try every other roundabout idealistic mystical way instead.

            • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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              The impact on the locals is irrelevant, they aren’t your audience. They’re in the same neighborhood as the Sociopathic Oligarch you are targeting, so they’re probably more like him than not. Fuck them.

              Besides, even if they don’t come over to your side, they’re still going to hate the SO that is causing the disruption to their businesses. Rich fucks dont like to be inconvenienced, that was one of the primary motivations for getting rich. So they’ll be pressuring him to shut the fuck up, or stop doing whatever sociopathic behavior that is jiggling his jollies. Have you noticed that we havent heard much from Skum over the last couple of weeks? No doubt his Board of Directors, at the very least, are telling him to calm the fuck down.

              And an ostracized Sociopathic Oligarch means his social status is impacted, and Mrs. Sociopathic Oligarch isn’t going to appreciate it when she doesn’t get the e-vite to the next brunch/ book club meeting because her husband is being a national dickhead.

              Your audience is those who see your protest in the media. Seeing monster crowds that are pissed off and taking bold action also attracts a lot more of the same, leading to steadily increasing crowds at more and more protests.

              Those growing crowds start to scare the politicians, who are all craven cowards, and they start to panic, and make political moves both positive and negative, but the main thing is that they are on the run. As the citizens see the crowds gaining political power, and the politicams panicing, many will shift their support to them.

              During the Vietnam war, that’s how protests helped to force the government to end the evil draft, and eventually the war (or at least weaken political support of the war so much that they lost it, thus ending it).

    • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      The people going to events want political action to fix the problem and prevent it from occuring again. Not pointless Lynchings for petty revenge.

      Now if we could organize in a way that encourages conservatives to switch sides then that would be cool, like a tour through conservative counties.

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      Because if protesters ever pose any actual threat, they’ll be viciously attacked.

      (I’m talking about progressive protestors. Cops and fash go hand in hand.)

    • vortic
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      Finally what? Finally the media is covering the protests that have been going on the entire time? They’re growing but they weren’t small even a month or two ago.

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        Why are you so hostile? Calm down.

        This is the first time I’m seeing any major movement outside of when Vance visited Vermont on any socials and media I follow.

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          Sorry, the hostility wasn’t really aed at you. It was more intended to be aimed at the media. I’m just a little tired of people believing that protests weren’t happening before now. They were happening but the media wasn’t covering them.

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            I’ve really been noticing the lack of actual news out of the US the past few months. It’s been incredibly weird. And online I’ve mostly seen Americans apologizing and talking about how they’re gonna wait because «It will fuck the MAGAs over even more»

            I’m very happy to see you guys doing this. So you have my support!

            • @drhodl@lemmy.world
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              I really enjoy watching You tubes of Rachel Madden, Lawrence O’Donnell, Stephen Colbert and some others. Last couple of weeks, none of these appear in my feed, I have to actively search for them, and even then it’s like they are on holidays. Also, any You Tube comments I make seem to disappear… I am pretty sure there’s some suppression and censoring going on. Maybe, they are finally afraid?

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              100% agree.

              Most of my news has been through an active interest on the YouTube. Glad too see such a large turnout, it’s been a wild ride. Pretty scary to watch at times, hard to really tell what the actual consensus is on the ground level.

              Good to see people taking action.

      • @smayonak@lemmy.world
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        Fox News and the other propaganda channels are giving absurd amounts of coverage to liars. NBC just had on the secretary of the treasury where he was pitched softball questions. Without blinking this soulless minion claimed a crash is good for americans. But even a complete donkey would be skeptical of the claim that a massive economic contraction would be good for everyone.

        This moron was talking out of both his blow holes about how the tariffs and economic collapse would lead to lower prices. Anyone who couldn’t spot the obvious contradictions (these people are contradicting themselves in the same paragraph) is beyond all hope.

      • @drhodl@lemmy.world
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        The media are complicit with Drumpf. After all, they created him. But now the owners have lost some money, they’re jumping aboard. Never forget that the mainstream media are your enemy!

        • @drhodl@lemmy.world
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          Fucking Sea Lion !!!

          Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[5][6][7][8] It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”,[9] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings

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          What might be being protested? Lesse…

          • Late Social Security cheques for people who depend on them to pay their bills. This includes elderly and disabled people.
          • Lost jobs and the loss of the paycheques for people laid off by both DOGE and the economic chaos the shitgibbon in chief is producing.
          • People who have done nothing wrong being sent to a gulag in El Salvadore, and everything that entails.
          • Attacks and erasures on people’s gender identities. You won’t care of course, but many of us do because after they get done with people they tag with the foreigner label, they’re coming after transgendered people next, then after that, they’re coming after the rest of us. We’ve seen this play before. We’d like it to end without going to World War 3 to de-Nazify us.
          • Attacks on our friends in Canada and Mexico and Europe and so on.
          • Increasing inflation.
          • Decreasing opportunities.
          • Unelected billionaires trashing our government.
          • Naked Fascist displays.

          I could go on, but I know you’re not here to be enlightened. If you were, you’d just google that. I mean, I just used Gemini to give a report of some of the top reasons for protesting, and a comprehensive answer was presented to me in less than 10 seconds, so I’m sure you could go do so as well. Why might you not? Oh. Rule 3. I can’t answer that. :|

          (I missed a few things that Gemini picked up on. The imposition of an unpopular ideologue playbook on the country. Cuts to agencies we all rely on. Those were two things I didn’t include. Goes to show there are even MORE reasons to protest, but I don’t want to spend more time than I have on this dishonest debater. My point was made.)

            • TheHiddenCatboy
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              Dear reader, the most surefire way to recognise a person who has his head so far up Trump’s rear that he can taste the burnt steak Trump had for his last meal is see the letters T, D, and S strung together in the empty-headed attempt to politically attack somebody else. It’s not smart. It doesn’t win the argument. It is a clear sign that the person using these letters in this way is a sycophant for the current admin and should be avoided by every decent person on the fucking planet.

              This user asked what was being protested. I made it clear what was being protested. I knew this user was not here to debate honestly or faithfully because it doesn’t take any effort whatsoever to find the answer to this user’s bad faith question. But I answered so it can’t say the Left doesn’t know what it’s protesting. Denied that avenue, it drops some both-sides bullshit and then goes on a political attack.

              I don’t give a shit about what it thinks about my points, or where it thinks I got them from. It asked the question, and showed why other users here are calling it a Sea Lion.

            • @Otter@lemm.ee
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              Well I’d be happy to have a conversation with you. I believe that people on both sides of this debate need to talk respectfully to one another in order to actually make change. I can tell you distrust the left and have heard certain talking points repeated, the person you replied to did just use an AI bot so it would be the most repeated stuff. The protest in my local area, which I believe was relatively similar to all the rest across the country, was based on a “hands off” concept. I think the right wing, traditionally more libertarian, party would actually see value in it. Lots of Trump’s executive orders and the DOGE cuts are affecting country wide programs instead of letting states choose. If you want to know the exact talking points of the protests look up hands off. You are correct you’ll have to wade through a lot of articles to find information but that is sadly any news today regardless of party.

              • @drhodl@lemmy.world
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                You’re trying to converse with a sea lion. He just wants to waste your time and energy. You will not convince him, because you’re not the one paying him…

                Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[5][6][7][8] It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”,[9] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings

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                I actually didn’t use Gemini to compose my response to this person. I used it to figure out how hard it was to use. It wasn’t and it pointed me to two more things I hadn’t thought of when I made my own answer. My answer came from myself, and is basically what you said, but with more people. People want Trump and Musk’s hands OFF their social security cheques. They want them OFF their paycheques. They want them OFF the services they rely on day to day, and most of them are not the takers that Team Red thinks all users of service are.

                In your quest to make nice with the guy I’m calling out for his dickish behaviour to the rest of us, you implied I used an AI bot to compose my answer. To be clear, I did not. I just read the signs of the people standing around me. Thanks for that implication, though!

            • @Nikelui@lemmy.world
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              Are the tariffs and the market crash not Trump’s fault then? Who’s fault is it, since you know?

              • @Letsdothisok@lemmy.world
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                I never implied I did… it’s not one person’s fault. Yes, the tariffs are negatively affecting the stock market. I believe things are going to rebound before too long. It was projected from the beginning there would be short-term financial struggles, and here we are, but it’s necessary to stop getting fleeced by these other countries.

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                  It was projected from the beginning there would be short-term financial struggles, and here we are, but it’s necessary to stop getting fleeced by these other countries.

                  No it wasn’t. Trump’s whole campaign he touted how he was going to lower prices on Day One, end the war in Ukraine in 48 hours, stop the war in Gaza and blah blah blah. Only when he started fucking around with his on-again off-again tariffs and the undeniable resulting economic damage did they start throwing out the “there will be some temporary pain” messaging.

                  And the whole story that we were being “fleeced” by other countries is bullshit. He’s so stupid. He went on and on about what a “stupid” trade agreement we had with Canada and Mexico but he was the one who negotiated that trade agreement, in his first term. But he apparently can’t remember because of his dementia.

                • @vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  It’s really REALLY funny to see you criticizing people for what you described as “repeating near verbatim the talking points on the left” then go on to literally do the exact same thing with fascist talking points.

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      Most people do not care about (and do not want to care about) anything under the broad topic of “politics”.

      If you try to force them to care, they will punish you. That’s what we’re seeing, but it’s also why it’s so damn hard to stir people to action before things go wrong.

  • @Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    I really don’t like the amount of violence being suggested here. Trump needs to be removed but a lot of you are suggesting to support violent fantasies.

    By the way that’s a very strong tactic be terrifically Republicans to make the left look unhinged. And they’re correct. It will turn a lot of people against you. Most are not violent people.

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      The point of making the ‘left’, or any opponent, look unhinged is to pressure them into submission. The reason why this works very well is because your media is complicit in amplifying any wrongdoings by any opponents and twisting the perception.

      i mean, check out protests in Europe and how they’re framed by their media. Even your Vietnam war protests back in the day; your media started banging on about them being drug users and layabouts to make dismissing their cause much easier.

      I just think Americans have lost a lot of people power if you have to protest while walking on eggshells. Best thing to combat it is to have a conversation with everyone. Get people chatting face to face rather than having the TV spout nonsense at them.

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        There’s one of the worst ways in modern times to get any message across. It’s like suggesting we use carrier pigeons to communicate on a battlefield.

        The Internet exists. Hey did the Republicans protest in the streets to get their message across?

        I didn’t see that yet every single person I know could reiterate almost all their talking points. If protests were stuff an effective medium for creating supporting and spreading a cause, how did they accomplish it without it.

        Republicans hired think tanks. Same way the cigarette company did you delay laws. Same way energy companies did to delay and sew distrust on climate change.

        The left for all the geniuses they say they are have not adapted to the modern world. Imagine if every single person at these protests stayed home instead and shit posted on every platform they could. That’s how you get messages out in modern times. You use the algorithms. You create content. You boost signals.

        What you do not do is drag people into the streets banging pots. It’s not the 1960s

        Everyone is online. You need people burying their signals and amplifying our own. You need memes. You need everyone to force their hand. The fucked up thing is they have such entrenched culture that you’d think it’s obvious where to apply pressure. It’s not calling them a Nazi. It’s culture jamming our society so we associate trucks with femininity. They are more sensitive than ever and it should be easy to find their soft spots. Can’t hit it from the middle of the road

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          What you do not do is drag people into the streets banging pots. It’s not the 1960s

          Are you sure? I’m pretty confident that’s what happened on the weekend.

          Also, relying on technology owned and controlled by the billionaire class is a bit rich…

          Anyway, I don’t want to antagonise you. Just don’t discount the traditional methods of communication thinking it’s ineffective. In a world where privacy is almost non-existent and you’re constantly being monitored, going analogue is one of the best tactics there is.

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            Are you sure? I’m pretty confident that’s what happened on the weekend.

            My point is it isn’t effective. What is the result as of today, tomorrow, a week from now. What has it accomplished. What will it accomplish. And as I said, if the goal is to spread awareness about an issue than let’s measure this against another method like shit posting. Which was my point about governments and think tanks who get paid to spread awareness. These groups are not doing protest, they create engagement online and in media. There’s a reason for it.

            Also, relying on technology owned and controlled by the billionaire class is a bit rich…

            Why? What will happen. How is that any different than relying on the city, the state and the government to not just beat your head in and arrest anything. If anything protests seem to benefit the other side when the other side are authoritarian. It lets them see who the leaders are and knee cap them.

            Anyway, I don’t want to antagonise you. Just don’t discount the traditional methods of communication thinking it’s ineffective. In a world where privacy is almost non-existent and you’re constantly being monitored, going analogue is one of the best tactics there is.

            I am an antagonist but not trying to troll. I just don’t see value in protests as they exist today. I think protests are a solved game. I believe police and authorities have such an upper hand that they prefer people to protest. The authorities ability to organize, coordinate and apply force is greater than the protestors. It’s a wasted effort on my books. The risk to reward is unbalanced and we need to adapt to modern times.

    • @Griff@lemm.ee
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      Same here. The peaceful inclusive protest in Sackets Harbor, NY over the weekend worked. The immigrant children and their mother are being returned from Texas as I type this. Don’t give Trumpy any room to paint the left as unhinged.