I’m glad ppl made it out. And showed their stance. But the worst part is that this will have 10 second less than 25 word coverage on major news outlets
Couldn’t that also work in your favor? People starting to question why such large movement isn’t covered on major news outlets?
Starting to think lemmy is starting to be targeted by the maga bot farm and hired instigators.
Reddit is lost. It’s all bots now.
So they thought they could follow us here.
Most on here are pretty liberal. So it’s not going to work. FO.
Next they will talk about how Hamas is anti lgbtq and the Israeli are actually super wonderful kind people.
The inauthentic behavior I’m seeing is “divide the left” by hammering on “libs are evill”, “you’re complicit if you support democrats”, “protests are worthless”, etc.
Yeah I’m seeing a lot of “protest are worthless” too
Big whoop. They should be doing this every fucking day. Not one Saturday every three months. 🙄🙄🙄Not to mention 11,000,000 protested today but 77,000,000 voted for Shittler.
Are you a Russian divisive troll or just an asshole
Sorry, these protests are a fucking joke.
Which part of what they said was incorrect?
Nice downvotes…but, what’s this? No replies. Hmmm, I fucking wonder why. It’s a mystery!
If you want change,
Doomerism has to die.
Do more than chant “mid” like trolls do
Weekend protests do squat for fascism. 85,000,000 Americans don’t have healthcare insurance. And they have been made to believe it’s a cOmMuNiSTt cOnSPiRaCy if they were to have equal access to healthcare. There are a million homeless in the USA. No American gives a fuck really. Yet when Macron was going to raise retirement age to 67, the French:
Until they got their way. Americans have a lot to learn and will need to go waaaaaay beyond weekend protesting in joyful animal suits before they see anything change.How is the French economy doing right now though?
No idea. how’s the US economy going? In the shitter? Thought so.
Imma give u a pass cuz we tried to screw Canada so hard, y’all know how to put ur elbows up for sure (e.g. RIP 🇺🇸 wine sales)
Initially was like “damn this some friggin foreign BS on Lemmy” “oh wait Canada that does make sense”
We love you guys btw (normal Americans), sorry. We will try to mitigate this in the years and decades following future elections and hopefully your kids[‘ kids] don’t hate us [too much] :( Canadians are so great and heartbreaking we threw it away
Initially was like “damn this some friggin foreign BS on Lemmy” “oh wait Canada that does make sense”
Apply that to every country on Earth though, thw whole world hates the US and has reasons for it, many more than Canada for the most part
Yah it’s not going to achieve anything but it well make some people feel like they did something.
fuck this guy
There was one minutes away from my home in suburban Aurora, CO. For being such an off-central location, turnout was excellent and there was so much support from those driving by! I realized how great those protests outside of downtown are; super convenient (easy to attend and get others to join) and seeing things like that happen in unexpected places, especially the more residential areas, has a little more meaning when you drive by.
My mom lives in a a gated “active adult” community. A small group got out in front of the neighborhood early in the morning, protested for about an hour, then went to Denny’s.
The last No Kings protest had a bit of a controversy. Everyone in the neighborhood tools around in golf carts, and a MAGA resident rode hers down to the protest, and ended up deliberately hitting another old lady with her cart, and taking off.
Nobody knew who she was, and by the time they found her, she had moved away.
Keep fighting Americans.
Also I love that Star Trek quote.
When did this take place?
Yesterday
Yesterday
And what did it accomplish? What will be different tomorrow? You’d think with millions of people on the street, something would be accomplished
I guess the first accomplishment was to upset frauds like you.
A protest on a weekend every couple of months oh no what we’ll they do. It’s pointless and not doing anything you have to disrupt the system for people to care not work within its confines. Look at how France protested.
We can learn a few things from the French. They seem to have good ideas about how to protest for sure.
A question: How do you think you get to the point where the quiet majority feels confident enough to show up in force? To ‘disrupt the system’?
We Americans, by our own devices, have become a very insular people. We have social media, which puts us all in our little bubbles and cellphones, which distract us from the actual people around us. We sit in despair about rising prices and the tragedies inflicted on ourselves or our neighbors, our world. We watch our rights get eroded.
These protests are a symbol that we are not alone. That there are others out there that are also mad. These protests burst the bubble that technology has trapped us in. Read through the comments with this in mind: How many people were surprised at the turnout being larger than expected. And for each of those, there’s a comment indicating it could be larger. As we come to terms with how many allies we have, we gain collective power. Sure, we have it now, but we’re not willing to wield it yet. Building the confidence that you will be one among many is the key to wielding that power. Ten people protesting will be intimidated by the local police. Ten thousand will intimidate the police instead. Ten million will intimidate the government.
I write actual responses to throwaway comments all the time. I don’t do this for Auli or Fresh, I do this for those that might agree with you on the surface. This protest was not intended to make immediate change. It was intended to build pressure, to unite the people and to show support for the cause. When we show up and make a scene, we provide a shield for those who are not as willing to be in front to join in. When they join in, we grow and are able to pull in even more. Every thumbs-up from a car is someone who is on our side, but due to life commitments or fear did not attend… this time.
Edit: Followup: If you want faster change… do it. What’s your idea? Build a movement and implement or shut the fuck up. You might find that it’s hard to find other people willing to risk their safety and arrest to block a street, or to risk losing their job to strike with only a few people involved. When we have the numbers to make the system fear what we could do, we will win, even if we never have to do it.
It will silence people into complicity. Will make as much difference as the Woman’s March. So while the people at that protest tell people to speak out, will quickly turn around and silence anyone that speaks against it. I completely agree with every point the protest make, but know that not a damn thing will change, like it wasn’t the previous eleventeen times.
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Sounds like something a republican would say
White liberals always start sounding like MAGA when you tell them that their good intentions don’t actually do anything
Your entire comment history is shitting on people for protesting. What a fucking ghoul.
Protest away but it’s not going to do anything one Saturday every couple of months.
Nothing.
Mass networking and marketing for direct action groups that will be better poised to accomplish something with increased numbers? This is such a dumb take.
I see, but that was said after the last protest. And it still took about 4 months to do it again.
When do you think the next protest will be? Will it even be this year?Listen, I applaud this protest in its essence. Honestly, I do, but they need to be done more frequently. 3 protests a year will do nothing against the obese imbecile, he literally just rode out the paedo Epstein list accusations, and is an adjudged rapist.
Once every 4 months isn’t going to cut it, there’s too much time in-between for people to forget. Once a month isn’t great, but will cause ongoing damage. You’ve got to admit that more needs to be done, surely…
Populations have inertia, it takes time to shift millions of people. These protests started centuries ago. They’re happening more frequently, on a larger scale. That’s undeniable progress.
Protests take time to coordinate and build interest. If you have them too frequently then people don’t show up as much, and the crowds get smaller, and then they’re just this thing that’s happening. A little time between let’s the anticipation build up and then it becomes an event.
This is a perfectly fine frequency for trying to coordinate millions of people. Yelling about how we need to rush it isn’t going to make it go any faster.
Centuries ago come on what BS. And it’s not going to build up it’s just a vent so people can feel good about doing something. But it’s pointless.
Why does it take long for Americans look at yellow shirt protest in France if they would have taken as long their retirement age would have been increased.
It’s an extension of the workers rights movement from a century ago, which was an extension of the liberation movement from a century and a half before that, which was an extension of the Magna Carta centuries before that.
This isn’t a new threat, it isn’t a new movement. It’s simply the newest battle in a long war between the people and those who exploit them.
If I exercise today, what will I accomplish? Will I be different tomorrow? Of course the answer is that I won’t accomplish much, and I probably won’t be noticebly different tomorrow; nobody increases their bench press 25lb after a single workout.
The point is not the results of a single workout, because what is significant is not the effect of a single workout or protest or any other long-term effort you want to examine, it is the cumulative effect of continued work toward a common goal.
The Powell Memoradum was written in 1971. The Heritage foundation began developing project 2025 in early 2022. These are efforts that have been in development for decades and years, respectively with many people working very patiently to see them implemented.
Of course a single protest isn’t going to do anything to undo decades of well-orchestrated political and economic changes. If people want to see this changed they can’t stop with a single protest. Just like making a new years resolution to go to the gym once isn’t going to undo years of neglect to change someone’s physical fitness, going to a protest once isn’t going to undo the years of damage to the U.S. Government.
You also won’t get any results by working out once every 3 months and go back to your normal routine every day between.
If I were in fear of ICE every day I might not mind seeing some millions of people giving the finger to tyranny—any thoughts on that? Moral support, which obviously doesn’t instantaneously rewrite laws or instantly increase equity or anything, I know
(Genuine response despite my username)
fuck this guy
Ignore the doomer above folks, keep the numbers rising.
Go away, you are unwanted in this conversation.
What about the freedom to put what drugs I want in my own body? Cause my whole life it seems like everyone was super gun hoe to take that freedom from me. To use it as an excuse to expand the bipartisan police state.
Fuck the “normal” people lust for.
What does that have to do with anything?
Not sure. Maybe they’re on drugs
errr you do have the freedom to put anything in your body. Just be private about it instead of posting here!
Good work!
So he’s better at one thing than Obama, unifying hate.
I wish I could’ve gone to this one but I’m oncall. The last one was huge, so I hope this beats those number estimates.
It did!
Right there with you. I would have loved to have joined, but I’m overseas for a few weeks and the country I’m in had nothing going on for it (unsurprisingly, of course) 😭
I’m disappointed by the sheer scarcity of Epstein reminders.
I saw plenty of those today in SF
We were led in a rousing song of “If you’re not in the Epstein files clap your hands!”
👏 👏
👏 👏
I was gonna keep scrolling, but that would mean i was in the files. So I had to clap.
Na sorry, you need to give up your Duke Of Blahaj title now
Madison, WI
I LOVE the Time one, lmao
I stole it from someone on here…
