Keep at it Americans. We know you didn’t want this.
do it now! https://youtu.be/ZXsQAXx_ao0
Here’s my reaction to the protests:
I’ve been hurt by too many flash-in-the-pan activist things that ended up going nowhere. I’m not ready to believe yet.
I feel exactly the same. I will be convinced when the votes are in.
and when the bodies of the guilty start piling up.
That kinda depends if semblance of leadership takes form to have actual reasonable goals for the protest.
for anybody wondering, this loosely appears to mirror the population density at a quick glance (which makes sense)
yeah, pretty much.
Looks at massive gap in the center of Nevada
Ya don’t say.
central US gaming, really.
Generally, yes. Alaska seems over-represented, while Utah and the deep South are a bit light.
Yes! My city’s protest was a sight to behold. I will point out that these protests are just as much for the protestors as anything else. To be around so many people that gave a fuck was really energizing and hopeful. It pulls you out of your online ecosystem and reminds you that your neighbors care about you and you care about them. It builds momentum for the next protest and the next one and then more collective action. People are credibly talking about a general strike. Economic boycotts are starting to make a (small) dent. Our most effective tool is how we choose to spend our dollars and it’s going to take a lot of sacrifice and be more uncomfortable than any of us are probably used to but yesterday showed a whole lot of people that they aren’t alone.
April 19!!
Whats happening April 19th? I need to be more in the loop of when and where these protests are happening
The next big nationwide event
Awesome thank you!
Lines up well with population density, if anything, lower population areas might be a bit over represented!
I want everyone to know that on the 5th, a whole lot of the country was under like day 3 of severe storms. I expected no one to show up in Tennessee, especially in Nashville, with all the flooding and the flooded out streets. Apparently, there was still a turnout, and that’s kind of a big deal.
5k estimated in Knoxville! I was there, it was bangin!
I genuinely 💙 you all! So proud…
New England and the Chicago area look on that map like they’re about to cecede to Canada lol
I look forward to being proved wrong, can’t wait to see how this changes the situation.
and if all those same people that showed up to protest had showed up to the houses of conservative government leaders and drug them out into the streets, we’d be making real progress. i love it when the people show up. i just want them to do something with that energy.
Protest movements take time… especially given what we’re up against. And people don’t go from My First Protest attendee to guerilla freedom fighter overnight.
We have to keep protesting.
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If you’ve given up and are ready to take those billionaire backshots then go ahead. I’m not.
I felt the same, then someone mentioned Martin Luther King
you mean the guy who said in his last days that malcom X was right and that they would have gotten further by adopting his methods?
R/peopleliveincities
Maybe Oklahoma isn’t that bad
I was looking all day for protests in my area, southern OK, but the closest I could find was in OKC. I’m stoked to find out that there was one closer, and disappointed I couldn’t find it.
There aren’t blue states and red states, just states with more people of one persuasion or the other, or neither.
And what do we call a state with more people of red/blue persuasion?
We mislabel them “red states” and “blue states”, perpetuating simplistic binary thinking. White hats vs black hats. Our team vs Their team.
If only a small percent of the people who protested across the country were to band together to go after fascism it would be more than they could handle, but they know we never will.
Oh yeah? So what are you doing instead?
Nice try, FBI
Complaining on a fairly niche social media platform.
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Hahahaha found the nazi!
I guess it was only a matter of time until these people started showing up here too, especially with the ahem signal boost we got yesterday.
What happened?
The April 5th protests, ofc! r/50501 was plastered on protest signs and shared all over the internet as the place to go for the movement. I think it has gained more than 20k subs just over the weekend. Naturally, that would lead some to here as well.
Surph’s been here for months. All of their takes are equally as stupid, as expected from a tankie.
Ah, I see. Glad no one here is tolerating his BS!
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Hasbara, Chinese, Russian bots. Pick your poison.
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After looking through your comment history I’ve discovered that everything is black and white and any one person/group/organization only has one thing they stand for and everything else is a smokescreen. Unfortunately there’s no way to know which stance they appear to support is the real one, so I’ll have to look and see what you post to know the truth.
Some people may think that this is an inflammatory over-simplification specifically designed to encourage people to work against their own interests, but me and you know better, don’t we?
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Wait, do you think the protests are in support of Israel? That’s wild. There were Palestinian flags at the protests, my guy, and one of the biggest ones for support of Palestine was in DC. There’s footage and pictures of it, man.
TIL, the Allies and the Axis of WWII are both fascist.
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Explain what you mean instead of being coy to hide your intentions.
Trump and MAGA don’t care about people holding signs.
Peaceful protests have proved time and time again they do nothing.
This exact defeatist thinking is what led to all of this nonsense. Banding together gives people a sense of hope and community that gets lost when everyone is so isolated nowadays. These protests remind everyone that there’s a like-minded community around them that all support one another, and gives them the strength to do more than just protest. One person cannot do much to make change, but a collective community bandrd together can. Rolling over, going “protests don’t work, just give up” is actively harmful to a movement.
Nobody but you is saying “just give up” you’re mischarachterizing others by adding that on there.
Protests can work, but they work via disobedience, inflicting other harms to those with power and (most importantly) threatening violence if things do not change. Anything that doesn’t do all 3 of those things isn’t a protest, it’s a parade.
Parades can build community, but pretending parades are inherently some sort of engine of social progress is insane.
Yeah, we need a place to organize for the real stuff. Unfortunately they keep censoring things that “incite violence against property or encourage illegal activity” like sit-ins or sabotage. You aren’t going to win by playing by their rules. They keep making executive orders, and disappearing people, and nothing is being done to actually stop it.
The women’s suffrage movement began in the early 19th century. Back then we were fighting to get the vote! Men, at the time, said, “tut, tut, darling…” The 60s and 70s saw HUGE protests in the U.S. when women fought for equal rights, and made a lot of progress. And those protests were peaceful. The 60s and 70s were rife with protests that made a difference, and they were peaceful. The only violence came from “the man” as we called them back then, that tried to suppress us. The people ARE the governing body.
That’s an incredibly whitewashed history you’re going off of. It’s not your fault, that’s (very intentionally) the version of history that is taught within the US school system, but it is wildly inaccurate.
You’re correct that the women’s suffrage movement began in the early 19th century, but the 19th amendment didn’t get passed until the early 20th century. It was a century (and arguably still counting) of men not just going “tut, tut, darling…” but using extreme violence, murder and sexual assault to try and supress any sort of equality. It took WW1 (and cross-pollinating with other global suffrage movements), a shift to a “deeds not words” approach, militant self defense and don’t forget the women’s suffrage and prohibition movements were tightly linked within the US (the 18th amendment passing just 2 years prior). Good luck characterizing the prohibition movement as any form of “nonviolent”.
The “60s and 70s were rife with protests that made a difference, and they were peaceful” is a real nasty piece of, very intentional, amplification/veneration of MLK and deamplification/villification of everyone else. That’s not to say he was ineffective, but the carrot doesn’t work without there also being a stick.
If you’re instead referencing the hippy movement, then even a cursory glance should be enough to realize those were not effective tactics and not anything you want to emulate…
If your focus is on the 60s-70s I highly recommend reading Kwame Ture’s “black power” speech
And what are you organizing instead?
It’s not for Trump’s benefit. It can help build momentum and encourage further action. It reminds people they are not alone. Action starts with getting off your ass, and organizing in the real world.
You’re right, but I’m not sure what you’re providing by saying that.
What are you providing by saying what you said?
I feel like there’s value in calling out shit behavior, personally.
"Peaceful protests have proved time and time again they do nothing”
And yet, during the 60s and 70s, peaceful protests made a huge difference. Honestly, who cares what Trump and MAGA care about? They are willing to strip people of their livelihoods, their retirements, their jobs, their health, their farms that generations of their family have worked. The richest country in the world has decided to discontinue funding to the most vulnerable people in their society… why?? Hungry children? Disabled veterans? The poor? The disadvantaged? How the fuck can you justify that?! How can people NOT protest?
