From major cities to rural towns that have never seen mobilizations like this before, protesters made clear that in America, we don’t do kings,“ the No Kings coalition said in a statement.
Someone should tell them that the issue was settled 250 years ago.
Someone should have told that to Hitler.
Problem is Trump is trying real hard to bring it back
Thank goodness there folks in the streets holding funny signs and going “rah rah sis boom bah” or whatever, otherwise he might actually succeed.
Trying to redefine the word protest doesnt redefine the action. These were not protests.
What are they then?
They are echo chamber parades. Protests have clearly defined goals, demands, potential threat to the system. Protests dont have a scheduled start and end date/time.
They claim to be protesting Trump as if he’s not a cog in the machine, a cog, if replaced, would not change how the machine operates. They should be protesting the entire system that created people like Trump, Biden/Harris, Obama, Pelosi, etc.
It will be the same for their May 1 ‘general strike.’ A 1 day, couple of hours event of no consumption, which will result in nothing.
I agree. But, please, as a rule of thumb, when you make comments like this please end them to direct people for MORE action not less. I think we spend too much time criticizing without directing to action. The criticism is correct. But is useless without a direction to actually enact change.
Something as small as placing leftist literature in your local bookshare dropoff, to organizing a tenants/workplace union, working with mutual aids, learning your neighbors names, joining DSA or PSL for meetings to get your foot in the door, etc.
We can’t critize liberals for going outside without directing them where else to go. It’s just doomerism at that point.
One thing I did was ask my friends to join ONE other protest or organization with me between the last “No Kings” and today’s. Only had one actually join me. But they’ve been more active since.
Use these events as opportunities to EXPAND organizing. Don’t just offer criticism that essentially is just telling them what they are doing is useless and they should stay home. That’s not how we get more people organizing.
We don’t go from what we have now to an armed vanguard pushing ICE out of our cities in a single leap. We do lots of stupid “performative” shit to spread leftist agit-prop. These protest are an opportunity to do that.
The biggest failure of these no Kings protest is not on the liberals. It’s on our complete inability to radicalize them. WE as Marxist are failing THEM. It’s our job to educate them.
If this is a protest, what are their demands?
Not only do they have no demands, they make no threats should those non-demands not be met.
Figures that y’all are from .ml
You’re here in a .ml community.
Oh shit, didn’t notice lol
I’ve had it with these motherfucking .mls on this motherfucking .ml.
If you have a counterargument just state that
Pep rallies.
they are.
just useless parades.
good place to recruit people to activate them though. Only good thing there
Not useless then. If there are still more “I want to be at brunch” signs than there are “end American Imperialism” signs that’s a failure in our job as leftist to radicalize them.
With everything that has happened since the first “No Kings” to this third one. I am more disappointed in leftist failures to radicalize liberals than I am liberals themselves. It’s our job to educate them.
🇺🇸 IF HILLARY/KAMALA WERE PRESIDENT WE’D ALL BE AT BRUNCH 🇺🇸
https://bsky.app/profile/latimeriidae.bsky.social/post/3mi52awgh7s23
Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild
SO WILL I
Any day now!
