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I was at my local protest. I’d guess there were around 3,000-5,000 people and it was literally just a bunch of hippies chanting. The protest was so lawful that people were even obeying walk signals at the intersection where it occurred.
Our governor had a state of emergency in place for this.
So peaceful that when the permit said 1pm, people started walking back to where they were supposed to go. The only scuffle was caused by a raised-truck tRump supporter and they were booed to all hell before driving away like the coward they are.
The fact that you need a permit is already a violation of the right of assembly IMHO.
I’m very much out of the loop. Can someone give me a tl;dr of what this is? How it got started, its goals, etc. I heard nothing about this until today.
This is a planned mass protest in the United States against the trump administration and his policies specifically concerning his stance on immigration.
Honestly this is somewhat of a milestone for my country. I’ve never seen anything like this.
USA is a country without kings, we don’t want any.
We’re protesting trump, but also his stupid military parade. We’re trying to reclaim what it means to be an American.
This many people could easily just physically remove the criminals from office. Why gather this many people to just stand around for complaining? You’re already there. Just fix the problem.
tRump and his regime wanted a scuffle. They wanted violence. They wanted an excuse. DC was intentionally avoided for this reason. That city was a ghost town, as expected, and I think it sent a bigger message than a bunch of people storming the capital…again.
‘Disobedience is what they want! We must obey, or they win!!’
Good, now you know how big the support is it’s time to turn it into action. I don’t mean violence, but turning up on a summer’s day to go for a walk and hear some people speak is not enough.
I’m not going to tell you what to do next (it’s not my country) but one day is easily ignored. I know from other fights around the world that these things need persistence and sacrifice.
The thing is, part of the idea of this particular summer day was to distract from the Trump parade.
But then, just one fascist extremist with a gun posing as a cop was able to distract from the efforts of 5 million protestors.
Small steps, friend. Progress is progress.
Kinda makes you wonder how he was elected in the first place.
He wasn’t.
What is the source?
What is your motivation?
Americans
Imma bump this. I want this to be the size of the protests, but unless I have a reliable source for it, in this day and age, you almost have to assume everything you see could be fake.
Go away.
not a source for the video but this guardian article quotes numbers that make these videos appear believable imo. after the first million it gets hard to keep track of how many there are exactly.
Thanks!
These are the true kings of this country
This is giving me an ounce of hope, y’all. From across the pond, keep this up and vote common sense
I’ve been giving you yanks some grief about not doing anything about the treasonous tangerine but I’ve got to say watching that video was quite heartening. Keep it up everyone!!
And those were just the biggest cities with the biggest turnout. There were A LOT of large turnouts in even remote or usually smaller communities. It was extremely neat to be a part of and I look forward to the next one. I’ll be bringing anyone who wants to join me the next time!
I love the time lapse. They should do one every time there’s a March.
Kinda wish people were this angry before the election. Please remember to vote in the midterms so we can at least drop the Republican majorities in congress. They’re rushing all this crazy shit first, hoping we forget everything by 2026 and 2028. It’s not like we didn’t have 4 years of this asshole, then after a 4-year break and it’s like people from 2020 forgot to vote in 2024. Voter turnout dropped.
They were angry. At Democrats. (And rightfully so.)
And I have no faith the Democrats will do anything meaningful when they get Congress back in 2026. (And they will.) They just kicked David Hogg out of the DNC and they’re doing everything they can to silence their most effective voices, who just happen to be filling football stadiums in red states across the country.
NYC Democrats are already introducing legislation targeting the protestors
I’ve seen a few NY State Democratic congresspeople on podcasts calling the protesters ‘rioters’, which incenses me. 99.9% of them are hippies just holding up signs and chanting, and these fucking Democrats know it.
If you think the midterms are going to be democratic in nature, you’ve still got another 17 months of Trump’s current bullshit to consider.
By the time he’s done, those elections are going to be about as “fair and balanced” as a Fox News broadcast.
Even if the Republicans are corrupt and do not respect the law, we must still uphold it, because they want us to give up on the rule of law.
Trump keeps losing court cases and Kilmar is back in US soil. They fear and hate the rule of law.
… we must still uphold it.
Your supreme court is corrupt, making decisions by good judges lower in the system able to be overturned. The judiciary is broken.
So how do you propose the law is upheld?
I agree is must be, but I want you to be prepared that means taking action in some way.
Bots and morons like you are are so exhausting.
Protesting and other actions are NOT mutually exclusive.
Luigi didn’t try to talk others into doing what he did, he just did it. He owned his own ideology.
Why don’t YOU personally do what you think needs to be done, instead of telling others what THEY need to do?
Because guess what? There’s hundreds of thousands of lawyers and judges defending your rights in courts, and succeeding at it as best as they can, because even though you gave up on them, they haven’t given up on dumbasses like you.
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Maximizing efficacy?
What’s next, synergize brainstorming strategies?
Maybe get offline and go volunteer at the thousands of organizations that desperately need your help instead of being chronically online.
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Had fun at our local march. Should’ve brought earplugs, though. Neat to see so many people acting in solidarity, and I hope we can keep up this energy.
Edit: anyone see any vandalism? I saw some spray paint on the upper floor of a restaurant, but literally nothing else.
Woulda been nice if they all voted.
Who is this comment for exactly?
155M people voted and 75M voted for Harris. 11M is being tossed around so far for the protest numbers. I’ll let you deduce those numbers from there.
Assuming they are all from Illinois, it wouldn’t have mattered. That state already voted blue. Gotta live the electoral college
It always matters. Even in IL. As a downstate Illinois resident, you wouldn’t believe how many tRump signs I saw. This weekend proved to me that they’re outliers. Lots of support at the protest. Lots of support from all the honking and cars driving by during it. Cheers galore for the support. A couple of louder boos for the couple of turds that tried to antagonize. It was worth it to see, if nothing else, to feel you’re not alone when all hope seems grim.
Far more impressive than the military parade.
My backyard barbeque had a bigger crowd than that parade
As a Canadian watching in horror, is this going to change anything?
We Canadians have a king. We don’t have the issues these losers have. Not having a king isn’t the issue here.
Neh fuck the monarchy too!
Americans don’t understand what a King is, or how monarchy fits into a modern democracy. What they mean is “No Dictators”.
Americans don’t understand what a King is, or how monarchy fits into a modern democracy.
It doesn’t. That’s why. Being the descendent of those who had power to kill anyone who disagreed with their claim of “divine right” and getting a special title for it is directly opposed to democracy.
I’m the sense of a modern democracy, you are talking about a dictator.
King Charles doesn’t have this power in a constitutional monarchy.
King Charles doesn’t have this power in a constitutional monarchy.
He does have the power to dissolve parliament, immense wealth, as well as physical and financial security not enjoyed by the general population. And this is granted not by merit nor democracy but, because his ancestors had the resources to kill anyone who thought that they weren’t granted the right to rule over everyone by their god. And his uncle was even a big fan of Hitler, which was covered up for decades.
Monarchies of any sort are fundamentally unjust power structures that are relics of a bygone era with no business existing in modern times.
I can’t imagine it doing much. I guess people felt good that they aren’t alone, but Republicans will continue to ignore the Constitution, and the apathetic majority will probably continue to not vote.
Probably not. It makes the Americans feel good though.
Only if it’s a springboard for more.
If they all go home and do nothing more the country is sunk.
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