*play imagine being sung by random white celeb*
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We don't need heroes. we need people who show up regularly. And many of them.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Absolutely correct. Many are quick to criticize the method of resistance as the problem when they’re completely missing the point that a national response of 5M out of a nation of 340M will change nothing.
We need to engage the disengaged, not fight over the content of the protest.
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“I stop fascism with a sign on a stick.”
What else do you propose with 5M people out of a nation of 340M?
The signs on sticks are meant to engage the disengaged. The goal is to increase our numbers, not feed our small resistance to prisons and give Trump a reason to enact the Insurrection Act.
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It sure fucking seems like it. Nobody's doing anything.
Maybe you’re not. Try going to protests. Talk to people in person. Leave your echo chamber and share information with those that are unaware. Small resistances get incarcerated, deported, or exterminated. See: Nazi Germany
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Maybe you’re not. Try going to protests. Talk to people in person. Leave your echo chamber and share information with those that are unaware. Small resistances get incarcerated, deported, or exterminated. See: Nazi Germany
I should have been more specific in what I meant. I'm only talking about the elected officials who seem to be more interested in being seen to talk big than to actually do anything impactful.
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It was posted here, making it a shit post.
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I was gonna get on my invisible soapbox and say some real shit. But then I forgot this is for Shitposting. Carry on libturds!
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I should have been more specific in what I meant. I'm only talking about the elected officials who seem to be more interested in being seen to talk big than to actually do anything impactful.
Democrats can only talk. They were voted into minority. The only power they have is the filibuster, and that doesn’t work on executive orders or reconciliation bills.
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Democrats can only talk. They were voted into minority. The only power they have is the filibuster, and that doesn’t work on executive orders or reconciliation bills.
That's another thing that makes no sense though. Most of the executive orders are illegal, unconstitutional or just not something within executive order power, yet people are following then as though they're holy edicts. It's easily the most fucked up thing I've seen happen from the federal government because it's so mindless and short sighted.
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No he wasn't. You said that no one was doing anything. He came back to show people are. The media is trying to hide it, but it's important to spread the word.
He came back to claim people are.
We are still on the internet. People lie all the time.
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That's another thing that makes no sense though. Most of the executive orders are illegal, unconstitutional or just not something within executive order power, yet people are following then as though they're holy edicts. It's easily the most fucked up thing I've seen happen from the federal government because it's so mindless and short sighted.
They’re still to be followed until ruled unconstitutional by a federal court or overturned by Congress. The Republicans in Congress are complicit, but federal courts have already stopped Trump over 200 times since his term began. https://archive.is/zZ9zU
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We don't need heroes. we need people who show up regularly. And many of them.
Therein lies your problem. I can show up for a weekend. I can show up for several weekends, in fact. I can't sit in a protest for two weeks, because I have a job I need to keep in order to eat food and own a home.
As the economy collapses further more and more people will become available for the sort of protest required of them, because they will no longer have job responsibilities. Or food. Possibly including me.
Until that time, I will be making efforts to keep my job.
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Therein lies your problem. I can show up for a weekend. I can show up for several weekends, in fact. I can't sit in a protest for two weeks, because I have a job I need to keep in order to eat food and own a home.
As the economy collapses further more and more people will become available for the sort of protest required of them, because they will no longer have job responsibilities. Or food. Possibly including me.
Until that time, I will be making efforts to keep my job.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This is all a part of organizing. Helping others. But you cannot organize if you do not show up. Either way you'll end up at the same place.
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What else do you propose with 5M people out of a nation of 340M?
The signs on sticks are meant to engage the disengaged. The goal is to increase our numbers, not feed our small resistance to prisons and give Trump a reason to enact the Insurrection Act.
"Violence is the only answer but I will commit none of it and yell at people online to do it for me instead" something along those lines probably
