And it did nothing
Did it even hit the news? I saw nothing about it on the normal outlets
If you think hitting the news is how we win, idk what to tell you.
8m people didn’t make the news IS the news, fam
That has more to do with the
elitekings owning the media, than the actual impact of the protest.
That’s a lot of people doing nothing lmao
I’m of mixed feelings. These protests are great in conservative areas like mine so we can be heartened by seeing so many allies. But in blue cities and states it feels like preaching to the choir.
In blue cities, it is a networking event. There were booths for all sorts of organizations to get people more involved in activism. I was there with Food Not Bombs but there was like 30 booths for Not In Our Name, Veterans for Peace, AIRR, Peaceworks, PSL (Yuck), Labor Unions, and many more.
The first one had 5 million, and the second one had 7 million. Yesterday’s was the third one.
So its plateauing? Shit.
No need to be fatalistic.
- the previous protests were huge. Keeping up steam is more important than growing.
- 13% increase is still significant growth.
somewhere between 1 and 2 million new voices added to the bunch. it’s also not really plateauing, at least not in any way significant enough to make us believe whe can’t still place our hope and faith in the possibility of linear growth for the next round. and when we do plateau we’ll know what we’ve got.
this is the strongest mass support movement i’ve seen in politics in the south since Occupy Wall Street. something is alive amongst The People, who refuse to be broken, refuse to have less in this world than everything their dignity demands. people are engagede with community support in ways i have never seen in my entire life.
i have hope and faith that we can end this selfish autocracy and win our freedom from these greedy parascites.
8 million is about 3% of the eligible voter population. That’s pretty crazy
Thats enough for a highly succesful general strike
There were people in my city promoting a May 1st General Strike.
Wake me when the guillotines come out.
Fuck that. Start building them yourself
I can build them, but if the crowd doesn’t support it, it’s painting a target on my own back for nothing.
By the time the guillotines are usable, you’ve already won. They’ll just be turned against you. Build community if you want to win.
Por que no los dos?
Because they will always be used against you in the end to get back to an even more brutal version of the previous system. Learn the history of the French Revolution.
Do you seriously think getting rid of billionares would be so bad? That it would be worse after? That the US would do the same thing?
Your lack of imagination of profoundly disturbing.
Go learn the actual history. They just come back, but worse. They also murder the entire left.
There probably will never be a demonstration with perfectly aligned opinions, but I think you would definitely find your crowd or more likely your crowd would find you with such a rallying point.
The crowd aren’t the ones who would be painting the target.
I don’t live in the US so my assessment might be completely off here, but with protests like this you shouldn’t hope for the more radical positions. If you’re more radical yourself this can be annoying or feel like it serves no purpose and I get that. It still provides opportunities for us.
There’s two main reasons I advocate for showing up at things like this:
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Treat it like a networking event. Go talk to people, hand out flyers, wave your flags, bring funny signs, hand out vegan cookies… As an anarchist I’m very much aware that most people never think about anarchists, and when they it’s rarely in a positive way. Protests like are an opportunity to get people to see, however briefly, that anarchists can be nice people with free cookies.
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If or when things go poorly, like if the police or the far-right decides to escalate, I’d want people with experience there to provide assistance. Whether that’s taking up the front to defend others, yelling: “Walk! Don’t run!” while people are trying to get out of tear gas, handing out water so people can rinse out pepper spray (and telling people not to use milk), explaining how to handle a kettle, etc.
These should be called rallies, not protests.
Sure, but that doesn’t change my points in any way.
You yourself called them protests, even in your points. So… It kinda’ does.
Acting like networking events are valid, effective protests is inoculative behavior and counterproductive.
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So when all the hard work is done you want to take credit?
Who said I’d take credit? Furthermore, if you think these rallies are going to stop the police state from cracking down, you are beyond delusional.
All it does is give them a head start on identifying whos rights to violate first when the gulags open for all citizens.
If you think 8 million people hanging out noticing that nonviolence isn’t enough and sharing that dissatisfaction with each other doesn’t help progress things towards more effective means of resistance, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s like complaining that grade school doesn’t teach children algebra.
Where did I say it did nothing? I said it won’t stop the police state from cracking down.
It should be daily
bad link… or anti-tor?
It opened for me. Not on tor, but on a VPN.
ah, works from tor now as well. Just a temporary glitch i suppose.
