I’m increasingly wondering why people in the US aren’t taking to the streets in their thousands.
I’d also like to share a poem by Martin Niemöller, who was a pastor in Germany during the Nazi regime and even supported the Nazis at the beginning:
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me (Martin Niemöller)
define large, because every major city is already hitting frequent protests in the thousands
Demonstrations have become so predictable that people ignore them now. Politicians know that if you wait a few days they will be forgotten. What you really need to do is shut down the nation like the French rail unions do.
I think initially people felt broken by the election. The fact that so many of our people voted for him seemed crazy and crushing.
For me and people I know that fog is starting to lift and neighbors are getting organized, but it’s still in small pockets. There is no consensus leadership but there are actually lots of protests going on, like at the Tesla dealership. Interestingly, I learned that was happening from my dental hygienist while she was cleaning my teeth, not from any media.
There needs to be a US wide worker’s strike. ATC workers, military, everything. The police won’t be on strike but they have already demonstrated that they are fascists, but everybody else should be striking.
Search for “general strike 2028”. It’s in the works already.
Bit late aint it
Because why would you protest against the president you wanted in.
If 2020 taught us anything at all, it was that despite whatever horrors, challenges, and/or desperate situations, we are still expected to show up for work on time. Don’t want to lose insurance, and most people are like a paycheck or two away from being unhoused, or at least seriously close that it would be near impossible to catch back up. They’ve made it impossible to do anything except show up for work on time.
We know. But the point is no one is coming to save you, and things aren’t going to get better on their own.
“Why are there no” should be “why aren’t news outlets covering the”
Search for the hashtag #50501 on any social media platform. Check c/50501.
The protests are happening. News media just wants to suck Trump’s dick so they can “survive” the fascist takeover so they’re not covering them. Same reason Reddit is censoring criticism of Musk (source)
50501 didn’t turn out to be a prank? My state’s “organizer” was a deleted reddit post with no other contact info, the posters named three different start times, and only two people claimed to have links to the signal chat and stopped replying when I asked for it, even though they offered.
I visited the subreddit three days before it was supposed to take place, and they were still figuring out basics. One of the top posts was discussing the dress code (consensus seemed to be wearing blue + American flag scarfs), and the one person pointing out how impractical and dangerous that was for a protest was getting downvoted.
Thats the reason I’m not protesting, btw. One protest in my area and it seemed like either a joke, a honeypot, or like a teenager came up with it.
Not sure what your area is, but 50501 has become an ID for basically all the protests I’ve heard about. They’re ongoing. There’s another big one on Saturday (April 5th).
Consider it a joke if you want, but people are showing up and protesting because they don’t know what else to do.
If people are actually protesting, of course I don’t consider it a joke. I just thought the one in February 5th was a joke, everyone was guilt tripping me for asking questions but refused to answer them.
Three different start times, two different addresses, and everyone pretending there’s a signal chat just feels like a trick.
Thank you for the clarification. I’m very glad that they’re protest’s, but it’s a shame that the news media doesn’t report about that.
You misspelled “oligarch propaganda outlets”
Trump has broad aupport.
Bernie the sheepdog and his training puppy AOC are doing their part, fiercely rallying to keep the sheep away from actual alternatives to the Uniparty.
Do you know they omitted the first sentence from that poem which has a prominent place on the wall of the US holocaust museum?
Americans are so scared of the C-word.I’m not surprised at all.
Any place to find good protests near me? I wanna join one for fun
Class solidarity is hard to archive. It’s funny seeing people get mad at my tiny little projects when the government is out there ruining people’s lives
because you’re only seeing through a lense that is controlled by capital, and they refuse to show the demonstrations. I went to one yesterday, there were thousands of us and we took to the streets to demand trans rights. I won’t speak to the efficacy of the protests, but they are happening. News of them is just being suppressed.
How many are you?
Fridays for Future mobilized hundreds of thousands to demonstrate for action against climate change.
I can’t imagine they could suppress such demonstrations.
Just genuinely curious - is it like, thousands? Tens of thousands? And why is it not more? And are you saying the media are already so much under control like in Russia or China that any movement can be extinguished before it even can grow ?
There are protests but they are toothless.
