Yeppers thatll show them and not proven things to fight fascist like guns, guillotines, and violence
The protests are good ways of meeting like-minded people in your community to form connections, spreading awareness of local mutual aid groups so more can join, or form ICE resistance groups who can join an encrypted chat to coordinate, alert neighbors, and talk strategy. It also is a good place for unions or union members to encourage others to unionize their workplaces, which can also ultimately work toward a national general strike.
They also are useful for people to see that many of their neighbors oppose the regime, which can give more confidence to gradually become more radical, and to not be afraid to resist, which was a significant issue in Germany during the rise of the Nazi party.
Just because the protests aren’t perfect doesn’t mean they aren’t useful to our cause overall, and being purely negative about them probably isn’t very useful.
No Kings, No Shahs, No pedophile cabal, No puppets of capital
Downvoters want to be back at brunch
they’re such an overwhelming majority that i think it makes it clear that this country is locked into a track that will only allow either soviet union style economic disaster or climate change to be the only things to force americans to wake up.
When I read comments like this I wonder where you live and what your situation is.
Because I see signs of radical change all around me. It’s a long journey, and victory is uncertain. But I’m grateful that I don’t suffer from a lonely sense of doomed isolation.
I live in Oakland, California, and here I feel the longing for radical change in the air. I’m sorry that you don’t. Where do you live? Do you have a local political community?
i have lemmy to thank for ending my doomscrolling and reminding me that i’m not alone—and more than just theoretically so.
I live in Oakland, California, and here I feel the longing for radical change in the air. I’m sorry that you don’t. Where do you live? Do you have a local political community?
the last time i felt hopeful was when i lived near san francisco. oakland was the place i would go to regain my sanity for almost 15 years. over the last 27 years – both before and after living in the bay area – i’ve lived in and around new york, phoenix, austin, chicago, newark, and las vegas. that experience has taught me that there are bubbles of sanity so disconnected from the overwhelming majority of this country that reconciliation seems unlikely.
my family cements that sense of irreconcilability. my parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, and i had to pay coyotes to smuggle us across the border. we did our best to thrive without legal status in this country that wanted us gone. that situation became a crucible that forced a liberal/leftist collectivist mindset – necessary for survival – but that mindset is now being completely wiped away. our children, who never had our experiences, either embrace maga’s “rugged individualism” or simply think the rest of us are “overreacting” to trump. and all of us who have coupled with white americans are likewise brainwormed now.
it’s only the younger generations who grew up in the bubbles who stay true to their heritage. they are both a tiny minority and significantly poorer than their suburban/rural cousins. it breaks my heart to watch my siblings eschew their deeply held beliefs just to keep access to their grandchildren – and especially so for my father, who drilled those beliefs into my head as a child. it makes me partly glad that my mother didn’t live long enough to do the same.
moving from city to city over the decades has taught me that my experience is extremely common and indicative of the undeniable conservative trend this country has been undergoing since the '70s. lemmy has done a lot to convince me to try reaching back out to socialist groups again. i’m hoping they’ve stopped being as feckless as they used to be.
These are peaceful rallies steered by liberal groups. Those thousands of protestors aren’t exactly militant, they didn’t show up for that. If any radical action actually happened those people will leave and never show up again.
I mean at least they are showing there unhappy, better than nothing I guess.
This doesn’t fit the context of the meme at all, but, NOkings thing, it reminds me of the Confederacy logo
Which is doubly funny because Konfederacja is made from libertarians, neonazis and monarchists.
