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The third No Kings protests are expected to draw millions. Do they need clearer goals?
(www.theguardian.com)
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Fuck yes
I've said this before nokings 1, and nokings 2
If it's just going to be protest parades, then don't even bother, you're wasting your time.
Let me be very clear: nokings 1 & 2 changed. nothing.
If you want to change things, protest for weeks, protest in from of the Whitehouse and don't leave until the Cheeto is gone
"Letting the perfect get in the way of the good."
Most people can't stop working and/or travel to DC for endless protests, but they can go out on a Saturday afternoon.
If that's the least someone can do, don't tell them not to.
Thank you. Getting ourselves evicted and losing our ability to feed our children isn't going to accomplish our goals.
Thats exactly why these protests are not effective. The pedophiles in charge of the US have leverage over most Americans and No Kings doesn’t address that problem.
I won't tell people what not to do, I just fucking wish they would do something useful and so far no single american has done anything remotely useful to stop trump. There are small nudges, zingers, a little cute protest here and there and that's it. You have a fucking pedophile for president that makes people disappear from the streets and you do nothing.
I don't tell people what they can't do, I'm telling them to DO SOMETHING USEFUL
I live in a fairly rural area and I see about weekly if not maybe every 2 weeks (maybe im not passing through at right times every week) protests against ice / no kings. I'm not trying to say protests are useless, but it hasn't made a difference YET. I do think the more people see how unhappy Americans are with the administration that helps reflect on how our country is perceived by others, as most Americans are unhappy with what's going on. I do think it's very important if your going to protest to go vote. No 8 don't mean presidential and mid term, I mean all your local elections too. Most people don't realize how much local changes actually can effect you more than federal ones, and if u get all the right people in local office I think that will "trickle up" and spread through higher offices. Vote at the booth, vote with your wallet, and don't stop making noise when things need to be heard! Even if no policy change comes from a protest at least awareness was raised, and it's better than sitting down and taking it. (This is being typed from my porcelain throne while I skip out on protests because I have a huge backlog of chores around the house so don't listen to this hypocrite)
Protests are also useful to network and build organizations and skills.
Plus, a lot of the demands that Trump is making are on lower levels to do his bidding.
They can either go along with it, or they can ignore Trump (and his puppeteers) and do what is acrually in the best interest of their local community.
Voteing for better local politicians matters.
Don't listen to naysayers like this idiot
Awesome, you first. Show us how it's done!
Leave it up to Americans to tell others to fix the problems they created
So you don't have anything of value to add?
That would still be more than you have added
Smug motherfucker. A lot of people in the USA are one absence from losing their job. Most of us cannot handle an unexpected $500 expense.
How do you propose we just up and protest for weeks? The nokings protests are alleoing people to build support networks so a general strike is actuslly feasible. So they are accomplishing something.
You, on the other hand, continue to be useless.
Shouldn't either of these things be enough for people to PROTEST EVERY FUCKING DAY!??! Add to that that your current "big strong leader" is a pants shitting murdering pedophile who is speed running your country off a cliff and I would feel that if I were American, I would be protesting every fucking day, after work if need be. Americans have been fucked over left and right for countless decades and so far they've been a champ and took the fucking like the sheep they are.
How to I propose you do that? By going out every day to protest? If you can't do without your job, then do it before and or after your job. Do your job while wearing a protest sign if you can. There are hundreds of ways, and yes, they will inconvenience you, and I'm sorry about that, I'm sure jews back in Poland 1939 surely also were very inconvenienced by all that was happening.
The nokings protests, until today, have done nothing of visible value. If it built support networks, then wow, awesome, could have used those years and years ago, but better something than nothing. Now that you have those networks, what are you going to do with them, besides more "nothing"?
You call me smug, I call you an American who needs to get off his ass and do something and stop looking at the rest of the world for a saviour
And how will that help? The Cheeto is going to look outside his window and see people constantly protesting and then step down from office?