I'm sad it was only thousands. I'm part of the problem as I didn't go.
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I didn’t know about it until this morning.
I’ve been to children’s birthday parties that are better organized than this.
Every bit helps when you consider we're fighting this together from all around the world... that includes you and whatever's realistic for you to do!
To be honest I feel like this is a candle that's going to burn bright too fast and the country will quickly fall into complacency.
Prove me wrong, America, prove me wrong.
The cycle of people protesting; politicians not doing shit; conditions getting worse... has been stuck on loop for decades. Yelling and holding signs isn't going to cut it. Until oppressing becomes a significant mortal liability, the oppression will continue.
On this week's John Oliver he ended with a brief segment about messages from people in government positions saying how past protests have encouraged their belief that they were doing the right thing by resisting. Just holding signs won't fix everything, but it isn't nothing.
100%, but is that actually helpful?
Our gold is being hoarded away from us and our livestock ravaged every night: we don't need to encourage the town blacksmith (we've tried that - he's worthless), we need to slay the fucking dragon.
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You're not wrong. I've seen all this before. We always give up and go home eventually. It's the American way.
Remember the BLM protests and their "5 demands"? They tried to copy the Hong Kong protests, but unlike Hong Kong they couldn't even last more than a few days before giving up. Not a single demand was met.
Calling the elephant in the room on this with what I hope is a valid explanation.
America has no principals therefore any movement peters out without any resolution. This is because America is a diaspora of so many different cultures and beliefs and the only prevailing truth is "I got mine". It's nothing to base life on. America has no identity outside of money.
America has no principals therefore any movement peters out without any resolution.
I think this is very true. However, I don't think it's wholly unique to the US. Canada's idea of being a "mosaic" is also based upon multi-culturalism and I don't think that the entirety of the country holds that as a principle either.
America has no identity outside of money.
This is also a true statement. We used to hold other values until every organization that trumpeted them also turned toward the all-mighty dollar (including -- and in a lot of ways led by -- religion).
Canada is different and it's nuanced and hard to explain. If you have time I recommend you look into the ideas of John Ralston Saul he explains very well how Canada differs from America and a lot of it is how everyone here is allowed to be themselves. As you said Canada is a Mosaic not a Melting Pot. That's a large part of what defines our success.
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To be fair, I believe COVID disrupted a lot of that.
If that were possible, then I think it proves their point that people are overreacting to the "fake news media".
But I don't think that will be possible, because it really seems like there's no way all of these piss poor executive orders won't have very tangible repercussions on the working class. It's already starting with govt workers being laid off, all retail chains telling shareholders that they'll be raising prices in response to tariffs, grocery prices continuing to rise, and people having loved ones shipped off to Guantanamo.
IMO, today it's protests, and in a year if it continues on this course, it will turn into outrage. Many many people are at their breaking point, not politically, but just from the ability to survive. He's going to say it's AntiFa, BLM, and Communists trying to stop him from saving the country, but only his core base will continue to accept that. Rhetoric and excuses don't put food on the table.
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Chicago
That sign is amazing.
Orlando
thanks OP and others for sharing the photos! evidence that people are turning out is push to make the next one even more appealing—this is already the movement’s second organized demonstration and it’s already being seen so much more across fedi than the first time! :)
Portland Oregon
Grand Junction
Eugene Oregon
Charlotte
Providence, Rhode Island
Albuquerque
The gallows calls for them.
Port Townsend, WA
Olympia, WA
Roanoke, VA
Christiansburg, VA We have a weekly protest outside of the Trump store
Albany
DC
Denver
Boston
Santa Cruz
Doylestown
Atlanta
Houston
NC did the Elon has got to go chant, but I didn’t hear the other one.
I like to think “No kings on President’s Day” is sung out like “No sleep til Brooklyn”
We filled the entire square around the govs mansion. Easily 1000 people, probably 2k.
San Francisco
Also SF:
Medford
Austin
Jersey
Fresno ca also is out at city hall. I'm not near so I can't get a pic. Only link I was able to find is on local subreddit (with bots lol)
https://old.reddit.com/r/fresno/comments/1ir2zvk/presidents_day_protest_at_city_hall_repost/
Thousands were out here in Sacramento. Pretty loud at times. They had some issues with their sound system though.
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Hell yeah!
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