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Today, over 3 million people stood up to the billionaire-backed hostile government takeover. (i.redd.it)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/93776

We are building a massive, visible, national rejection of this crisis—and today’s numbers are proof that the people—the majority—are taking action to stop a hostile government takeover.

Because let’s be clear: We do not have a functioning democracy anymore. Trump and his billionaire allies have dismantled our system of checks and balances, stacked the courts, silenced dissent, and declared themselves above the law.

They are disappearing people, attacking universities and the free press, and purging agencies meant to protect the people—from the environment to civil rights to public health.

This is not politics as usual. This is a hostile takeover by billionaires, corporations, and authoritarian enablers.

They are gutting the country for parts—and selling us out in the process.

They are not leaders. They are traitors to the people of this country.

So we are building a People’s Movement. And history shows that when just 3.5% of the population engages in sustained, peaceful resistance—transformative change is inevitable.

But we have to earn it. And we have to fight for it.

We may no longer have a functioning democracy—but we still have a chance to restore it. The window is closing though. And we are the ones who must rise to meet this moment.

So here’s what you can do: 📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials—every single day.

🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.

🚫 Boycott the corporations funding this hostile takeover.

🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. Don’t let them sleep through this moment.

📸 Share protest footage, updates, and facts on social media. Amplify the truth—because the billionaires are trying to drown it out.

📲 And follow us to stay connected, get updates, and join future actions.

We are not alone. We are not powerless. And we are not backing down.

#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501 #ImpeachTrump #HandsOff #April5

Originally Posted By u/FiftyFifty1Movement At 2025-04-05 07:56:36 PM | Source

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

What really matters is the next election cycle, Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and gaining control in state govs.

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2026

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

If everyone at the protests went to Washington and ripped this fascist out of the White House we would be done with this mess.

The world is watching and seeing if America can rid itself of it's Russian asset president and his coup.

Unless America can free itself then the world falls under Chinese control and then Dictator Xi owns the world.

Inb4 my tankie bot stalker Davel shows up to do his job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

If everyone at the protests went to Washington and ripped this fascist out of the White House we would be done with this mess.

I keep seeing this take from Lemmy keyboard warriors, and honestly it's kind of frustrating. It's like saying: If all the soccer moms and college students and retirees and other everyday people who spent their entire lives blissfully living in an ostensible democracy just skipped all the boring organizing and community building and radicalization and Overton window shifting.. and just went straight to the violent revolution part, this would be all fixed right away.

Well, DUH. But that's not how any of this works in the real world. Movements take time to build, and you're doing a disservice to that movement building by trying to minimize these initial protest efforts.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not davel, but what's this racism? You talk about China and Russia the same way Nazis talked about Judeo-Bolshevism

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I talk about dictators all the same.

You make excuses for dictators

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the approval rate of Xi is an order of magnitude above that of Biden and higher than Trump's. In American "democracy", you get to choose who will enact genocide, welfare cuts, and mass imprisonment of "nonwhite" population.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When you are the only one whonis allowed to have a good approval rating, or be in power, that makes you a dictator

Xi is a dictator because all dissent and opposition is artificial or crushed

Sorry that you have a hard time processing reality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Real democracy is like in the EU, where for the past 30 years, you get to choose the colour of the party that applies neoliberal shock therapy and dismantling of the welfare state.

I'm Spanish. In my home country, a party rose against corruption in the name of the left wing, called "Podemos". You know what happened? The state apparatus manufactured false evidence of funding from Venezuela and Iran, leaked this false information to journalists, and private media started a yearlong campaign of smearing of the party using false information, if you want to look it up, search for "caso Pablo Iglesias Sociedad Anónima". They literally bought people from the Venezuelan opposition to create a false narrative that the party was corrupted by Venezuelan money.

So: don't you fucking dare tell me to my face that European democracies are democracies and Chinese government has no opposition. In Europe we literally had the "Gladio operation" in which lost leftist leaders were LITERALLY MURDERED by intelligence agencies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah it's pathetic that these are the things you have to tell yourself to accept a dictatorship

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Caring about Operation Gladio and the lack of democracy in your country means you love dictatorships". It's so obvious that you don't actually care about democracy, you're just a racist american/European supremacist who believes Chinese people are a hivemind that "are forced" to like their government

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So then why do you instantly default to whataboutism if you don't like it?

Or you just don't like it when I do it?

Yeah keep making excuses to suck fascist cock

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm making legitimate criticism of my "democracy" when you bring up controlled opposition, to show you that calling my system a democracy as opposed to China is fucking ridiculous. You don't accept criticism of your system and you call it "whataboutism", when in reality we're discussing two different political systems because you're calling one of them authoritarian which is comparative to the other. You just can't answer with anything reasonable other than "Gyna bad" so you end the conversation with the thought terminating cliche of whataboutism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

So when does somebody besides Xi take power, whats the date when his term ends and he steps down?

People who claim power for life are dictators. It shouldn't be hard to aknowledge that but the psychological control China has over its shills is terrifying.

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