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Protest!
I've literally seen that twice in the last ~10m at Bluesky.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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All I can think when I see that sign is:
"Yes, yes of course you would be..."
Honestly I think these signs are made half self-awarely. Like these are Twitter and Reddit Libs who know this pisses leftists off and make them to signal that this isn't a leftist protest.
Most libs don't even think about "leftists", in the same way their brain short circuits at "America good, China bad"
Leftists bad bc :it-is-known:, but they don't care about what we believe or what would piss us off. There's no need to make a sign to make us mad, since we are wrong and don't matter. Hell, "leftist" isn't even part of their vocabulary - the political spectrum ends at "liberal".
They honestly believe that Kamala would make things better, and that if everyone had just voted hard enough then we could rest knowing that she'd do everything she reasonably could to make the world a better place. I talked to a woman who still can't wrap her head around why anyone would support Trump.
Libs stop thinking after "Democrats good, Republicans bad". We shouldn't give them credit for critical thinking beyond that.
synthesis: we need to be using these rallies to organise people in ways that materialise towards more useful ends than "Hands Øff NATO!!!"
If you can do it, you would be my hero. In honest truth, if these people could be mobilized to real action, or cause real problems to the status-quo, I feel it would take a uniquely, effectively-if-not-literally superhuman being.
Remember, these are the same types of people who screamed how they would "riot" if they over-turned Roe-V-Wade. Look at Jan 6th. See the difference? Twitter posts versus a literal attempted coup and multiple attempted (or at the very least, desired) murders, on top of the actual "acabs" that were harmed. Hell, Bill O'Rilley called Dr. Tiller, "Doctor Tiller the baby killer" until one of his fucked in the head listeners assassinated him for providing medical care to women (in a church, if I recall?). Give me one liberal with any soapbox and following of, of any note, who has spat 1/100th of the level of vitriol and consistent hate towards these evil fuck who let preteens die of medical complications and/or give birth to children made ofremoved, that evil Irish fuck did to a doctor doing real, good, medical work.
Bill changed the world (for the worse) Rachael Maddow, or whichever "liberal" you want to use, collects their fucking check and goes home. You'd need to fundamentally change their worldview, and since their worldview is based on the vapid, billionaire-controlled media they consume, you'd need to change that. Good luck.
Yeah a few years ago I would have been in the "well maybe this will radicalize some Libs" camp, but I'm pretty cynical now. I've seen several waves of these liberal protests and at best I think they're are useless and at worse actually counter productive. It really just feels like an irl r/politics thread.
The libs need to feel the sting of declining material conditions before they'll be ripe for radicalization -- thus far, they have been fairly insulated from any consequences beyond a vague sense of discontent, or a dim awareness that some of their rights have been eroded away. Civil religion dictates that this will all blow over in four years when the bad orange king is gone and they go to the ballot box to ~~pray~~ 
for a new good king that will give them back their "rights," at least until the next bad king comes along.
They probably won't stay cowed forever, but if you're expecting direct action out of them, you're going to be waiting a while.
Good luck but my past experiences don't leave me hopeful
There will always be a few people who get radicalised matter what but i bet it wont be fun for people doing the ground work
100%, this is what the essence of revolutionary work as contradictions build is all about
my affinity group went to the local protest and it was so poorly organized (people didn't know where to go or what was happening) so we just co-opted their rally. Found one of their overworked megaphone volunteers and offered him our help, ran to the front and then we were off. Led the crowd in pro-palestine and anti-imperialist chants and blocked traffic a few times. And comrades, the libs were literally using chatGPT for their chants, god help us.
And oh my god, the number of snarky white women who told us "uh you actually aren't allowed to block traffic you know", yeah but as you can see, we are. There were like 3 cops total at the entire rally because the crowd posed zero threat, but plenty of citizen deputies. Once the rally went over the permit time all these libs flew right off but we had a based core of people who kept the street shut for another half hour or so while the departing liberals on the sidewalks looked on aghast at us brutally and violently forcing cars to take a 2 minute detour.
And comrades, the libs were literally using chatGPT for their chants, god help us.
What...what does that sound like
we didn't use them, only got a look at an organizer's phone, but I assume the cadence would be clunky and the content soulless
are you sure that was for chants or where they just checking like "what is a protest"?
Hell ya. That's how you do it. Coopt their rallies like the libs try to coopt leftist energy.
And like chuds coopt a bunch of things, too.
I still kind of feel sorry for the Pepe le frog artist who didn't even mean to make a Nazi symbol T_T
the libs were literally using chatGPT for their chants, god help us.
Dont tease me like that! What were the chants?
sorry, we didn't use them so i don't know. One of the original lib organizers ran up to us and gave my friend the phone with the chants, and my friend later told me it was open mid chatGPT conversation so my friend just handed it back and we did the old classics and improvised.
there were a lot of libs bragging (??) about their chatGPT designed signs though, and from what I remember it was a lot of self-serving stuff "this is what a free, fierce, and sexy American looks like"
I went to my local protest. While it was huge I have to say I think I was more scared inside of it than anyone outside would have been of it. The whole thing was incredibly poorly organized. Everyone was body to body in the middle of it with no paths to get through. People brought dogs and small children into that which probably didn't go well. Walking through I kept getting smacked by people being careless with their shitty cardboard signs with smug one liners painted on them. There was no unified chanting or anything like that but also it was too loud to actually talk with anyone or hear what any of the speakers were saying. It's unclear who set the rally up or if there's anyway to get involved further. I've been in moshpits that have been better organized.
My local protest didn’t seem to have any demands. Is that always a red flag?
Sorry, didn't you see on "stormfront" how they posted pictures of signs with one-liners that land somehow between "cringe" and "bad"? You telling me that's not making a difference?
Wait, hold on, let me get out of the road, there's an oversized lifted truck driven by an 80 year old with cataracts in both eyes who's going to die in a stroke behind the wheel at some point at in the near future driving towards me.
I wouldn't want to impede traffic, that's not what civil disobedience is about...
Anyhow, where was I...?
Yeah but I cant see any protest in the USA yesterday that had decent demands. Either purely vibes based or shit like "Hands off NATO!".
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I'd say not always but you should interpret it in context for the situation.
Having no demands is a criticism against many loose oppositional groups. In some ways its hard to see how they would have "a demand" because they aren't an organization. They are a transient mass unified by sentiment.
Its not impossible to have such an even on the road to a productive outcome. But in this case I'm very skeptical.
Protest = good.
I = protest.
I = Good.
Q.E.D., motherfucker.
I earned this mimosa.
Hot take: everybody needs to chill out being soft or hard....on protests in a subreddit doesn't matter. Just post your take
Hot take alert! : I actually kinda Panera Bread. It's like, fine.
Big fan of the lemonade that kills you
i didn't know they had it until the deaths and then i was like "hmm maybe i want some" but all the flavors were shitty
Praxis is stealing a cup from the register on your lunch break and filling it with charged lemonade
Is this dialectics?
Gotta get a half-chub for these protests. Can seem to eager but don't want to insult them either.