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[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 minutes ago

Ok but it's crazy that the George Floyd protests were 5x bigger than this, even with COVID in full swing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Oh, nuh-uh! FOX News said it was a lightly attended failure. Who am I gonna believe, FOX:News or every local news sorce, that actually was there, in the country?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Yeah!

Now knock off all that fascism - or we WILL go back out there and do another lap!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Behead those who say No Kings is violent

[-] [email protected] 30 points 9 hours ago

We clearly have the numbers against traitorous conservatives.

Would be really cool if we could use those numbers before allowing them to destroy our society.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago

Good... now repeat it but as a General Strike

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago

A general strike would be devastating. But we ain't there yet.

Not that I don't love the idea. It requires a robust support network. Start building a small local community that can be self sufficient. Grow food. Make tools. Sell things to neighboring communities.

The owners will still expect rent during a general strike. We have the numbers, they have the funds to we wait us out. They'll do everything they can to make it hurt us more than them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Defeatism has NO PLACE HERE. Pack your shit and leave, fucker! SERIOUSLY fuck off.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

But we ain't there yet.

Sorry but this line is how the USA fell off the wagon in the first place

nd not only that, you got there on Jan 6

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

Match the energy during election day ballot yeah?? Thanks

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago

That's great news. The other 9 of the 10 biggest protests were were extremely successful at affecting change.

Since we made such massive progress on all the others, this is clearly a harbinger of social and political progress.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)
  1. George Floyd (Police Brutality)
  2. Earth Day 1970 (Environmental Protection)
  3. No Kings (Trump)
  4. Hands Across America (Poverty)
  5. Women's March 2017 (Feminism)
  6. Hands Off (Trump)
  7. March for Our Lives (Gun Violence)
  8. Women's March 2018 (Feminism)
  9. #RickyRenuncia (Puerto Rico, Resignation of Ricardo Rosselló)
  10. Great American Boycott (Immigrant Rights)

Only #9 actually accomplished what they wanted.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Earth day did a lot of good

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 hours ago

Until we start seeing general strikes, or other action, they will continue to ignore the people.

A week of general strikes, and the stock exchange tanking acordingly, would actually have an effect.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

I keep seeing this, and I don't disagree, but what exactly is gonna change? Some rich people get slightly less rich, they'll still own most of our government. Our current admin clearly doesn't care about public opinion.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago

They care about money.

Day long general strikes have changed policy. A week would bring the government to the table on anything short of dissolving the government.

The US government is terrified of general strikes, and has gone to extraordinary measures to ensure they don't happen.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

great job everyone!

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