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At this rate they'll hold does math nine more protests before the midterms. What exactly is any of this supposed to accomplish?
What does it hurt? I mean, besides the egos of everyone who thinks Trump is making this country "great".
This is such a silly thing to complain about.
I thought I lived in a split small town until the last protest. I prepared for a lot of arguments and shitty behavior. There turned out to be hundreds of protesters, and less than 10 counter-protesters. It was extremely eye-opening, and pivotally important to how I see my town now. I met a lot of people, and heard their stories. It was massively important because it made all of us realize just how many people oppose this evil regime.
This protest was one of the largest in US history. It showed the WORLD how many of us oppose the disguising behavior we're all witnessing.
Lack of effective resistance to fascism is absolutely not a silly thing to complain about.
We've known that since April, and again since May, June, July and now September. How many of these do you need before something happens?
Fascism running unopposed while the people who should be opposing it think their parades are going to stop it is a bad thing. It means you're still going to get fascism.
Ah there it is, someone doing absolutely nothing whining that other people aren't doing enough
Primarily get like-minded people in the same location so they can network with one another.
I mean, that requires enough people involved to want to do something, which is clearly not the case.
Why do you say that?
Because there's no evidence a significant number of people are willing to escalate beyond holding a parade every month and a half. With no credible calls for striking, civil disobedience, obstruction or armed resistance, what is the "networking" realistically supposed to lead to? There've been enough "protests" that, if there's real progress happening, we should be able to see it.
Developing the relationships necessary to actually plan any of those actions.
And when can we expect anything concrete to happen? The clock is ticking.
Are you just... waiting for someone else to give you a gameplan? Maybe go to these events and find like-minded individuals to make these plans with. It seems pretty silly to criticize this stage of organization if you're not doing anything better yourself. Organizing millions of people takes time and effort.
Being not American, my game plan is to watch this shitshow unfold from the other side of the world.
Well hopefully the shitshow doesn't make its way to your side of the world.
At this point we need to take the Malcolm X approach.
As that particular wise man once said: It'll be the ballot, or it'll be the bullet.