2mo ago

NO KINGS! Nationwide Protest on Trump's Birthday, June 14th is soon approaching - Check the Website for Protests happening in your area! (Link in comments)

Nationside Map for protests available on the website, just scroll down:

https://www.nokings.org/

You do not have to fill anything out, just find the address, and show up.

Bring water and snacks, wear a mask, and put your phone in a faraday bag if you can.

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What dies it mean for the planned protest to mushroom...?
- Expand rapidly.
  
  Thanks!
  
  Yup. The most familiar use of the term (for me) is a soft bullet that impacts a target, rapidly going from a cylindrical/point to a flattened out mushroom-head.
  It's also why soft hunting ammo isn't supposed to be used against humans as it creates cavity wounds that it can't be extracted from like "hard ammo"
To be fair there was a lot just do to his stupid soviet style parade to begin with. Impressive that this late in the game he can piss of americans even more.
- This late? It hasn't even been a year yet.
  
  he does a lot of things that piss people off. I just mean its amazing how he can keep topping himself in nastiness.
Quite a few in red states. Makes we wonder where those people were in November. That or something was wrong with the count.
- There are red voters in blue states, and blue voters in red states. There's a reason for the whole "divided we fall" thing, and a lot of the rhetoric about abandoning red states is fostered to divide us further.
  It's so stupid to watch people engage in it, because state lines are arbitrary lines on the ground, but people even on Lemmy love to say "no war but class war" and then immediately abandon leftists in red states.
  Look at Tennessee. Yes, Trump received 1,966,865 votes. But Harris received 1,056,265.
  Those 1 million people don't stop existing just because everyone is focusing on the 2.
  
  We have a lot of purity testing and tankies on outside. I empathize with the passion, but its also deeply unserious in making material progress.
  
  There are more Republicans in California than Texas and more Democrats in Texas than New York.
- Well there's this:
  https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/kamala-harris-won-the-us-elections-bombshell-report-claims-voting-machines-were-tampered-with-before-2024/ar-AA1GnteW
- to be a red state the "majority" of 50.1% is enough
  
  That would be a purple state, you need a strong majority with 53-55+% to be red. Otherwise you're a swing state.
Whats the signifigance of the red star cities?
“The address of this event is private”
…wat. That’s not how protests work.
- Unfortunately some have it hidden, not sure of their motivation in doing that (to keep the police from knowing where it'll be?) but hopefully it doesn't dampen the turnout too much.
Interesting that they don't have share on Mastodon links.
Sorry to be a wet blanket here but what does it matter? He's already in power with his grubby little hands. Even if we knew 100% that it was faked, it wouldn't change anything. Literally nothing would change.
Edit: down vote me if you want, but you know I'm right. No court will remove him at this point. It's over until...
- Civil unrest led to the good friday agreement, governments can be forced.
- The only way anything changes for the better is because people like you and me and thousands of others fight for it, that's how its worked through all of history.
  If we give up and lose hope, we're guaranteeing we'll lose before we've even tried, which is exactly what they want.
  Don't give up hope, keep up the fight. We're in a much better position to win this than the Germans ever were in the 30's.
Didn't some police chief say that 10x 1000-person marches would be unmanageable (from a suppression/monitoring perspective)?
I hope that protest leaders took that as advice, rather than the whingeing it was.

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