'No Kings' Rallies Against Trump Authoritarianism Could Be 'Largest Protest in US History'
'No Kings' Rallies Against Trump Authoritarianism Could Be 'Largest Protest in US History' | Common Dreams
#NOKINGS 10/18/25 - Find your local protest: https://www.nokings.org/#map
Makes sense as this is the largest perversion of government in U.S. history.
Essentially (but sadly) this is a useless charade. Using one of your days off work to march and shout slogans is not hitting (or hurting) anyone who is propping up this fascist regime. Do this sort of thing during the week. Shut cities down. Make people in the C-level suites notice an actual change to their bottom line or this is all nothing but theater preaching to the converted.
There's an interesting kind of poster that I've only seen here on Lemmy, the "why bother, it's not going to work" poster.
Why vote? It doesn't matter.
Why write or call your rep, they're in the pocket of blah blah anyway?
Why put a bumper sticker in your car? Performative BS, maaaan.
Etm etm...
How do you feel when you see Trump stickers everywhere?
How do you feel when you're in a neighborhood with pride flags everywhere? Is that different and better?
What about when you see Wellstone! sticker in deep red Midwest? A little hope that there are other people who haven't given up?
Show up! Speak out! Be visible! Live into the small moments of joy where resistance lives!
I didn't say "don't bother" I said "Do it better and more effectively."
Showing up exactly where they expect you to and getting shot with pepperballs isnt making things better. As far as I can tell these protests are just outrage relief.
Etm etm…
What does that mean? Is it a typo meant to say Etc etc...?
For something so pointless Mike Johnson and the usual stooges seem to be spending a lot of time talking about the upcoming protests using inflammatory rhetoric. One would think they might not bother if what you say were true.
Yeah, I don't think the Americans who opposes what's happening understand that they're beyond the point where they can lawfully protest their way out of it. So long as stock market lines keep going up , the administration can just ignore these protests. Hell the media is complicit and won't report how vast these protests are anyways.
If you want to put your conspiracy hat on, this is controlled opposition in that it acts as a pressure release valve for their opposition to exert themselves and feel like they've done something, without doing anything of real consequence.
Are there protests a necessary part of resistance? Perhaps. It keeps many people engaged than would otherwise be. But they are not even close to being sufficient. Remember , were like 8 months into this.
It bothers him deeply
Good luck,stay safe , greetings from belgium
good luck out there everyone. stay safe.
See you out there tomorrow
It better be our future depends on it
Good! And we will do it again and again and again.
So what violence is planned or is this another block party like last time?
Get your no kings posters from Amazon.com!
Nothing will happen this time, just like last time.
Whenever protests get bigger, the movement grows.
Nothing will happen? Why is the government trying to denounce it as Antifa all over the news? Why are they suddenly doing missile tests off the coast of Los Angeles the day of the protest? Because they are afraid. Because if they can't inflict fear, they lose power.
Sorry if we're trying to avoid another civil war. Now go kick some rocks.
I just feel like it's just going to go back to pretrump life if protesting works. Which is better socially but not the goal imo. There's been something wrong with america for a long time and nothing ever really changes. It's always the two sides toying with peoples hopes and dreams for their own agendas derailing progress and replacing it with escapism and false hope.
I think it's all broken to the core and there are so many bandaids on this carcass trying to mask the fact it's already dead. And the death of it is deeply engrained and intertwined in the American lifestyle and culture of our living.
Does it smell like astroturf in here?
Not in the commercial sense I'd say; there's plenty of people who believe in this sort of rhetoric, and this user has been spouting it consistently. Tankie-adjacent, if not full-blown tankie.
Lick that boot harder baby, they love it
Kindly ingest feces
Thank you for your attention to this matter
I wonder how many people at that protest didn't vote in the last election. These protests are useless. Hold rallies for voter registration. Educate people about the impact of local government. Do anything but dress in a frog costume.
Some of these people may well also have voted for Trump and regret it.
Do anything but dress in a frog costume.
That's only to discredit the accusation that Portland is a lawless city when ICE and national guards were sent. If they are sent to No Kings protest because of claim that protestors are violent, then why not dress up as Kermit?
Why would people who think voting is useless would go to a protest that you said is useless?
The Boston rally on Oct 18th says they'll have a bunch of local organizations with tables, so I think they are / one can take a "both" approach.
Oh yeah, that will teach them. I am sure the other side of the broken two party system will totally fix things. This time, for sure.
Just stop pretending the us is a democracy, do something about your broken nation or just collapse already. This is just sad at this point.
Just leaving MPLS, huge turnout. We were near the front of the March. Made it all the way around and back to the beginning and folks were still lined up to even start.
I am less cynical right now than I was earlier today.