The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’
The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’
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The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’
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inclusiveness and broad-tentedness
Exactly. It’s a simple unifying message.
The first round of protests suffered from what many protests on the left suffer from. It was tens of thousand of people with their own message. The signs and the speakers were all trying to cover abortion, billionaires, voting rights, Palestine, schools, healthcare, unions, immigration, corruption, the environment, judges, etc.
People had good intentions, but the unifying message needs to succinct and easy to understand if you want to cut through all the noise.
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There is no genius.
They all bought smartwater.
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As a person who is attended many rallies, protests, etc., over the last 30 years or so, this New King’s protest was among the most goofy and silly. And for a reason: for all of the Nazi haters trying to denounce our movement, we showed up, and did a massive number, and we’re just a bunch of goofy, silly, people who love America and want it to get back to the days where America loves us back.
My take would be that the 1960s protestors were trained/influenced by people who came out of the 1930s to 1950s movements. Those were the days when getting shot by the police or Pinkertons was a real threat. Haymarket Square, the Harlan County War, and the execution of the Rosenbergs were on their minds, and they didn't want to seem silly or trivial.
Also, Trump is such a joke of a person, it's hard not to treat the entire thing like a game.
Yes! This! It was a bunch of goofy, silly people that defeated Hitler and the Nazis too!
So glad the US isn't fascist anymore.
And the foxiest, newsiest assholes could not possibly characterize 7 million goofy silly people as “dangerous, enter American, hummus-living antifa“
Because we were also lovely and silly and wonderful. Never, in history of all protests anywhere ever, have 7 million people come together in a common cause without getting arrested.
Until Saturday
So, let those dick weeds call us “violent” let them call us “crazy terrorists”. There is now mountains of evidence that the reality is quite the opposite. Calling those assholes “liars” has just become much much easier.
Are you trying to Make American Great Again?
I thought I had all of your alts blocked, but thank you for presenting it another so I can have all of them blocked
The days where you committed crimes against humanity on foreigners not citizens?
I would actually legitimately hate every American if you lot push to go back to the status quo.
You have my pity