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50501 is a nationwide movement of Americans standing for democracy against the GOP Administration's undemocratic vices by protesting across 50 states to demand upholding the Constitution and end executive overreach
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Here's the latest on the drama.
One one side:
On the other side:
Another subreddit is not the solution.
Hard to tell. Personally I think getting involved at your state/local level is key, I keep an eye on the following:
As far as national-level social media, take your pick. Even just within 50501 there are several venues (r$ddit, bluesky, here, etc.) but those are mostly just for spreading information.
Yeah ultimately my impression of all of this is that Fungi is probably a mess, but the other side is probably ALSO a mess, and I have no problem believing that in a decentralized grassroots movement someone will see a power vacuum and start trying to corporatize and centralize and sanitize it, and possibly make some money too.
But to your point, I think 50501 as a brand outlived its usefulness anyway. The best thing it did was get people connected to their smaller local organizers, it doesn't really mean much otherwise. Most of the protests are being organized by entities other than 50501 or volunteers that have no need to stay latched onto 50501 as a name. I think it served its purpose and there's no good reason to be donating to some sort of overhead 50501 organization versus your own local organizations doing the actual work, and 50501 as a name is absolutely is rife to be exploited.