I went to a No Kings protest with a couple thousand people. It didn't seem partisan in the least to me. I saw 0 signs supporting any politician. All I saw was anti fascist and anti oligarchical messaging.
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LOL what? I was at both and this take on it is dumb. It is very grass roots. I saw American flags, both right side up and upside down, Mexican flags, Palestinian flags, LGBTQ flags, and more. No Democratic party flags. Yes, frogs, axolotls, spongebobs and Santa's. You know, democracy.
same, Saw no democrats in there, no stalls, no flags, nothing. the local DSA was there though canvassing for free healthcare and other common sense policies.
I've found out about them during the first no kings
Nice! It seems like these events might a good place for smaller parties to make their presence known to people. Maybe even get some new ones going!
Yes, my DSA is growing thanks to NoKings.
no doubt the us is fed up with Democrats, even though republicans is the main evil, the uselessness of corporate owned political parties is pissing everyone.
Yep. From my experience of them I think people are really just looking for some new options.
Yhea, the democratic party is a dead party. they couldn't even win against Trump, the worst candidate and president in US history.
And so many dems bent the knee to trump, and only offer symbolic useless resistance.
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Lmao, what? This is a really dumb take and sounds like a desperate maga, tbh. They didn't like hearing speeches from dems. Just go for a walk with the rest of the protestors.
The Democrats are a rich people party too. They're not your friends, they're just the lesser evil.
Right now, they're not nazis. That's all I care about. We need anyone against nazis on our side. No one should be dividing anyone up, unless you're dividing the nazi regime.
The article here doesn't look to me to be advocating dividing people up, but rather making sure the movement is not controlled by the Democrats. Democrats should be part of it, not in charge of it.
I understand where you are coming from and agree with the sentiment, but at the end of the day either they need to form a party and quickly, as if it isn't all together by August 2026 it has no hope of doing anything if there actually are fair & free elections some how, or they all have to vote out Democrats they don't like and vote in new ones who fit their views better using the already established democrat committees.
States like Florida require you to have at least 1% vote in the last election and a committee with 50 board members set up and in place with the rules of how you would perform your primary and what not. Which is why they would have to establish it all and have it in place and ultimately surrender the Governor seat of Florida to the Republicans in the 2026 election to ensure they could exist on the ballot in 2028 for a presidential candidate. So it's either organize quickly, or just rework what's there.
No Kings is apolitical except for the idea that autocracy/royalty is un-American. As soon as you put it into a political box it will alienate a bunch of people.
The Dems is 2025 are the same Dems that voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Meanwhile, the GOP is ready to hang Ronald Reagan as a woke Liberal.
The Dems in 2025 are the people who lost the presidency to the most incompetent man in the world. Twice. I do not think it's smart to trust them to be the stewards of what seems to be shaping up to be the primary resistance movement.
As much as I hate the liberal purity test culture, you've hit the nail on the head. As much as the movement should use any and all available allies, people really shouldn't forget this point when the smoke settles
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It’s just the new ML plan. Haven’t you noticed how they all criticize the dems—but never Trump? Have you ever heard one of them criticize Trump in regard to Gaza? Have you ever heard them criticize any right wing American? I can’t recall that happening.
ML love MAGA.
Honestly this 100% rings true in my experience ^
I only read the first paragraph. It sounded incredibly disingenuous. These rallies are impactful because of the turnout.
Without the democratic organization, it would not be remotely as impactful. Think that is exactly what the author of this article wants.
Also the difference between a democratic backed Indivisible group vs decentralized 50501. Indivisible brings a lot more people to protest.
I’ve never even heard of 50501. So that’s exactly what they want.
I saw nothing whatever to do with the Democratic party at any of the protests I went to.
I did.
Well I'll take any allies we can get. I'm not a communist, but I'm thrilled to see them show up, I'm not a libertarian, but I'm thrilled to see them show up... nor am I a democrat, green, or an anarchist, but I saw them all out together. No one needs to pass a purity test or be thrown out of the movement before it has even begun in earnest.
I believe that The No Kings Movement has three fundamental tasks – 1) to assure that the Democratic Party does not gain control of the coalition, 2) to expand the coalition to include those without an institutional voice (the poor, the unhoused, the unregistered and non-voters, and most importantly, the millions of undocumented US residents at risk for MAGA’s genocidal zeal). The third task is the most difficult and subsumes the goal of limiting the influence of the Democratic Party. 3) The No Kings Day project must take the critical jump from protest to civil disobedience.
Nice to see they remembered that MAGA is a part of the problem.
I'm not a big fan of the Democratic party, but I wouldn't put stopping them as the number one goal.
Oh look, more disinformation and division mongering.
And its posted by a dbzer0. Of course.
Anybody who share the same noble values should be allowed
Isnt no kings specifically to under mine trump so democrats and retake power and the country doesn't keep imploding? Why would you remove the political party from it, makes no sense.
That would be a good argument if the Democrats hadn’t paved the way for Trump. We need new politics and new systems.
The only people who paved the way for trump were the people who didnt vote against trump and the right wing media machine. There is no looking at the two platforms and think its a hard choice. If your values lean left the choice is easy.
And how do you suppose you get that without primarying incumbent and establishment dems with progressives? Which involves voting Dem and in Dem primaries.
There is a non-negligeable number of people convinced that all of the Democrat Platform are policies they don't stand for. They think Obamacare was just Romneycare. Ideological puritans who would rather everyone abstain from participating elections than pick harm minimalization option.
This ideology gets furtherd and promoted by foreign psyops who frequently post on DB0 and Lemmy ML, much in the same vein that Russian operations promoted Bernie Sanders on FaceBook after he had already lost the primary and asked people to vote for Hillary in the general.
Basically everything is burning and some people think adding fuel is better than water.
These fucking comments are the reason shit is so bad in the US. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.
The biggest issue with No King's, at least out of my perspective is that it is only centered around Trump and his cronies, and doesn't actually target the system that keeps churning out people like Trump, produces them and puts them into power. Americans believe that Trump happened to them like a natural disaster would, and that they were sadly just ill prepared. They fail to see and correctly point out that the system thrives on people like Trump and actively pursues putting them into positions of power. Until that isn't addressed, these protests will bring about no material change.
P.2025 has been decades in the making. They have been systemically cutting funding for education for as long as I've been alive. Add in social media and it's manufactured division, it has been a perfect shit storm for a takeover.
Note, I'm agreeing with you and adding a thought here. I've always figured it would need to get ugly if any meaningful change were to happen, how ugly does it need to get? This is the only question I have now.
At my No King's, a politician made their request for us to vote for them. I will consider it, as they dared to be amongst the plebian rabble, rather than the ivory halls of the bluebloods.
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So you guys WANT the republicans? It’s wild that Trump and the GOP are actively demolishing democracy and you guys still see the Dems as to e enemy. Right wing propaganda and social media rotted your entire country’s already rotted brains
they literally are the first hurdle into solving the republican problem.
and while i do appreciate that they are FINALLY doing something i can point to and say it’s a good start (holding fast to their demands on the shut down) they otherwise hold the rest of us back. they need to stop harming the chances of progressive candidates in their own party, stop sueing to block passed ballot initiative for progressive action. stop their actions to help their corporate doaners, and actually pass progressive laws
Look, the most third party senators the USA has ever had was 11 in 1899. Even when the parties dissolved or rearranged it was always Demcoratic Republicans v Federalists, Jacksonians v AntiJacksonions, Democrats v Whigs, Democrats v Opposition, Democrats v Republicans.
Last congress there were 4 Independents and it lead to Republicans sweeping the 2024 election.
This is a two party system. One of them wants a King and the other does not. Democrats are the only way to progress. The only way. Singular.
Get Republicans out, then fix the damn system by changing the voting system so you guys can finally have more than 2 parties
your ask is cyclical
But the only way to get Republicans out is voting for the DNC. Otherwise you're splitting the progressive vote because the DNC are progressive, despite claims otherwise.
Yes, that's the order it has to be done in. And once GOP is out and voting is reformed, you can introduce better parties
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Uh, no. It is a grass roots thing that the Democrats are on board with. They aren't much better, but at least they actually want to govern, not have a KKK rally and complain about randos on social media making them feel bad. You have two fucking options, pick the lesser evil, please!!! Or make a better government. Just fucking do something! The whole waiting for someone else to save you thing was cute at first, but pick your fucking selves off the ground and stop having a tantrum like a two year old.
Yes, democrats are being pussies. More action less strong letters
They shut down the government for you, asshole. That is literally the full extent of their power with a pitiful 45:53 ratio in the senate.
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