I appreciate it as well. I don’t like people dismissing the wrong Biden and Kamala have done. However, the people constantly saying it doesn’t matter if you vote for Kamala or Trump because they’re both fascist is wrong and annoying.
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~~By this logic, South Africa should have had a violent revolution to end apartheid.~~ It is true that sometimes, violence is the only option. For example, the abolitionist movement in the US tried to end slavery peacefully for decades until things escalated to violence. But saying violence is the only thing that works against an unjust government is unnecessarily dramatic.
Indivisible is the main organizer of the April 5th protests this weekend. In Trump 1.0 they were a big factor in protecting things like the ACA. They also work towards building progressive politics in Red and Purple states. They also work to prevent voter suppression and gerrymandering.
This isn’t even the list of their best accomplishments, but this is from their website: https://indivisible.org/impact
Their whole point is to use political pressure on politicians weak points to make them more likely to cave to their demands. They were a big factor in getting the Democrats to do the filibuster early on in Trump’s second term. They often focus on local politics. It’s a bottom-up strategy. This is also why they keep organizing those town halls.
Burning Tesla cars in particular is very dangerous to firefighters and the general public. I think vandalizing and boycotting Teslas is better.
I use Flashes. Its on ATProto.
Are there no effective peaceful protests in the Netherlands?
Why does everyone not see anything in the Women’s March? It was a massively effective recruiting drive. Indivisible got a lot of members from the Women’s March. Indivisible has been extremely effective against Trump during his first term. They’ve been organizing for ten years.
This is why the majority of people buying and donating bus tickets for the April 5th protest are all women.
Things should be kicking up in the summer. That’s when the recession is supposed to hit.
Occupy Wall Street inspired the movement towards a $15/hr minimum wage and educated people about income inequality. So it didn’t do anything flashy, but it wasn’t useless.
I’m a millenial/Gen Z. I was really surprised to find out that I was one of the youngest in my protest group. A lot of people told me they were protesting for their grandkids. They also expressed regret that my generation would have to deal with the fallout of this.
Also, do we know that millennials are protesting less than other generations? My protests seem to be pretty age-diverse. They seem to match up with the generation percentages of the population at large. People might just be used to seeing mainly young people at protests.
Legally, you need a permit to march on the roads. Past protests have marched on the roads, though. One 50501 protest even got carried away and tried to march on the highway, but then they were stopped by older protesters. My protests get carried away and we wander into the roads. Peacekeepers have to direct us back to the sidewalks.
I will say that my state’s 50501 protest always manages to clog up the road even though we don’t intentionally block it.
Most of the drivers are on our side. They will slow down to wave to us or take a video. People going back and forth keeps slowing down traffic. Cars will keep going back in the car line to honk again.
Would it be better to clog up the road completely? I don’t know. All I know is that it seems to be on purpose that people stay on the sidewalks.
IndustryStandard criticizing Kamala but mentioning Kamala wouldn’t do all the same things as Trump. I like how they mentioned it was the a stepping stone for Trump’s deportations but I was not referring to that specifically.
PhilipTheBucket liking that that IndustryStandard’s post was nuanced and not as simple as “Kamala bad”.
I was trying to say I liked the nuanced discussion, and was expanding on it with my own experiences.