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This doesn't seem like your average Anti-Trump protest. From the way our (Canadian) media and yours are covering it (along with his coincided military birthday parade and the budding Iran-Israel war) it feels like this one could be the largest yet, certainly in terms of simultaneous attendance across your country. I've even gotten mass-emails from various cross-border businesses, like Lyft, about them and we should all be taking extra caution today, etc. So, please - sound off your feelings about it all! Might as well try to be funny too, eh? Protests and mockery are helpful.
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why is it called no kings?
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:why is it called no kings? Because the people who called for installed dictatorships are losing now so everyone's an anarchist now that it's convenient.
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Jun 14, 2025 23:44
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i hosed up and ended up protesting outside a nokia factory
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Kmount da Hood posted:Because the people who called for installed dictatorships are losing now so everyone's an anarchist now that it's convenient. 
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Jun 14, 2025 23:51
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"Solidarity in anarchy" is some based schizo crap.
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Kmount da Hood posted:"Solidarity in anarchy" is some base schizo crap.
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drumph is finished this time
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"I don't understand that the office of the president is a democratically elected position. In the title line of the protest."
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Jun 15, 2025 00:35
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Some buddies went, they walked down the street on the sidewalk and did a loop. Some cars honked. Everyone patted themselves on the back and went home. I don't think this is how you stop fascism.
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Jun 15, 2025 00:37
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I did not and won't, but I can't do crowds anyways.
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Gotta get ready for the Great General Strike of 2026 when the tanks roll during the elections.
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its because he acts like he is the king and his entire plan is to solidify power even more then it is in the executive branch. thats why he tried to slip a the courts can over rule the president in the bbb and why executive orders are all he does all day. i know bush started it but were at the point where congress is useless because of the power of executive orders to ignore congress. which is why r went so hard on stacking the court but their mad their stacked court keeps telling trump to suck a dick so now the play is to weaken the judicial branch as well. im pretty sure atleast 75% of the people protesting know he is elected. with that said it wont do anything because some bad actors / plants are gonna burn a cop car or a hispanic person is gonna drop the hard r on a black cop and those two things will be all the media focuses on just like in la. alot of people protesting are blue cities in red states who feel like their voice doesnt matter so i wouldnt lump them all in with who go to a protest then come home early and pat themselves on the back snergle fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jun 15, 2025 |
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Jun 15, 2025 00:42
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Kmount da Hood posted:"I don't understand that the office of the president is a democratically elected position. In the title line of the protest." yeah like why should the left use hyperbole that's never worked. at least everything MAGA says is grounded in fact and objective reality and they never exaggerate wait why am i responding to the schizo guy
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Jun 15, 2025 00:46
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Grey Cat posted:I did not and won't, but I can't do crowds anyways. My wife did. She felt better about herself and enjoyed her time out. I'm not much of a crowd person, so I stayed in with our kid.
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Registering to attend and getting data harvested, how else can we corporatize protesting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln1Abtr_Lqo
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Jun 15, 2025 00:48
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sign up for a Protestor Power credit card and get 5% back on all protests until the fascists kill you.
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Jun 15, 2025 00:51
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I'll be there for sure. I love a good joke.
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LaserPrinter69 posted:Some buddies went, they walked down the street on the sidewalk and did a loop. Some cars honked. Everyone patted themselves on the back and went home. I don't think this is how you stop fascism. They were free to go 
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i went to the local one for a couple hours. it's the suburbs so it was just a couple hundred people holding signs along a big stretch of busy intersection, but way bigger than any previous protest i've seen in the area. one section of the protest was right in front of a burger king. they must've felt really bad hearing all the no kings chants.
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Bad Purchase posted:i went to the local one for a couple hours. it's the suburbs so it was just a couple hundred people holding signs along a big stretch of busy intersection, but way bigger than any previous protest i've seen in the area. Did you get the BK equivalent of a frosty?
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d0s posted:yeah like why should the left use hyperbole that's never worked. at least everything MAGA says is grounded in fact and objective reality and they never exaggerate Oh yes I see the logic now. A democratic elected president is not a king but a republican elected president is. The only way to throw off the shackles of tyranny is to have a democrat only government and an automatically elected democrat president.
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Kmount da Hood posted:Oh yes I see the logic now. A democratic elected president is not a king but a republican elected president is. The only way to throw off the shackles of tyranny is to have a democrat only government and an automatically elected democrat president. lol
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Kmount da Hood posted:Oh yes I see the logic now. A democratic elected president is not a king but a republican elected president is. The only way to throw off the shackles of tyranny is to have a democrat only government and an automatically elected democrat president. Yea that’s exactly what everyone is thinking
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Kmount da Hood posted:Oh yes I see the logic now. A democratic elected president is not a king but a republican elected president is. The only way to throw off the shackles of tyranny is to have a democrat only government and an automatically elected democrat president. Sorry about your brains.
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We had a decent turn out for Kansas.
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I did not, i was running a bunch of errands... Sometimes i feel like its my duty as a citizen to protest but i also dont think protests do anything other than alert the police you are a dissenter. But that feels like a debbie downer thing to say
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Kmount da Hood posted:Oh yes I see the logic now. A democratic elected president is not a king but a republican elected president is. The only way to throw off the shackles of tyranny is to have a democrat only government and an automatically elected democrat president. Oh wow I guess that's the only difference!
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I went to a Josh Johnson (he's a comedian) show in DC today and saw some people with No Kings signs on skywalks over the highway on the way to the park in ride for the train into the city. Nothing particularly disruptive. The show itself was like 200 feet from the Trump birthday parade and despite being more or less adjacent to the parade you wouldn't have even known it was happening. I did see a group of three guys with gun slogans on their shirts and overheard one of them say "...but we're the only country with constitutional rights" so I guess they were probably headed there. Both Johnson and the opener mentioned the parade to a chorus of boos.
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It was mostly a bunch of liberals patting each other on the back about how we'll get through this if we fight the power and it will all get better if we just vote harder. The communists and anarchists hanging out on the sidelines were a bit more real about it needing something other than just toothless protests and had signage suggesting historically proven methods for getting rid of fascism. On the train home a guy got on pretty drunk and was heckling the protesters and basically agreeing with ICE and trying to pick a fight with everyone. We got off before we saw if it came to blows with anyone. Guy was pretty belligerent and saying we should deport Mexicans to rile people up. I dunno, I don't feel like it did anything meaningful other than standing around, but I'm not near DC where the people in power are to affect any change. Edit: overall I'm glad I went because I saw some local groups talking local issues, too. chainchompz fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jun 15, 2025 |
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The Fattest PI posted:Oh wow I guess that's the only difference! Man you guys are getting mad at me, I'm just talking about what these protestors are saying. You're allowed to absorb things from the media as an active dialog and not an immutable dictation. Anyways I wonder how all these anarchists feel about ancestor worship and tribal customs as a governing body. Kmount da Hood fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jun 15, 2025 |
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i went to one, it was nice. not sure we accomplished much but it was good to do something other than just being angry at home.
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Kmount da Hood posted:Man you guys are
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The Moon Monster posted:I went to a Josh Johnson (he's a comedian) show in DC today and saw some people with No Kings signs on skywalks over the highway on the way to the park in ride for the train into the city. Nothing particularly disruptive. They mean the only country with constitutional rights that matter to them, of which they only have one in mind when they say that. And that's not even true, the United States is not the only country with right to bear arms provisions, some also at the constitutional level, such as the following luminary countries: Albania Czech Republic Guatemala Mexico The Philippines Switzerland Ukraine Yemen Whose rights? Houthi rights!
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Mozi posted:i went to one, it was nice. not sure we accomplished much but it was good to do something other than just being angry at home.
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raw milk attorney posted:kmount you're out of control Protest then.
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When thousands of people march down streets and demonstrate solidarity it enormously improves morale, promotes community, allows people to network or recruit otherwise non-active people into more direct action, but most importantly dispels the fear that sitting at home doomscrolling, feeling like you are alone in your despair, causes, which is ultimately what makes people to capitulate to a new, lovely status quo. It's astonishing that goons will point to the psychological impact and significance of right wing optics, framing, and propaganda, then turn around and somehow act as though it doesn't work in the other direction, possibly because a combination of moaning about liberals has allowed them to internalize the same "cringe" response that right wingers have when they jerk off at home uselessly while cops in riot gear enact their fantasies of limp wristed liberals getting batoned, and their own habitual anxiety and poor self esteem projected onto others so they can enable their own defeatist compulsions. Though I really shouldn't be surprised because this is the same forum filled with petty loving disingenuous morons with massive insecurity complexes who literally celebrated Trump's victory because they too wanted to see "liberal tears." based on some pretense of caring about Gaza. It's the same poo poo. Any sort of principals or moral fortitude replaced with a degenerated animal instinct to gloat over other's pain because it's a "medicine" that briefly makes them feel better as it poisons their soul. These people actually go out on the street, in enormous droves that right wingers are virtually incapable of replicating. Conservatives rely on the state and lone lunatics to act out their sadism. Jan 6 was a mob not driven by any kind of principle or civil passion, but just animal stupidity and fervor like a lynch gang acting opportunistically, because they thought they would get away with it then wept and begged when they were imprisoned. How do you think people get fired up enough to make change? They just sit around and suddenly decide to do it? Protests like these are always catalysts for larger, more organized movements, especially because it takes a lot of previously non-engaged people and introduces them to the concept of protest and civil disobedience. For a bunch of people supposedly smarter than the general populace, a lot of you sure have zero capability for holistic thought. It's just always action in a vacuum, good, big things happening out of the ether, if it's not that then it's "useless." I'm tired of the loving moping. Trump's birthday bash was pathetic, hundreds of thousands more people than at his miserable rally were protesting, and you don't think this affects his image? Right after he made big shows of his own supposed strength? When he constantly claims he has a mandate? You can't photo op that poo poo out of looking pitiful. His base will eat whatever poo poo he throws their way, but the majority of the population is not devoted to him, and each time he loses an aesthetic battle, the fickle masses lose interest in him even more. Take your wins where you can get them or succumb to your own cycle of psychological misery, it's your choice. Whiny dickheads. This is prob why mods don't want to deal with threads like this, because they have to turn into a bunch of therapists probing people so they don't constantly self-induce panic attacks. That's not a responsibility I'd blame them for avoiding, a good proportion of you are your own worst enemies.
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