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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
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And they are doing what that is useful? The amount of people in any of these pictures could easily enter the White House and unseat Trump, yet here ~~we~~ they are, performativelizing.
Protesting, making their voices heard. Showing the world that not all Americans are fascists.
You clearly don't have any idea how overzealous the security in and around the white house is.
Even IF they somehow got to the oval office after suffering hundreds if not thousands of casualties, the Mango Mussolini would have long since been whisked into a bunker and secret service and the military would arrest or kill all of them.
The first person part was correct, the plural wasn't. What's performative is your insistence that the obviously impossible is easy.
Would it even get that far? Gathering that many people in one spot, at the same time, with a coherent plan would take... a lot of communication. And we know for a fact that the spooks are listening in.
But, hell, @veniasilente@lemm.ee, start organizing people. I'm interested in seeing how far it gets.
Honestly though. I thought it would take hundreds of casualties to get into the capital building. And really, is trump actually in the white house much? Golf ain't going to play itself. But these protests build up the confidence of people who want to do more. It makes them feel like the people are behind them. So maybe these are warm ups for taking the white house.
It would have if they hadn't been almost exclusively white members of the MAGA cult. One reason why there were so few cops hindering them was that Trump ordered a standdown, and another was the fact that there were more cops participating in the coup attempt than resisting it.
If it had been a diverse leftist group, you better believe there'd be both cops and military shooting to kill rather than the suspiciously restrained tactics employed that day.
Classic astroturfing right here. "let's bitch about people getting involved but not yet murdering people!" cut this shit out. And get involved!
Doesn't look like that. I skimmed the profile very briefly, and it looks like a bad take on an otherwise active and normal account.
Also classic astroturfing is complaining about astroturfing. Fact is you never know who posts a comment. But mostly, I agree with your sentiment here.
I refuse to get that meta 🤣
It’s performative.
It’s the same reason sports games have hype crews in the form of bands or a cheer squad. It livens the audience up.
In politics it also sends a message to their reps that they could/should be a little bit more aggressive in promoting what their people are saying.
I do agree that the resistance needs to become more radical, but you don't just enter the seat of power and unseat the democratically elected president. Like it or not he still has a popular mandate and that needs to be destroyed first; that's ultimately what civic resistance is all about. Also he has armed security, which can just shoot any intruders in part because of said popular mandate.
What popular mandate? The guy won the same amount of votes as last time. Stop with this mandate shit, it's bullcrap.
Okay, then how? Because from what I have seen pretty much every official in a position of civil service just resigns to let Trump do as he pleases, so there's not much of a resistance. Who in civil service is supposed to unseat Trump? DOGE is certainly not gonna do it.
Absolutely nobody. Trump's mandate has to be destroyed by widespread popular resistance. Think what Ukraine and Tunisia did and Turkey is doing right now.
Attack the head of the snake and chances are you'll get bit. He'll be in a chopper before a window gets broken and the National Guard will be there in minutes.
The GOP are getting cold feet, Musk is close to leaving, and Trump is starting to throw his appointees under the bus. Sorry you probably won't get to see Trump tied up and crowd surfed into a van to never be seen again but this is the process.
"Gaddafi!" Sorry, it just popped into my head when I read "crowd surfed ".
Sure, whatever process that works works. My point is I'm not seeing a process - I'm no seeing progress. Just complaining, which is something the elites can already and have always burrowed their heads in the sand at.
The process is broken because the people in charge of the processes hadn't had a reminder that the American people wants them to perform their job. This is that reminder. In order for the reminder to be more effective, we need more people to join in, not more people trying to douse cold water on the movement just to promote more drastic actions that lacks the foundation to do anything effective. You want people to be able to drag fascists out of the White House if the situation calls for it? Then, you need more people that is able to fight against fascism. Easiest method to do that is to protest together and show more people that there is enough people fighting against it for them to come out fighting as well.
You want the people to "Maga hat" riot the white house? You think that's the plan?
Were you dropped on your head as a baby?