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[-] potoo22@programming.dev 122 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kinda wish people were this angry before the election. Please remember to vote in the midterms so we can at least drop the Republican majorities in congress. They're rushing all this crazy shit first, hoping we forget everything by 2026 and 2028. It's not like we didn't have 4 years of this asshole, then after a 4-year break and it's like people from 2020 forgot to vote in 2024. Voter turnout dropped.

[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

If you think the midterms are going to be democratic in nature, you've still got another 17 months of Trump's current bullshit to consider.

By the time he's done, those elections are going to be about as "fair and balanced" as a Fox News broadcast.

[-] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Even if the Republicans are corrupt and do not respect the law, we must still uphold it, because they want us to give up on the rule of law.

Trump keeps losing court cases and Kilmar is back in US soil. They fear and hate the rule of law.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

... we must still uphold it.

Your supreme court is corrupt, making decisions by good judges lower in the system able to be overturned. The judiciary is broken.

So how do you propose the law is upheld?

I agree is must be, but I want you to be prepared that means taking action in some way.

[-] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Bots and morons like you are are so exhausting.

Protesting and other actions are NOT mutually exclusive.

Luigi didn't try to talk others into doing what he did, he just did it. He owned his own ideology.

Why don't YOU personally do what you think needs to be done, instead of telling others what THEY need to do?

Because guess what? There's hundreds of thousands of lawyers and judges defending your rights in courts, and succeeding at it as best as they can, because even though you gave up on them, they haven't given up on dumbasses like you.

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

They were angry. At Democrats. (And rightfully so.)

And I have no faith the Democrats will do anything meaningful when they get Congress back in 2026. (And they will.) They just kicked David Hogg out of the DNC and they're doing everything they can to silence their most effective voices, who just happen to be filling football stadiums in red states across the country.

[-] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

NYC Democrats are already introducing legislation targeting the protestors

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I've seen a few NY State Democratic congresspeople on podcasts calling the protesters 'rioters', which incenses me. 99.9% of them are hippies just holding up signs and chanting, and these fucking Democrats know it.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 month ago

Far more impressive than the military parade.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago

My backyard barbeque had a bigger crowd than that parade

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

I was at my local protest. I'd guess there were around 3,000-5,000 people and it was literally just a bunch of hippies chanting. The protest was so lawful that people were even obeying walk signals at the intersection where it occurred.

Our governor had a state of emergency in place for this.

[-] regedit@feddit.online 13 points 1 month ago

So peaceful that when the permit said 1pm, people started walking back to where they were supposed to go. The only scuffle was caused by a raised-truck tRump supporter and they were booed to all hell before driving away like the coward they are.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

These are the true kings of this country

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you right click on the imgur link and then click "copy video link", you can make the link more direct. You can use that to embed the video in the body text with ![alt text describing the video](copied video link ending with .mp4)

which will look like

large crowds at protests in chicago

[-] popjam@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Thanks, didn't know that

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago
[-] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Firefox? Clearing cookies usually solves it for me, or try opening on a private tab

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

No such luck here. It's also like that across multiple devices, so I think it might be my instance?

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably instance. That happens on a few of my accounts but not this one. Tho for me it just says failed to load media (voyager app)

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 33 points 1 month ago

Good job, USA...

When I think about protest in the USA, it's usually a single person at the side of the road holding up some text written on paper....

But this.... This is awesome.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago
[-] fishy@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. It shows just how many people are awake and ready to do something. If that many people participated in a general strike the country would buckle to demands real fast.

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 25 points 1 month ago

This is giving me an ounce of hope, y’all. From across the pond, keep this up and vote common sense

[-] D_C@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago

I've been giving you yanks some grief about not doing anything about the treasonous tangerine but I've got to say watching that video was quite heartening. Keep it up everyone!!

[-] regedit@feddit.online 12 points 1 month ago

And those were just the biggest cities with the biggest turnout. There were A LOT of large turnouts in even remote or usually smaller communities. It was extremely neat to be a part of and I look forward to the next one. I'll be bringing anyone who wants to join me the next time!

[-] Hux@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago

Woulda been nice if they all voted.

[-] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

Who is this comment for exactly?

155M people voted and 75M voted for Harris. 11M is being tossed around so far for the protest numbers. I’ll let you deduce those numbers from there.

[-] arrow74@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Assuming they are all from Illinois, it wouldn't have mattered. That state already voted blue. Gotta live the electoral college

[-] regedit@feddit.online 4 points 1 month ago

It always matters. Even in IL. As a downstate Illinois resident, you wouldn't believe how many tRump signs I saw. This weekend proved to me that they're outliers. Lots of support at the protest. Lots of support from all the honking and cars driving by during it. Cheers galore for the support. A couple of louder boos for the couple of turds that tried to antagonize. It was worth it to see, if nothing else, to feel you're not alone when all hope seems grim.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Had fun at our local march. Should’ve brought earplugs, though. Neat to see so many people acting in solidarity, and I hope we can keep up this energy.

Edit: anyone see any vandalism? I saw some spray paint on the upper floor of a restaurant, but literally nothing else.

[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

I'm more surprised at how heavily everyone in Boise and Dallas showed up.

[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Why? Those cities are Democratic strongholds in otherwise red states

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[-] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was on public transit in Dallas and it was the most packed I have ever seen it

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

HitlerPig is obsessed by ratings, polls, popularity, etc., so seeing these kinds of crowds demonstrating against him, when his own birthday party, in only one city, had empty seats, has got to be making him crazy.

I'll give $100 to the first journalist who asks, on camera in a White House press conference "Mr. President, what do you think of all the enormous demonstrations against you, when nobody came to your birthday party?"

I just want to see him cry.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago

Good, now you know how big the support is it's time to turn it into action. I don't mean violence, but turning up on a summer's day to go for a walk and hear some people speak is not enough.

I'm not going to tell you what to do next (it's not my country) but one day is easily ignored. I know from other fights around the world that these things need persistence and sacrifice.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Small steps, friend. Progress is progress.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The thing is, part of the idea of this particular summer day was to distract from the Trump parade.

But then, just one fascist extremist with a gun posing as a cop was able to distract from the efforts of 5 million protestors.

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[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

At the San Diego airport watching this trying not to tear up in public

[-] sem 11 points 1 month ago
[-] humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago
[-] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Imma bump this. I want this to be the size of the protests, but unless I have a reliable source for it, in this day and age, you almost have to assume everything you see could be fake.

[-] not_IO 23 points 1 month ago

not a source for the video but this guardian article quotes numbers that make these videos appear believable imo. after the first million it gets hard to keep track of how many there are exactly.

[-] sem 2 points 1 month ago
[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago
[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

True beauty

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

This many people could easily just physically remove the criminals from office. Why gather this many people to just stand around for complaining? You’re already there. Just fix the problem.

[-] regedit@feddit.online 2 points 1 month ago

tRump and his regime wanted a scuffle. They wanted violence. They wanted an excuse. DC was intentionally avoided for this reason. That city was a ghost town, as expected, and I think it sent a bigger message than a bunch of people storming the capital...again.

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[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I'm very much out of the loop. Can someone give me a tl;dr of what this is? How it got started, its goals, etc. I heard nothing about this until today.

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

USA is a country without kings, we don't want any.

We're protesting trump, but also his stupid military parade. We're trying to reclaim what it means to be an American.

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