My mom lives in a a gated "active adult" community. A small group got out in front of the neighborhood early in the morning, protested for about an hour, then went to Denny's.

The last No Kings protest had a bit of a controversy. Everyone in the neighborhood tools around in golf carts, and a MAGA resident rode hers down to the protest, and ended up deliberately hitting another old lady with her cart, and taking off.

Nobody knew who she was, and by the time they found her, she had moved away.

Hope you stay safe. This was the photo where i thought the people had the most guts to be there. If its really that supportive of your fuckhead in chief, i can't imagine many friendly onlookers.

Although, i suppose with the smallest voting bloc being republican, and largest being non-voter, maybe you'd get more disinterested people than outright aggression.

Always makes me sad to see these stroadside protests that don't have enough people to shut down the road. You guys deserve better

I saw plenty of those today in SF

Are you a Russian divisive troll or just an asshole

Imma give u a pass cuz we tried to screw Canada so hard, y’all know how to put ur elbows up for sure (e.g. RIP 🇺🇸 wine sales)

Initially was like “damn this some friggin foreign BS on Lemmy” “oh wait Canada that does make sense”

We love you guys btw (normal Americans), sorry. We will try to mitigate this in the years and decades following future elections and hopefully your kids[‘ kids] don’t hate us [too much] :( Canadians are so great and heartbreaking we threw it away

If you want change,

Doomerism has to die.

Do more than chant "mid" like trolls do

If I were in fear of ICE every day I might not mind seeing some millions of people giving the finger to tyranny—any thoughts on that? Moral support, which obviously doesn’t instantaneously rewrite laws or instantly increase equity or anything, I know

(Genuine response despite my username)

If I exercise today, what will I accomplish? Will I be different tomorrow? Of course the answer is that I won't accomplish much, and I probably won't be noticebly different tomorrow; nobody increases their bench press 25lb after a single workout.

The point is not the results of a single workout, because what is significant is not the effect of a single workout or protest or any other long-term effort you want to examine, it is the cumulative effect of continued work toward a common goal.

The Powell Memoradum was written in 1971. The Heritage foundation began developing project 2025 in early 2022. These are efforts that have been in development for decades and years, respectively with many people working very patiently to see them implemented.

Of course a single protest isn't going to do anything to undo decades of well-orchestrated political and economic changes. If people want to see this changed they can't stop with a single protest. Just like making a new years resolution to go to the gym once isn't going to undo years of neglect to change someone's physical fitness, going to a protest once isn't going to undo the years of damage to the U.S. Government.

I guess the first accomplishment was to upset frauds like you.

Go away, you are unwanted in this conversation.

It will silence people into complicity. Will make as much difference as the Woman's March. So while the people at that protest tell people to speak out, will quickly turn around and silence anyone that speaks against it. I completely agree with every point the protest make, but know that not a damn thing will change, like it wasn't the previous eleventeen times.

Nothing.

Aren't you too busy 'fucking all those conservative wives' who 'need a real man'? From the unintelligent way you advocate for violence, to the incel way you talk about women, I'd almost think you were MAGA posting here in an attempt to make progressives look bad.

at first read this as "Glad you were safe on ecstasy" and not "Glad you were safe, on Xitter..."

So a resistance action is meaningless unless it is the final resistance action? What about all the other resistance actions that need to come first for the final resistance action to build on?