Why are all these things thrown together with barely a few days notice?
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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They're not, but word isn't getting around fast enough so people find out late. Please help spread the word.
*I am not an organizer of this or any group. I'm just spreading info.
Why do these things on the weekdays and not on the weekends?
Your city hall/capital building is empty on the weekend
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I'm not American, but I see a bunch of these popping out of nowhere here in Lemmy, nowhere else and they barely get any attention.
People really need to get organized better. Get some big names behind them and then organize these things.
The "big names" are mostly okay with what's happening.
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While I appreciate the symbolism, the scheduled time is when most people outside of government have to work, while most people in government do not.
So we chose a time least convenient to protestors, to impress the people that aren't even there.
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People have been picketing the Tesla dealership in San Francisco. That seems like a good place to target on Presidents Day, too.
Not only is he not a gorram king, far as I'm concerned, the orange turd no longer has any legitimacy even as president. What must a president elect do before they can have the authority of that office converted to them? Swear an oath. Violate that oath (and he very clearly has done so), and you abdicate the rights and privileges of the office. But, obviously, those with the ability to do something about it are lining up to kiss the ring instead. ಠ_ಠ
Anyway, that's my thoughts on the matter; we all should start declaring loudly that since he has violated his oath, he loses the mantle of authority.
It's not his ring they're kissing.
And it's not kissing either.
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Since this post appears to be getting a fair amount of attention, here's a quick reminder:
- Do not gatekeep resistance
All efforts, large and small, are appropriate and necessary, and we're not going to see any real change for a very long time.
Anyone think these scattered recent attempts at protest might be astroturfed by the right and the listed website might be a trap to create a mailing list of targets for the right to monitor?
Need clarity on organizers and money behind these protests and if any established groups like DSA, Indivisible, ETC. are attached.
Edit: A bit more potentially from USA Today. So next question is if anyone knows Kay Evert directly and can speak to their legitimacy in the space? Trust, but verify - We don't need to fight within our own movement, but we also don't need to follow anyone blindly.
Pretty sure DSA isn't involved, my local chapter also had the same concerns as it's not super clear who is organizing it.
https://fiftyfifty.one is from r/50501 on reddit.
Of course, everything has risk, but I don't personally find that group to be problematic.
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Is it weird that the whois information for that site has the registrant contact address in Iceland?
Harder for the US government to take it down I suppose?
That's just for the TLD .one fiftyfifty.one has its contact information private.
Thanks, that’s why I wanted to double check, I don’t know a whole lot about how website registration related stuff works.
Is there a simple list of demands?
Vive la résistance!
How can you be protecting democracy when democracy chose Trump to lead it? There was an election and you lost.
Yes, he's democratically elected. He also is violating the Constitution of the United States in multiple ways. Even if he were elected with a legitimate 99% of the popular vote, he should still be protested, impeached, and removed from office.
Let's say for the sake of argument that the 2024 election was 100% fair, completely above board, completely absent of any foreign influence.
HE'S FUCKING THE CONSTITUTION LIKE A FUCKING FLESHLIGHT!
Just because he was elected, it doesn't make what he's doing right. The maddening thing is, if he was a Democrat, we'd still be protesting but because he's Republican, the right is completely okay with it.
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He was democratically elected through voter suppression. The more people that vote, the worse the GOP performs.
Overall voter turnout was 63.7%. Voter turnout in states where Trump won was 63.4% Voter turnout in states where Harris won was 66.4%. States with the lowest turnout included Hawaii, Texas , West Virgina, Arkansas, and Oklahoma - almost all red states.
Texas is my favorite example of voter suppression. Texas should be a swing state. The GOP never held a majority in the Texas legislature until 2002. In 2003, they went all-in on redistricting, flipping Texas from a majority-Democrat Congressional delegation to 2/3 Republican between 2002 and 2004, with the dems never recovering. They also have laws written specifically to make it harder to vote in Houston, since it's 20% black and reliably votes blue.
I heard this argument when Berlusconi was Italy's PM. It just shows a deep ignorance of the checks and balances of every Western democracy.
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I still think he cheated, and even if he didn't, he is breaking the law.
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Still, no one cares.
If only a few people show up and do this protest no one will care.
So do your part and make sure it's many.
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typography note: you should say "not" and follow with strikethrough. they both do the same thing and together they imply the opposite, like you wanted to say "not we the billionaires" and changed your mind. now the message says "we the people not".
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