Protests are for building public solidarity. You know, organizing.. the only way for the masses to accomplish anything in the face of fascism. It's not for convincing Trump of anything.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think OP might have been talking about that pesky amendment that comes after the free-speech one

[–] witten@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Which also benefits from organizing.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Another fairy tale is thinking that Vooting Bloo No Matter Hoo can defeat fascism.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

Im vooting! I'm vooting!

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 34 points 2 days ago

The american government was designed to serve exactly the people it’s still serving (rich merchants and landowners). It’s working extremely well, they just lied to you about what it was designed to do.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh ho ho you just wait till midterms! That's only two years. It's not like it's taken them two months to make half of Project 2025 a reality.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good thing I don't live in the US

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago

Me neither but it's not a good thing no matter where you live. The world is very small these days.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True… but you can sure enable one by not voting.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 22 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Repeat after me …. The democratic party is funded by the same wall street military and prison industry profiteers that fund the republican party and they are fundamentally opposed to shifting policy to the left and adopting economic democracy to any extent in their platform to the point they would rather ensure a right wing candidate wins by sabotagingrg any popular pro workers rights candidate rather than nominate anyone left of their platform which makes american western neo liberal democracy a defacto class dictatorship!

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Whew! I followed you though. There are other factors as well I'm sure, but yeah, those are some of them, and big ones too. Greed sure does become complicated over time. Institutions are built on it. It was a bit hard to get past the arrogant-sounding "Repeat after me" but I'm glad I kept going.

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 76 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Or peaceful protests with arts and crafts.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

You can make a sign!

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

This made me so mad I actually looked up my representative and wrote her how impotent this stunt was. Of course, "writing your representative" is just as pathetic, but SOMEONE had to hear about my anger. Kudos to Al Greene though. The old geezer stood up for all of us, literally.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Managed opposition.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

They see tge writing on the wall. This happenned before.

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[–] Elaine@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

You mean knitting a pink hat doesn’t work?

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 37 points 3 days ago

I'm starting to believe that the saying "All roads lead to Rome" might've been a warning.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

"I can change them."

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