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      Funniest part is that there have been affiliated protests in other countries like Canada, but they used a different name so that they wouldn’t offend their monarchy lmao

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      imo the original frog was great but no kings is where good activism goes to die. like their marshals are wannabe cops, down to the murdering bystanders

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    Good lord.

    At the upcoming No Kings, there are some smaller groups trying to steer the message towards actual concrete goals and put more focus on Gaza, ICE/DHS, and actionable issues. At least on the West Coast US.

    The last one was “orange man toupée” shit, as per usual. Expecting this one to be similar

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    The civil rights movement arguably started the day the translatlantic slave trade started if not before then…and it’s STILL not done. What are civil rights groups fighting for? Well, white people getting off everyone’s backs, for starters.

    No Kings is just marginally different from what chuds fight for: a right to complete and utter ignorance. They just want their next Obama so they can go back to ignoring the fascism around them.

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    On the one hand they are immensely infuriating, being so smug about being so confidently wrong. But on the other hand, these people know nothing, they know no history, they know no theory and where would they even know it from having grown up in a culture that deliberately miseducated them. It is like listening to children talk about space lasers or robots. They are dangerous and they should be prevented from spreading their ignorance to others but is there any point in being mad at them?

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      Im mad at people who are smug while being willingly ignorant. They know they have no clue what they’re talking about. It is like listening to children and that’s what’s irritating. They arent. They’re grown ups and should behave as such. If they dont know anything and dont want to learn they should shut the fuck up, don’t voice your opinion if it’s worse than useless

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          In this the libs do bother me more, but mostly cause they claim to speak for me. And some conservatives know the game and are just straight up lying, and at least in the abstract I respect the approach more. They know what they want and they know how to get it but also they’re my enemy and acknowledge it. Enemies that keep insisting they’re my friends and arent committed enough to get as dirty as their supposed opponents disgust me in a different way. Cause they pretend to be my friend and often genuinely believe they represent me.

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    Can someone explain to me what are the objectives of the protesters? Like there has to be at least a list of demands for their political representatives that they won’t back, unless they comply with the demands, right?

    I’m not American so maybe I missed it. Is this organized by the top secret antifa the president has been targeting?

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    Bigger, perhaps.

    But the Civil Rights Movement actually leveraged power. No Kings is just… A display of puns on signs.

    That said, join a socialist org, read Lenin’s Left Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder, and start doing some organizing at the No Kings events on your area, instead of just getting in sick dunks on the Heptagon Badger website.

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    This reminds me of when they did the big Remain protest in London and all the pundits were claiming it was bigger than the Iraq War protests. So insulting, and revealing of certain grudges imo

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      it was bigger than the Iraq War protests

      Massive self-own even if true. “Yes, I am a British pundit and I just want to confirm we ARE selfish murderers. Thank you for your attention.” Be more ashamed, lol.

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    Nobody wants to say what really needs to be done because the first person who breaches that barrier gets disappeared. We’re all cowards. Or more realistically, we are all aware of what we can and can’t say for our own survival. Good times!