[Jcampuzano2]

Every single no kings protest led to zero results and were a mockery of what protest is even supposed to accomplish. These single day protests where everybody just goes home the same night are doing nothing.

Us as Americans have forgotten what a protest and resistance against the political elite even is. Its not a fucking dance party for already well off people to pretend they're actually doing something meaningful which is what usually gets the most publicity from these.

People needed to start breaking things yesterday.

[michaelmrose]

This provides a pretext to murder people and lock shit down. Violent behavior maked the general public prone to accept and even welcome authoritarian behaviour and policies.

We need to fight it on the streets non violently with actions that disrupt not destroy and resist in the courts and ultimately in the ballot box where we can win.

[swasheck]

zero _immediate_ results. hate is a powerful motivator and hard to overcome, and the political machinations also don’t really allow for immediate feedback. we will see what happens this midterm cycle. polls show repudiation of the current administration across all dimensions.

[scottyah]

It's just that mobility is still too easy. Anyone with slightly above-average intelligence and a bit of drive can join the oppressors, their arms are wide open. Fraud/corruption is rampant and accepted, all you have to do is open a daycare or homeless shelter and "bend the knee" by claiming some sort of disabled/minority/veteran/woman status. CA has raised over $80 billion for "homeless" and the money is getting spent but very little on the homeless.

[CuriouslyC]

Breaking shit is the path of most resistance. Do not do this unless you're young and poor.

The way to win is economic resistance. Stop spending and stop paying taxes. Crash the fucking economy so deep into the ground that the country self-immolates.

[scottyah]

What? Do you understand what happens to the subject of self-immolation?

[CuriouslyC]

It gets turned into ashes to provide nutrients to something worth growing.

[scottyah]

Ashes usually get no say in what grows in them, no matter how pure their intentions.

[0xDEAFBEAD]

Yes, because never in history has a rotten economy empowered right-wing authoritarians.

>the country self-immolates

Right-wing authoritarianism is a primal response to perception of disorder my dude. Don't pour fuel on the fire.

[CuriouslyC]

A bad economy is a noose around the neck of the people who own it, which in this case is the right wing authoritarians. The next people in line are the social democracy leftists. Look to Mamdani for where we're going when we hang the traitors.