Came here to say this exactly. The feds took out the local 50501 movement by sowing dissent and getting someone seriously injured.

If you want to see the best protest pics see what the French are up to

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6d937wedj7jo

One of the guttiest things I ever did was getting my balls removed, and I know a lot of people with testicles who are complete moral cowards.

If any of the 50501 mods there are here then fuck this place too.

Welcome to the resistance

Everything on reddit is bullshit.

Ha, nice.

cointelpro

At some point, someone is going to cut and paste MLK's Letter From Jail.

Except we should remember that King did exactly the same thing he calling out other people for. He kept quiet when he could ahve spoken out.

I'm not calling King a hypocrite. I am saying he was a very smart political thinker who had to play the long game.

Bayard Rustin was a gay man who was one of King's closest allies and friends. They worked together to make the March on Washington happen. King never stood up for LGBTQIA+ rights. Never talked about them at all. Because he knew that 1960s america could not handle that conversation, and it would destroy any progress the Civil Rights coalition had made.

Another example of 'selling out' would be Frederick Douglas backing Abe Lincoln over a candidate who was full on Abolitionist. Douglas calculated that it was better to win and have the President's ear than to lose and have nothing.

I can add that one off them exploded because I waved the Mexican flag around their group

There was several actually and I'm really high so it gets spotty.

Highlights was legit telling them I'm a better leader than trump, I'm younger more capable and trump is. Trump has senile and has medical issues that actually opened up dialogues between them and me

The dialog was between me and like 3-4 out of the group of maga members. They legit asked what I believe in and my kiss response is "class solidarity". Then I have to expand and communication what I mean by that

Key notes: we are working class and we want to oppose the Epstien class

If you have a pension you worked for it and earned it

We can make Democrats do what we want as the working class (this one is good because it generally puts action over political squabbling)

One of them did the "we won't see eye to eye line" but inside felt like it wasn't true.(Might have been expressed outwardly).

They actually were receptive and smiled and fist bumps as they left

There's two young women (they're like my nieces age) that wanted to heckle maga and I escorted them and gave them DSA pins

Yeah they were definitely older and a grandchild was looking out for for a grand mother but like they're politically polarized but family

It’s always the losers who look like their time here is past due.

Yeah, I almost LOLed.

It's dont tread on me specifically. Anyone else can get fucked obviously.

tell us about the dialogue with maga ppl

🤣 faq if I know, but they were confused I know that

“Don’t tread on me”

supports ICE

How does that work, buddy?

Thanks so much for this very helpful post, OP.

I understand that selecting "RECORD OF APPEARANCE ONLY" on an Illinois witness slip means we are registering our position on a bill for the record without testifying in person, submitting written testimony, or being called to speak. It just acts as a digital show of support.

I have read that you don't have to be from Illinois. The opposition has slips from out of state. Please do your own research though!

Do we need to be Illinoisians? Illinoisites? Illinoisans? Illinoisers?

There were a few furries and socialists at the ones I attended too.

I attended the New York one today :3

a protest is a show of force. it isn't an informal poll to inform politicians. it's an implied threat that if they don't change what they are doing shits going to hit the fan, strikes, riots, civil disobedience... ie, let corporations be greedy or have a working state? Instead, the way the media portrays the "discent" in protests does the exact opposite.

it celebrates and idolizes the "peaceful" matches, the only legitimate form of discent, completely pacifist, about writing songs, and having clever signs. meanwhile they demonise when protests turn to riots, when they actually work.

most US organisers are afraid organize a protest without getting a permit from the city first!!!

if protests don't escalate, if their goal isn't to fix things, then they are useless and are designed to benefit the status quo. because those who go to these regularly approved parades, feel like that's all they can do and are satisfied with themselves. no one told them how little they did, they are even less activated than before.

the only good thing about them is that they are excellent recruiting opportunities. and once recruited, they can be woken up.