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[–] 77 points 1 year ago (11 children)

That's around 4% of the US population. Not bad.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The popularization of this "rule" was a mistake. Setting aside that this is merely an observation made by a person and not scientific fact, it says that 3.5% of the population when consistently engaged have never failed to cause change. If these 13 million all went out and occupied their local city/town squares indefinitely, Trump would fold faster than you can say TACO, which... isn't exactly news.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thank you! It gets old real fast to hear people talking about "ThE 3.5%" like it's an Xbox achievement that trust removes facism from power.

    Bitch marching does nothing if your judges are minions of power and your local politicians serve money before anyone.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    True, but I think we can capitalize on this. We need to maintain the momentum, reinforce the messaging that this needs to be continuous, cultivate communities around this, keep it fun and meaningful. At the very least, we got the attention of this many people. The organizers need to continue keeping and using that attention

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The organizers need to continue keeping and using that attention

    Everyone needs to continue keeping and using that attention. This shouldn't depend on one person or one group of people; this is all of antifascist America. I strongly encourage all antifascist Americans, including you, to organize your own protests. When you see ICE trying to take people away, when vulnerable people around you are losing access to healthcare, when your local community is incensed at the atrocities perpetrated by the government abroad, you have an opportunity—and therefore a responsibility—to resist.

    PS: These protests will need to start happening on weekdays and soon.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago*

    I had been two two protests prior, and have seen a few strikes happening around the hospitals in the city.

    None of them were as big as Saturday's. I was frankly overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies packing the park and the street where ours was at. It felt like at least half the city was there.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Over 1000x the attendance at the military parade.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Everyone should know that alt national parks (and all the "alt" accounts) are just grifters and not what they claim to be. These numbers are made up. There's better sources for more accurate information. These accounts are not trustworthy.

    https://bsky.app/profile/hypoautonomic.bsky.social/post/3lrtibqdths2l

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Here's what I don't get. November wasn't that long ago.

    Where were these people at the polls???

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    They didn't believe he would make such drastic cuts. Everyone I know has been impacted by DOGE or has a relation to someone who has. It now is effecting people who didn't think it could and they are energized.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Do you trust the polling machines and the people running them? Somebody could tell me grass is green and I'd still doubt their words.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I agree with you and a judge agrees enough to let a case go through:

    A legal case questioning the accuracy of the 2024 election is moving forward.

    According to the complaint, more voters have sworn in legal affidavits that they voted for independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare than the Rockland County Board of Elections counted and certified, contradicting those results. The complaint also cited numerous statistical anomalies in the presidential election results.

    They include multiple districts where hundreds of voters chose the Democratic candidate Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate, but none voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for president.

    The lawsuit is seeking a full, hand recount of ballots cast in the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Rockland County. A hearing has been scheduled for September 22.

    https://www.newsweek.com/2024-election-lawsuit-advances-2083391

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    By that logic, no president has ever been elected, and we've had the same dictator for 50 years.

    Because if you have no trust in the system, but also have no proof, you're just spouting off what you "believe" and "don't believe". Which could be anything.

    In 2020 trump and his supporters claimed the election was rigged. He claimed fraud. And I saw no evidence of that. Now, you claim the same thing about the 2024 election. And again I see no evidence.

    What I see is a terrible country, full of idiots, who either couldn't see the obvious problems trump would bring, or didn't want to admit those problems were legitimate plans.

    And it's not like trump hid any of this. He explicitly laid out these plans. These were his campaign promises. And he's not done yet. He also plans to rid the country of the 2 term limit, AND he wants to get rid of the need for him to go through another election.

    He wants to be dictator, and has said as such since 2015. Judges have already struct down some of his plans, but how long will that last?

    So if you want to doubt the machines were legitimate, that would currently be a serious offense.

    Better have some evidence.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thats a lot of words for a reply 14 minutes later. What chat bot did you use and what was your prompt?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    If you think that's a lot of words, I genuinely want to see your reaction to seeing a book. Have you heard of books? They contain a lot of words. And people intentionally read them because they aren't intimidated by that sort of thing.

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  • There are low turnouts because people (correctly) don't believe that voting does anything. Police funding was increased after BLM, and the US began pushing genocide under Biden. People are/were disenfranchised and refused to vote to enable such donor-only serving policy.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Please don't amplify Alt National Park. They are QAnon for liberal boomers. Their first posts were a series of cryptic numbers followed by, "general public can disregard." Then they opened a merch store. They're cosplaying resistance within the government for personal profit.

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