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[+] 69 points 1 year ago (10 children)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    My take would be that the 1960s protestors were trained/influenced by people who came out of the 1930s to 1950s movements. Those were the days when getting shot by the police or Pinkertons was a real threat. Haymarket Square, the Harlan County War, and the execution of the Rosenbergs were on their minds, and they didn't want to seem silly or trivial.

    Also, Trump is such a joke of a person, it's hard not to treat the entire thing like a game.

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

    Yes! This! It was a bunch of goofy, silly people that defeated Hitler and the Nazis too!

    So glad the US isn't fascist anymore.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    So that was the goal? To show them how harmless we are?

    I'm still trying to make sense of what was accomplished if anything.

    Amazon sold a lot of frog suits I guess.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Trump wants an excuse to call the protests violent so he can legitimate sending ICE and the national guard into blue cities and after his opponents. A group of clowns and a guy in a frog suit are not the violent extremist that justify the use of force. Plus they allow us to mock him, since his fragile ego is the only thing he cares about.

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  • [+] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Problem is u don't think it's going to work but I'd like to be wrong. And please don't post only 3.5% number and go read what those people actually say. And it was an observation not a rule.

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

    Are you trying to Make American Great Again?

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    inclusiveness and broad-tentedness

    Exactly. It’s a simple unifying message.

    The first round of protests suffered from what many protests on the left suffer from. It was tens of thousand of people with their own message. The signs and the speakers were all trying to cover abortion, billionaires, voting rights, Palestine, schools, healthcare, unions, immigration, corruption, the environment, judges, etc.

    People had good intentions, but the unifying message needs to succinct and easy to understand if you want to cut through all the noise.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    There is no genius.

    They all bought smartwater.

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