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stale2002

You have made a claim, without substantiating it.

It should not surprise anyone that political organizers would organize multiple events at once.

That's not a conspiracy. It is just standard political organization.

It's astroturf, though. No one disputes that this is a coordinated national organization. That's the point. These aren't local protestors genuinely moved by local conditions and asking for local policy changes. They're following national orders.

This is called political organization, in the same exact way that other protests across the country are political organization.

Were you not aware that this is the case for most protests? Things like the women's march, or whatever, are also organized in a similar manner.

No, those organisations do not try to give the impression that they several unrelated local small grassroots organisations, which are in fact one big organisation creating lots of small entities, but this is what is happening here.

Having a political organization run things in multiple places is normal, is what I am saying.

There is nothing abnormal about an organization running political stuff in more than 1 place at once.

In fact, I would question the competency of any political group or organization that isnt running their political organization in more than 1 place.

It's fairly well-known that the Tea Party was basically funded by the Koch brothers, right? I assume you've read things like [1] which go fairly deep into how they funded and organized pretty much all the "grass roots" activities of the Tea Party

Now, these "reopen" protests are basically the same. The sentiments of the people are real, but the funding and organizing are not "grass roots" by any normal definition of the word. For example, of the Michigan protests[2]:

> The Michigan Freedom Fund, which said it was a co-host of the rally, has received more than $500,000 from the DeVos family, regular donors to rightwing groups.

> The other host, the Michigan Conservative Coalition, was founded by Matt Maddock, now a Republican member of the state house of representatives. The MCC also operates under the name Michigan Trump Republicans, and in January held an event featuring several members of the Trump campaign.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brother... [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/18/coronavirus-...

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