Call your elected representatives. Attend a protest. Make noise. Above all else, protect your family, friends, and neighbors.
We do not have to sit back and let this happen.
We do not have to sit back and let this happen.
I have never seen this work for something this politicized.
Publicly they've been claiming that he's some left wing extremist despite all available evidence.
I don't support what the current administration is doing; not by a long shot. But to say, "they did just shoot two elected representatives," is disingenuous at best.
I don't remember the exact sentence but it was something like that: "That's the issue with pandering to violent conspiracy theorists, if they feel betrayed they will aim that violence at you".
Do you disagree with this characterization?
Citation needed
I don’t see a connection between their efficacy and what happened in Minnesota, which was an event that is arguably all the more reason to protest.
The scale of the protests is encouraging, but I remember the mass protests under Bush were about as large, and the war continued and he stayed in power. Organization needs to do something with the mass of people who are out in the streets to direct them.
Trump was already divisive enough that the Republican majority in the House shrank in 2024.
The whole "there won't be elections" hysteria is exactly because the current MAGA movement is scared shitless of being rejected again.
Furthermore, if Trump-y candidates do poorly in 2026, he'll be a lame duck president with little political clout for his final 2 years.
Politicians are many things, but charitable to unpopular people without power is not one of them.
But given the combined discrepancy between Harris vs the Attorney General in every single county of NC, the Elon contact for those voting machines, and Trump saying it out loud, I'm kind of at the point I'm not sure if the last election was legitimate. I don't have a lot of hope for 2026 or 228 since we're already past "the US military is deployed against its own citizens and make an extra-constitutonal arrest" stage with no consequences. Also the "disobey the Supreme Court" stage. But I guess we'll see and it'll be a great day to be proven wrong.
Though, I hardly even called America a democracy before that given the intense Gerrymandering, a lack of an established right/obligation to vote, and completely disproportionate representation in legislation. The whole system is a joke in it's design.
Part of the toxicness of current news media is the "And this can never be changed" doomerism.
Bullshit. Everything can be changed. It just takes action and convincing others to take action.
France didn't preserve their retirement age by walking around with signs. They had to get disobedient. Break shit, stop collecting trash or running services.
Shockingly, people who are going to fuck you for power or money could care less if you're upset about being fucked. And now that the majority of media in America is controlled by 7 billionaires and they've spent 30 years justifying shooting or run over protestors, they're calling the bluff and betting Americans will roll over and take it.
And they're probably right.
I swear, as a liberal, the amount of pearl clutching and out of context nefariousness everyone frets about is insane.
1. Strongman opponent's speech, rather than leaping to extremes immediately
2. Understand Trump, moreso than other politicians, says all kinds of things he doesn't intend to do
You can pull-quote Trump saying literally anything, from being pro-gun to anti-gun, pro-queer to radically anti-queer, literal child molester to saint.
His words literally don't matter, because he says them all.
Pay attention only to his actions.
The last gasp of conservativism.
Whether the elections are fair and the opposition is even allowed to field a candidate... now that's a different story.
Rhetoric doesn't match. Marx literally said that the only for the working class to overthrow their oppressors (business owners) was to make them not a live.
He was very radical.
I think largely they have not yet been effective at protecting immigrants.
> They’re as much about spreading awareness and mobilizing the voting public as they are about current events.
Right, so to some degree they "work" as tools for existing political groups in attracting attention, resources and possibly votes. But does it better enable those groups to actually help immigrants? Or does it just give political organizations a powerful talking point in the midterms?
Sure would help if the media would cover them to the extent that they did for George Floyd/Women's March/etc.
That's why the voting public were shocked to find out she was helping lead cabinet meetings. The good doctor was not elected.
This is solely in response to what has happened since January 21st of this year.
That's incredible actually. Concerning for sure if you planned on people being sheep.
Yes, that's risky. Some people might get hurt. A lot of people are being hurt, and will continue to be hurt, by the current situation. We all have to make our own choices about when principles and long-term outcomes outweigh our instinct for self preservation.