No Stupid Questions

5th Nov 2024 - was the chance to prevent this. Trump's team made it clear on the direction they were heading and no-one heeded the warnings. 35% didn't vote and the majority of those that did voted for him, which either means they agree with the direction or were deluded into thinking it wasn't going to happen.

I'm all for protest but I don't think you have a chance of changing anything, he owns the legislature and the voting public allowed it to happend.

I'm not American or a resident of US but that's just my opinion as an outsider.

I only just learned about it today, myself. I work that day, but I might be able to shift things around.

I really wish that these protests were more widely shared in advance. I want to be involved, but only getting a couple of days advance warning makes it really hard. I know that sometimes you have to act fast, but if you want your movement to succeed then you've got to try to consider the real lives of all of the people who want to help, but are also really limited in their time. Plan protests on weekends, and if you've got to protest on a weekday, then plan it way ahead of time and give everyone a chance to plan to be there. I'm sure it looks better to have one big protest with 10X people there than ten protests with 1X people attending.

Does nobody have a job here?

Alright, I'm prepared to take some heat for this because in the context of the best organized protests I think my assumptions are incorrect. However most protests don't rise to that level. Thing is if your protest looks for the most part like a party with some political alignments and isn't related to some direct action in your community or actual expectations/demands of the relevant political body...

Not to say that "performative" protests are useless. But there seems to be a distressing number of my fellow gen Z that think these sorts of protests alone will work. Like all they need to do is yell loudly into a few news network cameras on capital hill then go home.

I'll probably see what's going on in my home state and hope to see some targeted action and real dialogue. I truly hope my assumptions are proven wrong.

Why on such a weird day? I can just take off work this week and drive 3 hours to Madison lol. Can I digitally be there. Although I'm expecting an very poor turnout in every state tbh.

Reject 2025

Excited to see people ready to take action, but just be careful. See the thread on this profile for more info: https://bsky.app/profile/ecmclaughlin.bsky.social (this user has set her account to logged in users only).

"Listen, for folks who don't know, I was a part of a small organizing team that led to a mass mobilization in 813 cities worldwide in 2019.

I am not talking out of my ass.

You should be VERY VERY VERY careful in this environment about sharing flyers for events that identify NO organizer"

There was also a mod thread on r/albuquerque about it.

I am sure there will be BOTH legit protests and shitty people using this for nefarious reasons. I'm still on the fence about whether to drive 2 hours to my local one or not. I've already signed up for other things through mobilize.us anyway.

Good luck but I either need to fly or take a ferry to get to my state’s capitol building. Need more than a few days heads up.

What exactly counts as the mainstream media nowadays?

Cable news?

I haven't had cable TV for probably 20 years now.

Internet news?

Which ones? There seems to be an endless number of them

As an outsider I can't see them caring about this at all... but boy I support you guys. It's time you do something