You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.

Selective destruction of establishments is next guys, keep it up!

Fuck yes, finally!
- Finally what? Finally the media is covering the protests that have been going on the entire time? They're growing but they weren't small even a month or two ago.
  
  Fox News and the other propaganda channels are giving absurd amounts of coverage to liars. NBC just had on the secretary of the treasury where he was pitched softball questions. Without blinking this soulless minion claimed a crash is good for americans. But even a complete donkey would be skeptical of the claim that a massive economic contraction would be good for everyone.
  This moron was talking out of both his blow holes about how the tariffs and economic collapse would lead to lower prices. Anyone who couldn't spot the obvious contradictions (these people are contradicting themselves in the same paragraph) is beyond all hope.
  
  And what is being protested?

LMFAO 5 million white old ass, non ethnically/racially diverse boomers protesting against their 401ks losing value doing a cosplay competition 🤣
That's the opposition? Rich white old men?

Now all they have to do this until main stream media cannot widely ignore this in the US.
- Their mansions are in gated communities with security keeping out the "undesirables". Remember "I really don't care, do you" is the truth about them.
- It's been a couple of decades since I've lived in the states, but I used to watch some US TV, via satellite and later cable (TV through fiber, actually) I stopped watching US TV 2-3 years prior to COVID. I just can't stand it. Regular TV is pretty bad worldwide, but US TV is on another level of bad.
- It'll be right before the false flag attack used to justify repression of dissent
  
  That being America, it would not surprise me.
  
  Why not gather the masses outside their mansions? Why do people keep gathering at the most calculatedly ineffectual areas where they're ignored time and time again?
- Stop watching that trash. The US has awesome media outlets that have been widely covering US protests.
  
  For heavens sake, I'm not a regular watcher of US mainstream "media". There is only so much junk a human can stand. I was just observing the coverage of this particular event out of curiosity what they would do about it.

Wonderful, dear US friends!
A powerful sign against all the hatred and corruption that Trump and his henchmen stand for.
I think large demonstrations like this are incredibly important, especially nowadays, because the manipulation in social media and the traditional media can so easily give the false impression that a majority would share the inhumane ideology of this regime.
For the tens of thousands on the streets, it is obvious how many decent people there actually are.
Trump and his opinion makers can do little about this - apart from their usual ridiculous conspiracy theories around Soros and other such Bogus. Because not even these unscrupulous fascists can (yet) dare to stop thousands and thousands of people from demonstrating, or even have them all arrested.
Good luck and all the best from Europe!
- Thank you; finally someone from Europe that sees Americans are struggling to fight. Over there you're unlikely to see the whole picture about what's going on. I understand that Europeans are mad and I don't blame them, but I wish more Europeans understood that division is exactly what the powers want and your media is likely being manipulated as well, albeit to perhaps a much lesser degree, in order to sow that division.
- It is not tens of thousands.
  D.C alone has an estimated 100.000 people marching.
  Nationwide the number is believed to be 5 million, i read somewhere.
  
  Yes, all the better
- In our city there's been a march since Friday. Can't find any non local news reporting on it.
  
  Yes, it's scandalous, but that's why the people on the street are so important, because sooner or later you can no longer overlook them as they are a fact of life in the real world - and then it becomes clear how one-sided the media coverage is.

Why all these marches in areas that these oligarchs don't care about? Why not their mansions?
- Whose mansions are you talking about? Just protesting at some random Sociopathic Oligarch's palace isn't going to do anything, they'll never even see it. These people configure their lives so they never have to be touched by real life. They'll just spend the day on their yacht or at a different palace. If they are in town, they'll just chopper in/out at the residence, which will be behind walls and gates a quarter mile away.
  Nope, flood the streets in every major city, disrupt everything, block Federal buildings, be as inconvenient as possible. That's far more effective.
  If you want to piss off a Sociopathic Oligarch, then protest at their place of business. Block their entrances, interrupt the flow of business, make it difficult to do business, inconvenience their employees, irritate their neighbors, embarrass them to their neighbors, etc.
- because America is big, like really big. Its not like EU countries where you can just hop on a train and get to the capital in a day. for someone in South Dakota its at least a three day commitment to travel and protest in DC, and encase you didn't notice most people in this country can't afford that.
  
  Am south dakotan, can confirm
- The U.S. is pretty much as big as Europe.
  It's not easy to drive thousands of kilometers to get to their mansions. These marches happened all over the place, in major cities and capital cities.
  
  People drove from all across the country to go to Washington yesterday, organizers supplied coaches from every major city. Same with BLM, Occupy, and many movements before it. But god forbid we do that towards a location that could actually make a difference.
- I think most of these protests were properly permitted (I know my local one was). Protestors in residential areas would likely get arrested for stuff like disturbing the peace, even if they stayed on public property such as roads. They'd probably try to charge the organizers for something too, which is probably why they aren't being organized. But, I agree there should be protests at these people's homes regardless.
- Millions of people protesting isn't good enough for you?
  
  Voting would be better lmao
- Which, specifically? They all have several.
- The people going to events want political action to fix the problem and prevent it from occuring again. Not pointless Lynchings for petty revenge.
  Now if we could organize in a way that encourages conservatives to switch sides then that would be cool, like a tour through conservative counties.

I'm so happy to see this, finally some good news from the us.

Let’s keep this momentum going fam!

Good to see more young people.

These protests need to start happening outside of these reps' offices.
- I saw someone call for protesting on golf courses, might be even better.
- *houses
  They just don’t go to their offices or close them or ban protests.
- Reps need to be taking part in the protests. Preferably Korean-style.
  
  You mean the US representatives that won't set term limits? The US representatives that won't vote to outlaw insider trading? The US representatives who own businesses that benefit from their legislation? Those people? Just gotta be clear here. Because I'm feeling a little uncertain about their loyalties at the moment. At least towards their voters... To their donors, I'm rock solid on where they owe their fealty.
  
  God that photo goes hard on so many levels

I don't think we'll see the upheaval of a fascist regime by picketers carrying signs any time soon.
- Obeying in advance, yikes fucking pathetic.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
- No but it's the first step. As momentum builds more people are emboldened to protest, and the scope of the protests widen and get more effective.
  This sort of statement is typically made by people who want to stall and prevent action. You see it all the time in various forums: "if this activity doesn't 100% fix everything immediately then there is no point in doing anything".
  Unfortunately we don't live in a black and white world where a switch can be flipped from awful to wonderful (as if it was even possible for everyone to agree on that). You get there in small incremental steps with messy interactions and disagreements along the way.
  Protests like this can lead to ongoing effective resistance like strikes, work to rules and etc. But you don't get someone to go from never having protested in their lives to manning a blockade of a govt building in one step.
  
  Exactly. For the past month I've read many people here saying protest are useless because of various bullshit reasons. Protest are just a starting point. At protest, people talk, organize, that can lead to more massive protest, a new ideology, a revolution, or nothing. You never know.
  I'm French. I have been to many protests. Some ended in massive movement for no reasons. Some died while the cause was very important. You never know.
- This is to show the people who are feeling alone with their despair, that they are in fact not alone.
  And it is to recruit people for the upcoming general strike.
  For a general strike to take effect, it needs about 10mil people, and it is estimated that there are about 5mil people demonstrating in America today.
- you speak truth and they downvote it because they don't want to face that fact that one day of standing around accomplishes nothing. they want to think this will be easy and won't require real sacrifice. they're lazy and naive.
  please bookmark this post. show me what changes one month from now. one year from now. please prove me wrong.
  
  If you can't even bother to stand around to protest, how tf are you supposed to get people to do more extreme actions when the time such drastic actions are required comes around? Your apathetic response to protesting will only lead to a more fractured society that cannot attempt any meaningful resistance to the fascist in the white house.
  
  they want to think this will be easy and won't require real sacrifice. they're lazy and naive.
  That's not at all what the responses (that have been up for hours before you posted this) have been saying.

it's everywhere
And they are doing what that is useful? The amount of people in any of these pictures could easily enter the White House and unseat Trump, yet here we they are, performativelizing.
- You want the people to "Maga hat" riot the white house? You think that's the plan?
  Were you dropped on your head as a baby?
- And they are doing what that is useful?
  Protesting, making their voices heard. Showing the world that not all Americans are fascists.
  The amount of people in any of these pictures could easily enter the White House and unseat Trump
  You clearly don't have any idea how overzealous the security in and around the white house is.
  Even IF they somehow got to the oval office after suffering hundreds if not thousands of casualties, the Mango Mussolini would have long since been whisked into a bunker and secret service and the military would arrest or kill all of them.
  yet here we they are, performativelizing
  The first person part was correct, the plural wasn't. What's performative is your insistence that the obviously impossible is easy.
  
  Would it even get that far? Gathering that many people in one spot, at the same time, with a coherent plan would take... a lot of communication. And we know for a fact that the spooks are listening in.
  But, hell, @veniasilente@lemm.ee, start organizing people. I'm interested in seeing how far it gets.
  
  Honestly though. I thought it would take hundreds of casualties to get into the capital building. And really, is trump actually in the white house much? Golf ain't going to play itself. But these protests build up the confidence of people who want to do more. It makes them feel like the people are behind them. So maybe these are warm ups for taking the white house.
- Classic astroturfing right here. "let's bitch about people getting involved but not yet murdering people!" cut this shit out. And get involved!
  
  Doesn't look like that. I skimmed the profile very briefly, and it looks like a bad take on an otherwise active and normal account.
  
  Also classic astroturfing is complaining about astroturfing. Fact is you never know who posts a comment. But mostly, I agree with your sentiment here.
- It’s performative.
  It’s the same reason sports games have hype crews in the form of bands or a cheer squad. It livens the audience up.
  In politics it also sends a message to their reps that they could/should be a little bit more aggressive in promoting what their people are saying.
- Attack the head of the snake and chances are you'll get bit. He'll be in a chopper before a window gets broken and the National Guard will be there in minutes.
  The GOP are getting cold feet, Musk is close to leaving, and Trump is starting to throw his appointees under the bus. Sorry you probably won't get to see Trump tied up and crowd surfed into a van to never be seen again but this is the process.
  
  "Gaddafi!" Sorry, it just popped into my head when I read "crowd surfed ".
  
  Sorry you probably won’t get to see Trump tied up and crowd surfed into a van to never be seen again but this is the process.
  Sure, whatever process that works works. My point is I'm not seeing a process - I'm no seeing progress. Just complaining, which is something the elites can already and have always burrowed their heads in the sand at.
- I do agree that the resistance needs to become more radical, but you don't just enter the seat of power and unseat the democratically elected president. Like it or not he still has a popular mandate and that needs to be destroyed first; that's ultimately what civic resistance is all about. Also he has armed security, which can just shoot any intruders in part because of said popular mandate.
  
  What popular mandate? The guy won the same amount of votes as last time. Stop with this mandate shit, it's bullcrap.
  
  Like it or not he still has a popular mandate and that needs to be destroyed first;
  Okay, then how? Because from what I have seen pretty much every official in a position of civil service just resigns to let Trump do as he pleases, so there's not much of a resistance. Who in civil service is supposed to unseat Trump? DOGE is certainly not gonna do it.

It'd be nice if all of these protesters had bothered to vote and not with protest votes.
- "proper action wasn't taken in the past therfore I won't accept any action being taken in the future."
- What makes you think they didn't?
  75 million people voted for Harris. We likely won't know the count of today's protests, but I feel safe saying it was far fewer than 75 million.
  
  The estimate was 5 million people across 1300 cities.
  A lot of people complaining about these protests seem to think that level of coordinated protesting isn't impressive.
  Those numbers alone should make anyone stop and think about what's going on.
- I think these people are the ones to have voted.
- Oh look, another liberal blaming eveybody and anybody except the traish-tier Democrat platform/candidate.
- More astroturfing
- In the US system it doesn't matter how you vote except in like 7 states.
  
  Well, that wouldn't be true if everyone voted, but it does bring up the point that winner take all is just a bad representative system.