More than 1,000 ‘Hands Off’ anti-Trump protests hit cities across the US
More than 1,000 ‘Hands Off’ anti-Trump protests hit cities across the US
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More than 1,000 ‘Hands Off’ anti-Trump protests hit cities across the US
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Honestly, haven't we reached the point yet where assigning ANY label other than Anti-Trump is counter productive? How much more pain will have to be inflicted, and it will be, before people decide that they don't care about the label of the whatever-gender marching next to them.
I believe the most effective action is to cause pain for your local Republicans. Work to get them out. The ones still standing will switch sides because Musk can't buy everyone's office.
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We 🇨🇦 have been yelling at 🇺🇲 for months now, "Boycott, protest, do SOMETHING!" Very happy to see them take action against the orange shitgibbon and his '88' fanatics. Well done! We're doing what we can by boycotting the US, but it ultimately falls to the 🇺🇲 people to clean up their own house.
Perhaps I just missed it, but I didn't see any support from local government, such as Mayors or Governors, speaking at the protests. Oh, well. Carry on without them and remember who stood with you and who hid under their desk.
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I was at the one in Seattle. The turnout estimate from the organizers was 25,000 people.
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Really? I was there and would have guessed far fewer, though it certainly was a pretty good turn out. But I don't know what 25k people looks like.
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Would have liked to go. Glad it was big
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And this time of the year is tulip and Cherry blossom time. 25k is a ton of people per unit area for a good mile. I hope they do it again.
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It was raining yesterday. Less incentive to go look at pretty flowers. Then again, less incentive to be outside protesting, so go us!
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Medium sized city in a very red part of a blue state: turnout was estimated to be 5000+ and huge amounts of support from honking drivers in the busy, adjacent multilane street, for 2 hours straight. Great energy/vibe, lots of outrage and creativity, and a very multi-generational turnout that shows that not just one age group hates MAGA, they ALL do.
Counter-demonstrators were next to none and getting shouted down. One Christofascist was dressed up like the Christ he's seen in picturebooks and was dragging around a replica of a full-sized cross and getting laughs and sneers for his efforts.
We're driving the Trump citizen-fascists underground, lets keep it up.
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You’d think they say more than 2 million. Since I read the estimate is at 5.2 million in the US. 100k in Boston alone.
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I was at one in Nola! The speakers were great.
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I went to one in a small Illinois city today. We had about 1000 people which is crazy for our area. I bet the nola gathering was nuts.
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Needs to be daily before anything happens
Once, in a weekend, means nothing. We need to be out there constantly, everyday
This is a good start, but it's only a very very quiet start
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I was at one yesterday and while you’re 100% right, I’m hoping that what we’re doing right now is building a head of steam, the US has never really protested on this scale before and getting everyone out is gonna take time to organize. Next one is set for the 19th. If we get a bigger turn out then and keep it up that’s how we generate the momentum for daily protests and general strikes going. It’s not enough at all but I was encouraged by the turn out I saw versus other rallies this year
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Stop the disease ! STD - Stop Trump, Donald !
Impeach Facist Trump
Down with Nazi Felon Musk.
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What is the relationship between "Hands Off" and 50501?
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50501 is one group in the coalition running Hands Off. Hands Off is primarily run by a center-left group called Indivisible, but is endorsed/supported by a lot of other center-left to left organizations like the AFL-CIO, ACLU, HRC, DSA.
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Is US social security not the definition of a ponzi scheme, where new money pays for old money, as they obfuscate the fact its totally unfunded outside of current year debt accumulation?
Can somebody correct me where I'm wrong here, and why it is sustainable in a rising interest rate environment and aging demographics where debt is more expensive to roll over. It seems to me if you even made it optional and allowed people to opt in the entire system would collapse, as it is entirely unfunded if not for the new entrants into the system, which again appears to be a ponzi scheme.
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There was one here. I think I saw like maybe 8 people there.
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That's great. Harder to be the first 8 than the last 1000. Kudos to them
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