relaying words from a handmade sign I saw at the last one: "Don't Underestimate The Power Of Just Showing Up."
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2025
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But, like, don't overestimate it either.
People want to make an impact they should do it on fucking Black Friday. You need to hit capitalism where it hurts.
Do that too, but protesting gives folks the opportunity to connect with local resistance organizations and make a real, ongoing impact.
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Monday to Friday people... not on weekends
Be careful. Im fearful of a false flag type operation where something violent happens and is immediately blamed on the left, when in realityitll be far right thugs. Leave your phones at home and don't give these thugs a reason to place blame on us for violence
i keep saying; do not let fear hold you back! the gop will do the things you fear no matter what, if nothing happens, they will invent a cause. might as well go down swinging
We sit around and bitch about the corporations caving to the alt-Reich, about Congress people just giving in to Trump, about ICE not having a conscience to do the things they do.
Yet as long as we only sit and bitch, as long as we're not fighting back in some way, we are also complicit in what our country's government does.
If you honk your horn to warn people ICE is around, you are protecting them. If you protest the regime, others will see that there's are others standing up and this is not inevitable. If you call your Congress people, you are telling them what the will of the people is, and that people are watching their actions. You don't have to do everything, but you should be doing something.
How can you expect corporations to care or Congress people to have a spine, if you won't even pick up a phone? Courage, and consciences, are contagious.
I've been at the other no kings protests and been emailing my senators and reps in NC almost every week for the last 4 months. They keep responding only with the Faux News false information but if they won't give in they I most certainly will not either. Ensure every week they and their staff have to face what they're doing.
Protest at their homes, and keep doing it day in and day out til they cave. they'll start listening
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You need to translate this to political power at the city and state levels. Sweep out the meek Democrats and legislate the resistance: force local police to not cooperate, ban masks, make it easy to acquit people resisting, pass personal liberty laws, etc. Then ratfuck the feds any chance you get. Get your municipalities to do roadworks at the access points to ICE buildings, cut off their water and electricity for maintenance, slow them the fuck down. Put up an actual resistance. Come on yanks, you can do it!
Thank you for encouragement rather than disdain. I mean it.
I participated in the first. I wish a single person cared or a single thing changed.
Late to the party, but I'll bet at least a few right wingers we're surprised at the turnout. Maybe helped get a few people out of their bubbles, seeing neighbors and friends out on the street. Maybe not, but I know i saw a lot of older rural folks out protesting last time that I'm sure rocked the perceptions some right wings nuts have about it all being teenage anarchists in the street.
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See you out there
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