Fucked but still naively going about day to day life. Most people aren’t being actively harmed so they are sticking their head in the sand. Vague rumours of atrocities being committed on vulnerable people. Not us though. Vague unease. Some people can see something should be done but they’re looking around, waiting for someone to come and tell them what they should do. More in the line of 'what organisation can I donate $50 to, so that this unpleasantness will go away? That’s all they’ve known all their lives, so they’re desperately clinging onto their naivety.
Some people see the writing on the wall and target tesla, since apparently most americans in 2025 won’t get out onto the streets and protest, won’t stick their necks out even that far. Others go to the ‘politics of hope’ meetings and trust in the law and what is now really just tradition of law to save them. Oh and the democrats, who’ve been stripped of almost all political power but are still expected to swoop in and spank trump’s ass, restore a facade of decency.
It happens by increments so that each addition or subtraction doesn’t seem much worse than the last. Noone can tell you exactly when you’re going to lose the right to protest… To do anything to fight the loss of democracy, to fight the loss of your rights. It will happen, unless it’s stopped. Trump and the creators of project 2025 aren’t going to stop unless they’re stopped.
You don’t know that. Maybe the protests were the reason trump wasn’t as bad during the last presidency as he is now. He’s not a god, only a single man. He can’t actually do whatever he wants, only what he has the opportunity to do.
He’s nothing if not an opportunist so he’s going to push and push in every shitty direction, so you have to push back and back like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill, because the alternative is unthinkable.
But hey, you can have a protest which is at least partly a party with friends, music, dancing, hope, community, fucking light. Not like their miserable hate filled lie-fests.
Occupy wallstreet. It was actually 100% correct on who the villains were, had an amazing amount of coverage and reach, was publicly terrorized by police on television in prime time, and what came of it?
There’s always an impact, even if it’s only a ‘hearts and minds’. Even if it’s only that you make the bullies take your freedom and dont just give it up. You might not get an obvious win, but it’s always better to fight. Do not let the bastards grind you down.
Fucked but still naively going about day to day life. Most people aren’t being actively harmed so they are sticking their head in the sand. Vague rumours of atrocities being committed on vulnerable people. Not us though. Vague unease. Some people can see something should be done but they’re looking around, waiting for someone to come and tell them what they should do. More in the line of 'what organisation can I donate $50 to, so that this unpleasantness will go away? That’s all they’ve known all their lives, so they’re desperately clinging onto their naivety.
Some people see the writing on the wall and target tesla, since apparently most americans in 2025 won’t get out onto the streets and protest, won’t stick their necks out even that far. Others go to the ‘politics of hope’ meetings and trust in the law and what is now really just tradition of law to save them. Oh and the democrats, who’ve been stripped of almost all political power but are still expected to swoop in and spank trump’s ass, restore a facade of decency.
It happens by increments so that each addition or subtraction doesn’t seem much worse than the last. Noone can tell you exactly when you’re going to lose the right to protest… To do anything to fight the loss of democracy, to fight the loss of your rights. It will happen, unless it’s stopped. Trump and the creators of project 2025 aren’t going to stop unless they’re stopped.
I think the hesitancy on protests is that they’ve been wholly ineffective in the last decade of fighting against trump.
You don’t know that. Maybe the protests were the reason trump wasn’t as bad during the last presidency as he is now. He’s not a god, only a single man. He can’t actually do whatever he wants, only what he has the opportunity to do.
He’s nothing if not an opportunist so he’s going to push and push in every shitty direction, so you have to push back and back like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill, because the alternative is unthinkable.
But hey, you can have a protest which is at least partly a party with friends, music, dancing, hope, community, fucking light. Not like their miserable hate filled lie-fests.
Occupy wallstreet. It was actually 100% correct on who the villains were, had an amazing amount of coverage and reach, was publicly terrorized by police on television in prime time, and what came of it?
Nothing. Nothing came of it.
There’s always an impact, even if it’s only a ‘hearts and minds’. Even if it’s only that you make the bullies take your freedom and dont just give it up. You might not get an obvious win, but it’s always better to fight. Do not let the bastards grind you down.