Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her)I agree with @Caitoz 100%.
And attending "No Kings" isn't tolerable as "baby's first protest, to get them ready for more effective protests later." Fuck that bullshit.
"No Kings" is a Dem party psy op to misdirect anger back toward supporting the same evil system that made ICE and Trump possible.
It's not a step forward, it's a step back.
Fake "leftists" like Mamdani, Bernie, and AOC, and psy op "protests" like "No Kings" and 50501 are immensely harmful for the same reason: Contrary to what your naive mind might think, it's not a baby step forward in the right direction, it exists to misdirect anger toward supporting the evil system.
That anger should be channeled into actually disruptive and possibly violent protest and revolution to overthrow capitalism/fascism... Yesterday.
Until that happens, fascism continues and more people die.
By stopping badly needed revolution, Mamdani, AOC, Bernie, "No Kings," etc. are amongst the most harmful politicians.
"The problem with the 'No Kings' protests is right there in the title. They’re saying 'We don’t want a king, we want a president!' But Donald Trump is not a king. He is a president. And that’s the real problem: US presidents are extremely evil men who do extremely evil things...
Trump is not some freakish aberration; he is the product of the same American political status quo as his predecessors. He became president the same way they did, and the powers he now wields were given to his office via mundane executive, legislative and judicial decisions and precedents before he was ever elected.
But because the 'No Kings' protests are organized by liberal defenders of that same political status quo, the demonstrations cannot address any of this. The whole thing is designed to be as large and inclusive as possible while also ensuring that it doesn’t disrupt the established order in any meaningful way. They make no real demands. They coordinate the demonstrations with police and government officials. Protesters show up for a few hours with their brunch signs and their orange guy shirts, and then they go home without inconveniencing anybody...
The problem is US presidents, not kings. The problem is the US empire, not Trump. The United States needs drastic, revolutionary change, not daytime protests designed to be as inoffensive as possible. As long as Americans are protesting against fictional monarchies and easily replaceable oligarchic puppets instead of resisting the actual imperial machine, the abuses are going to continue."
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