cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35928296

What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history

leaders with the most prominent Trump-resistance group organizing “No Kings” answered that complaint Saturday when Indivisible’s Ezra Levin took to the stage in Minneapolis and announced that a nationwide general strike is planned for May 1, modeled after a successful local action that shut down much of that region in January

  • Nalivai
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    5 days ago

    The amount of anti-democracy statements online is so strong, especially on the online left, I bet a lot of those protesters don’t vote on principal. The irony of protesting what they helped to bring rarely hits those people.

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      5 days ago

      You may be onto something but I always feel like people who are against voting are lazy shitheads that like to rationalize doing nothing whatsoever

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        4 days ago

        That’s one group. The “electoralism is bad something something both sides” purity-testers is another.