Demonstrators across the country and the globe will protest against Donald Trump on Saturday at over 3,000 planned events.

Millions are expected to gather across the country and around the world on Saturday for a third round of “No Kings” protests against Donald Trump. Organizers predict that it will be the “single largest non-violent day of action” in American history.

Saturday’s “No Kings” marches, of which there are more than 3,200 planned across all 50 states and several continents, come as Trump faces increasing scrutiny over the war with Iran, the rising cost of gas and how his administration has executed its mass deportation agenda.

“Since the last No Kings [protests], we’re seeing higher gas prices and groceries, all while there’s an illegal war in Iran,” Sarah Parker, a national coordinator for the group 50501, told reporters Thursday on a national press call previewing Saturday’s events.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    I’m so tired of these defeatest, naysaying keyboard warrior pukes shitting on these protest events.

    These stupid fucks demand revolution but have absolutely zero concept of organizing or things taking time to execute.

    They also won’t be the ones fighting in a revolution. They’re chocken-hawks eager to send others to die just like Trump

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      Them people are for kings. They just pretend to not care, but in reality they are fighting on the same side as evil.

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      Always ask them “What’s your plan?” That usually shuts them up or makes them admit they have no plans.

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        I’ve decided to reply to them along the lines of “wow, you’re right. We could be doing more. What are you doing? I need better ideas and you clearly have some, please share with the group what your more effective methods are”.

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        Their plan is to absolutely refuse to participate in any meaningful movement for change, and instead actively hinder it at every step.

        They do this while also demanding a revolution that they themselves absolutely refuse to take part in whatsoever.

        Basically, I just described every single .ml user.

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        My plan requires things yall aren’t willing to do. Yall only want hold signs and be peaceful while our enemy is rounding up people and putting them in camps. We are only a year or two from the gas them phase. And again best we can get from yall is another peaceful protest. Fucking let me know when we are ready for real action.

        This shit probably what they did when it happened in Nazi Germany.

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              Almost like getting together with other outraged people, like perhaps at a protest, would be a better place to meet people with whom to discuss those plans? Or do we just want resistance cells to spontaneously generate from the aether without any prior networking?

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                You can’t fucking organize shit at these protest. They already getting premmision and only allow at certain time and place. No one hiding faces and no prepping is happening. Just bunch people holding funny signs on a Saturday. Then they spend all week acting like they made a difference.

                My plan can’t be done here on fucking internet and fucking phones allowed. My plan will be illegal as fuck.

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                  In both my experiences, once the “main group” left, there were people more aligned towards… non “allowed” “methods of liberation”.

                  I can tell you went to neither. You say you can’t talk online because it is too dangerous, but also won’t go to the concentration of people angry for the same reasons to talk about it. Is your plan to be a lone wolf? Because one asshole with a good drone that wipes out even ideally, like, musk, bezos, zuck, trump, 5 supreme court justices, hegseth, vance, thiel, you still haven’t solved it if you were a lone asshole with a lucky drone. The problem is more systemic. Continuing pressure is necessary. Groups. Organization, which begins somewhere.

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                    Where I live they using flock cameras at the protest so everyone of those showing up are now on a list. Also they always randomly arrest people. Not risking my family for yall one day of sign waving.

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                Or do we just want resistance cells to spontaneously generate from the aether without any prior networking?

                Wait, that works? Fuck me, we’re doing it all wrong! All this organizing, showing up, and doing shit seems worthless when we can just wait!

                /s not directed at you Ravel

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          Great, so you have better methods and plans, please share with the rest of us what you’re currently doing that is more effective than building community and outreach networks.

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          “This shit probably what they did when it happened in Nazi Germany.”

          If you’re unaware of fate of opposition groups in Nazi Germany, what they did or didn’t do, you could always read up on history. It’s out there, right at your fingertips. Everything from their mistakes to their successes. It’s one of the great things about history, it already happened so you can learn from it.