What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history | Will Bunch
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The “No Kings” movement brushed off its doubters with a record turnout that gave protesters hope in an age of insanity.

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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

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    17 hours ago

    I might be wrong but it doesn’t seem the people protesting would be the types that didn’t vote.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      12 hours 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.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        12 hours 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

    • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      On the whole? No, I agree with you. But there are certainly at least a few, just as certain as there are some who are out there protesting now who aren’t going to make their way to vote in November. People’s motivations fluctuate, and it’s important to remind people that protest is an extremely important PART of civic responsibility, but it’s only a part.