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LadyduLac1018 Mar 29, 2026 +115

And unlike Trump, we didn't even have to Photoshop. Next stop: May 1st, 2026-General Strike For those able, no work, no school, no shopping. Money talks.

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LilSunshineKiss Mar 29, 2026 +30

Democracy is for the people

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GaussRausch Mar 29, 2026 +38

There’s a gap here. People need to transform protesting into politics yes it’s ugly but that’s how democracy works I still can’t believe the power of this nation and they are still missing direct voting!

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Joejoe10x Mar 30, 2026 +1

Where is the Democratic Party in all of this? No point protesting Trump if the opposition is weak.

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Azmtbkr Mar 30, 2026 +1

They’re purposely keeping a low profile at No Kings, which is smart. Makes it more about solidarity around basic American values and not a political rally. They were registering participants to vote and a few politicians did speak, but it wasn’t the focus.

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Proof-Peak-9274 Mar 30, 2026 +1

That’s actually a really smart move

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peipei222 Mar 30, 2026 +1

Of course there is a point silly, you can overhaul the entire political landscape and actually fix things by protesting properly. If Dems don't want to be part of the solution, then they're part of the problem.

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noobditt Mar 29, 2026 +48

And yet almost no media is reporting it. Pure propaganda.

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noobditt Mar 30, 2026 +25

What you are describing is propaganda. Selective reporting is propaganda. Controlling the narrative is propaganda.The USA learned it from Nazi Germany just like they stole all the rocket scientists.

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biscuitarse Mar 30, 2026 +1

It's the same as Fox News propagandizing through lies of commission and lies of omission. There are certain stories critical of Trump their viewers are just never going to see

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samuraiseoul Mar 29, 2026 +22

Looks like the next one is going to be a strike on May 1st!

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GlowBlisse Mar 29, 2026 +9

Wow, those rallies really made a statement. It’s impressive to see that level of turnout and energy.

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snokegsxr Mar 29, 2026 +33

(european pov) randomly seen on tv they are huge, but somehow they still feel unremarkable, like there’s nothing to report besides their size... but I guess making trouble like picking up some farmers and spray government building with manure/dung like they do in european protests would lead to escalation too quickly in the states, no one wants riots...

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Soggy_Biscuit__ Mar 30, 2026 +22

European countries are tiny compared to the US. Even in the larger European countries like Germany or France, it’s conceivable that a sizable portion of the population could feasibly convene in one of the larger cities like Paris or Berlin for a large protest. For argument’s sake, let’s say >50% of the population of these countries are within a 4 hour train ride. Right or wrong, that doesn’t exist in the US. The population, while concentrated on the coasts, is incredibly decentralized. Throw in the “state” construct and it’s even more so. While individual protests may seem small visually, consider what it would look like if 10-15 million people amassed in one of the aforementioned European cities. We may be spread out geographically, but Americans (at least a lot of us) are sick of this administration’s shit and we won’t stop trying to save our country.

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Low_River_9199 Mar 29, 2026 +38

Americans have been told for years they must protest peacefully like with the civil rights movement, which is why these protests feel so tame. Plus, if you do anything even slightly disruptive you will be portrayed as evil and violent and like the wrong kind of protestors. Also the only EU country I have seen that does the type of protests you speak about is France, but that could just be the American media being bad as per usual.

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Exciting-Emu-3324 Mar 29, 2026 +15

It's really more about cultivating enthusiasm for the upcoming midterms especially among the non-voters. A big contributor to MAGA's power is a sense of community among voters that simply did not exist on the other side until now.

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Low_River_9199 Mar 30, 2026 +5

I do actually agree that a lot of no kings power is in imagery, shifting public perception and showing that the culture is not with Trump. In fact, I would argue that it is probably better to do more sanitized protest as a way to get people on our side due to how deeply this belief of peaceful protest is engrained in people.

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peipei222 Mar 30, 2026 +1

>It's really more about cultivating enthusiasm for the upcoming midterms If that is all, then America I well and truly fucked. Sure, voting in the midterms will make it harder for trump to rig the results, so everyone should do that. But my f****** god, wake up america, there's a fascist in charge and he's starting world war 3. Get him out of power by any means necessary. You can't wait months.

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undecidedly Mar 29, 2026 +22

The funny thing is that the civil rights movement used lots of less-than-peaceful tactics. They’ve just made it sound more toothless in the history books.

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Cod_North Mar 29, 2026 +15

There is a tendency people have to try to clean up history to make it more palatable and as you said people tend to look at the Civil Rights Movement as something that only happened in a peaceful sense and only succeeded by calming persuading people when that has never been true. Women's Suffrage didn't happen peacefully either, The modern LGBTQ+ rights movement got it's biggest push because people got violent over it. That doesn't mean we should resort to those tactics just that historically social movements didn't just restrict themselves to perfectly peaceful tactics.

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Shot-Possibility-399 Mar 30, 2026 +1

You can exert pressure non violently. Women's suffrage was pretty non violent. They were just disobedient.

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Cod_North Mar 30, 2026 +1

That depends, Suffragettes were pretty aggressive with their tactics and they weren't exactly limiting themselves to mere civil disobedience. Granted they were only a single facet of Women's Suffrage. My point is that making civil progress isn't always a clean process. When I read about the Stonewall riots for example (something a little more applicable to me). The violence didn't come out of nowhere but decades of being treated as subhuman. If I was born earlier I don't know if I could really say I'd have been nonviolent. There is a reason we have a monument to it.

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Shot-Possibility-399 Mar 30, 2026 +1

I would hardly describe the suffragettes as violent lol Dumping beer in the street is not violence.

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Low_River_9199 Mar 30, 2026 +1

Yeah, a lot of how protests have historically worked is heavily sanitized in a way that makes the protests/protesters come across as more peaceful.

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Shot-Possibility-399 Mar 30, 2026 +1

They still did a lot of other non violent things to put pressure and cause civil disobedience and unrest.

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Shot-Possibility-399 Mar 30, 2026 +1

The civil rights movement did more than just walk around with a sassy sign. They did sit ins, they boycotted public transportation which put financial strain on the state. Actual protests. Walking around with a sign in your allotted time frame by the government is not a protest. It's the parent letting their four year pack a bag to run away. It's performative, and nothing else. People just let some steam out so they could feel like they did something, and go back to the comfort of their day to day.

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Wise_Recover_4344 Mar 29, 2026 +1

More like added to a database or worse

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Stingray88 Mar 30, 2026 +1

If you’re a democrat voter in a red state you’re already in their database.

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BrightAnalysis1955 Mar 30, 2026 +1

It’s honestly amazing how America managed to wipe the Kings Assassination Riots from collective memory and history books. 21,000 arrests and you dont hear anyone talking about it.

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farmerjoee Mar 29, 2026 +22

The way y'all insisted we "use our guns" was pretty goofy, you have to admit. I think y'all circlejerked yourselves into believing we were going to start a civil war for some reason, which is sociopathic. In reality, there's nothing confusing about why rallying in massive numbers is a tool for political change in a democracy.

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Liminal_Aspect Mar 29, 2026 +12

That would likely be felony destruction of property here. Long time in prison and loss of the ability to vote

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Wonderful-Pause1048 Mar 29, 2026 +5

would probably lead to civil war, and we know what T would do then

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DaisyCutter1485 Mar 29, 2026 +18

It means nothing if people don't vote.

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DCrebuilds Mar 30, 2026 +1

Things like this gets people motivated to vote

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Northern_Ice_2501 Mar 29, 2026 +1

This should be top comment.

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Sad-Week6040 Mar 30, 2026 +1

It's funny to me that Americans are assuming there will be fair elections. Even when the president has already openly started efforts to tamper with them. Y'all really believe that? An administration that has committed unbelievable crimes and has followed the playbook of fascism is going to risk being chased after with fair elections? I mean I'd love to see it.

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loremipsumot Mar 30, 2026 +1

Part of protecting our rights is asserting our rights. That applies to voting, to the 1st Amendment, and so on. It doesn't do any good to for Americans to suddenly decide their votes won't matter and that no matter what happens, Trump will just steal it. That is just surrendering in advance, and it will demoralize voters massively. Part of protecting voting is to continue to believe in and insist on being able to vote in fair elections. That doesn't mean we close our eyes to what Trump might pull. We need to prepare for that too, and there's a lot of that going on too. But we should not accept it as a forgone conclusion that future elections are pointless when they haven't happened yet. To do otherwise is to simply hand Trump power over election results without even making him work for it.

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distancedandaway Mar 30, 2026 +3

Maga is super butthurt over it

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maddie_emmm Mar 29, 2026 +3

I was stuck at home with RSV so I was hoping to watch on YouTube and watch afterwards and could find hardly ANY stuff one it.

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Historical_Bend_2629 Mar 29, 2026 +2

So massively offensive and corrupt, this administration is.

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HeavySweetness Mar 30, 2026 +1

And mostly useless. A protest with police approval on a weekend disrupts none of the enemy’s schemes, it’s just screaming into the void to feel better. Now, If they actually do a general strike that’s actually got a chance to be effective.

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MinionSympathizer Mar 30, 2026 +1

Euro people will still question why we "aren't doing anything" though

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Beeronastring Mar 30, 2026 +1

Why isn’t this on the top of r/all ?

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sixtus_clegane119 Mar 30, 2026 +1

General strike, while no kings rallies are a show of solidarity they don't really accomplish anything They aren't some grand disruption, the country needs to be ground to a halt. Without a general strike this is all just performative I've heard something about may 1st

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labretirementhome Mar 30, 2026 +1

We needed 11 million. We got 8. Let's try again.

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Corbotron_5 Mar 30, 2026 +1

And will achieve practically nothing because the media controls the narrative and the government controls the media. Americans need to move past token gestures that make them feel like they’re resisting and start actually resisting.

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tetheredinasphault Mar 30, 2026 +1

Okay and what is that doing though, it's been quite a few of these

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Real-Selection1840 Mar 30, 2026 +1

These protests need to end up being on the doorstep of wherever DJT is, so he can see personally. Otherwise it’s just a day of TV to him.

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Shot-Possibility-399 Mar 30, 2026 +1

Ok, and what did they accomplish? Did everyone go home after their permitted time was up? Was there any actual leverage asserted to enact change? No? Ok. Why are we all obsessing over this like it changes anything? They don't care what you think, and they are setting up the secret police and militarized government to start punishing those who even hold a sign in the future. This delusional assumption that walking around with a sign is going to prompt change is wild. To be clear I'm not advocating violence, but there are non violent ways of asserting pressure.

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Osiris32 Mar 30, 2026 +1

I could not attend, as I was driving from Oakland to Portland on my way home from vacation. What I got to experience, however, was how widespread the protesting was. Left the rental house at 8am. Stopped for breakfast in Castro Valley, saw a protest starting to form up. On my way through Oakland to cross the Bay Bridge, saw another. Stopped at the Presidio to take pictures, saw more people with signs. Then saw some on my way out of town, some on the Golden Gate, more in Sausalito, and at just about every small town we passed along 37, 505, and I-5. Small towns like Williams and Arbuckle had protests just like San Francisco and Redding. We're they as big? No, of course not. But 30 people with signs on an overpass over Interstate 5 at Orland gets seen by a HUGE number of drivers and passengers. Made me more than a little proud.

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coloch_w0rth9 Mar 30, 2026 +1

It’s not just about the big cities, it’s the little satellite ones too that show the reach is beyond the urban bubble.

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DidAnyoneElseJustCum Mar 29, 2026 -10

Ok but then what. I'm not against the message but these feel like slacktivism at it's finest. Numbers do matter but signs don't get results.

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CrazFight Mar 29, 2026 +14

Protests like this are to energize the base heading into the midterms, the “then what” is winning back the house and senate in 26’

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Shot-Possibility-399 Mar 30, 2026 +1

Against the people actively working to steal the election? And you're banning on the election?

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CrazFight Mar 30, 2026 +1

That sentence made no sense.

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Wings81 Mar 29, 2026 +11

Now you get involved in your local Democratic party and you work through it to defeat the things you don't agree with. And if one of those things you don't agree with is your local Democratic party, then work to improve it. Now you organize your community so you have the structure necessary for mutual aid and community level change. Now you start attending town hall and school board meetings to make your voice heard and to let them know there are people watching them. Now you get to work.

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adamdebra Mar 30, 2026 -10

And did nothing

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Leather_Egg2096 Mar 29, 2026 -12

Protests are for awareness. If you don't do anything afterwards they're useless.

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Lucky-Roy Mar 30, 2026 +10

Please stop telling people you are Australian. The reason it is called No Kings is as plain as the nose on your f****** face.

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smersh101 Mar 30, 2026 +8

It's not complicated. Trump is acting like a king.

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Michael-gamer Mar 30, 2026

So that’s what it’s about. Thanks mate. I had no clue what it was all about.

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lingeringneutrophil Mar 29, 2026 -23

So were the rallies with pussyhats and nothing changed

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sallysaysyes Mar 30, 2026 +1

I remember Occupy Wall Street - and just look how far we've come 💀

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This weekend’s No Kings rallies were historically massive

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