chapotraphouse

Modern protests in the US are a cargo cult. The history of collective struggle has been comprehensively rewritten into a narrative where people gathering together to peacefully proclaim nationalism in collaboration with the bourgeois state somehow persuaded the imperial rulers to “free” slaves, or “give” women and black people the right to “vote”, or “let” queer people exist. The idea that anyone in history collectively demonstrated organized power by implicitly threatening “this is the number of people prepared to stop work, destroy property, and inflict violence against the regime if our demands are not met,” is dismissed as criminal and terrorist. Worse, it’s dismissed as actually undermining the ”real” organizing.

Their theory of action is literally “Trump, we think you’re personally cruel, evil, and an illegitimate ruler. We disapprove of your using the imperial stormtroopers to brutalize, rob, and kidnap us. We gather here today to meekly demonstrate our subservience to your regime and our reverence for the authority of your stormtroopers. We beg you to please see this gathering of supplicants who hate and despise you submitting utterly to your power and be persuaded to change your heart and take pity on us.”

Liberal anti-Hitler rallies be like

“Hitler is a Russian agent! We are the true German patriots! Sieg heil!”

I saw a lot more Palestinian flags than American ones at my libbed out no kings protest.

God I wish native Americans would mix with these protesters carrying signs saying "We killed the American army once, we'll do it again" just to cheese off the bootlicking libs too (give 'em some nice, very confused rage)

Everytime I think we might be too hard on liberals, this kind of shit happens.

I feel like a conspiracy theorist saying shit like this, but it really does feel like a psyop when it's such a clear attempt to divide and confuse protestors into a less unified, pro-US insipid posturing.

It's so gross how they co-op and destroy anything the left creates.

i went to one of these protests today. as for the red white and blue- the coordinators encouraged people to come in red white and blue. i didn't ofc but it was part of that lib bs about "taking the flag back" loool

Lib brains are cooked

Oh god the cringe

How do they get all these people to show up and embarrass themselves like this? Is it just about posting on Facebook groups until you get critical mass, or is there more to it? Surely there must be earnest people who end up in these crowds like “are we really getting excited about celebrating slave-owners?”

I felt kind of bad about not going to my local one (it was promoted by a telegram channel I follow that posts warnings about ICE raids, but I've been feeling crappy from bad sleep lately) but now I feel a bit less bad

just saw a video of the event where someone on a megaphone was telling people to vote 🫠

Saw a photo where somebody brought a to a protest in the back of a truck.

……holy shit it’s worse than what I thought it’d be

Every time I see a really stupid take it's always by someone with lemmygrad or hexbear instance. Get the fuck outta here with your lame ass cherry picked images. It was 99.9% normal citizens getting out to show solidarity. Smoking mad copium.