The No Kings protests, also known internationally as the No Dictators or No Tyrants protests
Fucking lmao libs can't even commit fully to being anti monarchy.
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The No Kings protests, also known internationally as the No Dictators or No Tyrants protests
Fucking lmao libs can't even commit fully to being anti monarchy.
Two arrows movement (anti communist and anti anarchist)
Last no kings protest here had Palestinian flags outnumber any other 90:10 and was partly organized by psl iirc.
Saw lots of lib boomers show up happy to be a part of something.
This unwillingness to subjugate liberals and subsume them into leftism is silly
The one in my town invited the police to join them on the town green
They also asked people who brought any flag that wasn't a USAan one to leave
Meanwhile, my separate and unaffiliated protest across the street did just fine because I picked up the people who actually cared about things
The one over here was completely run by libs. All the speakers were libs. And yet, there was a sizeable contingent of people there with positions a lot more radical than the organizers.
The fact that there was a sizeable contingent of radical people there makes it worth going to, no?
It seems like it depends a lot on how organized the local leftist movement is. Still wouldn’t hurt to go either way
During the last protest I almost forgot it was happening until I went on public transit for some other reason and it was the most packed I've ever seen it
exactly. people here forget the leninist method involves coopting libs as one of its main tenets.
their politics are fake, but their outrage with the burgeoise is very real. they just don't know it.
That's great. Ours had like 2, and mine was one of them. I go to these "indivisible" type demos at least as much to remind libs of Palestine as anything.
In countries with constitutional monarchies such as Canada and the United Kingdom, the alternate "Dictators" or "Tyrants" titles were favored over "Kings" to avoid confusion with anti-monarchic movements; Hawaii did the same to avoid confusion with a King Kamehameha Day parade held on the same day.
Oh. I guess those kings are okay. nbd.
I'll let Hawaii slide but not the others
Yeah I dont really know enough to form an opinion on Hawaiian kings but typically am not fond of kings in general. I suppose I'll let that one slide too.
I believe there are different factions and beliefs in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement (which is a national liberation movement). However, my understanding is that the last king of Hawaii, Kalākaua, sold out the sugar plantations to American companies in exchange for protection. When he died, his sister Queen Liliʻuokalani refused to do the bidding of foreign interests and moved to pass a constitution that would allow only Hawaiian citizens to vote. Sanford Dole (Dole plantations) led the businesses that guided the US military to invade and annex Hawaii. So some Hawaiians see returning the monarch to power as part of their liberation movement's history.
Interestingly enough, the Maori have a "king movement", which means that there's not one but two Polynesian nations marginalized by settler-colonialism where a native monarch holds a significant position in the respective nation's sovereignty movement (albeit very different positions). So that's one of those "two nickels" situations, I guess.
Kamehameha was a pretty cool dude for a king, came up with the world's first human rights law as we would recoginise them today.
Also culturally appropriated the UK flag (he wasn't closely affiliated with Britain he just thought the union jack on the ship he'd just bought looked cool af and he was king so "mine now"
I think one is forced to conclude that kings are bad (by this point in history) but colonialism is worse and kings should be opposed in a manner that doesn't enable colonialism.
"after the revolution", send them to the back of the line and we can deal with it after all the more obvious stuff is in order, maybe the Hawaiians (or other possibly-problematic but probably progressive political situations) will have it figured out by that time anyway.
My only thing to contribute about Kamehameha is that I saw his sword in the museum and it was a baller weapon. Clusters of multicolored gems on it, scabbard done up in gold
I fucking hate their chickenshit phrasing. "No Kings"? Nobody is calling Trump a King, not even himself. Use words that actually mean something, what is this protest's project? It's just a purge valve. Hope the comrades are making inroads during outreach at these things
Even funnier is that it gets rebranded for being too edgy anyway by monarchy-loving libs abroad.
no kirks protest
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Go recruiting and meet people, but don't take these protests seriously (is my take)
Yep these are organizing opportunities to pull some of the more left curious libs into our orbit and to reform them. I've seen it happen many times over the past year or so.
we should try to impeach trump again. that'll show him for sure!!!
watch as these milquetoast liberals get arrested this time for supposedly being antifa
The bonus being that their protest didn't even have a single demand other than the vague and meek "no kings".
Liberals not overcoming the "no actual beliefs" accusations.
"no actual beliefs"
Now that I think of it - I wonder why libs haven't been waving signs that read....
VOTE
2026!
or even fancier...
VOTE
2026!
1776!
This is the one where the 'security' shot some random person dead, right? Wonder what happened in that case. It was in Utah too iirc.
Last I heard they were trying to charge a guy that didn't shoot a single shot with being responsible for the death.
Latest news I could find: https://kutv.com/news/2news-investigates/no-charges-filed-three-months-after-deadly-shooting
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Waiting for the Canadians to make it funny again
Bring a hammer and sickle flag
Got a text. Lame AF.
my racist white boomer neighbor passes our house with a big sign every weekend on her walk to the bus to go to these things