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They said 5M showed on for the first one on June 14.

No Kings protests

The No Kings protests, also known internationally as the No Dictators or No Tyrants protests, is a series of demonstrations that took place on June 14, 2025 (labelled as No Kings Day by the participants), largely in the United States, against Donald Trump's policies and actions during his second presidency, including his purported fascist tendencies and associated democratic backsliding in the U.S. The protests took place on the same day as the U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Parade and Trump's 79th birthday.

Organizers estimated that more than five million people participated in more than 2,100 cities and towns, including the flagship event in Philadelphia. More protests took place in the U.S. territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands, and in 20 foreign countries, including Canada, Japan, Mexico, and in Europe.

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.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Two arrows movement (anti communist and anti anarchist)

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

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

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago

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

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

The fact that there was a sizeable contingent of radical people there makes it worth going to, no?

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

It seems like it depends a lot on how organized the local leftist movement is. Still wouldn’t hurt to go either way

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

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

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll let Hawaii slide but not the others

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] curmudgeonthefrog@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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"

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

"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.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] principalkohoutek@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 42 points 1 week ago

Even funnier is that it gets rebranded for being too edgy anyway by monarchy-loving libs abroad.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

This is a Picard household! picard-direct-action

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Go recruiting and meet people, but don't take these protests seriously (is my take)

[–] antifa_ceo@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

we should try to impeach trump again. that'll show him for sure!!!

[–] Midnight_Pearl@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

watch as these milquetoast liberals get arrested this time for supposedly being antifa

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The bonus being that their protest didn't even have a single demand other than the vague and meek "no kings".

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Liberals not overcoming the "no actual beliefs" accusations.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

"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!

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Waiting for the Canadians to make it funny again

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 week ago

Bring a hammer and sickle flag

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Got a text. Lame AF.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

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