Boston, MA

Yes. Even if this protest is peaceful, people need to come with more confrontarional rhetoric. I am sick and tired of the punny signs about love winning and smiles and roses. They’re fucking executing people in the streets and we need to get mean.

I think what we just watched unfold in Minnesota demonstrates the power of peaceful, organized protest

The neoliberal organizers will be sad and have you ejected from the protest after notifying the police that you're using dangerous words.

In case you're poorly informed and not just outright opposition:

These protests are working towards that critical 3% - 4% of the NATIONAL population goal, basically a critical mass of resistance. We have to work with reality. The USA is not France. The people of this country are deeply divided. What works in France works because that is France. There have been 2 national No Kings protests, and there was exponential growth between them.

To call these protests ineffective is, frankly ignorant. It demonstrates that you do not understand the purpose (i.e. working towards a singular, large, nationwide protest involving 3% - 4% of the country), or the additional benefits of these types of protests in terms of building solidarity. Do you even attempt to inform yourself on the matter? It's okay if you don't, just kind of sad to see someone so adamantly against people trying to make a difference and I'm close to being of the opinion that with "friends" like this, who needs enemies.

"we need their help."

We can't help you grow some balls.
Another problem with your awful country is most desire no more than to go back to the situation it was before.
An awful imperialist warmongering country that also put kids in cages and deported (even more) poor people.
Only difference, they didn't bother the white americans.
So no.

Also donating to legal funds, to people needing groceries in MN, going to smaller community organizing... glad to hear other actions, but I don't think being visible as a large group hurts, even if by itself it doesn't overthrow the usurpers.

Do you actually hate the idea of pragmatism? Like, do things have to be perfect or else they don't matter to you? I'm of the opinion that perfect is the enemy of progress. The fact of the matter is, most people have jobs, bills, obligations, families, and so on. It's inconvenient, obviously, to take time off outside of the weekend and it's ridiculous to expect the average person to choose between putting their job/career in peril versus just having the protest at a time that's convenient for the largest number of people possible. So strange that it's even remotely controversial. Also, with opinions and comments like this, it's basically on the same level as the people who were commenting "why don't these people have jobs" and "why aren't these people in church" that dominated conservative social media during the last 2 national protests -- despite those also falling on a Saturday. Some people, many people, no matter what, cannot accept that these things take time to build and regardless of the nazis and fascism, still need to cater to the largest possible potential number of people as possible.

power is never given.

power is taken.