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A typo, I believe
Fair. There are eleven entirely separate words on the page, after all.
Was the USSR under Stalin facist?
Are you attempting to construct a straw man?
So what’s the answer? We can complain about people not doing what you want, but what do you suggest?
We could stop the money printing that debases salaries and encourages massive debt accumulation that eventually leads to collapse?
Imagine if you didn't need a raise and your wage went up with technological advancement and efficiency gains, where your employer had to cut your salary every year for inflation adjustment.
But my capitalist indoctrination said that not shoveling cash at the wealthy is what caused the Great Depression! Everybody knows that!
How else could we financialize everything, building a wall of debt in front of inelastic goods like housing, forcing people to take on a lifetime of debt so the rich can attain more wealth on the backs of the poor.
did you not look at the image?
Its not what I want, there is an effective way to protest and then theres these no kings echo chamber parades.
Genuine question - what makes the No Kings protests ineffective (and not in a sense of "this won't overthrow the oligarchy" but in a sense of "this doesn't help at all"?)
They have no demands or consequences laid out if those demands are not met, they have no clearly outlined goals or mission. A 3 hour event every few months isn't inconveniencing any of the power structure or a threat to the status quo. Their ridiculously proposed 1 day general strike on May 1 will do nothing either as people will shift their purchases to another day. Anything other than a prolonged protest and general strike, with clear demands and goals, nothing will be accomplished.
It's a pressure release value to prevent an actual uprising
I don't know, calling for a general strike on May 1 seems pretty big.
The fact they only happen a couple times a year for a single day and only on weekends makes them pretty damn ineffective.
I mean, being ineffective is the default. Something needs to be somehow exceptional to be effective (or we wouldn't need to do anything at all). It's like medicine; when someone suggests a treatment to a disease we expect them to prove that it works before we debate its usefulness. So in that vein, what kind of effect should we expect the sixth round of No Kings to have?
Same as every other round: getting people who are vocally against the situation together in one place so they can connect. The protest isn't the end goal, the protest is a networking opportunity.
Okay there are three problems with this:
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It's not being sold as that; it's being sold as actual resistance against the Trump regime.
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There's a fundamental limit on the effectiveness of this, since there's a limited number of people who are vocally against the situation and willing to do something about it. One would expect this limit to be reached by the fifth time, meaning the time is ripe for a change in strategy.
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When are we going to see the effects of the last five rounds? For the most part the level of resistance has stayed the same for the last 9 or so months outside of maybe Minneapolis, and the determining factor was ICE presence more than anything else. There's just no evidence that No Kings has really done anything.
They are effective in hijacking and sheepdogging.
Make sure they can vent and sublimate their anger in a non-threathening way by having their Sunday walks with edgy signs.
And mostly that they do nothing else and wait only a few years when they can finally have their crushing revenge by voting for the next 'leftist' corporate dem.
Surely this time it will be different.
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Says who? Your interpretation of it as such is your own business. And even if it were "sold" as such, that does not diminish the real value of networking.
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Says who? Each event is a new opportunity for new people to join, it's a new opportunity for repeat attendees to meet even more of each other.
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I personally know several people who have become more involved in various direct action groups as an immediate consequence of going to these rallies. Just because you personally aren't seeing the result doesn't mean it isn't happening.