You attempt to use one of the instruments of your oppression against the system that wields it. That was never going to work.
There were protests all over my city yesterday and I can find barely any coverage. I even looked at Reddit, which was flooded with No Kings pictures back in March, and there was barely anything for the events yesterday. Definitely sus as hell.
This is why protest has to be disruptive. A bunch of people holding funny signs in a park on a Saturday afternoon doesn’t have an impact.
I hate to say it, but yeah. Look @ France. They fuck shit up whenever the government tries to fuck with them, and have a higher standard of living as a result.
Their economy is on the verge of collapse because of this. They borrowed a lot of money to create that high standard of living and “fuck shit up” means someone has to pay to fix things later which also cost money.
Sure it does. People build networks at these events. One of the tactics of fascism is to make dissenters feel they are alone and maybe crazy for feeling the way they do. These events tell people that they are not alone, and it is actually the authoritarians that are crazy, not them.
For a non-violent resistance campaign to succeed, you need to build up the numbers and reach a threshold of people working together to impede the actions of the authoritarians. You don’t accomplish this by engaging in violent actions, that just scares people away and gives justification for the authoritarians to do violent reprisals. Violent acts actually help the authoritarians gain more power, non-violent resistance drains their power.
I never said protest should he violent. I said it should he disruptive. Violence =/= civil disobedience.
It connects people with like minded people who also decided to show up so from a networking and community building perspective it’s not worthless. Lots of people meet the contacts that will later recruit them to knock on doors or phone bank or run for office in the future who would never show up to a town meeting or city council meeting.
This is the first I’m hearing about it. There was a NoKings protest yesterday?
Check the website: www.nokings.org
I love this image from San Francisco:
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Can absolutely confirm. I’m not American so I get most of my news through, well, news and while I’ve seen people alluding to the protests I’m only getting a fraction of a fraction of the information I was getting in March.
They’re not the only ones.
Reddit stole the r/NoKings subreddit and has locked it out. They claim it’s up for adoption as of 5-months-ago but will of course never cede it to the organizers of No King’s.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN etc., have barely mentioned it, and it doesn’t remotely come up in Google News save for a sparse few pages of local news stories.
The only good news from representing my area is that while the protest was half the size of past ones, general support from people on the road was much higher with much less dissent.
Reddit is fully up MAGA ass. sPutz is a wannabe Musk so Reddit-anything is going to side with the nazis.
Yanis Varoufakis is right, we are heading into technofeudalism.
You demand answers? The answer is pretty obvious: Zuck wants there to be a king.
Nah, Zuck wants to be the Court Jester.
Maybe. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t want a king.
Mark is not someone who particularly enjoys travel or, in fact, people. And I know he’s hoping to have another baby in 2017, so this doesn’t make any sense as a personal challenge. “Are there any states in particular you want to go to?” I ask tentatively. “Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania.” Ugh. The traditional stops for presidential candidates.
- Careless People
Yeah, anyone surprised the empire strikes back? Come on the Brain rit app is gonna get political
Meta is a national security threat.
Oligarchs are a global security threat and must be met with extreme prejudice.
They are the new colonizers. We are the new colonists from which labor and wealth are now extracted through organized deceit, coercion, and sooner or later, force.
Well, the obvious answer is that he’s a fascist oligarch that controls media outlets so…
I would have thought the answers would be self-evident.
Meta/Facebook has literally had political dissidents killed in other countries. Do not think they will hesitate to do the same in their own. Specifically, they gave up GPS/location information on dissidents trying to work together against the government. They were killed. Facebook knew exactly what would happen to them and could have told the dictator to pound sand, but then they might not be allowed to operate there.
Don’t use popular social media like Facebook, X, Reddit, or Discord for any kind of protest. They will always bend the knee to the ‘kings’ you’re protesting against. Every fucken time.
This is the very least shocking thing about Tech Bros. I remember laughing right in the face of someone that told me they had to be on Parler because “Big Tech” was so liberal that they kept canceling conservatives and shadow banning them, etc.
I asked what kinds of “conservative” things they were posting on “Big Tech” that supposedly resulted in that?
Why wouldn’t they, Suckerberg already bent the knee and kissed the ring. This was an investment by him and these rallies are reducing the value of his investment so he is doing all in his power to slow them down. This has been the identical behaviour of large corporations since world word II when they saluted Nazis because they thought Nazis were going to win.
The best answer is to reduce/stop your usage of websites like facebook and shitter. Yeah I know there is still whatsapp, instagram, google services, android phones etc etc And as they acquire more and more of social media, it becomes hard for a particular individual to completely get off the services these companies provide. But you can pick your battles and atleast remove those which are not really essential to your day to day life.
Suckerberg already bent the knee and kissed the ring
Facebook has always served right wing agendas. long before trump ever came around.
conservatives have always gotten the soft hand, while any liberal rule breakers have gotten the iron fist.
and the reason is simple.
Conservatives are idiots. They click all the links, they watch all the ads, and they generate magnitudes more money than liberals with their adblockers and their inability to believe every bullshit propaganda fad.
I’d wager if they thought they’d get away with it, they’d just straight up ban anyone thats not a die hard conservative, not for any political agenda, but for the pure monetary exploitation.
I think this time is different though. Previously it was working in concert with people who tried to keep the atrocities behind the curtains and pretended to slap facebook on the wrist when they bent the rules. So everything was somewhat concealed in a facade of a justice system that seemed to care. And tech companies played their part by pretending to care. That did slow things down for tech oligarchs to some extent. They had to navigate their way through the justice system to make sure they still didn’t end up in a legal tangle.
Now Trump comes, he openly expresses the fact he doesn’t give a single shit about any kind of law and is intent on ruling the country like a thug and distort the law for this purpose too. He gives a mandate to every tech company “support me and you can run rampant without even pretending to care about the law, or don’t and perish because I will use the said law to completely destroy you”. And as none of us were surprised when every big tech kissed the ring because this was their wet dream.
yeah, it was their wet dream because pandering to conservatism has always been a money maker. Its why every social media ever has always given wristslaps to conservatives for major rule violations, while liberal users get bans for minor infractions.
Cause conservatives as their bread and butter money makers. Always have been, Always will be. Nothing has changed except for how openly they parade their preferential treatment.
A mere blip. You don’t think the whole “No Kings” folks are stupid enough to just rely on Facebook, do you? Only trump and his minions would be that stupid, but they’re stupid for truth social and old twitter.
I didn’t hear anything about these protests. Not even on Lemmy. But I don’t use Facebook products nor reddit, so my information sources are a little spotty.
Meta appeared to take down a social media account
Meta didn’t “appear” to take down the social media account, Meta took down the social media account.
It’s not magic.
You see the same thing here, on Reddit, in forums, they always convince themselves that they’re doing the “right thing” whilst doing the wrong thing.
I’m guessing that opponents of “No Kings” mass reported.
A good post/group should piss people off. But mobs gonna mob so mods gonna mod
Fediverse for freedom!
Meta platforms has 4 billion active users worldwide. That is an insane amount of power in the hands of one person.
4 billion accounts. The active ones aren’t 100% of those accounts. And of that %, many are bots. A real statistic would be Meta’s end.
