We need to swiftly transform No Kings from a Democratic Party spectacle to a grass roots resistance movement.

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    Isnt no kings specifically to under mine trump so democrats and retake power and the country doesn’t keep imploding? Why would you remove the political party from it, makes no sense.

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      There is a non-negligeable number of people convinced that all of the Democrat Platform are policies they don’t stand for. They think Obamacare was just Romneycare. Ideological puritans who would rather everyone abstain from participating elections than pick harm minimalization option.

      This ideology gets furtherd and promoted by foreign psyops who frequently post on DB0 and Lemmy ML, much in the same vein that Russian operations promoted Bernie Sanders on FaceBook after he had already lost the primary and asked people to vote for Hillary in the general.

      Basically everything is burning and some people think adding fuel is better than water.

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          11 hours ago

          Not watching Israel bombing Gaza was never on the table but the USA definitely had a choice between more death and less death, and it chose more.

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      That would be a good argument if the Democrats hadn’t paved the way for Trump. We need new politics and new systems.

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        And how do you suppose you get that without primarying incumbent and establishment dems with progressives? Which involves voting Dem and in Dem primaries.

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        The only people who paved the way for trump were the people who didnt vote against trump and the right wing media machine. There is no looking at the two platforms and think its a hard choice. If your values lean left the choice is easy.

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          11 hours ago

          Yeah because palestinians aren’t human. I’m a good white firstworlder. Nobody CARED about bombing civilians, why should it even matter?