cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/93776
We are building a massive, visible, national rejection of this crisis—and today’s numbers are proof that the people—the majority—are taking action to stop a hostile government takeover.
Because let’s be clear: We do not have a functioning democracy anymore. Trump and his billionaire allies have dismantled our system of checks and balances, stacked the courts, silenced dissent, and declared themselves above the law.
They are disappearing people, attacking universities and the free press, and purging agencies meant to protect the people—from the environment to civil rights to public health.
This is not politics as usual. This is a hostile takeover by billionaires, corporations, and authoritarian enablers.
They are gutting the country for parts—and selling us out in the process.
They are not leaders. They are traitors to the people of this country.
So we are building a People’s Movement. And history shows that when just 3.5% of the population engages in sustained, peaceful resistance—transformative change is inevitable.
But we have to earn it. And we have to fight for it.
We may no longer have a functioning democracy—but we still have a chance to restore it. The window is closing though. And we are the ones who must rise to meet this moment.
So here’s what you can do: 📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials—every single day.
🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.
🚫 Boycott the corporations funding this hostile takeover.
🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. Don’t let them sleep through this moment.
📸 Share protest footage, updates, and facts on social media. Amplify the truth—because the billionaires are trying to drown it out.
📲 And follow us to stay connected, get updates, and join future actions.
We are not alone. We are not powerless. And we are not backing down.
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Originally Posted By
u/FiftyFifty1MovementAt2025-04-05 07:56:36 PM| Source
If everyone at the protests went to Washington and ripped this fascist out of the White House we would be done with this mess.
The world is watching and seeing if America can rid itself of it’s Russian asset president and his coup.
Unless America can free itself then the world falls under Chinese control and then Dictator Xi owns the world.
Inb4 my tankie bot stalker Davel shows up to do his job.
I keep seeing this take from Lemmy keyboard warriors, and honestly it’s kind of frustrating. It’s like saying: If all the soccer moms and college students and retirees and other everyday people who spent their entire lives blissfully living in an ostensible democracy just skipped all the boring organizing and community building and radicalization and Overton window shifting… and just went straight to the violent revolution part, this would be all fixed right away.
Well, DUH. But that’s not how any of this works in the real world. Movements take time to build, and you’re doing a disservice to that movement building by trying to minimize these initial protest efforts.
we’ve been in “initial protest efforts” since the Reagan administration. I’ll not apologize for being slightly frustrated by the pace of things.
I don’t disagree at all with that, and honestly I share your frustration. But now the wheels of change are finally beginning to move… and it’s up to you whether you’re going to help push.
man, I’m pushing as hard as I can. There’s just not much gas left in the tank anymore.
I get that. I feel that. And I hope for your sake you find your fire before you need it.
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Not davel, but what’s this racism? You talk about China and Russia the same way Nazis talked about Judeo-Bolshevism
Because American Civil Religion doesn’t allow for the idea that America that large scale problems could be from domestic sources, so they have to be the result of foreign corruption.
It’s exactly like the Judeo-Bolshevism conspiracy.
I talk about dictators all the same.
You make excuses for dictators
Unless they’re American dictators, then you assume that they’re merely agents of sinister foreigners, rather than dictators in their own right.
Pretty sure the approval rate of Xi is an order of magnitude above that of Biden and higher than Trump’s. In American “democracy”, you get to choose who will enact genocide, welfare cuts, and mass imprisonment of “nonwhite” population.
When you are the only one whonis allowed to have a good approval rating, or be in power, that makes you a dictator
Xi is a dictator because all dissent and opposition is artificial or crushed
Sorry that you have a hard time processing reality
Real democracy is like in the EU, where for the past 30 years, you get to choose the colour of the party that applies neoliberal shock therapy and dismantling of the welfare state.
I’m Spanish. In my home country, a party rose against corruption in the name of the left wing, called “Podemos”. You know what happened? The state apparatus manufactured false evidence of funding from Venezuela and Iran, leaked this false information to journalists, and private media started a yearlong campaign of smearing of the party using false information, if you want to look it up, search for “caso Pablo Iglesias Sociedad Anónima”. They literally bought people from the Venezuelan opposition to create a false narrative that the party was corrupted by Venezuelan money.
So: don’t you fucking dare tell me to my face that European democracies are democracies and Chinese government has no opposition. In Europe we literally had the “Gladio operation” in which lost leftist leaders were LITERALLY MURDERED by intelligence agencies.
Yeah it’s pathetic that these are the things you have to tell yourself to accept a dictatorship
“Caring about Operation Gladio and the lack of democracy in your country means you love dictatorships”. It’s so obvious that you don’t actually care about democracy, you’re just a racist american/European supremacist who believes Chinese people are a hivemind that “are forced” to like their government
So then why do you instantly default to whataboutism if you don’t like it?
Or you just don’t like it when I do it?
Yeah keep making excuses to suck fascist cock