r/TrueAnon • u/TrevorsBlondeLocks16 • 20h ago
Hey, member when we did this like, 6-7 years ago?
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u/Tarvag_means_what 20h ago
Literally just go to a protest lol. They don't accomplish anything but you can find the coolest people there and link up with them for future stuff. Anyway it's good to actually be out with people who are all mad about shit, helps encourage people and it's good for the soul.
You may accuse me of being a lib now.
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u/NomadicScribe 19h ago
Honestly, it's one of the few social venues where you don't have to spend money.
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u/Tarvag_means_what 19h ago
And you can yell at cops
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u/DitkoManiac SICKO HUNTER 👁🎯👁 1h ago edited 50m ago
If it's a lib protest, they're probably yelling "thank you for your service!"
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u/StunningRestaurant40 19h ago
Too many neo-liberals in my classical liberalism subreddit.
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u/HarryMarx1312 JFK Assassination Expert 16h ago
I thought this was a neo-classical liberalism subreddit?
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u/Epicbaconsir KEEP DOWNVOTING, I'M RELOADING 19h ago
Yep, was out recruiting for my org at one of these in a major city today and got some great leads from people that just didn’t even know anything besides the democrats existed
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u/hacky_potter 19h ago
Going to a protest is much better than being a defeatist asshole who just complains online and accepts shit as it rolls downhill.
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u/StunningRestaurant40 19h ago
Yeah if OP isn’t arming midwestern maoist militias (he mentioned being from there) then I don’t want to hear him bitching. Anything else he could be doing is equal to these protests in its impact. (OP if you are about to lead a peasants revolt then carry on)
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u/AdviceAdam Software CEO Rachel Jake 18h ago
This will actually harm the left. He needs to be arming midwestern Marxist-Leninist militias.
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u/TrevorsBlondeLocks16 17h ago
We will march into battle with our packer cheese heads displayed proudly
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u/I_madeusay_underwear 13h ago
I’ve been considering moving up there from nebraska and as I’ve looked at different cities, I’ve become increasingly excited by how many cheese houses, houses of cheese, and sausage stores I’ve noticed. You guys seem ok
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u/Gay_-_Balls-Revenge - Q 18h ago
Ultimately they both accomplish the same thing
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u/hacky_potter 18h ago
Wrong. Doing something IRL allows you to meet people. Online juts rots your brain
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u/JFCGoOutside 19h ago
I'm glad they're motivated, even if they come to the same, wrong conclusions. But I think a considerable portion watching their party completely roll over is finally making people realize this political system is shit. If Dems were even pretending to fight back, they might not be out there.
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u/Tarvag_means_what 19h ago
That's true to an extent. The one I was at, the mood seemed a lot more antagonistic than, say, ones in 2016.
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u/JFCGoOutside 18h ago
After 2016, Dems seemed more ready to fight, at least initially, but even that fizzled out. They had Russiagate and Mueller She Wrote to keep them hopeful for the frog march out of the White House. Where's my Lev Parnas and Colonel Vindman?
They clearly see that none of that is happening this time, and even if a small portion realizes that it's the system that's the problem, it's a positive result. The 'shoulda voted harder' crowd will probably never learn.
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u/I_madeusay_underwear 13h ago
I’ve seen a lot of people from smaller red cities saying they were surprised by how many showed up and the general reaction from people driving by and stuff. I think that’s helpful to reduce the hopeless isolation feeling you can get as someone in an area like that or especially red state rural areas
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u/Tarvag_means_what 12h ago
I certainly was. We got some good cheers from a lotta guys in trucks and a big horn from an 18 wheeler cattle pot.
People are mad as hell right now, lot of ranchers I know are furious about this shit.
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u/sekoku 🔻ENEMY TECHNICAL SPOTTED🔻 19h ago
They don't accomplish anything
That's OP's point.
I mean you're also correct that going and meeting people is good, but to a lot of liberals (even on NuTwitter [formerly: Blue Sky]) people are going "OMG the protest numbers are many, take that #OrangeManBad!" as if they're doing something. It's misguided and just a safety valve for liberals that think yelling will correct the party that isn't doing something.
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u/TrevorsBlondeLocks16 19h ago
I mean, I support the people doing it. I know plenty of liberals and many of them are misguided but have much better intentions than any bleach drinking MAGA ghoul, but the post was mainly just “wow, weve just come full circle”
This country is the dumbest in the world by a fuckin mile. I hope liberal voters actually get radicalized this time, because the Dem party just feels more and more like controlled opposition each and every fucking day
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u/NomadicScribe 18h ago
Dem party just feels more and more like controlled opposition each and every fucking day
Always has been.
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u/Tarvag_means_what 19h ago
That is absolutely true. They're a start, not much more than that.
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u/CandyEverybodyWentz Resident Acid Casualty 19h ago
People also really want to do what they've seen the online right-wing mob do for the past 15 years and change, and that is to just simply say someone should rid us collectively of some very meddlesome priests. Sometimes with signs!
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u/Sad-Masterpiece8749 RUSSIAN. BOT. 19h ago
They're not even really a start when 90% of people go out, attend one protest with a "That hair is a Horcrux" sign and then go home until 2028 and wind up baffled why the Democrat didn't win. They stood on the sidewalk for hours that one time, what happened?!
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u/darwinpolice 18h ago
I know protests don't directly fix problems, but I am so fucking tired of doomer ass losers shit talking them while personally doing nothing but posting.
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u/jbrownks 17h ago
Same. It’s something I’ve been guilty of in the past and it’s really counterproductive.
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u/Sad-Masterpiece8749 RUSSIAN. BOT. 18h ago
Is there a way that you have managed to extract the fact that these people are "personally doing nothing"? Because as someone who stopped going to these when I realized that 90% of the attendees will call the cops on you if you do anything remotely suspect or antagonistic, I prefer to just organize on my own with local groups and avoid these things unless they're coordinated by an activist group and not just some random flyer on Instagram.
I guess it's a lot easier to just assume people who have watched these types of protests accomplish absolutely fuck all in the last 3+ decades have given up, but I mean... that's not really the case for a lot of people I've met through organizing. They just don't show up to every random "Save NATO" protest.
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u/Ok-Geologist8296 Completely Insane 12h ago
50501 has done nothing to encourage me to be OK with joining them in anything past the topic at hand. I will not attend any "event" they "sponsor".
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u/Still-Reference-1967 20h ago
GO TALK TO THEM!!! They can't telepathically become communists
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u/brendannnnnn 12h ago
I’ve tried talking to these folks and it’s totally fruitless.
And yes, I do more than post online about it.
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u/ruined-symmetry 20h ago
They’re never gonna be able to lib it up like that Portland protest that was posted here the other week
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u/FiggyTheTurtle 20h ago
Which one? From Trump 1? I might have been there lmao if it was a BLM one at least.
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u/ruined-symmetry 20h ago
My understanding was that this was a recent thing
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u/FiggyTheTurtle 19h ago
Oh gotcha yeah there are some very embarrassing “no kings” protests going on in Portland today for sure
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u/Champigne 19h ago
Better than whining online.
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u/TrevorsBlondeLocks16 18h ago
The point of the post actually got lost but whatever
More so a “wow, we’re back here yet again” than a “get a load of these libs”
Oh well
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u/Significant_Exam274 Software CEO Rachel Jake 18h ago
It’s okay everybody just woke up AND THEY ALL SLEPT OK THEIR LEFT ARM OR RIGHT CHEEK
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u/rcfan155 20h ago
Bro go touch grass
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u/TrevorsBlondeLocks16 19h ago
Its still cold in the midwest, dont have to mow just yet
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u/badeyesnotherapy 18h ago
I just walked by one of these and it was all "Trump is a Russian asset" and literally not a single sign about ICE or Gaza. I literally saw a NATO support sign. I'm with OP
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u/jbrownks 17h ago edited 16h ago
I saw those signs too but I also saw signs about DHS, Palestine, Due Process, and Campus Protestors rights. Mileage will vary. We also had local organized labor speaking and spreading messages of solidarity.
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u/badeyesnotherapy 16h ago
True, I think I was being a lil unfair and emotional... my experience only reflects the fact that I'm currently passing through a small southern city so most of the protestors I saw were probably just nice moms and college kids. I don't mean to condemn them 🥹
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u/brendannnnnn 12h ago edited 12h ago
Yeah this feels like the sub is being brigaded by libs ironically calling lib shit lib shit. These folks at the protest here are just there to defend American imperialism and their desire to make America great again but with a democrat.
Maybe we will get a few unawoken communists filtered out at the end of the day from these but since the average age here is one hundred probably not.
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u/No-Translator9234 10h ago
I showed up with a gaza sign and got no blowback and some positive remarks. Its a mixed bag. There were a lot of lgbt signs in the one in my small town so thats pretty good
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u/onlyahobochangba 20h ago
UGHHHHH LIBS AMIRIGHT FOLKS!?!
LIBS LIBS LIBS LIBERALS LIBS LIBS LIBERALS UGHHHHHHH EWWWW
IM SOO MUCH COOLER THAN THESE FILTHY LIBS RIGHT FOLKS?!? (please upvote)
FOOLS! WHY CANT THEY BE AN ENLIGHTENED AND BASED LEFTIST POSTER LIKE MYSELF?!?
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u/crimethunc77 20h ago
Yeah 90% of this sub is people pretending to be a liberal to own the libs. I cannot stress this enough, folks who are going through their inwokening via the podcast and found their way here, go outside and meet actual leftist activists who are organizing and doing shit. I swear to god some leftist spaces feel like 2010s Sam Harris atheist spaces as far as how insufferable they can be. (Also i did upvote you, don't know what that means about me)
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u/TrevorsBlondeLocks16 19h ago
I can see how its taken as that.
Its more frustrating that we are having to do it again is the point of the post.
This is not the “get a load of these libs” post normally here. More like “wtf we were literally here like 6 years ago this country is retarded”
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u/invaluableimp 17h ago
Fedposting activated
Actually this is lame and lib. We shouldn’t go to protests with stupid libs like this
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u/dropacidnotbombs45 12h ago
Damn my family is in this picture, shout-out to my mom for making it on r/trueanon
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u/ultra-nilist2 16h ago
I saw a bunch of boomer white ladies flying “We love our immigrant neighbors” signs a few weeks ago in a deep red city in Texas a few weeks ago. They’re doing more than me.
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u/ChallengingBullfrog8 17h ago
Remember how effective it was? Those signs pierced ICE agents’ souls and we all got together and did a Coca Cola commercial afterwards.
Except this time Coca Cola will decide it isn’t worth their time as we are now truly a third world country with a worn gucci belt.
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u/Ok-Geologist8296 Completely Insane 12h ago
These folks, per 50501, said no one has done anything in years. 90% of em weren't even sentient humans in my heyday. I no longer am at protests, but I do a lot of 1:1 outreach in my community and have for close to 20 years. Working as a nurse in acute psych is also horribly draining, too.
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u/KingTeddie 18h ago
I'm kind of done with protests but it is nice to see this amount of solidarity and energy pushed out. People have to start somewhere.
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u/Impossible_Bit7169 19h ago
Guys this and voting for the lesser of two evils will fix it… trust
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u/mindblasters 19h ago
Yes instead of doing that they should just follow your lead and post instead
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u/Impossible_Bit7169 19h ago
Hey it worked 6-7 years ago it will work now my dude.
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u/mindblasters 18h ago
Terminal case of cynicism, i hope you are doing good for the world
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u/Any_Pilot6455 4h ago
I have a chronic case of "does literally nobody understand what a protest is for?" Protests are a non-violent way to demonstrate a group's capacity for violence. The point is to communicate "look, we could really fuck you up, negotiate with our representatives or else." That is what a protest is for, if you have any interest in getting something for the people who the protest is supposedly for. How effective are these protests towards that end? Just because you call something a protest, it doesn't mean it is one lol
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u/Impossible_Bit7169 2h ago
Agreed. This is literally a parade of cosplayers nothing more nothing less
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u/rirski 17h ago
I never understand you guys sitting on Reddit complaining about people protesting.
“It’s not effective.” SO WHAT? They’re getting outside and maybe even meeting people/ building community. It’s a free social activity instead of sitting around on a Saturday like myself.
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u/TrevorsBlondeLocks16 17h ago
As I said before this is not an anti protest post
But disappointed by all the comments “agreeing” with me while misunderstanding
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u/ThatguyJimmy117 16h ago
We need numbers at protests, even if they’re cringe normies
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u/FineArtRevolutions 13h ago
Do we? What do numbers accomplish?
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u/Dangerous-Drag-9578 11h ago
Nothing on their own. I can't believe we have to relitigate this over and over and over even after the Floyd protests/uprising. I was out in the streets with thousands, every day for weeks, they went on for months, much more willing to push things than what we see now, some people did, and it got us absolutely nothing.
There is this pathetic allergy to reckoning with reality, "oh but if you think this is pointless then what's your bright idea". I don't have one, no one seems to, but we have seen again and again that this isn't it, it doesn't lead to anything. There is not an organized left and it isn't going to magic itself into existence through amalgamating liberals at sign waving protests.
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u/FineArtRevolutions 10h ago
Exactly. We need to reckon with reality. Going through the motions of past non-violent marches is not what our moment demands.
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u/buggcup KEEP DOWNVOTING, I'M RELOADING 14h ago
I met so many libs at mine today. If you can't table and talk to cringe-ass libs, you're weak. Not all activism is cool. (ETA not dissing you OP, you're a real one)
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u/Ok-Geologist8296 Completely Insane 12h ago
How has the vibes be for the ones local to you? I had only tuned into my hometown's group and they just are very disjointed and won't take advice from anyone because they are "decentralized". I stopped trying to help them very early on because I just got harassed by the "organizers".
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u/buggcup KEEP DOWNVOTING, I'M RELOADING 10h ago
That sucks but doesn't surprise me. Mine was run by someone I met years ago doing abortion clinic defense so even though she's a boomer, she does actually regularly do shit. I'm in Florida and the vibe was good. I met lots of people who had never been to a political action or protest before and spoke to lots of young people who were essentially suicidal before they started getting involved bc it's an awful to state to be queer or have a conscience in. I can confidently say there was meaningful impact in my community that will extend past one day of chants and listening to speeches.
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u/Ok-Geologist8296 Completely Insane 8h ago
I'm happy they we're able to find somewhere to belong in such a wretched part of this world. Florida is a hard start to get people moving and to keep up.
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u/Any_Pilot6455 4h ago
Speaking into cufflink mic "Yeah, we've got a live one, he's trying to organize and making plans for events after we wrap this up. Can I get some backup to come walk him off?"
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u/Any_Pilot6455 4h ago
I can't believe I let another opportunity to feel better than the victims of my commitment to bourgeois dictatorship slip through my fingers! And Dave posted his really clever sign and got so many likes! I bet he gets pussy off that sign, no fair :(
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u/Notleontrotsky 13h ago
Maybe part of where we come in (inb4 fed) is to radicalize these adjacent members towards a more actual coalition. Like you can look at these people as dumb, but if we aren't radicalizing them, who does that make us?
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u/ShoegazeJezza 2h ago
Bro, let’s be for real- 99.99% of leftist “organizing” in America is literally just doing this but your signs have “Party for Socialism and Liberation” on the bottom instead of “DrumpfisPutin.com” or whatever.
This isn’t meant as a criticism by the way. Calling protest “ineffective” is a lazy criticism.
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u/Ak12120314 10h ago
nothing more pathetic than being a leftist whos “too cool to protest” even if it is for “lib” shit
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u/bigpadQ Cocaine Cowboy 20h ago
At least they're getting out of the house