Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵:
These protests are important b/c:
1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.
These rallies are full of people who are going to bake a plate of cookies and donate to a shelter while getting shitfaced when Trump dies
This photo is fake.
Many people have pointed it out in the replies but the person running this account just keeps hiding the replies.
Block this account.
Dr. Lisa Corrigan
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Kevin M. Kruse
The NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of “hitting a number” and asks if No Kings will be “a primal scream that fades into a whimper.”
F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)
and we’re stuck with her for another four years.
I cannot stress enough how these are PTA moms and soccer coach dads and I can best describe the vibe as “festively bloodthirsty”
Large traditional software companies are excited to fire their engineers and replace them with AI. You can be excited to fire the software companies and replace them with AI. Their engineers can use AI to replace the large traditional software companies.
