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TIL No Kings Protests were the 3rd Largest in US History
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Do you have any receipts for that "billionaire sponsored" claim?
Hardly a “claim.” They didn’t hide it. Their backers were listed right on many of their ads.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/walmart-ad-no-kings-boycott/
I 100% believe billionaires shouldn't exist, are a millstone on the neck of society and progress. I'd also support any action that would take care of the problem... But I don't think you link shows much more than a single deplorable person experiencing a twitch of morality.
What is more likely?: this billionaire is funding a nationwide rally against the president’s cut to benefits that directly contribute to her growing wealth, or this billionaire is doing this out of a sense of morality?
What was the call to action of this protest? What was the demand? Stop, and think it through.
It's got to be nice for some billionaire to donate what to them is pennies just to throw off any support from other semi-thoughtful idealogues and purity seekers.
Right there in the article it says that she's the heiress, and not on the board or involved with Walmart in any way besides her familial relation. If billionaires want to chip in for organizing and advertising protests, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. This is one of those moments in history where you take the support you can get and do your virtue testing bullshit after things are less dire.
You should absolutely look any horse in the mouth, if it’s a gift from a billionaire.
Not even one person can clearly state what the intended goal of this action was. That’s a huge red flag that should have you asking questions. Not asking why a billionaire is doing something is exactly how both Red & Blue MAGA have ended up on both sides of this fight, though no one on either side can clearly state what their side stands for.
The most common refrain I've seen from interviews with protestors is the desire for Trump to be impeached and face some semblance of the rule of law. If the billionaires want to help us make that happen, I'm happy to take their money and we can work on taxing the hell out of them when we're not fighting for the lives of every marginalized person in this country.
The fact that you think the fight for our lives only was an issue under Trump is exactly why you’re a worthless ally.
I am profoundly well aware of how marginalized people have been victimized for the entire duration of this country's existence. I work in medicine, and most of my experience has been in emergency medicine. I have more experience than I ever wanted to have with trying to save people from the maw of poverty and destitution and I have been involved in social services in one way or another since childhood. My life is one of the ones on the line if shit goes sideways enough, but that doesn't stop me from standing up to my superiors to fight for the rights and humanity of my patients, especially those who are members of marginalized groups that face more structural barriers to health than others.
I am not just an ally. My head's on the chopping block too, and your assumption to the contrary is insulting.
You may be useful, but you’re not a trusted ally. Your eagerness to join causes funded by billionaires, paired with your refusal to examine their motivations, make you a significant liability.
I'm not eager to join them, and she spent her money in a way that was impossible to refuse. Are you saying that everyone should have abandoned the planned protest as soon as she took out that ad? Are we supposed to throw hissy fits and cancel everything we try to do because someone that doesn't pass a purity test participates?
Unless you're out there interrogating every single protest attendee and refusing to participate in any political action that your "undesirables" are also participating in....you're just as much of a hypocrite as you are claiming that I am.
So you compromised your morals to ally with immoral people, and you can’t even articulate for what reason or what was accomplished by it? Christ, that’s sad.
I'm going to be honest, I've been speaking vicariously because I did not personally attend this protest. I wasn't able to make it due to some personal health issues, so I've been talking to you from the perspective of someone who supports the protest, but did not participate. I don't know what your problem is beyond being the kind of leftist that values purity tests over support, but I'm quite finished entertaining your notions of "debate" and wish you a good day.
You misunderstand. Genocide is not up for debate. This is like accusing someone of a purity test for not wanting fecal matter and their drinking water.
If you can’t even stand against genocide, you have absolutely no sense of right and wrong.
Where on earth did you get the idea that I do anything besides condemn genocide?
Can you even articulate with the protest was for? What were the actionable demands? What did it stand for?
Opposing genocide is a perfectly acceptable “purity test” that anyone should be able to pass. It’s just basic human decency.