“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain

The population is, sure. The important thing to remember is that a violent resistance will always be smaller than a peaceful one, and the current size of our peaceful resistance is too small for a violent resistance to succeed.

Refusing to walk into a trap set by the dumbest president in the history of the United States is not cowardice. It’s strategy.

Cool. Our largest nationwide protest was ~11M, most of whom were elderly. So you agree we need to grow our numbers.

Small factions of violence have historically proven to reduce resistance numbers and justify the implementation of assembly-restricting legislation.

https://tedxboulder.com/speakers/erica-chenoweth

Did you see them laughing while voting down the Democrats’ amendments? Straight up sociopathic.

I guarantee she has a nice cushy lobbyist position lined up for Big Oil after pushing that bill through. She could give two shits about reelection with that fallback.

We need to grow our numbers! The only way we can do that is with continued non-violent organized protest. Violence will only reduce our numbers and suppress our resistance.

Erica Chenoweth has a very well researched presentation on the success of non-violent resistance overthrowing dictatorships with only 3.5% of the population. I highly recommend it.

Come out today for the Free America protest! We also have the Good Trouble Lives On protest on July 17th.

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It’s a great way to get arrested or killed, scare people away from resistance for fear of their safety, and embolden fascism by turning a constitutionally protected peaceful resistance into a domestic threat.

How many people with guns do you estimate it takes to overthrow the largest military in the world by force?

We need to grow our numbers! The only way we can do that is with continued non-violent organized protest. Violence will only reduce our numbers and suppress our resistance.

Erica Chenoweth has a very well researched presentation on the success of non-violent resistance overthrowing dictatorships with only 3.5% of the population. I highly recommend it.

Come out today for the Free America protest! We also have the Good Trouble Lives On protest on July 17th.

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The shortage is artificial. You’d know that if you read the links you requested and then downvoted without reading.

Private equity bought excessive amounts of properties while interest rates were low during covid. They’re sitting on the properties to keep value high while slowly selling them off.

That’s the whole reason Abbott and DeSantis proposed getting rid of property taxes and increasing state income tax. Then private equity could sit on those properties indefinitely.

As of last count in January 2024, there were 771,480 unhoused people in the US. Blackstone alone owns more than 300,000 residencies.

Nationwide there are 16 million vacant homes — that’s 28 vacant homes for every unhoused person.

https://ips-dc.org/report-billionaire-blowback-on-housing/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/wall-street-buying-houses

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/10/22/report-billionaire-investors-driving-homelessness-housing-costs/

Fortunately, we don’t need to build any new homes at all. We just need to repossess all vacant homes owned by private equity and distribute them among the unhoused. Easy peasy.

Nah. He was convicted of the state charges. That’s my point. He did not use immunity in that case. Therefore, “official acts” have yet to be defined by a judge.

He could be charged by the state as POTUS, and the state judge would determine of the acts that defined the criminal activity were “official acts.”

They absolutely do. That happens as soon as we start voting in primaries.

Word on the street is that the Majority Whip offered merch signed by Trump for their votes.

https://newrepublic.com/post/197596/trump-won-house-republican-budget-holdouts-free-merch

Nah. I’ve been left of the Democrats since the 90s, but I’ve always been very engaged in politics. Protesting, volunteering for elections, occasional stumping…

I loudly support good actions on Lemmy, because users always seem happy to provide the criticism. There’s no such thing as a good or bad person, just good and bad actions. This was a good action, that I believe warranted recognition.

Keep finding reasons to hate on good actions by Democrats. This post is about Jeffries doing what he can to bring attention to the vote with the little control he has.

You’re the shmuck making it about the NYS mayoral race, and it’s not even your city. The Dems deserve plenty of criticism. It’s childish to shoehorn it into every post.

If you must talk about Jeffries representing his constituents, you should be informed. His district (NY-8, East Brooklyn) voted overwhelmingly for Cuomo. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/24/us/elections/nyc-mayor-primary-results-precinct-map.html

I get it. You don’t understand NY. You don’t have to repeat yourself.

People who know nothing about his platform are already saying they love how much he’s pissing off Trump. That’s the endorsement he needs to win.

That’s not even the point of this post. Why is this even such a concern to you? You’re clearly not a New Yorker, or you’d know that solidarity fighting Trump is about the best endorsement he’s gonna get. The more Trump attacks him, the better he’ll do in the general. It’s as simple as that.