Bernie Sanders and AOC Rallies Are Pissing Off Elon Musk - The two Democrats are drawing huge crowds on the “Fight Oligarchy” tour. And it’s making Republicans nervous.
Fuck Elon Musk. May be overdose on ketamine and never wake up.
And it’s making Republicans nervous.
Doubt.
I must reluctantly agree. Replace “nervous” with “annoyed” and you’ve got a more accurate headline.
Seems more designed to make democrats nervous... (And rightfully so - stop letting the rich pilfer our democracy)
I should fucking hope so, because if shit keeps going like it is Elon’s gonna find his head being swiftly removed from his body before long.
Why would these rallies piss of Elon? The rallies are:
Shit I can't remember: which made up theory is the GOP going with today?
They’re such techfasch gooners they claim to have evidence that the crowds were overestimated because “GPS shows that there were closer to 20,000 people there”
Ok first off, that still huge
Second off how the fuck you get those numbers? No way you have access to even the government tracking data on that, let alone private companies.
EXCEPT…Twitter. Which, in case you haven’t noticed, many people have stopped using and deleted the app from their phones!
This motherfucker tanked his user base and then didn’t even remember that he can’t see literally every phone in the country.
Bernie is not a democrat though.
It's making no one nervous
To quote @QueerSatanic on Mastodon:
Bernie Sanders and AOC are kettling the current protest movement back inside electoralism and the Democratic Party, and the results are going to be disastrous
what we want out of the Democratic Party is something it is not and will never be: an entity that collects votes downstream from organizing people and providing for their needs by redistributing resources to those who come in asking for them and even more than that, connects people with one another to solve problems for themselves directly without need for intermediary
if every Bernie Sanders and AOC rally were centered around, "This is a crisis, and you need to be bringing democracy to every aspect of your lives right now: while you are standing here, text five of your neighbors, five of your co-workers, five of your family members or close friends, and introduce yourself to five people here, and then organize your workplace, organize your neighborhood, and organize your personal connections. If you can't do that, think about why you can't, and get to work. The next time we visit, be able to talk to people in your life about what you need to be doing together to take care of one another and those who can't take care of themselves" — if every rally did that, there would be no complaints.
Instead, all that Democratic politicians can ever offer is a kettle toward electoralism, a siphon toward the promise of kinder bosses, and a sapping of all the strength we need right now to face the moment we're in
Watch for all the incoming threats that they are domestic terrorists and need to be locked up as they ramp up support and rally the masses together to a common goal.
The common goal is what's missing. I've seen MANY protest posters about every issue in the last 10ish years...not good. Too segregated. It needs to be narrowed down to just democracy. Many people don't like trans and won't support it, left or right. But they will support democracy. Not saying it's right or wrong, but it needs to be unified to draw the most support possible.
They literally put the common goal in the name: "fight oligarchy". This is the one thing everyone across the spectrum who are swayable seem to agree on.
This is such a strange way to refer to this. Do you mean trans rights? Trans people? "Trans" as a collective "it" doesn't make sense.
Frankly, you stating that you're "not saying it's right or wrong" seems to me to reveal your personal bias, especially when combined with this extremely bizarre wording. I don't think it's reflective of how most people see us. Generalized transphobia is a minority opinion. Solidarity in the face of oppression isn't.
Dividing us isn't going to work.
I just used trans as an example. Waset specifically trying to out any groups. I've just seen protest posters for trans, Tesla, freedom, constitution, gay rights, education, and basically everything that the current prick is trying to dismantle.
My point was more that the various posters/images for protest that I have seen, are dividing and could easily put people off depending on which one they have seen.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in for everyone's rights regardless of their beliefs, feelings, thoughts provided they are also inclusive of everyone. (Ie no Nazi bullshit..)
Will they though? The biggest lemmy instance are a bunch of anti-Democratic pro authoritarian tankies. Maybe these people are too terminally online to attend protests but I don't think we can just assume Democracy is some universal thing we can rally people behind. As they say, if Republicans can't win via democracy, they will simply abandon it.
I think people will support democracy.
That seems like a flaw in this reasoning. I don’t think the behavior of society as a whole can be extrapolated from the behavior of Lemmy users.
I would frankly be shocked to discover that instances like lemmy.ml aren't either mostly populated by bot-farm workers and state actors or by people who've been taken in by their rhetoric. They don't seem very representative of real people who aren't terminally online with an extremely niche perspective.