Great, these enduring protests need more exposure. Congratulations to everyone who is participating, they are doing their part to stop the madness.

Highest estimate for no kings was 5 million, which is 1.6%. So accounting for infants and the sick I find that to be a reasonable estimate.

That is at the very least true in many cases. I hope Americans can overcome it.

I wish you the best of luck.

Then you don’t know what 10% looks like.

It seems like you want the entire country to openly go into civil war

And what in my comments makes you think that? Problem is that allegedly Trump is already using the national guard now to stop protests around the White house.
While he prevented them when he tried to make a coup when he lost last time.
Trump is a traitor, and he wants to end democracy, but maybe you don’t understand that?

There is only so much one person can do, and I absolutely do not blame those Americans that actually voted against Trump, and those who are actively protesting.
It’s the remaining 90+% that are the problem.
At least the majority seems to be voting Democrat now, but it’s far from a sure thing there will be another presidential election.

PS:
I have no idea why you got a downvote?

It was an attempt at a joke.

They also don’t have access to quality European cars without steep tariffs.
The US market is massively favoring American cars. Meaning they can only have shitty expensive American cars.
I just bought a used 4 year old VW ID.4 with 120.000 km (75.000 miles) on it, not a squeak to hear when I drive it. with Tesla they make noises already when delivered new from the factory!! At least the ones we get in Denmark do.

It doesn’t matter where you are in the world right now, there are efforts being made to bring fascism there.

Oh yes, that threat is becoming more and more real, but the propaganda is originating from Russia and succeeded in USA, and USA is where it needs to be stopped, because it can still be stopped by democratic means. And because it is the American efforts that are more likely to succeed in EU.
But we should absolutely do to Russia what they’ve been doing to EU, UK, USA to amputate the west and NATO. But hopefully the sanctions from Ukraine on Russia will be working soon. So the Russian federation will collapse like the Soviet Union did.

I don’t think The Trump and his gang of trillionaires will succeed in EU, but you are 100% right that we need to be careful.
But it would be sad if we lose USA entirely to this Russian bullshit, and it’s weird why so many of the richest people in USA are so willing to give up their own country?
Trump, Vance, Thiel, Musk, Ellis, Zuckerberg are all literally traitors to USA, humanity, democracy and decency.
I would love to see the American population take them all down.

I suppose the condensing water vapor forming water crystals after a plane is a chemical too. So I guess the chemtrails are sort of real, but it is just water, and it’s completely harmless.
The correct name for the phenomenon is contrails. Which unfortunately contains con as the lead of the word, so that’s probably not helpful either.
The cause is hot air ejected from the jet engine creates water vapor, that is quickly cooled down at the low temperatures at high altitudes, this forms ice crystals that create the characteristic white trails after jet planes.
This is a result of physics, and it makes no sense to try to ban that, because physical laws of nature supersede human law every time.

Yes, they are about half way there. There are still legal options to oppose the administration.

t feels like the No Kings protests maybe weren’t reported in your area

Based on Wikipedia I just wrote a comment attributing no kings 5 mullion as is the highest estimate, which is 1.6% or maybe 2% if you discount children and the sick.

But still as I wrote earlier, compare that single day event to the noise generated by the Occupy Wall Street demonstration that lasted for 59 days!
The situation is worse now than it was then, but for some reason people are doing less?

But it’s nice to hear that more is done than I thought. I hope it grows further.
If a turnout of 10% can be reached, there is no federal force big enough to stop that!

Even peacefully protesting certain subjects is becoming dangerous.

So maybe you should all have started earlier? It’s not like this development was hard to spot already a few days into this administration.

Edit:
Wow the amount of butthurt people here who can’t stand to hear the truth is insane! 🤣
It’s not like it’s something I’m saying in hindsight, feel free to go back in my history and see what I wrote around the time Trump was inaugurated!
I predicted exactly that nothing would happen, because a majority of the American people was actually OK with the shit Trump was about to pull. Or at least OK/stupid enough to not be likely to do anything about it.
Every expert worth his/her salt warned before Trump was elected, that this second time would be way worse than the first, because the reigns are off. And that’s EXACTLY what we see now. Including destroying affordable healthcare which was VERY CLEARLY warned about that he would!!!
Don’t try to claim you didn’t know already back in the beginning of the year. Because if you didn’t, it’s only because you kept yourself willingly ignorant.

Yes because people are sent to prison for protesting, and in American prisons you die of polonium poisoning after a few months. /s
Talk about a moronic straw man!!

I already mentioned no kings, it was a one time event, and nothing was done to follow up on it. It was a good effort, but it didn’t have the result of creating a movement to continue the fight.
Try to compare with Occupy Wall Street, that lasted for 59 days, in a situation less critical than the current situation!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

Suggestions aren’t necessary, the will to make an effort is what is lacking, not opportunities to oppose the administration.
Read my other posts for suggestions, and the obvious simple explanation of how grassroots movements work.

Oh for fucks sake, I’m not talking individuals here. You are making a strawman argument.
You need to seek out others who also want to do something, and there is plenty of opportunity for that with todays social media. Then you plan together what would be a good thing to do locally for your area.

If others are doing something too, and their approach is more successful, you join them.
You collect a group, and do maybe 1 hour protests once a week to begin with, get peoples attention, and try to get more to join.
AFAIK that’s just about how grassroots movements get started.
Also you’ve had almost a year to figure something out now, how lame is it of you to ask this question now?

Double post due to lemmy bug.