BaldProphet

You don't need to scroll: The new subreddit is r/50501Movement

As many of you are aware, there was a bunch of drama on r/50501 related to the originator, Evolved_Fungi. I can't hash out the details because I don't know them. I can't say I agree with some of the mentality that certain people in the movement have about discussing the issue: I think open discussion, to a point, should be tolerated and even encouraged.

To keep that discussion from overwhelming other, more productive discussion as we move forward, I'm going to limit it to this megathread. Please keep all discussion about the controversy/drama regarding r/50501 and Evolved_Fungi in this thread.

Thanks, everyone! You're the most awesome people in the world, and you inspire me with your patriotism! Keep fighting the good fight!

I'm not even sure if this is implemented, but I would like to ban a user from my community. They are not a local account, they're on a federated Lemmy instance. Is this something I can do as a moderator, and if so, how do I do it?

Protests are well known, and popular. The trouble is, when I look back on the one-off protests I’ve joined over the years, I don’t remember a single one that changed the policy we were protesting against.

In February 2003, I joined millions of others around the world on the eve of US/British war on Iraq. The BBC estimated that a million protested on 15 February in London alone. In the US, unprecedented numbers turned out in 150 cities, according to CBS.

The New York Times said in a front page story that the protest indicated a ‘second global superpower’. I wish. Even while we were in the streets, I realised that the protest wouldn’t prevent the war, because the protest’s leadership wasn’t telling us what we would do next, and that we would escalate after that – how we would take the offensive. The leadership didn’t offer us a campaign.

George W Bush and Tony Blair had a plan to persist. We did not. The peace movement in the US never recovered in the years since, even though the majority shifted and came to agree with us while the war continued. After mounting that one-off protest, and then failing to shift strategy to focus on direct action campaigns, discouragement and inaction accompanied the growing suffering and death in Iraq.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s staff -- a prelude to President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the agency.

Department officials announced the cuts Tuesday, raising questions about the agency’s ability to continue usual operations.

The Trump administration had already been whittling the agency’s staff, though buyout offers and the termination of probationary employees. After Tuesday’s layoffs, the Education Department’s staff will sit at roughly half of its previous 4,100, the agency said.

The layoffs are part of a dramatic downsizing directed by Trump as he moves to reduce the footprint of the federal government. Thousands of jobs are expected to be cut across the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration and other agencies.

The department is also terminating leases on buildings in cities including New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland, officials said.

50501 is also present on Lemmy. If you are new to the Fediverse and are having trouble deciding which instance to create your account on, that one is a good choice.

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=148710

Perhaps we should add "Federal legislation abolishing gerrymandering" to our movement's list of demands?

I made handouts using u/In-tandem's "Unified Message" and u/FiftyFifty1Movement's "We remain committed to non-violence" announcement. Print double-sided; each piece of paper has two handouts.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/3H2VJS030G#mwQvncatwlu4

Copied from a post by u/transcendent167:

This isn’t about Trump. It isn’t about Biden. It isn’t about left vs. right.

This is about powerful elites stripping away your rights—one law at a time, one crisis at a time.

For years, they’ve taken from you:

YOUR wages – Costs go up, but your paycheck stays the same.

YOUR time – Work harder, longer, and still struggle to make ends meet.

YOUR voice – Unions crushed, protests criminalized, truth buried under propaganda.

And now, they expect YOU to stay quiet while they take even more.

Trump’s Words Are a Warning WE Can’t Ignore

“He who saves his country does not violate any law.”

This isn’t just rhetoric—it’s a test trial for dictatorship.

History’s WORST leaders have said the same:

Hitler: “The good of the state stands above the law.”

Mussolini: “Nothing against the state.”

Napoleon: “I am the revolution.”

THIS is how it starts. First, they rewrite the law. Then, they label dissent as treason. Finally, they erase opposition entirely.

Trump and his enablers are testing how much they can get away with. If we do NOTHING, they will keep pushing until resistance is IMPOSSIBLE.

THEY Keep Us Fighting Each Other While They Take EVERYTHING

THEY distract us with culture wars while THEY rob us blind.

THEY tell you immigrants are the problem—but it’s CORPORATIONS that refuse to pay fair wages.

THEY tell you social programs are too expensive—but they bail out BANKS and BILLIONAIRES with YOUR tax dollars.

THEY tell you workers asking for better conditions are UNGRATEFUL—but CEOs make 300x MORE than their employees.

Meanwhile, THEY buy up housing, kill union efforts, and bury us in debt—keeping US too BUSY, too TIRED, and too AFRAID to fight back.

THEY will call us traitors for demanding fairness. THEY will say we are dangerous for speaking out. But EVERY dictatorship starts by SILENCING dissent and CONVINCING people that obedience is patriotism.

This isn’t about politics. This is about survival.

THEY are betting on your silence. THEY are counting on your inaction.

Prove them wrong.

WE are gathering. WE are organizing. WE will not be ignored.

STAND with us. JOIN the movement.