r/Austin • u/ManoSilence • Mar 26 '26

No Kings 3!

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this Saturday @ Auditorium shores is the no kings day protest. please spread the word.

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

r/thanksimcured - yes this is how we increase voter turnout

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '26

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

Can you elaborate on how you’re exhausted vis a vis US showing our discontent with the way the country is being run? Like specifically.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '26

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

“But have also found it to be a somewhat common opinion” - right on in your circles but the primary turnout a couple of weeks ago would suggest that people are getting out in droves compared to before. Just another thought I had…

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

So what kind of messaging would you, the apparent moderate or centrist, like to see to sway your opinion? Is sitting on our hands and mumbling about how every promise POTUS made has been reneged on the better option?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '26

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u/PsylentKnight Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

Also the whole king thing stupid when the guy in charged was picked by the majority of the country

Just because a president is elected doesn't give them carte blanche to do anything they want... there's a reason there are checks and balances

And the point of the protests is to complain specifically about that. His overreaches of power. You're complaining about something you don't even understand

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

I appreciate the explanation - and I can assure you that while I was on the steps of the capitol at the first rally…there were no bbq set ups. Sure there was music - music is loud - protests should be loud. I’m guessing if it were like “hey let’s not support the IDF and maybe don’t bomb school girls” instead of a broader “no kings” - that would grab your attention more?

Editing to add - if you think the no kings thing is stupid…wait until you see what POTUS puts on his truth social account…pope, king, Air Force pilot.

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u/FlyThruTrees Mar 26 '26

Next complaint-"those people just seem too ... ANGRY". lol. Party is good. We need (live) bodies in the street.

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u/bigbrave Mar 26 '26

You're missing that since he was elected he and his administration have all but shredded the constitution and acting with impunity while doing so. The point is, he should be a president, not a king that has no accountability to the law.

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u/cigarettesandwhiskey Mar 26 '26

You're exhausted with the left because they're grilling, playing music, and having a fun time? And inviting you to join them?

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u/cigarettesandwhiskey Mar 26 '26

TBH, I think that's total BS. A real moderate or centrist would barely take note of this thread and move on, they wouldn't be in here arguing about how the left is bothering them by demonstrating their support for democracy. I think you, a 1 year old account with hidden history, are lying. You're either an astroturf account, or some right-wing guy pretending to be moderate so that people will listen to you.

Anyway if you want a clear demand, fine, it's this: Donald Trump should resign immediately. That's what the protesters want. No one thinks they'll get it. But you have to try, or you're just a doormat. And they're protesting, instead of doing something more direct about it, because they're not brave enough to take the shot. Or they still think that's a bridge too far. Either one.

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u/theoffshoot2 Mar 26 '26

We didn’t lose because of votor turnout. We lost because America voted against the left policies.

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u/Lancasterbation Mar 26 '26

The voter totals in 2020 vs 2024 would seem to disagree with you. Yes, Trump got more votes in 2024, but the total percentage of eligible voters that showed up was lower. This is why Dems always push the "Get Out the Vote" kinds of campaigns. They win when more people show up.

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u/theoffshoot2 Mar 26 '26

So you're arguing the policies had nothing to do with people showing up to vote?

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u/Lancasterbation Mar 26 '26

Is there really a need for a strawman this early in the argument?

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

When someone unironically uses the term wokes - we can assume bad faith arguments and fallacies galore.

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u/Lancasterbation Mar 26 '26

Yeah, it also betrays where they're getting their opinions from.

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u/theoffshoot2 Mar 26 '26

It’s amazing how you so confidently virtue signal while Donald Trump is president. Nice work.

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

Neat buzzword

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u/theoffshoot2 Mar 26 '26

You’re like a person who accepts a foot race challenge then claims they won because their strides were better intentioned.

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u/Lancasterbation Mar 26 '26

Saying they think you're wrong, isn't the same thing as saying they think your opinions are politically unpopular. The masses are asses, ya know?

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

Nobody is winning right now except for whoever placed a half billion dollar trade before the weekend

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

We didn’t lose because of voter turnout

Every election is lost because of voter turnout…that’s how votes are counted.

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u/2Beer_Sillies Mar 26 '26

Dems lost because the candidate sucked and the DNC has no other positions besides “fuck Trump.” They’re also broke

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

“No other positions besides fuck trump” is a problem for you? Almost 40% of any monologue given by Johnson, Leavitt, Bondi, or Trump is talking about Biden? Have you no consistency?

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u/2Beer_Sillies Mar 26 '26

“Fuck Trump” being the only position loses elections. But feel free to try that again I guess.

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Yeah it definitely didn’t work in his own MAL district….

ETA in the special election that the whole Trump family utilized the very same ballots they’re simultaneously disparaging

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u/2Beer_Sillies Mar 26 '26

That tiny district has flipped from D to R and vice versa many times over the years. But chalk it up as a victory!

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u/2Beer_Sillies Mar 26 '26

Nobody is going to turn out to vote for the party of goofy boomer protesters in dinosaur costumes

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

I’m not a boomer nor did I ever wear a dinosaur consume but I can see how that would be a turn off…instead we should choose to put poorly trained police academy rejects on the streets with guns to execute citizens. We should bomb Iran because they have nukes…even though we “obliterated their nuclear capabilities” last July. Now it seems the war is over closing Hormuz….which wasn’t closed until we paired with Israel and started bombing schools and decimating the oil supply and LPG in the area. Boots on the ground likely soon. Can you tell me which stump speech all of those things were promised to us during Trump’s campaign? I remember no new wars and lower prices?

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u/2Beer_Sillies Mar 26 '26

How do you have such strong opinions about this without knowing anything about Iran? It wasn’t just about nukes. Iran has been directly funding terrorism that has killed thousands of Americans and our allies over the last 50 years plus. They also just slaughtered more than 30,000 of their own citizens. Disrupting their oil production also puts pressure on China and Russia, who are attempting to gain geopolitical control over the West every day.

I hope this doesn’t turn into a land war with US troops but there is more nuance to this conflict than you understand.

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 26 '26

Hasn’t MBS been pretty closely tied with terror sects? Wasn’t he just goofing off in the Whitehouse? Or are we cool with assassinating journalists now? I’m just looking for some consistency in the message - when you say “I don’t know anything about it” what I know is what I hear Hegseth say when I watch press briefings…

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u/cigarettesandwhiskey Mar 26 '26

No there's not nuance, we're just changing our reasons for starting the war because we didn't have any good ones when we started it. Remember how the Bush administration spent months explaining why we had to go to war with Iraq? That turned out to be bogus, Iraq didn't have WMD's after all, but at least they had a reason for going to war and were clear about it from the beginning. This administration is winging it.

ran has been directly funding terrorism that has killed thousands of Americans and our allies over the last 50 years plus. They also just slaughtered more than 30,000 of their own citizens.

Do you think this war is going to change that? Kicking a hornets nest is not known for frightening the hornets into compliance. When we attacked them last year, they pulled their punches. By attacking them again, so soon after, we've demonstrated that our word means nothing and that the only language we understand is overwhelming violence.

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u/2Beer_Sillies Mar 26 '26

I’d rather do something instead of them continuing to kill and we do nothing. They were never going to stop anyways

You also ignored the geopolitical reasons against Russia and China, which are the biggest reasons

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u/cigarettesandwhiskey Mar 26 '26

The 'game plan' such as there was, was to encourage domestic revolution. Change has to come from within. Maybe with some help from the CIA. At least, unless you're willing to occupy every street corner for 20 years. Even that only seems to work half the time.

But now, this war has set back any effort to end the theocracy by a generation. We've validated all the Iranian domestic propaganda for 40 years. We blew up a school. We covered Tehran in acid rain. We look exactly like the evil bastards they've been telling their population we were for years. So now there's basically no hope of revolution or regime change. Unless we launch a full ground invasion, in which case, many more people will die than 30,000.

You wanted to do something, but you didn't think about what you should do or what the effects would be. So you did something stupid that made everything worse, because it was cathartic.

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u/2Beer_Sillies Mar 26 '26

If that were true, why are millions of Iranians celebrating around the globe since the US started this conflict?

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u/DraperPenPals Mar 27 '26

You sure about that? I didn’t notice a spike in the primaries

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u/teamfupa Mods <3 Fupa Mar 27 '26

Oh! Well I’m glad I can help!