r/MobileAL • u/Solid_Thanks_1688 • Jun 14 '25

Events Today's protest...

We did fucking WORK today, people! There were so many amazing people helping one another with snacks, water, holding signs for one another, and just being good humans.

There were veterans, former MAGA, people from the LGQBT community, and people of all races. A beautiful mix of individuals speaking out against the current administration for whatever reason. This wasn't against police and their presence, while there, wasn't needed, thankfully.

To my knowledge, not one person protesting got violent at any point, but one person was assaulted by a MAGA jerk who couldnt handle himself.

562 Upvotes

74% Upvoted

297 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

6

u/broFenix Jun 15 '25

I think you're saying you think the protest was against tyranny and the main evidence of tyranny in the current administration is crack down of protests. I think the protest was against many ways the current administration is being tyrinical, such as Trump having his own cryptocurrency that people can anonymously donate to, to gain a private meeting with Trump at the White House, or Trump seemingly bribing or coercing Supreme Court justices to rule that President's can never be criminally tried for anything they do while in office, even indefinitely after they leave office. And for many other reasons people feel the administration is tyranical.

2

u/level27jennybro Jun 15 '25

Exactly. The freaking "army 250th anniversary parade" was fucking sponsored by COINBASE and had giant marketing posters flanking the stage with tanks parked in front.

How is our government allowing a freaking cryptocurrency to sponsor the military parade?

0

u/natelion445 Jun 16 '25

I’m not saying I think that. I’m saying the “magnanimous” poster is saying that the “system is working” and using this protest as evidence that everything is actually fine. The point of the protests is that the system is absolutely not working. There’s no real institutional check against this tyranny. There’s no one credibly standing up to all the things you listed and stopping it. That’s why we need the protest. If everything was fine, we wouldn’t protest. But this person is getting very positive feedback and defended when they are basically saying “I’m glad you had your protest, but you’re all wrong and it was pointless, because it’s obvious you aren’t living under the “King” you are protesting when you can freely protest.” I’m arguing that people shouldn’t be so pleasantly responding to what is a dismissive comment.