After the biggest anti-Trump protests since the 2017 Women’s March, many major media outlets seemed intent on downplaying the size and significance of the massive demonstration of opposition.
The Hands Off! protests took place on April 5 in 1,400 locations across the country, with solidarity rallies in Europe and Canada. Volunteer organizers said the events were aimed at opposing billionaire government and corruption; cuts to Social Security, Medicaid and other vital programs; and attacks on immigrants, trans people and other vulnerable groups. At a conservative minimum, hundreds of thousands of people turned out to resist the Trump administration’s many assaults on democracy; organizers estimate the total reached into the millions.
The revolution will not be televised.
It won’t be on social media, either, and it sure as shit won’t be on Tik Tok.
If they don’t see it coming, so much the better. This isn’t a popularity contest, it’s an existential struggle.
No, we kinda NEED the media and the world to know and pay attention
That’s just it, though, it’s both: in terms of raw violent power, we have 0 chance of beating the government that controls the most powerful military in the world and who most cops are not just professionally, but also ideologically on the side of.
The only way to topple a government apparatus that powerful is to make it so hated as to be untenable.
That doesn’t happen until the atrocities they commit are undeniable in both cruelty and scope, and if a lack of media coverage minimizes the scope, that breaking point may never come.
The complicit billionaire-owned media KNOWS this, which is WHY they’re systematically doing so.
While it would be nice for the media to share, we can’t force them. We don’t own them. That’s why we need to share it. That’s why we need to take pictures of the crowds, show evidence that millions show e up.
I think you misunderstand one small part of that powerful military - we’re so blended in this country, you can’t just bomb rebel strongholds because your own supporters are there too. That may be acceptable in a small part, but then his supporters get pissed off.
We also massively outnumber the military. The Navy can’t do much on the inner united states.
If there is one thing any powerful organized military will always struggle to fight against, it’s guerilla warfare. Improvised weapons are particularly devastating because they’re unpredictable. We’ve seen how effective the “force multiplier” aspect is in theaters like Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s essentially not.
They can only hold the lid down on the pressure cooker for so long. And their power only comes from our believing in it.
The police and military exist whether you believe in them or not