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*if you try to scare us, you just make us mad*
And more determined. Americans have faults like any other people, but BOY HOWDY, don't tell us what we can or cannot do.
The right to protest is the FIRST Amendment, and Americans take it for granted deep in our bones. Don't fuck with it.
3/n
*we'll try anything and everything to see what works*
Also a very American thing—one of our core strengths, willingness to experiment.
Not a coincidence the Frog was from Portland.
The key is to spread what works: WHICH WE DID
And it escaped containment to the world!
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3m3i4i3bmgc22
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*if you try to scare us, you just make us mad*
And more determined. Americans have faults like any other people, but BOY HOWDY, don't tell us what we can or cannot do.
The right to protest is the FIRST Amendment, and Americans take it for granted deep in our bones. Don't fuck with it.
3/n
*distributed action works*
From #TeslaTakedown to #NoKings to dozens of other protests
it's been a rolling primal scream across the land for months
My tiny suburban hometown had *3* #NoKings protests.
MASS PROTEST is *thrilling* but distributed action gets everyone in the game.
4/n
*protests work at MANY levels*
—visibility: normies at home know shit is real
—practice: every person protesting now knows how to get their sign ready, find transport & get out with like-minded others to exercise their 1A rights
Connection, coordination, info sharing, inspiration, comraderie
5/n
Make it fun, more people will come.
Make it accessible, more people will come.
Protest seems like a huge step (if you've never done it) but it's the gateway drug to activism. It's like "here's a fucking party with all the people as PISSED as you are about this shitty timeline, okay now LFG"🫡✊
6/n
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