So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl thank you that was the first thing i thought of. also unreal how much Black activism came before to pioneer and hash this out, and we'll just ... never learn, I guess. racism just has usa coming and going.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl Yeah, but the last events I remember seeing people saying how great the parking was and they were able to get home early and also one of them had a really great DJ. You know, important things when you're trying to overthrow a fucking dictator...
Less DJs and parking, more fucking guillotines.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl this didn't slow down our local nk4 one bit. It's a distributed system.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl Have you, or has anyone you know, attended in person local Indivisible meetings?
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl Blocked at least five accounts on this thread so far
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl I think this is going to backfire. It's not like messing with the logistic organizing of entirely symbolic protest events is going to break movements or anything. But it will radicalize some previously non-radical folks to the idea that big tech is their enemy.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl
As a revolutionary once said -
So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl Did not VKontakte story from 2011/2012 Russia teach them anything? Russians coordinated a revolution on Putin's blackboard. It failed.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl right??? like... fifty years of aphorisms to this effect and people are still learning it
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@ambiguous0 I don't think Meta gives a shit. They are incredibly shortsighted and greedy as evidenced by their overt support of Trump.
@Remittancegirl
Meta supplies arms to both sides of conflicts, profits regardless of the result. -
the Fediverse ?
@RainbowFrog @violettejean @Remittancegirl
I don't think so. The culture here is downright hostile to newcomers and different opinions. The technology itself is hard to use.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl Meta really has placed their chips on the authoritarian squares.
I guess Meta is betting the Trump admin will steal the election, and proceed to ban all other social media, because they just gave tens of millions of people the perfect excuse to leave and never come back.
There's no other way to square this circle. They're all in.
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No, really. Fuck right off.
I know a shit ton about Mao. And there's very little daylight between him and Trump except he was more energetic and more murderous.
@Remittancegirl @sampler Tankies are dead wrong, too.
Soviet Union was state capitalism. Lenin himself admitted it. Socialism was never achieved through authoritarianism, and it never will be.
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@Remittancegirl the ruling class WANTS you to protest peacefully as they sleep peacefully on Saturdays. Change that. Raise some hell during busy weekday hours that stop the flow of business.
@raoulduke26 @Remittancegirl Yes. BUT..
Protests are still very good networking opportunities for people that want to go beyond just marching.
There are plenty of people like that. Cynicism is warranted but it's not everything there is. -
So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl
It's anything BUT a revolution. "No Kings" is financed and run by the DNC, who in turn are financed and owned by the oligarchs. The No Kings events are just pressure valves designed to let neoliberals blow off steam and tell themselves that they're making a difference, while in fact all they're doing is supporting the fascist Powers-That-Be.That's why they never ask for impeachment. Or an end to the genocide in Gaza. Or the imposition of ANY meaningful taxes on billionaires.
And the "protests" are always held on Saturdays, just to make 100% sure that they won't turn into anything like a general strike.
The Democratic Party is the second string team for fascism. And BOTH parties are owned by the same Nazi billionaires.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl go bring them over here on Mastodon and show them around ?
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@Remittancegirl go bring them over here on Mastodon and show them around ?
@politipet I'm not American.
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@Remittancegirl I think this is going to backfire. It's not like messing with the logistic organizing of entirely symbolic protest events is going to break movements or anything. But it will radicalize some previously non-radical folks to the idea that big tech is their enemy.
@dalias True. That might be a silver lining.
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@Remittancegirl Have you, or has anyone you know, attended in person local Indivisible meetings?
@kelleynnn I'm not in the US. I'm not American.
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@Remittancegirl this didn't slow down our local nk4 one bit. It's a distributed system.
@djmitche Yay!
