“No Kings" Protests (Latest, 3/28/26)

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donbosco said:
The book focuses on the role of the capital-labor relationship during the period between the two World Wars, when the United States became the epicenter of the world-capitalist system. Concentrating on specific processes, which he characterizes as terrorist and non-terrorist alike, Roberto argues that the interwar period was a fertile time for the incubation of a protean, more salable form of tyranny – a fascist behemoth in the making, whose emergence has been ignored or dismissed by mainstream historians.
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This looks like an interesting premise to me and I'd be interested in reading your friend's book, but it does beg the question: If the US has done so well economically in the past century plus of our existence and ours is a system of purported economic fascism, is economic fascism so bad? It has certainly seemed to have done the US right (granted, for some more than others) over the past century, but winning a world war can have that effect too. Also, I would think that if the role and nature of capital-labor relations was a key element of economic fascism, we were living under economic fascism far more openly and ruthlessly under the robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries than any time before or since...
 
Callatoroy said:
You think these protests are all grass roots organized and funded? No, the 70 year old lady in charlotte holding the mass produced sign isn’t getting $15 an hour to stand there but the organization through paid organizers and funding to produce her sign used to protest isnt coming out of her pocket. Maybe it helps you sleep better playing the semantics game but the fact remains that a big part of the left’s no kings, anti ice, free Palestine, etc protests are paid for by people like Soros and singham. Are you disputing that? I call that paid protesting.

The guardian estimated 8 million world wide participated. Again, less than 3%. Pretty weak for such a hyped event or do you disagree about that too?
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Am I disputing it? Unless you have some evidence, yes.

I don’t care or have an opinion on how well attended this wvwnt was. What I do know is it has MAGAs all in a lather. I doubt it is because the event was a total bomb, like CPAC, or this administration as a whole.
 
Callatoroy said:
You think these protests are all grass roots organized and funded? No, the 70 year old lady in charlotte holding the mass produced sign isn’t getting $15 an hour to stand there but the organization through paid organizers and funding to produce her sign used to protest isnt coming out of her pocket. Maybe it helps you sleep better playing the semantics game but the fact remains that a big part of the left’s no kings, anti ice, free Palestine, etc protests are paid for by people like Soros and singham. Are you disputing that? I call that paid protesting.

The guardian estimated 8 million world wide participated. Again, less than 3%. Pretty weak for such a hyped event or do you disagree about that too?
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Respectfully, when Trump et al. make claims regarding paid protesters/agitators, they are not speaking about event organizers. Whether dark money is coming from China (or Russia, Israel, Saudia Arabia for that matter) is an ongoing discussion, and a valid concern - but one that can be turned around pretty easily on Trump, who openly courts foreign money.
 
The guy accusing others of “playing the semantics game,” said in the same post that people given signs to carry without paying for them are getting “paid.”
 
donbosco said:
I was pretty tuned in to age -- of course I was in Burnsville and there was only about 300 folks there -- so I took note of the range. I had also heard the same criticism last time out -- just gray hairs. I'd say that 50 and over was about 1/2 of the crowd. High schoolers? Negligible. 20 somethings? Probably about 15%, many of whom were performing musically. The rest fell in the 30-40 age group I'd say (there were some pre-teens running around but I didn't really count them). I wonder what a college town or place with young professionals would ring up to? NYC looked pretty young from the photos I've seen, as did Chapel Hill.
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I would have magined that 80% of the Celo community would have attended.
 
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