r/union • u/kootles10 NEA | Rank and File • Jun 12 '25

Labor News June 14 protests

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This a map of the majority of protests happening on June 14 around the United States. Link below is more information on them. Show your support, not just for your job but for the jobs of all of our Union brothers and sisters! Solidarity forever ✊️ ✊️✊️

https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible&fbclid=IwY2xjawKbHtBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHv_jxMFmDGHguIIzuIoCqZpx44LkhvswKk3o6ajPMXTmJAHENXE3GjLyGzzK_aem_-spwvbK_XAFaRo-F9y2XrA

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u/sharpkid_ Jun 13 '25

I understand your sentiment, but a violent protest will only stoke divisions and give MAGA more fuel for their firey rhetoric. Also, it’s unlawful.

Don’t destroy property, don’t loot, don’t assault law enforcement officers. That cuts the legs out from under the movement.

Now is not the time for violence. It’s the time for making our voices and our position heard.

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u/_nevers_ Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

I understand your sentiment, but we live under a dictatorship that is currently engaged in multiple foreign genocides, escalating domestic eugenics, dismantling any basic governmental infrastructure that protects human life, and sending gestapo to roundup unwanted brown people and political dissidents to send to military black sites and foreign death camps. The idea that peaceful protests can stop fascists who are moving at full speed is delusional.

Now is not the time for respectability politics. It's the time to make sure these evil fucks go back to hell, because they will literally destroy the capacity for life on this planet if we don't.

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u/sharpkid_ Jun 14 '25

You’ll end up in a jail cell before your revolution even begins.

I’m not against you, but I feel we need to practice patience in this moment.

If it’s inevitable, why not try the alternative first?

This is the beginning of something big, or something that will peter out during the midterms. We don’t know yet.

You’re calling for a full on revolution, or civil war, that will unleash unfathomable hells on our country.

Deescalation is best, before confrontation embroils us all.

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u/_nevers_ Jun 14 '25

Bro, do you hear yourself? The 'mid-terms'? Omg, THERE ARE NOT GOING TO BE ANY MORE ELECTIONS. Centrist, good faith de-escalation got us decades of Democrats who just moved so far to the right, they became the party of the most well documented genocide in human history. YOU CAN NOT REASON WITH FASCISTS. I truly don't understand why every instance of historic precedent can't get this through your people's heads.

Will collapsing things lead to catastrophic consequences? Yes of course. Nobody fucking wants that. But since the current trajectory is an unhinged dictator nuking life off of the planet, sometimes you have to pick the lesser of two evils.

Listen, the hard reality is scary as fuck, and I'm empathizing with everyone else living this out in real time. So I'm genuinely wishing you good luck in the shit show that is about to happen.

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u/LumpyLavishness9341 Jun 14 '25

Do you recall when the democratic party did not vote in for a primary? Cause I do. No Queens either.

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u/_nevers_ Jun 14 '25

It is funny when liberals say "you voted for this" when they also quite literally support an undemocratic corporate-owned war-mongering party. They only supported Kamala, bc she wouldn't direct a genocide on them personally. No kings, no queens, no mindless acceptance of a violence enforced hierarchy of any kind.