This 50501 statement sucks so bad. They say they're "rooted in peaceful advocacy" & won't "endanger law enforcement"... they "expect" people to "act lawfully" & "disavow any disruption or violence" & work in accordance with the police
Stay away. These people will sell you out in a second.
Stay away. These people will sell you out in a second.
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If stuff escalates into violence it needs to not be us starting it.
-MLK
“Shut the fuck up KKKaren.”
-Me
That said, I’m not sure I blame people for shrinking from violent measures, especially given the claim that nonviolent resistance is more likely to have democratic results than violent.
These people will throw you into the arms of the police & will do nothing to protect you from state violence. It's disturbing.
50501 & #HandsOff is literally saying they’ll collaborate with fascists & snitch on protesters
Why are you spreading propaganda?
Why are you trying to discourage individuals from building the resistance?
"We. The. Feds."
Please rethink your approach. This group has managed to get a large number of people out into the streets—we need to start somewhere.
Instead of giving up on the normies, show up and radicalize them ;)
If these protests are going to work or anything else it's going to require support from the mainstream in terms of people and resources
I came on the scene during the anti Iraq war protests which while huge accomplished exactly nothing.
Plus one of the first ones they held had us heading towards the same tunnel that folks keep getting bottle necked in, don’t know if they went in or not because I dipped.
Cool, cool, cool. I get that Anonymous is both a person and a symbol, but ffs, if you're going to use the symbol, at least pretend to have better opsec.
You guy(s) go ahead and show the rest of us how it’s done.
Go eat more paintchips, boomer dumbfuck,
Yesterday’s menu was mass organized public protests or people with clown pfps raging about it from their couches.
I know which one I am and I know which one you are.
It's a good thing that the Trump administration is rational, and understands the nuance that there can be some violent protesters without demonizing the group as a whole and every single member of it
50501 started as a goof on reddit, a guy who said folks should just hang out. Cool.
But if you're going to be an ongoing antifascist movement, welp.
They have many sites, and use pol-rev's mobilizion instance for events, which pushed event registration. Here's their blank privacy policy:
https://events.pol-rev.com/privacy
Mobilize pushes event registration hard, but hey at least your phone number is optional
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/765507/
This is some nonsense that's gonna get people hurt and killed when the cops realize they have a bunch of sheep to shear.
2. Cops are the biggest threats to children and elderly folks by far and they don't need an excuse, just an order.
Safe protest. lol just think about how many safe protest have changed things for ANYONE.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what-to-do-if-the-insurrection-act-is-invoked/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-the-failure-of-nonviolence
But when groups organize around a diversity of tactics, then plans can be put in place to minimize police violence. One example is when demo's have "red" zones and "green" zones
that’s why the fascist in chief was golfing during your parade because it meant fucking nothing
But then again idk I'm not a gun owner... But maybe I should be
That said, "weapon" is actually really vague. A lot of things can be a weapon. And a lot of things that might be brought not to weaponize but...
Which they might. Not matter how peaceful they are.
Protesting once on a fair weather weekend won't result in much. Especially when fascists will counter with more destruction. Passive acts don't work on the heartless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QbWDoJBvk
If you are able to arm up and go in and knock some ICE or Border Patrol heads, go for it. But I haven’t seen that in the news or on here.
And over this weekend by making sure we had safe rallies, there's a whole lot more people who showed up and are now posting about them all over socials and their uninvolved friends are now thinking maybe to join
The admin will escalate. Why should we start that?
There are countless stories from successful anti authoritarian movements where military wasn't going to shoot the crowd because their kids might be in it.
See Optor.
Democratic tools only work in a democracy. We are no longer in a democracy. We use tools of revolution.
However, parking your butts on the stairs of federal buildings, waving signs and yelling a bunch sure as shit wont stop them whisking away dissenters to overseas gulags just sayin
Believe me, when the police come dressed for a riot, they will make sure one happens.
I'm all in support for people responding in kind once the police start committing violence against protestors.
In addition to this, I absolutely endorse many types of peaceful civil disobedience as part of peaceful protest, even when it is illegal.
If a law is unjust, disobeying it in protest is the right thing to do.
See y'all down there at noon. #handsoff
I'm genuinely curious in asking what these wise experienced organizers accomplished
I get totally that ppl should not be overreacting, but what did it accomplish? Come on. It accomplished infinitely more than not doing it.
Weapons not permitted, not even *discussion* of firearms? So the only people who will ever have guns, are the government? The same government we believe is a threat to democracy?
"News flash: the crazy Democrats hate me on a Saturday, just like they've hated me every Saturday for nearly a decade now. Who cares--I think El Salvador is looking a little empty, let's rescind some more visas."
This back and forth only exists bc of the protests. I get wanting more, should have happened sooner, or that there's a better way(s). Fine. But there's only one thing that actually accomplishes nothing.
1 thing #PCC is saying that I understand is, the "nice" ppl who follow Kamala & Booker will lead us away from the deep change we need to stay off the path that got us here
#FineFascistsOnBothSides