“Get your filthy fucking fascist fingers off my fucking meme, elmo”
He doesn’t get custody of Doge. He may spell it the same way, but his is pronounced “dodgy”, regardless of what he wants to call it
Today?
Nice to see it’s recurring, i went to the one near me on the 5th
Wait there’s a .one now? What the actual fuck ICANN‽ Are we gonna do all the numbers in all the languages? Where does the extortion scam end?
Yes, they have another one ongoing today for a No Kings day (President’s day)
They had their first on Feb 5th and there’s likely more to come in the future
The 28th is a day to look into it you don’t know yet. I was doing my part today in Sacramento!
“It’s not illegal if it saves the country”
Should be written on the guillotines
Is there a Lemmy community for this?
Not that I’m aware of. Closest I can find are Mastodon accounts like @[email protected]
There’s a large communities for it on Reddit (r/50501) and Bluesky (like @50501movement.bsky.social)
So not even the protesters are taking this shit seriously…
America is doomed.
Having humor about something doesn’t mean not taking it seriously
Relevant evergreen post from AOC
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
Bernie is too old now, I want AOC to run for president.
Not sure if she will, but she could now actually do that in 2028. She just now reached the minimum age to run for president (35)
She actually could have done so this time around, age-wise: being born on October 13th, she turned 35 before election day.
Probably would have won too, if the Dem leadership would have encouraged her to run rather than machinegunning themselves and thus the country in the foot 😮💨
I don’t think she would have won. She’s surprisingly unknown to the voters who don’t really follow politics.
She could’ve become known though. They run so many ads it’s impossible not to know the candidate. If they could’ve gotten off their assess and ran AOC from the beginning instead of Biden this last election i think she’d have had a chance.
I assumed we were just talking about the decision to run Harris but I guess nobody said that!
If we’re talking about as the INITIAL candidate, I wholly agree with you. That would have been plenty of time for her to campaign and gather support. I think she would have done very well because the issues she fights for were VERY relevant last year. She’s not perfect but she’s the closest thing to the “voice of the people” next to Sanders. I’ll bet she would have even picked up more votes from center and right.
The biggest mistake the Democrats made wasn’t running Harris, it was running Biden. Even considering how he fumbled some things (Gaza for one), he was a decent president… But everyone knew he was too old for it.
Outcome aside, I’m kind of glad she didn’t. I think she’d really shine on the campaign trail if she had the time to explain WHY X, Y, and Z are good. Too many people don’t know who she is or what she stands for - and too many people have only been exposed to her through unflattering pictures in memes
When it reaches a point where your opposition is belligerent to grievance, mockery is the best option.
Telling others how to protest is fuckin lame as hell
Memes are what get spread around the internet. Spreading the message of the protest is the point. If it takes humor to get different generations to coalesce, then so be it.
I don’t see many under 40 listening to NPR and 60 minutes, got to try different methods.
And what did you do about the rise of fascism today, exactly?
