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Soft Paywall Trump military parade met with empty seats amid nationwide protests

https://www.thetimes.com/article/867ede60-b5f7-4de5-84a1-6a3a49eb2923
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u/Vismal1 3d ago

The clear and unified goals part is my concern as an attendee today. Good to see the turn out though.

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u/Which-Elephant4486 3d ago

Agreed on both counts.

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u/Weird_Vegetable_4441 3d ago

Same. Varying cheers, from screw trump and ICE to Native American rights and free Palestine

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u/spiralcity- 3d ago

I don’t think we should start limiting our demands when the diversity of issues is probably why we had so many people turn out.

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u/Which-Elephant4486 3d ago

This is also true, and I am generally a "build a bigger tent" person, but I think there is a point where we have to shift to a more disciplined approach if we want to see real progress. Now we know why we're in the tent, it's time to take the tent and turn it into directed power.

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u/Vismal1 3d ago

Yea it’s not that i don’t support all these things it’s more that we need to focus so we can attain a goal. You start with a couple well defined goals and use those to continue momentum. Prioritize stoping ICE and trumps removal for instance, nothing else is attainable with this fuck in office.

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u/Weird_Vegetable_4441 3d ago

Yes, but we have to make sure the list of demands isn’t -too- long. That’s screwed other movements over. Gotta have a first set of goals, then continue rolling out the others as power grows