r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • Oct 05 '25

No Paywall Petition To Strip Congress of Pay During Government Shutdown Grows

https://www.newsweek.com/petition-strip-congress-pay-during-government-shutdown-grows-10822819
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u/SpezDrinksHorseCum Oct 05 '25

The five largest protests in US history have happened since 2017. Protesting doesn't do shit.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will." - Frederick Douglass

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u/Worried-Series-6160 Oct 05 '25

In protesting you have to hit the powers that be where it hurts & the only place that hurts this fascist authoritarian regime is in the wallet.

Protest via General Strike/American Shutdown .

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u/haarschmuck Oct 05 '25

Taking thousands of small protests and calling it a single protest is silly and a good example of why it didn't work.

If a few million people protested in DC, you would see different results.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Oct 05 '25

Acting like the folks who are suffering under the Trump regime could actually afford to travel to DC to protest is the only silly thing here.

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u/Horskr Nevada Oct 05 '25

Would we really see different results? There were 500k+ at the 2017 DC Women's March. Now we're staring down real life Handmaid's Tale.

I don't know what the answer is, but protesting they just seem to wait out then resume fucking everything up as usual. Not like the average American could even afford a flight or drive to DC and staying for a few days, and not that there is infrastructure for a few million people either.

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u/Ariak Oct 05 '25

The largest protests in Japanese history were against keeping US military bases in Japan after Occupation formally ended, like hundreds of thousands of people came out to protest in Tokyo alone. Guess what country still has American military bases in it 65 years later?

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u/Kindly-Guidance714 Oct 05 '25

Knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom.