"They want 1939 Germany? Let's give them 1789 France!"

[niyad]

I saw this sign while looking at images of some of the protests. Don't remember which one, though.

[Mme. Defarge]

1. Aux barricades!

[niyad]

2. !!!

[Historic NY]

10. guillotines on trucks

that ought to scare them

[Mme. Defarge]

14. Gotta keep knitting

more shrouds!

[niyad]

20. Thank goodness I have plenty of yarn.

[niyad]

19. I understand that one can order them online.

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[Iggo]

34. It'd be some kind of ironic if you could get 'em on Amazon, eh?

[niyad]

35. Now that would be amusing.

[multigraincracker]

3. Gets my vote.

[LS0999]

4. America 1933

When President Franklin Roosevelt started putting these oligarchs in their place.

[thought crime]

16. Seems more likely after the tariff fiasco

After trump’s psycho-tariffing, a huge recession (the polite term) is looming, and the “America 1933” scenario could be more likely.

[Jack Valentino]

5. I can think of at least a dozen suitable targets for pitchforks!....

I'm sure everyone else here can do so as well.

[NJCher]

15. My garden tools

Will gladly take on those hoes.

[niyad]

21. "I have a little list. . ."

[David__77]

6. Or 1945.

[William769]

7. I for one as an American (yes I'm still proud to be one)

I say we give them

April 19, 1775
The first shots of the Revolutionary War are fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. The news of the bloodshed rockets along the eastern seaboard, and thousands of volunteers converge—called "Minute Men"—on Cambridge, Mass. These are the beginnings of the Continental Army.

[rustysgurl]

8. Do you hear the people sing ...

singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes

[niyad]

18. When I saw that image, I immediately went to the videos, including

the one at the US Governors' Ball. (pretty sure the orange thing does not understand the lyics, or their meaning!)

[Bluetus]

9. Or maybe 1793

[LoisB]

11. Okay by me.

[AllyCat]

12. Literally, this is where I am. The oligarchs won't give up power.

Neither Orange lardass. There is no option for them except being gone.

Eat. The. Rich.

[FirstLight]

13. And we can't eat cake cuz there's no eggs

I have had the phrase "storm the Bastille!!!" Screaming in the back of my head for a while 😂🖕🔥👩‍🌾📜⚔️

[Meowmee]

17. lol too bloody for me but

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[CTyankee]

22. Aux armes, citoyens!

[niyad]

23. !!!

[gulliver]

24. Protests are lazy and dumb.

Inevitably you get idiots like the one whose sign you saw. Threatening, stupid, weird, dumb. They all come out to the protest to bask in attention and make everyone there look stupid. And the media films the weirdest, craziest, and stupidest for the ad revenue.

Anyone who cares for good causes is against protests.

[niyad]

25. Thank you so much for pointing out to all the clueless souls here on DU,

and everywhere in the world, just how ignorant and deluded we are. It must be so exhausting, and ompletely without reward, putting up with us lesser beings all these years. However have you borne it?

[gulliver]

26. You don't do anyone any favors by encouraging them to be dumb.

Quite the opposite. Your dumb protests are fun for some, perhaps. Face time is so sweet! But I'm just trying to alert people to the fact that the things that they think feel so good are really bad for them. You made it into something it isn't.

Most of the people who go to our protests are actually good people. But the bad apples swarm it and swamp it.

[niyad]

27. No, I understood you perfectly, and will bear it in mind.

[gulliver]

28. Well, a lot of people are sure about a lot of things.

It's Dunning-Kruger mixed with paranoia. This is why I pointed out (correctly, I think) that protests are "lazy." Laziness is our bane. Easy answers are lures.

[niyad]

29. Oh my dear, please do keep trying. We need the laughs.

[gulliver]

30. I'll take that as a concession.

[niyad]

31. You are free to take it however you like. But you might want to read

your own posts agaain, with perhaps an atom of self-awareness. I am even more amused now.

[gulliver]

33. Sure, and you yours.

I do see my vulnerability to the old rhetorical standard, "He's calling everyone dumb!" But the people I most care to influence see that as amateurish and see through it instantly. It's not that it shows a lack of talent on your part, but that talent could be better spent. Trump does essentially the same thing with his poor lost MAGAs. "The weirdo liberal elites are calling you stupid!"

And, yes, in a different context than the one we find ourselves in, taking to the streets would be good. But check out the pictures from some of the protests and the ho-hum coverage they are getting. They're hurting the cause right now. Well intended; poor resulted.

[Xolodno]

32. I prefer 1917 Russia.

That started with a simple bread riot because two nobles held off selling it. They were arguing over how much of a cut they get. When they sent in the troops to quell it, the troops dissappeared into the masses shedding thier uniforms but kept the guns.

[Mysterian]

36. All we need to do is get some of the 90 million eligible people who did not vote

involved to help us out and we can put these corrupt, seditious assholes in prison where they belong.