Someone’s opinions can absolutely make them a moron. I mean intelligence in general is largely defined by the scope and rationality of someone’s thoughts and opinions.

It seems like you are trying to make a point that having an opinion is not something we should be judging someone for. While people are entitled to opinions they are absolutely not entitled to freedom from judgement or consequence for those opinions.

I am curious if your take here would change at all if instead of this opinion their opinion was “insert race here doesn’t deserve to live” or “age is just a number and sex with any age of person is totally fine”

+1 for Bazzite, I did pretty much exactly the switch you are describing a couple months ago and tried mint first but didn’t love it for gaming (problems with my Nvidia card) but have had literally no issues whatsoever with Bazzite. It just works ™

I don’t view those things as exclusive, and I also don’t think everyone who goes to these does so for the same reasons. There are different objectives to each kind of political action, but for rallies, the main goal is connecting people with others in their communities who want to do political actions. So, people who do come wanting to effect political change meet others trying to do the same and learn more ways to do it. To be clear, we aren’t exclusionary, liberal organizations are present too. People meet groups who want to protest, groups who want to write letters, groups who go to legislative sessions, and groups who give them alternatives to liberalism. Most socialists or other leftists were once liberals, and for those people who are disappointed in Democrats I think it’s fair to present them with other options.

For the exclusive goal of showing up in numbers to show frustration at the current political climate, this is accomplished simply by being present and visible, basically. What to do with all the people who are present and visible is the next question. Sometimes it’s yelling at passing cars, and sometimes its meeting local orgs trying to drive political change in other ways

Democratic socialists of America and party for socialism and liberation. Basically socialist parties

To be fair, 50501 chapters can vary a lot city to city. I’m in a red city but our organizers are very left so we use the platform to push leftism. It isn’t like that everywhere though. Also we did a rally with speakers and tables, some places are just people holding signs with no agenda. It’s a grassroots thing so depends a lot who decided to organize it in your area.

Hi, No Kings protest organizer here. The point isn’t to change Trump’s direction, the point is basically a massive recruiting event for our local DSA and PSL chapters. Libs show up who are mad at Democrats and hear from leftist speakers and talk to leftist tabling orgs. Also there is mutual aid groups and such there.

Otherwise yeah totally not going to change Trump’s direction. But far from useless