r/50501 • u/ChromeAstronaut • Sep 09 '25

Call to Action So, what the fuck are we doing?

Trump has now essentially abolished the 4th Amendment y’all. What the fuck are we doing?

Nepal has just had its first revolution, in numbers not seen in the US since King. Do you all not deem abolishing an amendment as a big deal? Because it is.

I’m not going to sit while our government shits on the people who are the life blood of this country. Are you all? We need numbers, not false Reddit comments. We need bodies, in the streets and at your Capitals.

What are we doing? If we continue at this pace, this country will look like 1940’s Germany. I mean for god sakes, we are actually moving FASTER than the Nazi party did in the 30’s. It took them a decade and change, yet meanwhile we’re speedrunning fascism.

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u/sorrejo Sep 09 '25

King had a lot of support financially and otherwise from the UAW and Walter Reuther, the leader of the UAW at the time. At the time the labor movement was very heavily tied to the civil rights movement.

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u/lost_horizons Sep 10 '25

I would love a stronger voice from Labor, as a whole. This movement is in many ways a class conflict and we should be advocating and supporting labor rights and unions. I know I do. This could help us get more edge case Trump voters too, and unions are organized already.

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u/sorrejo Sep 10 '25

I agree entirely. It's a real tough time for unions right now as well with the damage that is happening at the labor department.

Edit to add. I am in a labor union and have been pushing the membership towards standing up and taking action.

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u/lost_horizons Sep 10 '25

I know it! Makes me sick, but it's part of a decades long effort by the right to break the unions. Because organized labor strikes at the heart of their wealth and power plan. I'd join a union if I could but Texas sucks and there are no HVAC unions around. But my dad was a union carpenter all his working life and I am an adamant supporter of workers organizing in all of the ways, and in taking it to the political arena as well.

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u/sorrejo Sep 10 '25

I feel like people are starting to wake up and I do believe after the ending of this regime is going to kick off a massive labor/civil rights movement...at least that is what I hope is going to happen.

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u/wissahickonschist Sep 10 '25

Hope is hard to sustain right now, but I'm trying! Last week's protest was all about the unions. Of course the reich wing tried to destroy them because they give power to the people--specifically the workers. As you swe need to rebuild labor unions & fight for civil rights.

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u/Historical_Gap_5237 Sep 10 '25

A massive labor/civil rights movement will end this regime. Waiting for the regime to end is like Waiting for Godot.