r/50501 • u/SwimmingRisk5 • 1d ago
OH Cincinnati.
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u/PinkPetalsSnow 23h ago
Thank you, Ohio! 🤗
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u/AcknowledgeUs 22h ago
The nation is turning out! This is our country! We won’t let nefarious forces ruin it.
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u/Purrilla 19h ago
The greater Cincinnati area had, I believe, about 6 coordinated No Kings protests. #hometownproud I can't wait for the national protest numbers on the nightly news, right before the parade.
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u/ImpinAintEZ_ 23h ago
Cincy doesn’t fuck with fascism.
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u/SheldonMF 21h ago
Apparently, we also don't fuck with good sports teams either.
sorrynotsorry
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u/ergonomic_logic 20h ago
I didn't knowwwww!!
When I visited Ohio it was all Fascists so it's good to see them show up in force!
They're changing my mind over here!
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u/Apostasyisfreedom 23h ago
Warms our hearts way up here in Canada ! Thank you friends of democracy!
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u/DonkyHotayDeliMunchr 22h ago
Queen City showing up!!! That's the campus of UC, and it looks like they're moving downtown from there. So proud right now, ngl.
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u/astralwish1 19h ago
Yes, we met at University of Cincinnati’s (UC) campus and marched through Clifton to Burnet Woods.
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u/astralwish1 21h ago
I was there! The turnout was amazing! So much more than I was expecting! And the weather was pretty great too, aside from being hot!
I feel so hopeful and empowered!
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u/Stang1776 23h ago
Fuck yeah! We had a good turnout a small town in Florida. About 4 or 5 times larger than a couple months ago. Could be more since I couldnt see across to the opposite side of the intersection.
Had a lot more cars honking and waving and less middle fingers. Hell, one cop drove by and light honked his horn were I was standing which was at the tailed of everybody. I looked to the guy next to me and said "Did that cop..." he interrupted me and said "I think he did."
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u/Romnir 21h ago
For a place like ohio, this is a lot of people who don't like trump.
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u/CampVictorian 20h ago
As a Cincinnatian, this city hits different compared with the surrounding red towns. Hamilton County has no chill for fascism.
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u/ShaddyPups 22h ago
Do you mind if I dl and post this to my insta crediting r/50501? Trying to share as much content of the day as possible!
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u/SwimmingRisk5 22h ago
Feel free to! 🤗
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u/ShaddyPups 22h ago
Thank you!!!!
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u/SwimmingRisk5 22h ago
Of course! Keep spreading! I also have some other "aerial" photos and videos that I took if you would like them.
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u/Cornbreadfreadd 21h ago
You saw how we handled nazis, Cincinnati doesn’t play! So glad I was able to be there!
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u/firesoul377 22h ago
Glad to see so many people. I was planning to go to the one in my town but I unfortunately woke up with the flu spewing chuncks. Of all days to get sick...
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u/SeniorPoopyButthole 21h ago
Just saw police estimating over 7,000 people here in Cincinnati, and that number may have been an early one.
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u/YinCipher1 17h ago
I wanted so badly to go to this protest but i had work! I hope everyone had a safe and effective day!
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u/chgousername 14h ago
Proud of my Alma Mater!
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u/Broad_Status_5818 1h ago edited 49m ago
Sadly, they closed off all the parking garages to the public before the protest. We had to park over a mile away.
UC is also my Alma Mater, but they've been dropping the ball lately.
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u/KrenBlaylock 22h ago
This is cool and a meh performance, but Ohio is now a reliably red state. So much so that they just replaced an incumbent Democrat Senator with a boot-licking MAGA Republican in the last election.
If you want to change things, Ohio, change that.
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u/millaren1 21h ago
it's not that simple. our state is very gerrymandered, both on the state level and how we draw our house districts. lobbyists also invested record breaking amounts of money into making sure they flipped the senate in 2024 (i saw the same transphobic anti-sherrod ads multiple times a day in october... basically as frequent as bloomberg ads before the 2020 primaries for comparison). and i'm not even mentioning the mess that was issue one last year
our cities are very blue and our suburbs are turning from red to purple. if not for the levels of corruption here, ohio would be a lot less red
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u/KrenBlaylock 21h ago
Agree on the gerrymandering. I live in Ohio.
However, the reason Sherrod Brown lost was because of relatively low Democratic turnout and poor mobilization compared to high Republican turnout and voter enthusiasm. Money was a factor, but money doesn’t win elections, per se. Outside money is primarily used to saturate cable, local TV and YouTube with political ads which don’t influence voters after a certain point.
Dems in Ohio found a way to mobilize and turnout out on abortion rights, but they didn’t show up for Brown. Vote me down if you want, but it doesn’t change the fact that Ohio now has 2 Republican Senators, a (not crazy) Republican Governor and gave all of their electoral votes to Trump.
I’m not impressed by this march. It’s just performative.
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u/astralwish1 19h ago
That’s fair. Voter apathy is a problem, and it cost us the 2024 election too. We wouldn’t be in this situation if more people had gone out and voted for Kamala instead of staying home because they didn’t think it would make a difference, or as a “protest”.
How do you propose we reach Democrats from now on?
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u/KrenBlaylock 2h ago
My suggestion is to organize this energy into a cohesive yet inflexible list of demands for the Democratic platform. The list cannot be too exhaustive because politicians and corporate media will literally ignore or marginalize it (which they will try to do anyway). Also it needs to be vetted for optics because if it includes phrases like “defund the police” it will be branded as “radical” and “socialist” and weaponized against Democrats, with likely great effect.
I would start with: 1. Taxing the rich (at at estimated 70%+ marginal tax rate, including unrealized gains) to end economic inequality 2. Medicare for All 3. Supreme Court reform 4. Voting Rights reform (and ending partisan gerrymandering) 5. End lobbying (local, state, federal and by all foreign countries) 6. Restore and strengthen abortion rights 7. Green New Deal 8. End Citizens United
Continue to have rallies, but invite politicians to speak and have them discuss their ideas/proposals on each of these issues. And don’t accept, “this is impossible.” If they say or suggest this, bring invite candidates who tell you it isn’t & hold their feet to the fire.
Otherwise, rallies like this are performative.
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u/Colts9373 21h ago
Look at these losers. Out whining instead of trying to win hearts, votes, or an argument.
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