I guess that this 50501 movement has somehow gained some recent popularity from somewhere, but the sheer volume of content, communities, and even instances seems weird.
Where did this all come from and why did it seem to come as a sudden flood?
For those who, like me, don’t know what 5051 is, it is an american protest movement against corruption “50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement.”
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
What a perfect domain for this movement.
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There’s also a community that mirrors posts and comments from Reddit, so it looks like a lot is happening here while it’s actually all happening on Reddit.
They’re establishing communities here because reddit (where the community mostly started) can censor or ban their community at any moment. The fediverse offers a lot more protection from censorship.
And yet…no icon for us!
I was banned for “showing extreme indifference” when that really funny thing happened to the health care CEO
You mean when someone iced the fuck out of Bryan tomson? That was hilarious as fuck.
You mean when Luigi Mangione, a folk hero, ALLEGEDLY shot a capitalist mass murderer in the back?
When Luigi Mangione ALLEGEDLY did a good deed for the benefit of all of society, you mean?
Discovery sucks in the fediverse, so it causes a lot of fractured and spammed content until hopefully everyone migrates to a stable community. Otherwise everyone eventually leaves as there appears to be no interest in a topic due to the fragmentation.
it is a nationwide movement with at least tens of thousands of people across literally every state organizing political action, and it’s only growing, so… here they are.
Someone on Lemmy said they’re a thinly disguised front for neoliberals, or libertarians, or something. I didn’t look into it.
It seems to be more than a flash in the pan, though, so I should probably figure out what they’re about.
Can you provide a source for that? As far as I’m aware its a movement protesting Trump and Musk’s purported election fraud and fascistic policies
No. Well, I can link to the comment of the person who said they were Nazis:
https://midwest.social/post/23294043/15477656
Although, re-reading the thread, I’m no longer sure what @[email protected] was saying. It looks like he may have been saying 50501 was protesting Nazis? I probably misinterpreted them. They gave no evidence, either way.
Thanks for clarifying, probably best to double check as a practice. Misinfo abounds fr. Might be nice to edit parenr comment or at least ~ ~ cross it out to update
Why? I didn’t say that they were , only that someone in Lemmy has told me they were. I’m still not due they didn’t. I explicitly said I had no idea. And I posted the link to the comment in question, so there’s no doubt that they exchange actually happened.
I’m not taking a position on 50501 until I know more.
“Someone on Lemmy” is probably someone who thinks anyone who doesn’t use the right Marxist buzzwords is a CIA plant.
