By adamg on Sat., 3/15/2025 - 10:37 pm 
Ron Newman attended the Show Your Pride for Democracy rally and protest on Boston Common today. WCVB has more on the rally, organized by protest group 50501.
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from the WCVB video, protest seems to have been organized
By deselby
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 2:42am
to make the 80% "normies" cringe and avoid. Trans issues preeminent. Not a way to build a mass movement.
As a matter of politeness the Passport Agency should allow people to put their "expressed gender identity" or X on their passports, but I can see the contrary point of view in which the government needs to positively identify people and accurately and credibly identify them to other countries - by the category provided for, sex.
Other than that, no rights of trans adults are being violated. There's no right to serve in the military with a condition requiring extensive medical treatment. There's no right for children to be led into puberty blockers and mastectomies. There's no right of biological males to compete in women's sports.
I understand why trans activists dominate such protests. Of course they can't be excluded and have a right to protest, but if they had sense they would chill out and take a back seat in pursuit of the goal of getting rid of Trump. Unfortunately, their need for others to "affirm" their own view of themselves is such a part of who they are that they would throw the First Amendment, women's sports, and the lives of children out the window. They already threw the 2024 election out the window. I sympathize with them, but it's a delusion.
your description is really inaccurate
By Jeff F
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 5:26am
Went back and re-viewed the segment. The demonstrators expressed a wide variety of issues wrt the actions of our chief executive - but in a segment over two and a half minutes long, there was less than ten seconds of an Iraq War vet speaking about trans rights. The piece had similar-length sound bites from several other speakers and members of the crowd with completely different themes.
I also went back through and looked at all the signs etc and about the only clear thing I saw wrt trans rights were a few seconds of two people waving a traditional pride flag and a trans flag.
The broadcast piece certainly did not portray a demonstration “dominated” by trans rights activists. The outrage seemed fairly heterogeneous.
these demonstrations need to be stripped down to the basics
By deselby
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 9:04am
No Palestine flags, no trans flags. Speakers should talk about the threat to American workers, federal benefits and services, and due process rights and freedom.
Of course I'm not in control and whoever shows up can do what they like. But they're alienating the masses.
Reminds me of the "Free Mumia" people at every anti-war demonstration back in the 00's.
The ghost of Mlot-Mroz is haunting the Common.
Free Mumia
By John Costello
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 9:39am
The Great Dissolution of the Message.
I half expected to see a Free Mumia banner at the Pats parade in 2002.
No better way to distract from the main message of the protest than rolling out that well-worn banner.
As I am finally watching The Americans, I am thinking the Free Mumia people were either KGB and / or CIA.
Why Facebook?
By Boston_res
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 7:50am
Why isn't Facebook facing the same level of hate, and being shunned just as much as companies like Tesla?
Because Mark Zuckerberg isn't actively destroying the fed govt?
By Ron Newman
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 7:57am
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