Slop.

Which lib protests and/or organizers made demands?

None! But there were not only lib protests, and that's my point. And even if there were, you still need to show up and contest the political space.

Those people are libs?

No, they are communists. I'm saying that your characterization of this entire thing as "libs" is wrong because they just represent one segment vying for leadership of the whole thing and they have absolutely not secured it.

It's standard operating procedure for libs to derail spontaneous protests for their own ends. And I think it's pretty clear that the libs are going to be highly active doing that for the next few years. To be pedantic - one of their ever-present goals of the libs is crushing the left. At Bluesky the lib version of solidarity is "building coalitions". And - of course - leftists get nothing. Building coalitions means that leftists need to get on the lib train because that's the only path forward that's "realistic". Any leftist demands need to be jettisoned because they are entirely "unrealistic".

Don't let them do this to you! They have tried to do exactly that to me and my comrades. They wanted us to buckle and get on board with their demands while dropping ours. What did we do? We held an entirely separate competing protest that was very successful and drew as many people as theirs did. We laid out the communist line. We were uncompromisingly anti-imperialist. And those politics were well-received because the people are primed for anti-systemic politics

Why do I get the sense you're going to keep arguing with at least five of us that we're wrong about all this stuff?

because you're wrong