Look, I’ve been part of 50501, and I still support it. I believe in the people showing up, in the anger, in the need to fight back. But if we’re being honest with ourselves, we have to admit that right now, 50501 is not an effective threat to the system. It’s a mass of frustration without direction, a movement that makes noise but doesn’t force change. And if we don’t fix that, it will collapse like every other disorganized protest movement before it.
I’m not saying this to tear it down, I want it to succeed. But success doesn’t come from just showing up with a sign. We need real strategy, real coordination, real disruption.
The Problems with 50501 Right Now
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No Clear Leadership or Organization
I get that people are wary of hierarchical leadership, but the reality is that a movement without structure is just a crowd. There’s no unified message, no coordinated planning, no ability to escalate beyond scattered protests. Right now, it feels like a rabble of different groups with different goals, all loosely connected by anger but not by strategy. That isn’t enough.
- No Cohesive Message
What does 50501 actually stand for? Ask ten people and you’ll get ten different answers. The protests end up looking like a jumble of causes, which makes it easy for the media and the government to dismiss it as incoherent and unserious. The right-wing machine has one message, repeated endlessly, drilled into people’s heads. We need to do the same.
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Protests Alone Won’t Work
We’ve marched. We’ve screamed. We’ve shut down intersections. And yet, the government keeps rolling over us. Why? Because protests alone don’t force change unless they escalate into something that actually disrupts the system. A one-day march doesn’t scare the people in power. They know we’ll go home at the end of the day.
What Needs to Happen for 50501 to Become a Real Threat
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Shift from Protests to Economic Disruption
The government doesn’t give a damn if we march. But it does care if the money stops flowing. We need to move beyond street protests and into direct economic action. That means:
• Coordinated boycotts that actually hurt corporations backing this administration.
• Work slowdowns and localized strikes—if a full general strike isn’t feasible yet, we can at least choke productivity and create pressure.
• Mass refusal to pay rent, mortgages, and debts.
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Build Infrastructure for Long-Term Resistance
We can’t just tell people to strike and expect them to survive without support. 50501 needs to start acting like a real resistance movement by setting up:
• Strike funds to help people financially sustain long-term action.
• Mutual aid networks to distribute food, housing, and medical care.
• Alternative communication systems that don’t rely on platforms controlled by the government and corporations.
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Commit to a General Strike
If we’re serious about nonviolent resistance, the only thing that has a chance of working is a nationwide, sustained general strike. Not a one-day walkout. Not a weekend of protest. I’m talking months of coordinated noncompliance. 20 million people refusing to work, refusing to spend, refusing to participate. No buying. No driving. No logging in. No school. No taxes. Nothing.
The Hard Truth: This Will Be Painful
A real general strike will hurt. People will lose their jobs. People will lose their homes. Some will die because the system is built to punish those who refuse to comply. This will be vilified by the media, by politicians, by even some of our own friends and family. But that is the cost of real resistance.
50501 Has to Decide What It Wants to Be
Right now, 50501 is a symbol. A gathering of angry people with no real teeth. If we don’t evolve, if we don’t organize, if we don’t commit to real, sustained disruption, then this movement will die like every other protest movement that came before it.
So the question is: Are we here to make noise, or are we here to make change? Because change will require sacrifice, suffering, and relentless action. The system will not fall just because we wish it would. It has to be forced to its knees.
Originally Posted By u/Taste-T-Krumpetz At 2025-04-01 03:07:17 PM | Source
