Cory Booker at the moment filibustering at the senate as a protest against the whole trump administration . He is speaking for as long as he is physically able too, as stated by him in the CSPAN clip, https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-senate/sen-cory-booker-d-nj-starts-speaking-in-senate-for-as-long-as-i-am-physically-able/5158775
Here is an article that states why he is on the senate floor if you need clarification https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/politics/booker-senate-floor-speech-trump-protest/index.html
I wonder how many people complaining about it being performative refused to vote against the guy who promised to level Gaza so they could feel good about “not being complicit”.
Protest voters did not meaningfully impact the election
I voted for Kamala and I think this is performative.
But performance is incredibly compelling to the psychotic apes who rule this planet so maybe it will help.
I’m not hopeful.
I think it’s important that we start filling the fediverse and the world with more productive discussion. It feels like every single post and thread around here is completely hijacked by the “centrist/leftist/third party voters” conversation.
The first comments you see on every news article aren’t even about the article, it’s unrelated complaints against the presumed opinions of other people who may or may not have voted, some of whom may have been bots or internationals or children.
It’s wildly counterproductive. We need to move forward and really push for solidarity and meaningful solutions. We can’t stop fascism by fighting each other.
literally this.
Doesn’t help that every thread engaging in politics is flooded with “great but this doesn’t solve problem XYZ posting” We need to take what we can get, and move forward. Sitting on our asses clearly isn’t doing anything.