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applegrove

(131,949 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 05:13 PM 16 hrs ago

No thrones. No crowns. No kings.

Some movements whisper.
This one roars.

3,000+ events on the map. Millions already committed. March 28, we don’t ask for our freedom — we show up and claim it.

No thrones. No crowns. No kings.
#NoKings2026 social.demcast.com/s/ohPO4PlT

SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🎲-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! (@sweetwitch2697.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T21:05:31.748Z
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No thrones. No crowns. No kings. (Original Post) applegrove 16 hrs ago OP
Not the issues Cirsium 15 hrs ago #1
Those are fairly much the definitions of classic royalty, along with divine right. UTUSN 15 hrs ago #2
This isn't the 18th Century Cirsium 15 hrs ago #3
Names change for the same core realities. The No Kings is fighting what you're citing. UTUSN 15 hrs ago #4
No Cirsium 15 hrs ago #5
Am going to take forever off to not think about it. UTUSN 15 hrs ago #6
wait til you see the ball room/throne room. rampartd 15 hrs ago #7
Sure Cirsium 15 hrs ago #8
I agree - but for better or worse that's what it is. harumph 14 hrs ago #9
Yep Cirsium 14 hrs ago #12
Arguing semantics doesn't solve any issues, either... Wounded Bear 14 hrs ago #10
Semantics? Cirsium 14 hrs ago #11

Cirsium

(3,905 posts)
1. Not the issues
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 05:37 PM
15 hrs ago

Thrones, crowns, kings are not what we face. I don't understand the framing at all.

We face dictatorship, a police state, concentration camps, genocide, and world war.

UTUSN

(77,655 posts)
2. Those are fairly much the definitions of classic royalty, along with divine right.
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 05:43 PM
15 hrs ago

Cirsium

(3,905 posts)
3. This isn't the 18th Century
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 05:50 PM
15 hrs ago

We aren't dealing with classic royalty nor divine right. We are dealing with something much, much worse.

UTUSN

(77,655 posts)
4. Names change for the same core realities. The No Kings is fighting what you're citing.
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 05:56 PM
15 hrs ago

Cirsium

(3,905 posts)
5. No
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 06:06 PM
15 hrs ago

It is a cute marketing slogan based on popular myths about the American Revolution. It is historically inaccurate and dumbs people down. It also seriously understates the danger.

Think about it. What if the colonists - those smugglers, land thieves and slave owners - had not overturned that terrible tyrannical monarchy. Why we might have turned out like, oh, say, Canada. The horrors!

MAGA is the direct descendant of the slave owners, the white settler project, not King George.

harumph

(3,245 posts)
9. I agree - but for better or worse that's what it is.
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 07:07 PM
14 hrs ago

Honestly, I would've preferred "No Tyrants" because it dovetails well with "Sic semper tyrannis." Really, someone
should call me before they decide on a slogan.




Wounded Bear

(64,249 posts)
10. Arguing semantics doesn't solve any issues, either...
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 07:13 PM
14 hrs ago

The marketing works to gets people in the streets. It's fine.

Cirsium

(3,905 posts)
11. Semantics?
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 07:24 PM
14 hrs ago

It isn't a matter of semantics. Opposition to the regime is growing and I think people would be in the streets no matter the slogan. That is driven by real world conditions, not by marketing.

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