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Wicked Blue

(7,692 posts)
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 03:39 PM Feb 15

STOP MUSK

During the Vietnam War era, people made stickers that said WAR and stuck them under the word STOP on traffic stop signs. They were all over.

Printing stickers that say MUSK and putting those on stop signs would be a simple way to raise public consciousness about the heinous things he's doing.



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Native

(6,983 posts)
1. Isn't that illegal? Like defacing government property or something? I'd do it, but aren't there cameras everywhere too?
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 03:48 PM
Feb 15

If we could get away with it, it would be awesome. I love the idea.

cksmithy

(285 posts)
3. It's a good idea.
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 04:10 PM
Feb 15

There are so many stop signs in rural areas where no one would ever know who put up the sticker. I would like to see protesters once a month or every week, on weekends, like the anti-free choice/anti-abortion people did for years, every weekend on the way to our city's only major shopping mall every weekend. You couldn't go shopping for clothes, shoes, furniture, etc. without seeing their signs or hearing their chants. (I, of course, did not agree with them.) If they could protest weekly, why can't we? I am in my 70's have a very limited social circle, plenty of health/mobility issues and am not able to organize anything. But I could participate, stand and sit in my folding chair, once a week. I marched in 1969 in San Francisco, I can still stand up for what I believe in now.

cksmithy

(285 posts)
6. It wasn't in the mall, it was on the corner of two streets you had to turn right
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 04:59 PM
Feb 15

on to get to the shopping mall a mile or so down the street. I am sure they got permits, it was on a main street through town. It was a small group of people, under 50, but they were always there making their point of view heard.

LeftInTX

(32,702 posts)
7. If they were on the sidewalk, they may not have needed a permit.
Sat Feb 15, 2025, 07:59 PM
Feb 15

Depends on local ordinances.

CTyankee

(65,817 posts)
8. When I worked for Planned Parenthood here in New Haven, we had picketers carrying signs demonstrating on the sidewalk
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 02:34 PM
Feb 16

in front of the PP entrance. I went out and said to one young demonstrator "What kind of birth control do you use?" She got real mad and said "That's PERSONAL question!" I laughed and said "Yep, it is. And you don't know why any woman is coming to Planned Parenthood because THAT would be a personal question!"

cksmithy

(285 posts)
9. I appreciated your story and applaud your response. The point I was
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 04:46 PM
Feb 16

trying to make was that the anti-choice people were in our faces every weekend for years and they got their way. The county I live in had always voted Democratic for president, not this time in 2024. We have to make ourselves heard, like putting musk stickers under the word stop on stop signs, so they read "stop musk," organizing small weekly protests, where our voices, information, thoughts, etc. are made known to the regular people who only watch Fox news or no news as they drive by.
I worked in education for close to 25 years, (10 years as a certificated teacher teaching 2nd grade full-time) the school board, school site councils were being taken over by religious right wingers in the 1990's where I live. It was individual teachers who stood up to them. The school site council wanted to stop Halloween parties, costumes, but it was left up to the individual teachers to handle their classroom situations. The schools got more and more conservative about what you could do or could not do.
People drive every where, since they don't read the newspaper and the MSM is worthless, we have to educate them somehow. A small act of Resistance, protests, stop musk-trump on rural stop signs, multiplied and all over the country, hopefully, grows and changes some minds to see what is really going on. When I asked my husband if he remembered the war stickers on stops signs, he said, "Oh, yeah, they were everywhere."

CTyankee

(65,817 posts)
10. Excellent! I love hearing about the work you are doing.
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 04:50 PM
Feb 16

Personal acts of resistance, showing we are not going away and we are not giving up!

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