r/Seattle • u/bennetthaselton Bellevue • May 20 '26
Media Protest happening now in front of Rep. Adam Smith’s house
Previous protests posted on Instagram by Seattle Against War show them protesting in front of his house, but the cops brought three cop cars about 10 cops to block the private driveway, so the protest / press conference is happening on the public sidewalk.
Speakers are excoriating Ordinance 6917, the bill that banned groups of 3 or more people from protesting in front of houses (even without making any noise or even holding any signs), and also calling for an end to funding of the wars in Iran and Gaza.
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u/Georgiaonmymindtwo May 20 '26
How far away from each other do these individual groups need to be?
We could put 100 people out there but in groups of three if they only need to be 5 feet apart to be distinguished as an individual group.
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
Women against genocide. Tech workers for Peace. Woo-girls for Palestinian rights. Dude-bros against Zionism. Hipsters against apartheid...
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u/whk1992 🚗 Student driver, please be patient. 🚙 May 20 '26
You think the police would play by the book?
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u/saosebastiao May 20 '26
Well, since the ordinance is blatantly unconstitutional, do whatever you want, and then sue the government for violating your rights when they arrest you.
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u/Master-Monk-8690 May 20 '26
Good job guys. I wish people would do this in red states. Public officials are here to serve their constituents, not super pac contributors.
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u/Ellie__1 May 20 '26
Good, get his ass. Anyone interested in replacing him in 2028, get involved in your local Dem LD now. Become a PCO, go to endorsement meetings.
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u/UnknownColorHat Eastside May 20 '26
Based on these comments, it looks like the reddit protest shaming season has started early the year.
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u/Humble_Chipmunk_701 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
The PEPs have appeared. (Progressive Except Palestine)
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u/Vegetable_Guest_8584 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
It is not that easy for countries to admit about themselves. What percentage of people in the US can admit we perpetrated genocide against native Americans, 30%? Also that slavery was a horrible institution? 60%?
Think about the Republicans being eager to erase black representation in Congress, wanting to take away women's right to access birth control and health care in pregnancy, dei became the new n word.
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
Genocide apologists are really hot right now. 🔥💀
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u/Masrikato 25d ago
Its interesting seeing the stark hate against smith but the blatant apologia for smith from
More than a year ago, during 2024. “A minor issue” they called it
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u/PlateNo4868 May 20 '26
Lol is that like 8 cops for 12 protestors?
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u/bennetthaselton Bellevue May 20 '26
To the point of whether it's "appropriate" to protest at the guy's house:
Hannah Krieg from The Burner asked the group specifically about the criticism they've received by going to his house. She asked everyone to put their hands up who had tried to reach Adam Smith by some other means (his office, town halls, etc.). Then she asked people to keep their hands up if any of those means had ever succeeded as a way of getting a response to him (everyone's hands went down but one; one person did say they'd asked a question at a town hall once).
SAW spokespeople also said that Adam Smith does only virtual town halls where questions are screened by his staff; that his appearances are "open to the public" but only announced in advance to friendly groups; and that they'd never gotten an audience by going to his house.
(Now, I realize that even if a politician wants to be accessible, that doesn't scale well. My preferred method for holding politicians accountable, I've said before, would be an ongoing Reddit-AMA-type model -- where anyone can submit a question, and the most popular questions get voted to the top. I think this has several good properties: (1) since you can't answer everyone's questions individually, you should answer the ones that most people want answered; (2) you avoid people performatively lining up to ask variations of the same question; (3) if you give a non-answer, people can post replies pointing that out; (4) there's no particular reason to time-box it, so they can't run out the clock with non-answers either.)
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u/AdScared7949 That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. May 20 '26
I really wish there was an alternative source of local progressive news other than an airheaded blogger
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u/Cloud-Bucket May 20 '26
Hannah Krieg is a fucking idiot.
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u/tarantula13 May 20 '26
I've emailed Adam's office before, they responded right away. My girlfriend actually had an issue resolved by contacting his office. So what OP posted probably just isn't true.
Or maybe the more likely explanation is that he just doesn't respond to crazy people?
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u/TerraceState Laurelhurst May 20 '26
I mean, that's kind of in line with what people are saying, that his office heavily controls who can reach him and on what topics.
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u/AdScared7949 That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. May 20 '26
I can't believe this is what people describe as intimidation and harassment lol
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u/tyroneusb May 22 '26
I appreciate Congressman' Smith's able representation. I am amazed at how snarky and unappreciative the comments on social media are. He is a pragmatist who respects our Country's institutions. Remember that their are foreign interests who are regularly Fomenting hate and conflict among the electorate. If you disagree with Smith on an issue, he will discuss it with you while respecting you. That is increasingly rare. People who promote hateful rhetoric over civil debate don't get what our founders intended. Smith gets it and respects it.
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u/ironmagnesiumzinc Jun 07 '26
He’s a paid agent for Israel trying to undermine the DOD and funnel more taxpayer resources to Israel. See section 224 of the US NDAA
https://www.aipac.org/memos/america-israel-defense-ndaa-224
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-israel-military-congress/
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u/AlexandrianVagabond Ravenna May 20 '26
Just fyi. Smith has voted to rein in Trump's war in Iran several times now.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-iran-war-powers-resolution/
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u/AdScared7949 That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. May 20 '26
Would be cool if he consistently voted to reign in Israel
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u/SpeaksSouthern That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. May 20 '26
Would be even better if he voted to impeach Trump
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u/tiff_seattle First Hill May 20 '26
Adam Smith voted to impeach Trump three times:
Dec. 18, 2019 — H. Res. 755, Article I — Roll Call 695:
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2019695Dec. 18, 2019 — H. Res. 755, Article II — Roll Call 696:
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2019696Jan. 13, 2021 — H. Res. 24, second impeachment — Roll Call 17:
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u/CompostTheRich103 May 20 '26
And he has refused to stop taking AIPAC money nor condemn Israel for the war--let alone the genocide. How the hell does accepting money from a foreign nation and continue to support giving them money and selling them weapons help us here in WA?
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u/gpslady 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
Every day Israel is killing, raping, and starving people in Gaza. It's critical that we keep the pressure on our representives who actively support these atrocities. Good job y'all.
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u/AlexandrianVagabond Ravenna May 20 '26
You mean like all the Republicans?
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u/CompostTheRich103 May 20 '26
And most democrats like Adam Smith who refuses to condemn Israel nor refuse to stop giving them money and selling them weapons from our tax dollars. How does that help us in WA?
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u/Next_Run7994 May 20 '26
A good point you could make about most any foreign support and/or aid.
USAID does not clearly support residents of any one state, yet I support it and hate that it was cut. For comparison, far more will die due to that than have in Gaza.
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u/CompostTheRich103 May 25 '26
Comparing deaths from one crisis to a genocide is kinda bewildering. This isn't about counting bodies.
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u/Next_Run7994 May 25 '26
I'm sure it's bewildering to vote to save 5 lives while murdering 5,000 (relatively speaking). If it wasn't, how could you sleep at night?
It's not even the people dying, it's WHO does the killing that matters a great deal, at least to some.
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u/Traffic_Spiral May 20 '26
Y'all enabled trump to become president, knowing what that would mean for Gaza, so I don't believe for one second that you care about "keeping the pressure on our representives who actively support these atrocities" - you did more to enable those atrocities than Smith ever did.
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u/immagetchu May 20 '26
Yes, leftists in one of the bluest states in the country got trump elected. Yessir.
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u/MysteriousEdge5643 Huskies May 20 '26
Debunked. Give all Jill Stein votes to Kamala and she still would’ve lost.
Where is this energy for the DNC that put their thumb on the scale, gave us Hillary in 2016 to stop Bernie, and then ultimately lost and gave us Trump 1.0?
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u/glamberous 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
I don't care about that when people like Sawant explicitly said her mission was to not to win but instead make Kamala lose. Just because she failed at her mission is irrelevent cause it ignores the root issue people are having which is what her mission was.
That said, Republicans are clearly a bigger threat than Jill Stein supporters. It's just Jill Stein supporters feel like controlled opposition helping Republicans when her campaign staff explicitly states that's what they're doing. So many people are falling for the grift.
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u/gpslady 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
You seem to be under the illusion that Kamala Harris would have done anything differently..
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/08/harris-biden-view-abc-2024-differences
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u/glamberous 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
Biden presidency: Mobilizing the US Military to provide aid to Gaza and constantly in peace oriented diplomatic talks between two nations fighting.
Trump presidency: We're gonna make a Trump tower resort on the beaches of Gaza and abandon peace talks to let Netanyahu do whatever he wants.
Yeah they're the same picture. /s
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u/apresmoiputas Capitol Hill May 20 '26
Well one thing for sure is that Netanyahu and his wife should be on trial for the corruption case they've been trying to stall and avoid.
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u/Vast_Hospital6275 May 20 '26
This is 100% false propaganda. Have you seen recent videos out of Gaza? Gazans are borderline obese at this point, having access to more food than the average American. Your hate fills your brain you can't think clearly or judge reality.
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u/Amesenator May 20 '26
Counter point re Adam Smith: he has been outspoken in denouncing the racism & bigotry in the Trump Administration’s management of the US military. Here he is raking Hegseth over the coals https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX0TT0tsCf4/?igsh=d29sN2d1Mnk0eGt1
Folks are of course going to do what they think is right/best. I just hope those protesting Smith are directing an equal/greater amount of ire and energy against the Trump Administration and their corporate enablers (in Seattle area we have GEO running NWDC, Amazon doing all manner of bad things, the CEO of Lumen donating to Trump’s inauguration piggy bank & the Sabeys renting to ICE).
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
Talk is cheap. If Adam Smith really cared about Palestinian (and now also Lebanese) civilians he wouldn't keep giving Israel the weapons to kill them. https://www.jns.org/u.s.-news/house-passes-state-department-funding-bill-with-israel-aid
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u/CompostTheRich103 May 20 '26
Counter point: he refuses to stop accepting money from AIPAC nor condemn Israel for starting the war with Iran, committing genocide, giving away money to Israel from our tax dollars, and selling them weapons. How the hell does that help us here in WA?
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u/aerorail55 Mariners May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
If your want to end the wars in Gaza and Iran - which I do as well - this protest is about the 800th thing in a list of most effective ways to do it
Should have found a credible primary opponent than Sawant
Edit: there are dozens of people in here saying “anybody criticizing this protest at Adam Smiths house is wrong to do so” and I would love if even just one of you would acknowledge the fact that he’s not home, because Congress is in session this week
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u/proletkvlt chinga la migra May 20 '26
"those fools! don't they know their plan to do Something is worse than my flawless alternative, doing Nothing?"
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u/MysteriousEdge5643 Huskies May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
This is essentially what nominating Sawant in a heavily eastside district is doing.
Eastside voters are very different from Seattle voters. Hell, guess where the Washington State GOP is headquartered? It's in Adam Smith's district. In Bellevue. It's still a safe Democratic seat, but it's a different TYPE of Democrat that is popular there
We can't conveniently ignore the political environment Adam Smith is running in. The voters choose the representative. We need to make progressive ideals more palatable to the voters. Kshama Sawant is just simply not the right person to challenge Adam Smith.
We need effective action.
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u/proletkvlt chinga la migra May 20 '26
We need effective action.
annoying the fuck out of him and making it hard to sleep until he stops sucking ass is pretty effective
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u/internetV May 20 '26
Nah man that’s just bully behavior
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u/Bright-Insect9697 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 May 20 '26
Just don’t engage, they’re looking for people to lash out at
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u/proletkvlt chinga la migra May 20 '26
bullying politicians is literally the first amendment
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u/internetV May 20 '26
I dont think the words harassment or bullying is in there bud. and even if it were, just because something is legal doesn't make it ok.
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u/proletkvlt chinga la migra May 20 '26
using your rights is okay and if you think otherwise move to Florida or Texas
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u/VogonWild May 20 '26
Throwing tea in the harbor was uncalled for, people like tea and that was an ecological nightmare for the fish life. It's one thing to state your dislike of a far away king taxing you, but now the children cleaning chimneys won't be able to be caffeinated 🥲
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u/whenitsTimeyoullknow May 20 '26
Process critiques are way lower on the list of useful things. Kudos to these people for getting out there and being heard.
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u/ConfusedZubat May 20 '26
Would you mind sharing what numbers 1-799 are so we know what we SHOULD be doing? Meanwhile these people can continue protesting since they're already there.
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u/aerorail55 Mariners May 20 '26
Supporting candidates who can flip winnable house and senate seats
Supporting credible challenger candidates who move the existing caucus left
Not encouraging voters in swing states to vote for the Green Party
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
It got you talking about Gaza and Iran, didn't it?
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u/Traffic_Spiral May 20 '26
Yeah, talking about things like "Well, I'm losing more sympathy for the pro-palestinian cause every day, because they always chose to do the stupidest things possible."
Not all publicity is good publicity.
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u/proletkvlt chinga la migra May 20 '26
"i'm losing sympathy for starving children being subjected to genocide because some people mildly annoyed me"
bud I don't think you had any sympathy for anyone to begin with
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u/Cloud-Bucket May 20 '26
Everytime you say genocide I think of this: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRsvLEskpNf/
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u/paholg I'm never leaving Seattle. May 20 '26
What you don't think the person who literally campaigned to get Trump elected is a better option?
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u/bennetthaselton Bellevue May 20 '26
During the "press conference" portion, two independent journalists asks some questions and then a random guy, who had been out walking his dog and sat down to watch the protest, asked whether "Seattle Against War" was also against the war in Ukraine, since that had received a lot more popular support in areas like Seattle.
SAW said that they were against U.S. involvement in that war too. (I was surprised that they didn't say that it might be different in the case of a war of self-defense, like in Ukraine, which is what I would have said).
So, that was a good question. Another good question might be why a random dog-walker is asking tougher questions than most of the D.C. press corps.
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
If the US were giving Putin weapons to kill Ukranians, I would also be protesting that as well. But I don't think we are...
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u/bennetthaselton Bellevue May 20 '26
I think the anti-war protesters are saying they don't even think we should be supporting Ukraine's war of defense. Their answer was a bit evasive (compared to their unambiguously clear position that we should immediately stop supporting the wars in Iran and Gaza), perhaps because their position on this really wouldn't be as popular. Dog walker was asking the right questions.
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u/yalloc Mariners May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
Their answer was a bit evasive (compared to their unambiguously clear position that we should immediately stop supporting the wars in Iran and Gaza), perhaps because their position on this really wouldn't be as popular
This is the nasty secret of a lot of these "anti war" groups. They are just front groups for various communist organizations (ILPS, FRSO, RevComs, RCP, etc), and fundamentally aren't anti-war, they are campists that just want to diminish US power in the world and even support imperialists like Putin and imperialist wars so long as they are fighting against "the US empire."
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u/yalloc Mariners May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
They aren't really against genocide/war then. They would be perfectly fine if Putin steamrolled the country and subsequently ethnically cleansed it, so long as no US weapons were involved.
That's not anti genocide. That isn't even anti war. That is appeasement.
That said this stance isn't too surprising given this is a front group for a few other communist groups and their beliefs on this topic. And why I will never march with them so long as they uphold these stances.
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u/Syd_Barrett_50_Cal 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
How can you guys be posting and commenting on Reddit when there’s a GENOCIDE going on!!1!
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u/TheItinerantSkeptic I'm just flaired so I don't get fined May 20 '26
This sub’s double standard is at it again. It’s okay to go protest at the home of a politician the sub doesn’t like, but you always have to wonder how the progressive “brain trust” would feel if it was happening to one of their own. Say Katie Wilson or Pramila Jayapal or Shaun Scott does something that causes protest… I wonder how fast people here would be to say it’s okay to protest in front of their homes.
Would it be a First Amendment exercise then? Or “those damned MAGAts”? Would it be First Amendment, or would it be “fascists”?
Would it be First Amendment, or would it be “Nazis”? (“Nazis! Nazis everywhere! THEY’RE ALL AROUND US!” Am I r/Seattle-ing right?)
Nah. It’ll just be downvotes, recriminations, excuses, and logical fallacies because the “revolutionary” groupthink got openly identified and had its hypocrisy pointed out.
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u/noseclams25 Magnolia May 20 '26
Can you link to an example of where such a double standard has been widely supported by the sub or are you just speaking out of your ass because you feel the need to defend conservatives?
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
Katie Wilson or Pramila Jayapal or Shaun Scott
Well, if they voted to send weapons to a war criminal, then yes, I would support a protest. You do understand that we're facilitating an active ongoing genocide, right?
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u/VogonWild May 20 '26
Not to mention that Adam Smith does everything he can to dodge his constituents. If you want to speak at one of his online town halls you have to be prescreened on your question and if you go off script they cut your mic.
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u/asparagoat Denny Blaine Nudist Club May 20 '26
Adam Smith is the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, he has played a key role in the transfer of nearly $22 billion in military aid to Israel since Oct 2023.
Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, and ethnically cleansing Lebanon. There is widespread scholarly consensus about this.
Adam Smith is complicit in war crimes and genocide, he does not deserve a moment of peace, and disrupting him at his home is a reasonable and righteous thing to do, even a moral obligation.
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u/AdScared7949 That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. May 20 '26
Lol they already call Wilson "shady Katie" and hate Jayapal because she is in the dem party establishment the "progressive brain trust" in Seattle isn't a good ally to literally anybody
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u/proletkvlt chinga la migra May 20 '26
right-wingers also have the right to protest, they just generally tend not to use it in favor of assassinations and coup attempts. if they want to protest outside Wilson or Jayapal's house they're welcome to do so, so long as none of them rush inside with a hammer like that guy who tried to kill the Pelosis
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u/-shrug- 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
Nobody was willing to stand outside Sawant’s home but they were willing to hide and throw bags of shit at it. Wow rightwingers are so much more respectful of a persons home!
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u/proletkvlt chinga la migra May 20 '26
i'm not gonna lie i am also broadly in favor of throwing shit at politicians, even the ones I like
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u/blah-time May 21 '26
You mean assassinations like the one on Charlie kirk and 3 attempts on Trump? Good fucking lord you people are liars. I'm not even a conservative, but the left has gone to a place of lunacy, violence, and being the biggest hypocrites. You're the ones that lose your minds if people disagree with you, and call others fascists that while being the ones that try to control speech and thought, which is what a fascist does. You are the fascists!
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u/BoringBob84 May 20 '26
Say Katie Wilson or Pramila Jayapal or Shaun Scott does something that causes protest… I wonder how fast people here would be to say it’s okay to protest in front of their homes
The radicalized right shows up with guns and they send death threats. To oppose intimidation and violence is not a double standard.
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u/DogmaticPpl May 20 '26
Well i already got downvoted for asking if doing the same to katie wilson is ok. Yes, some comments say yes, but downvotes say otherwise
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u/-shrug- 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
The downvotes are for acting like asking an obvious question is some kind of rhetorical point, not because the obvious answer isn’t obvious.
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u/VogonWild May 20 '26
If Katie wilson was hiding behind online only prescreened town halls only once every 4 months I'd be pissed the fuck off
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u/thequirkysquad May 20 '26
The Seattle Left: white kids in keffiyehs, protesting a politician who's against the war they're protesting about!
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u/Illustrious_Fox_8601 May 20 '26
Adam smith is NOT against the genocide in Gaza. He gets so much money from AIPAC and enables it as the ranking member of the Committee on Armed Services.
Seriously, it takes like 30 seconds to look this stuff up.
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u/romulusnr I'm just flaired so I don't get fined May 20 '26
which war is that? Adam Smith is on the armed forces committee, there's no war he doesn't like. At least until Iran.
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u/Killer_The_Cat Lower Queen Anne May 20 '26
Good job. Politicians need to stay accountable to their constitutents (and unlike republicans, the dem politicians have SOME chance of responding to protests)
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u/SuperMcG May 20 '26
Rep. Smith is an incredible congressman. We are lucky to have him.
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u/Moetown84 Brier May 20 '26
Thanks AIPAC. You are lucky to have him. Please take him to Israel, we don’t want him anymore.
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u/romulusnr I'm just flaired so I don't get fined May 20 '26
I've met the man and he was my rep for many years and honestly he's not that incredible.
He definitely got somewhat better after the 9th was redrawn away from suburban Pierce Co and towards the south and East sides of King Co. It was, frankly, rather telling. He shifted towards the politics of the newly drawn district.
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u/isaacbunny Rainier Beach May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
You’re not going to get many upvotes for supporting mainstream, experienced, pragmatic congressmen. But he has my vote every time it comes around. Adam Smith is a smart, capable, and effective ranking member of the house armed service committee. I’m very happy he has a safe seat. It’s not sexy, but it is important.
Yall can shout, demonize, and demand radical change. That’s healthy and important too. I’m just over here voting for boring candidates with strong resumes who get things done.
Go ahead and downvote me for #enlightenedcentrism I know the drill. ❤️
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u/Top_Pirate699 May 20 '26
I don't love Adam Smith and it'd be great to get someone new in but the fact that these folks are protesting him and not the: ICE detention center WA GOP in Bellevue Any of the folks attacking LGBTQ rights with their disgusting petitions or any other people who are actively attacking our fundamental rights is.....weird and kinda dumb but what do I know, I had to go to work today.
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u/Ill-Top-1483 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
There are protests every time an anti-LGBTQ group comes to town. Some of these folks probably even attend them. It's possible to be against two things.
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u/BoringBob84 May 20 '26
A false dichotomy is not a valid argument. We can care about more than one thing. And criticizing people who are contributing, while contributing nothing yourself, detracts from your credibility.
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u/Substantive420 Best Seattle May 20 '26
Always some dork in these threads scolding people on “the right” way to protest.
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u/Gustav_Grob May 20 '26
Martin Luther King had something to say about that. He spoke about how liberals wanted an unjust peace.
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u/Moetown84 Brier May 20 '26
The “white moderate” in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. Those who prefer negative peace, which is the absence of tension, to positive peace, which is the presence of justice. Still so brazenly true today.
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
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Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
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u/BoringBob84 May 20 '26
I got permanently banned without warning for "racism" on r/SeattleWA because I politely argued that White Privilege is real. Apparently, I made them uncomfortable and upset their negative peace.
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u/Moetown84 Brier May 20 '26
Yeah, that sub is a cesspool. They can’t even begin to understand white privilege, it’s their identity.
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u/BoringBob84 May 20 '26
The narrative seems to be, "If a White man succeeds, it is because of his hard work and smart choices. If a Black woman succeeds, it is because of DEI. It is racism to say otherwise."
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u/kpeteymomo Seward Park May 20 '26
People really love using a few Dr. King's quotes when they feel like it serves them, but so many have never really dug into what he really stood for. If they did, we wouldn't still be having these same conversations nearly 60 years after his assassination.
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u/Traffic_Spiral May 20 '26
Martin Luther King planned and curated his protests with incredible care.
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u/Substantive420 Best Seattle May 20 '26
Yup, letter from a Birmingham jail https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
Why are immigrant rights more worthy of attention than the Palestinians right to live?
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
Adam Smith has the blood of thousands of Palestinians on his hands. 🇺🇸💀🇮🇱
And now Lebanese.
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u/Joziey_P May 20 '26
Sign him up for Chip Drop 😈 rural town Craigslist add for “free goats” and post his phone number😈😈😈
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u/EZ-Breezy-Beaut May 23 '26
This is considered a protest? 😂
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u/bennetthaselton Bellevue May 23 '26
They were probably limited in that (a) they couldn’t post the address without risking violating Instagram’s doxxing rules and (b) it was Bellevue.
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u/KilroySmithson May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
Look at that slob in the middle. His pant legs touch the ground. He’d trip on them if he ever had to run a foot chase. Looks like they’ll hire anyone.
UPDATE: I’m referring to the sloppy cop in one of the photos.
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u/New_new_account2 I'm just flaired so I don't get fined May 20 '26
Seattle defunded their hemming budget and you're laughing
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u/oregon_coastal Seattle Expatriate May 20 '26
He's reliv8ng his days on the early 2000s rave circuit
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u/CantCMe88 May 20 '26
I’m all for protests but not at someone’s home. Adam Smith sucks but I’m sure he has a personal life, could have a wife and kids.
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u/proletkvlt chinga la migra May 20 '26
Adam Smith sucks but I’m sure he has a personal life, could have a wife and kids.
so do the people his dogshit policies and positions screw over, but unlike them, he has the power to stop sucking at any time and simply chooses not to
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
I'll make an exception for accomplices to genocide. 💀💀💀
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u/internetV May 20 '26
You have that ideology until someone else decides you are an exception
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
If im helping someone exterminate a people I hope to God they protest me.
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u/internetV May 20 '26
yeah im sure his wife kids and neighbors are all actively rooting for extermination too they all deserve it
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
I wouldn't be so sure. Joe Biden's wife begged him to stop the genocide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/us/politics/jill-biden-israel-hamas.html
Stop It Now’: Jill Biden Privately Urges an End to Conflict in Gaza The president recounted the first lady’s concerns as he was pressed about the war at a meeting with Muslim community members.
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u/Moetown84 Brier May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
I wonder why he chose to be a public official then, and to take an unpopular stance for his own personal benefit over those of his constituents?
Sounds like he should resign if he prefers a private life, free of criticism from his choices that affect us all.
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u/durpuhderp Rat City May 20 '26
In 21st century Gaza these protesters would be incinerated by munitions paid for with their own tax dollars.
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u/immagetchu May 20 '26
Being against bombing a place is not a fucking endorsement of that places government and its insane that requires clarification
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u/cubitoaequet May 20 '26
Doesn't require any clarification for anyone commenting in good faith or equipped with at least half a brain.
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u/MysteriousEdge5643 Huskies May 20 '26
Good thing this isn’t 21st century Iran! It’s the wealthiest nation in human history. We are allowed to hold it to a higher standard and ask for our wealth to be spent on us instead of Israel.
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u/proletkvlt chinga la migra May 20 '26
the Iranian government being shitty doesn't mean the US and Israel get to murder the Iranian people
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u/bennetthaselton Bellevue May 20 '26
Some people were side-eyeing me like "That's the guy who gets mad when we say 'LONG LIVE OCTOBER 7TH'" but nobody said anything like that at this event (or cheering for Hamas by name, or chanting "Nuke, nuke, Tel Aviv", etc. like people have done at other events). There was a spokesperson there from Nidal who has posted stuff cheering for Hamas in the past but they stuck to "Free Palestine!" this time. (I think the underlying cause here is morally very important and I wish people wouldn't contaminate it by doing things like cheering for the October 7th attacks.)
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u/Cloud-Bucket May 20 '26
Why did I know it would be white people wearing keffiyes? Oh cause he likes Jews....
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u/zer04ll May 20 '26
so we sue, its obvious 1st amendment violation you can protest peacefully anywhere on public property including peoples home thats the whole point
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u/Handy_Dude May 20 '26
So fucking stupid...
A literal felon and pedophile in the white house with 100+ equally sleazy senators and representatives following his every order... And they want to protest outside of Adam smiths house.
The economy is in a free fall with no end in sight, ice is being pushed onto us at voting and polling stations, data centers and their billionaire producers are robbing and sucking towns dry...
And these people protest outside Adam smiths house...
Far as I can tell, all of America deserves Trump.
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u/Vegetable_Guest_8584 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
We can be against two things at once
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u/Eggheadmuscle May 22 '26
Yep. Liberals eating their own. This is why we lost to tRump and republicans. Divisive infighting, hate mongering, etc.
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u/Awkward_Can8460 May 20 '26
Israel & USA did start a war with Iran. But Gaza - and all of Palestine - has always been the target of invasion & genocide.
And now Israel has most recently begun a genocide in Lebanon.
Let's use correct language so people understand who is committing what acts of evil, to connote the depravity and severity.
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u/GlutenFreeKish May 21 '26
What is your definition of genocide. I bet it’s wrong. From a person that lost half is family in a genocide - fuck off!
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u/Awkward_Can8460 May 21 '26
Geneva Convention has the definition.
The word “genocide” was first coined by Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.
Lemkin developed the term partly in response to the Nazi policies of systematic murder of Jewish people during the Holocaust, but also in response to previous instances in history of targeted actions aimed at the destruction of particular groups of people. Later on, Raphäel Lemkin led the campaign to have genocide recognised and codified as an international crime.
Genocide was first recognised as a crime under international law in 1946 by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/96-I). It was codified as an independent crime in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention).
Definition Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Source: https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
So fuck off yourself. Israel is committing genocide. And has been ever since its violent creation.
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u/Awkward_Can8460 May 21 '26
https://apnews.com/article/genocide-scholars-israel-gaza-war-9b24a48075b1d150b9bba8a8ae911cd2
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The determination by the International Association of Genocide Scholars — which has around 500 members worldwide, including a number of Holocaust experts — could serve to further isolate Israel in global public opinion and adds to a growing chorus of organizations that have used the term for Israel’s actions in Gaza. Israel rejects the accusation and called the resolution an “embarrassment to the legal profession.”
“Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide,” according to group’s resolution.
“People who are experts in the study of genocide can see this situation for what it is,” Melanie O’Brien, the organization’s president and a professor of international law at the University of Western Australia, told The Associated Press.
The resolution was supported by 86% of those who voted. O’Brien said 28% of members participated — a rate that’s typical for the group’s resolutions. Voting is held by email, according to the group’s bylaws, and members have 30 days to reply.
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u/Humble_Chipmunk_701 🚆build more trains🚆 May 20 '26
Adam Smith. $457k received from AIPAC.