A core principle of leninism and any sort of socialism is adhering to the needs of the masses and working in coordination with the masses. Having a vanguard party doesn’t mean imposing something forcibly on people, and there would be other mass organizations aside from the core vanguard party that work together.
They blame dems, but it seems like they see the less mainstream democrats that are pushing away from the corporate dems as more promising, like there have been a handful of former Trump voters who said they liked Mamdani because he’s doing something different and trying to make things more affordable for average people.
According to Wikipedia the largest on record was over 7ft tall, they don’t have average heights listed but some other BS site said they range from 4-6.5 ft so it’s large but apparently not too incredibly so.
Speak for yourself, why do you think they need AI and robots and all the shit they do? They don’t actually have that many goons and their tech is mostly grifts, we outnumber the state forces massively, we just have to fight back.
At the ones I’ve seen, the action itself was just speeches and signs etc, but people were meeting new comrades and organizations, some people learning about PSL for the first time which actually calls for serious action. It’s not intended to be a strike-back type of thing like what’s happening in France or Albania, it’s helping people who have never done any serious political work in their lives get their foot in it.