Phil wants people to donate money for a day of self-indulgence because he spent all his money on self-indulgence. He wants to feel like there isn’t a war on, even though all that’s happening is another protest that he won’t go to.
One thing I would add to the previous answers is that there used to be more variety. When he talked about being Antifa or being a super soldier or having a gun, that was once new and exciting. Now it’s just the same boring posturing over and over again. People here don’t really have much to say beyond “you’re full of shit,” because it’s all been said. Phil is at an impasse, because he knows as well as we do that he can’t surprise us unless he actually does something to back his threats up, and that’s never going to happen.
Now I think he’s just degenerating towards sadcow status. The story of Phil ends with him homeless, pushing a shopping cart full of toy weapons, pleather bondage gear and rain-soaked scribbles about the streets of Portland, a tard helmet upon his head, mumbling incomprehensibly about Kiwi agents.