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More than 1,000 events planned in US after ICE shootings in Minneapolis and Portland
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Nothing will come of these protests. They're all going to be infected with a severe case of the omnicause, and that will cause too much internal division and infighting to actually produce anything.
The one and only time in the past few years where that didn't happen was during the hands off/no kings protests last year, which is why the turnout was so big. Unfortunately that didn't last.
every act of protest is a failure, until it isn't. recall the civil rights marches and protests.
it's true, protesting doesn't guarantee change, but if it doesn't, then you can say you tried, before escalating to armed fucking rebelliion
I get your point, but I don't think it invalidates mine. The tactics and optics that protests use matter a lot, and subsequent protests should learn from previous attempts what worked and what didn't. However, we're not seeing that evolution. It's the same damn issues every time that lead these protests to fizzle out rather than build to actual change. I firmly believe that this time will be no different, these protests will find ways to devolve into an omnicause protest and fizzle out. Which is unfortunate because if that time and energy was more organized and disciplined, we could have formed genuine resistance to Trump and MAGA
agreed. it's so fucking frustrating being surrounded by people who hate everything that's happening, but would rather carry on as if everything is 'business as usual,' even as the world burns beneath us.
yes-- "peaceful protesting" is not going to fix this
Right now, we have nothing. There's literally zero resistance. Trump is doing whatever he wants with zero obstacles and zero consequences. We have neither peaceful or violent protests in the works. The "peaceful protests" are nothing more a gathering party for people who like to virtue signal, and all the "armed resistance" is too chronically online. I just wish there was at least a sense of urgency among people, but there isn't. Without a feeling urgency, nobody is willing to go out, connect, organize, and carry out meaningful protests and resistance. It's baffling to me how after a year of the orange dipshit setting the country and world on fire, people still don't care.
It's because people are too scared to do anything rn. They have kids and don't want to become homeless, or lose their jobs. They aren't mad enough yet. That comes with time and events out of their control, when they realize that life under dictatorial rule is worse than death.
That's when you'll see people start paying the cost to fight for their lives.
This is anecdotal. Your viewpoint illustrates that you are not on the frontlines building civil organizations or participating in direct action (which does not necessarily involve sabotage, folks).
Unified monoperspectives are dangerous anyway. Build coalitions and hegemony among various segments of local regions. Read/discuss Gramsci's prison writings.
For protesting to work, it has to be disruptive. Read: not violent, but disruptive.
If you only protest when and where it's allowed, then you're not really bothering people (because if it were bothering the right people, it wouldn't be allowed). Block streets, block businesses, block and bother people who want to go shopping, so they stay or go home and businesses lose money. AND KEEP IT UP. Don't go home after one afternoon and give yourself a pat on the back. Stay there day in, day out, and don't let up.
More importantly: STRIKE. Stop making money for the owner class. Strike and make sure other people can't keep making money for the owner class. Let garbage pile up in the street, let packages go undelivered, let the bit of public transport you have stand still, stop cleaning those toilets, stop building those shiny new office buildings. STRIKE until they listen to you, hurt them until they listen to you.
Basically you need to grind society to a halt and force them to listen to you. Don't be a tiny nuisance they can ignore for a day or two until things go back to normal. Why would they respond to that?
And for the love of everything that's good, don't give me the bullshit excuse of not having enough money, of not being able to lose your job, not having a social safety net. Throughout all of history, all over the world, there have been protests, riots, rebellions, revolutions -- do you think all those people had job security and social safety nets? Let's be honest about this: it's just not bad enough for most people, that's why it's not happening.
Gorrilladrums here looking for a quick fix. Tiktok politics rearing its sleepy head.
Study history. Protests necessary but not a solitary solution.
Nothing will come of negative pointless comments like this