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What is the Shutdown 315 Movement?

Edit: Because of the number of negative and discouraging comments that are counterproductive to the message of this post, I have decided to remove select comments that discourage organization. I apologize in advance if your comment is removed inadvertently.

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Look at the 50 protests in 50 states that just happened. A couple thousand people showed up out of hundreds of millions. And that's much less of a sacrifice than risking your livelihood.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wow look they're all still in power and ripping shit apart.

Almost like they don't fucking care if people stand around wirh signs.

Maybe we should try another strongly worded letter.

Oh i know, lets do a big petition in bold font!

[–] 0101100101@programming.dev 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Psyops: Let's help the little people get it out of their systems... Let's get them to stand around with signs just like the good old days and put up a few posts on social media to organise it. They'll soon give up and learn to accept it.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm saying Americans are too lazy and domesticated to do what's necessary when peaceful protests inevitably fail