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Underwhelmed by protests (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago by electric_nan@lemmy.ml to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I just went down to our local lib demonstration. All I could really feel was depressed. All those people waving signs but I wonder how many are willing to do anything more than that? Shit most of them were pretty old, tbh. I approached some people I clocked as comrades but I was very awkward and we didn't have a conversation.

I guess I don't really have a question here. Just feel like everybody has identified (some of) the problems, but have totally misidentified the solutions. Will these protests ever accomplish anything? Can we radicalize the protestors without them having to get beaten by cops? Or is that what it will take?

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[โ€“] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"protests" are networking opportunities at best, at worst they're the democratic party of activism and make libs think they've done something and pack it up.

[โ€“] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

They can be more than that if you can get them consistent and growing. Protests have to be designed explicitly as a threat "We could fucking take you and guillotine you if you ignore us, you will run out of bullets before we run out of people, but we have decided to exercise mercy and give you the chance to see reason." But the purpose of protests has largely been lost.