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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€“] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The 2014 ukraine colour rev/coup (maidan) was escalated intentionally by the shooting of protestors by nazis posing as cops.

The CIA knows state violence against protestors is a flashpoint for escalation, and actively wields it as part of their internal build-a-revolution playbook. 2014 would have stayed a bunch of protestors waving rainbow flags and listening to bands on stages and sizzling sausages on barbecues (all brought in to keep people there for as long as possible) then eventually it would have fizzled out if not for the escalation.

[โ€“] Crucible@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Maybe we'll get very lucky and all the guys at Langley who know how to do this took Trump's early retirement deal