No but it’s the first step. As momentum builds more people are emboldened to protest, and the scope of the protests widen and get more effective.
This sort of statement is typically made by people who want to stall and prevent action. You see it all the time in various forums: “if this activity doesn’t 100% fix everything immediately then there is no point in doing anything”.
Unfortunately we don’t live in a black and white world where a switch can be flipped from awful to wonderful (as if it was even possible for everyone to agree on that). You get there in small incremental steps with messy interactions and disagreements along the way.
Protests like this can lead to ongoing effective resistance like strikes, work to rules and etc. But you don’t get someone to go from never having protested in their lives to manning a blockade of a govt building in one step.
Exactly. For the past month I’ve read many people here saying protest are useless because of various bullshit reasons. Protest are just a starting point. At protest, people talk, organize, that can lead to more massive protest, a new ideology, a revolution, or nothing. You never know.
I’m French. I have been to many protests. Some ended in massive movement for no reasons. Some died while the cause was very important.
You never know.
There’s no actual disobedience in going to a protest. It’s completely permitted and allowed as long as the protesters don’t actually do anything. It’s a means of directing discontent into a dead end.
you speak truth and they downvote it because they don’t want to face that fact that one day of standing around accomplishes nothing. they want to think this will be easy and won’t require real sacrifice. they’re lazy and naive.
please bookmark this post. show me what changes one month from now. one year from now. please prove me wrong.
If you can’t even bother to stand around to protest, how tf are you supposed to get people to do more extreme actions when the time such drastic actions are required comes around? Your apathetic response to protesting will only lead to a more fractured society that cannot attempt any meaningful resistance to the fascist in the white house.
People who are serious doesn’t balk at the idea of protesting. If you can’t even bother sacrificing time to sit around to show people that its safe for them to come fight against fascism, there is no way you’d have the guts to sacrifice your life to actually fight against the fascist when the time comes. It’s probably better if you just sit at home and don’t bother talking about fighting or protesting. At this point, you’re more of an asset to the fascists than anything, even if you didnt know it yet.
how about i do WTF i want? you’re not the judge of what works and what doesn’t. please. bookmark this comment. come back to me in a year and prove how i was wrong. the proof is in the pudding, pacifist.
Can you even read? I said your type of action is what will result in protests being ineffective at uniting the people that will fight against fascism.
People failing to remove fascism a year from now will only prove me right if you still decide to continue what you’re doing. To prove your point, you would need to join up with the protest and stop trying to kill it in its infancy and still fail to remove fascism.
So go ahead and continue what you’re doing and you might prove me right.
if the people don’t have the spine for what it takes, then it’s hopeless.
have you ever considered that a lot of these people are going to feel defeated after they waste their time protesting and nothing gets accomplished? there’s no guarantee that getting a bunch of people together for feelgood BS leads to more effective resistance. this is the same as saying “just go to college and follow your dreams and everything will magically work out”. it’s a lie. people need to understand where western civilization is at.
I don’t think we’ll see the upheaval of a fascist regime by picketers carrying signs any time soon.
No but it’s the first step. As momentum builds more people are emboldened to protest, and the scope of the protests widen and get more effective.
This sort of statement is typically made by people who want to stall and prevent action. You see it all the time in various forums: “if this activity doesn’t 100% fix everything immediately then there is no point in doing anything”.
Unfortunately we don’t live in a black and white world where a switch can be flipped from awful to wonderful (as if it was even possible for everyone to agree on that). You get there in small incremental steps with messy interactions and disagreements along the way.
Protests like this can lead to ongoing effective resistance like strikes, work to rules and etc. But you don’t get someone to go from never having protested in their lives to manning a blockade of a govt building in one step.
Exactly. For the past month I’ve read many people here saying protest are useless because of various bullshit reasons. Protest are just a starting point. At protest, people talk, organize, that can lead to more massive protest, a new ideology, a revolution, or nothing. You never know.
I’m French. I have been to many protests. Some ended in massive movement for no reasons. Some died while the cause was very important. You never know.
Obeying in advance, yikes fucking pathetic.
There’s no actual disobedience in going to a protest. It’s completely permitted and allowed as long as the protesters don’t actually do anything. It’s a means of directing discontent into a dead end.
It’s a means of starting something meaningful and impactful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
This is to show the people who are feeling alone with their despair, that they are in fact not alone.
And it is to recruit people for the upcoming general strike.
For a general strike to take effect, it needs about 10mil people, and it is estimated that there are about 5mil people demonstrating in America today.
you speak truth and they downvote it because they don’t want to face that fact that one day of standing around accomplishes nothing. they want to think this will be easy and won’t require real sacrifice. they’re lazy and naive.
please bookmark this post. show me what changes one month from now. one year from now. please prove me wrong.
Well it’s a good thing it hasn’t been just one day, and there are many more planned for the future. Come get involved!
If you can’t even bother to stand around to protest, how tf are you supposed to get people to do more extreme actions when the time such drastic actions are required comes around? Your apathetic response to protesting will only lead to a more fractured society that cannot attempt any meaningful resistance to the fascist in the white house.
yeah, i’m not into wasting my time. i’m here when the people decide to get serious though.
People who are serious doesn’t balk at the idea of protesting. If you can’t even bother sacrificing time to sit around to show people that its safe for them to come fight against fascism, there is no way you’d have the guts to sacrifice your life to actually fight against the fascist when the time comes. It’s probably better if you just sit at home and don’t bother talking about fighting or protesting. At this point, you’re more of an asset to the fascists than anything, even if you didnt know it yet.
how about i do WTF i want? you’re not the judge of what works and what doesn’t. please. bookmark this comment. come back to me in a year and prove how i was wrong. the proof is in the pudding, pacifist.
Says the person judging what other people do, and what works and what doesn’t.
Can you even read? I said your type of action is what will result in protests being ineffective at uniting the people that will fight against fascism.
People failing to remove fascism a year from now will only prove me right if you still decide to continue what you’re doing. To prove your point, you would need to join up with the protest and stop trying to kill it in its infancy and still fail to remove fascism.
So go ahead and continue what you’re doing and you might prove me right.
if the people don’t have the spine for what it takes, then it’s hopeless.
have you ever considered that a lot of these people are going to feel defeated after they waste their time protesting and nothing gets accomplished? there’s no guarantee that getting a bunch of people together for feelgood BS leads to more effective resistance. this is the same as saying “just go to college and follow your dreams and everything will magically work out”. it’s a lie. people need to understand where western civilization is at.
That’s not at all what the responses (that have been up for hours before you posted this) have been saying.