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This exact defeatist thinking is what led to all of this nonsense. Banding together gives people a sense of hope and community that gets lost when everyone is so isolated nowadays. These protests remind everyone that there's a like-minded community around them that all support one another, and gives them the strength to do more than just protest. One person cannot do much to make change, but a collective community bandrd together can. Rolling over, going "protests don't work, just give up" is actively harmful to a movement.
It isn't defeatist. I'm saying ramp that shit up.
Trump and MAGA aren't the usual government. They hate you. Making you pissed and angry standing outside holding signs is funny to them.
Start burning and breaking shit.
Nobody but you is saying "just give up" you're mischarachterizing others by adding that on there.
Protests can work, but they work via disobedience, inflicting other harms to those with power and (most importantly) threatening violence if things do not change. Anything that doesn't do all 3 of those things isn't a protest, it's a parade.
Parades can build community, but pretending parades are inherently some sort of engine of social progress is insane.
Yeah, we need a place to organize for the real stuff. Unfortunately they keep censoring things that “incite violence against property or encourage illegal activity” like sit-ins or sabotage. You aren't going to win by playing by their rules. They keep making executive orders, and disappearing people, and nothing is being done to actually stop it.