• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    Critics are speaking out.

    And will once again be ignored.

    May I point the audience to the protests before the war in Iraq? Biggest worldwide protests in history at that point, and it did fuck all to stop the war.

    When will we learn that change isn’t going to come from being reasonable and pointing to evidence. Those things don’t mean anything to the Capital class.

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      11 months ago

      Protest only works if there’s a credible threat of violence.

      And even then, like we saw with the calls to defund the police, it only really works in the short-term.

      The people are mostly powerless.

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      11 months ago

      I see the biggest protest in history as the first Earth Day Protests, which had some absurd number like 1/10 of everyone in the US, out to protest.

      And it solved pollution forever~