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Tactician_mark | 1 year ago

You could get together in a big group and all say the same things in unison. Maybe even hold some signs saying those things

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sixo|1 year ago

That's right! And on average, the impact of mass protests in recent years, towards the causes they support, is somewhere between "zero" and "massively negative". Care all you want and politics will just ignore you or get angry at you for caring.

See e.g. throwing oil on famous paintings, or everything re Palestine in the past couple of years.

Protesting effectively is a skill which the present generation lacks. They don't even realize it's a skill issue. "Surely if we just care harder somebody will do something..!", they think, over and over. Doesn't make it so.

orwin|1 year ago

France Yellow jackets, China anti-lockdown protests are well known failure with 0 impact.

I will also tell the friends I made/lived with in NDDL that our action had no impact and that the airport is being built (given that a couple of them bought a house where the airport was supposed to be, they might not all believe me).