They work. As long as people make sure that the top knows that the alternative are guillotines
Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?
blady_blah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Because, in reality, peaceful protests don’t work. We’ve been taught that they do, but they don’t.
The most successful protest going on right now is against Tesla. A bit of anonymous property destruction and a boycott, crashing the stock price, those things actually work. Getting together and holding signs doesn’t actually do anything, especially in some place like California.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Curmudge_john@lazysoci.al 4 weeks ago
Good news, Peaceful protests are actually twice as likely to bring about change. Better news, peaceful protests with only 3.5% of the population actively participating have never failed to bring about change. Even better news, we have strong leadership in Bernie Sanders and AOC leading this movement, 34,000 people showed up to a recent rally in Denver.
*Source bbc.com/…/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-…