Until the other issue highlighted in that comment - that the majority of people can’t afford to take the time off work to do something disruptive - is solved, I’m not sure how we get from here to there, unfortunately.
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MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoI feel like the point is less about size and more about the methods. I think it aims at the issue highlighted by an other comment that this protest while good doesn’t really disrupt the system.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a problem that will start to solve itself as the economy collapses 😕, though that’s when things start to get interesting.
I’m tired of living in interesting times.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
For real, the articles I’ve seen about it from the other side of the pond have looked almost dystopianly Hunger Games-esque. Almost like the media was giving them a gold star for all the pretty photo-ops they’d supplied them, where no property was damaged, no police showed up, and nobody got hurt. It was kinda sickening.
Even the most lackluster, neighborhood block protest in France or the UK captures the outrage of the people more potently. Going off what I’ve seen, Americans seem awfully comfortable right now.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Don’t mistake awareness for comfort. We catch a lot of heat for our ridiculous levels of gun violence, but living around that many guns, in a nation where cops, ICE, and counter-protestors armed with assault rifles are just looking for an excuse to unload, you learn how far to push without causing a situation where strays are flying into the crowd. At Defund the Police and Pride we’ve had jacked up pick-ups filled with armed red necks roll coal and brandish on us in full view of the cops; nothing happened. At BLM one of them popped a shot off to spook the crowd; caught, claimed he accidentally turned the safety off, no charges. How many videos are there of monster trucks plowing into crowds? Plus, the new tactic is to show up covered in cameras, incite a fight, play victim, get the protestor arrested. Our courts are theirs and our prison system is egregiously punitive. And don’t doubt that a lot of us protesting are legally carrying. You really don’t want to see an American protest turn into a shootout, and the closer it gets to becoming one the more cautious we are about setting it off without a safety plan.