Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.

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theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I think it absolutely laid down the base for the modern progressive movement - mistakenly believing protests do anything on their own

Occupy was huge, it was global and persisted for a long time, but it didn’t have any teeth - people just stopped paying attention and eventually police cleared people out

No one (rich) was losing money, no one (rich) felt threatened or inconvenienced in any way. They made their feelings known… But most people had no idea why or what they wanted, and politicians don’t actually care what you want. They didn’t even organize enough to be a voting block or clearly communicate their message

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