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Yeah exactly. Doing this just pisses off citizens who can’t see the cause behind the effect. If you want real change, lasting change, the people in power need to feel like they might actually be killed if they don’t turn this shit off.
Sit-in’s and the like were some of the most effective displays of the civil rights era and they inconvenienced all kinds of citizens. You think those were a bad idea too?
We apologize for the inconvenience 🙄
Tell me about your awesome civil rights? Slavery ended 155 years ago and we still need dei because society still has not balanced the scales... Imagine if you never stopped the pressure, but I guess that was to inconvenient for you.
Pretty hard for me to keep up the pressure from a time I wasn’t even alive. And who said things were solved and balanced? Who said the work was done? Hell who said I wasn’t out there doing the work while you sit here bitching about people doing the work from your smartphone?
You’re responding to things I didn’t say or imply. Quit waving your finger at people going “you’re doing it wrong” as you sit there refusing to do anything yourself. Go be an example, do the right thing instead of tearing down people who are putting in the work while you whine.
That was then. This is now. Things change, we need to match the crazy. I’m all for doing things like protesting, but that should be the bare minimum action.
It’s fine to inconvenience people, but they have to be the right people. This needed to happen in 2016. We are over 8 years left to the party.
To me, there’s no more effort involved by moving the protest to a more effective location. If you’re involved with any of these protests, please suggest other locations for a more meaningful message. The senator has a house… that’s a good spot. Governor, mayor, judges… those are good spots. They need to be afraid.
You have literally no reason to believe any of this other than not wanting to walk back your ignorant statement too far. Explain to me why now is different than 2016? Every protest all the time gets treated like this.
Let’s talk about occupy Wall Street, for instance. Nothing but ridicule.
March for Our Lives, Women’s March, March for Science? “Bougie sign parties” despite insane turnout and momentum.
BLM “burned cities.”
Now? “Wahhhh they’re inconveniencing people” which as I mentioned we heard during civil rights.
You are part of the problem. You will never take a protest seriously because you will always find some reason to say “they’re doing it wrong.” Wake the fuck up dude. Stop tearing down the people who are actually doing something. What the hell did you do while they were out there on the streets? Come online and fucking bitch about it?
Playtime is over. Get off the bench and get with the fucking program or get out of the way.
Labor strikes will be coming soon
The only thing that can topple the oligarchy at this point is a general strike. The economy would collapse in a month if a relatively small percentage of the population simply refused to work and stopped buying everything except food.
You want universal healthcare? You'd have it in 1-2 weeks if 20-40% of the population stopped working and consuming non-essentials.
The oligarchs lose all their power when the workers stop feeding their wealth. They can strong arm protesters out in the streets, but they can't strong arm millions of people chilling at home.
The UAW's working on one, but they're targetting 2028 to get around solidarity strike laws.
We need unions to spearhead one, trying to organize a general strike without union backing is doomed to fail because it's basically impossible to organize enough people without structures protecting them.
Good luck to them having the same laws in 2028, I guess. I agree it won’t happen without union coordination.
Strikes? More like labor shortages. Where do these wealthy assholes think all their underpaid below minimum wage labor comes from? You can't deport them, AND oppress them at the same time.
And the sad thing is, that's where we are in this world. Where the best arguement against ruining an entire group of families lives is that they'd no longer be useful to a group of people who value them so little that they not only don't pay a living wage, they break the law to do so.
That is where we are as a society.
If it were up to me, the legalization process would be instant, and unless there's some valid reason to say no, EVERYONE would be legal.
For what it's worth, the wealthy people aligned with Trump want a collapse so they can create their own fiefdoms. Their fiefdoms will allow immigrants in to do the "undesirable" jobs. They don't want the US to be the richest most stable country, they want to OWN the richest most stable country, and they think tho only way to do that is start with deregulation and collapse. That part of the plan just happens to align with state actors who would love to see the US decline on a global scale. Really unfortunate that they're rich enough to not have to worry about if the plan works or not, they're happy to go along with the first part and just see what happens.
Hell yes.
It's like in some authoritarian regimes, where there is a protest against some 'little' issue.
I mean, calls for Trump impeachment/decent rule of law and democracy seem more effective, isn't it?