• Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I’m sorry, but if ICE is genuinely caught on camera killing the frog, people (employees, in all walks of life) will stop what they’re doing, leave their offices and join the protests en masse. That is the kind of move that activates.

    These people think the ending of the V for Vendetta movie, where thousands of random and unaffiliated people put on identical clothes and march in perfect unison to gather on a bridge and calmly observe as their government is toppled by blowing up one empty building, is a realistic and achievable goal.

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      2 months ago

      Liberal protests are such a funny kind of cargo cult nonsense. They see color revolutions topple “dictators”, and want to replicate that. However, being unable and/or unwilling to see the hand of imperialism moving the pieces, they must believe in a kind of protest magic. If only they can do the correct kind of ritual performance, surely change will come.