Remember when Rittenhouse got away with it 😆

This whole post is filled with people squeaking about what the rules are. Like what the fuck

Mangione is so last week buddy. We’ve moved on. He’s old news

That would require forward thinking. Protestors don’t do that. Not on the left. The guy that head butt this guy didn’t think beyond that moment.

I fucking love you guys. Like your head in a book being like awksuelly…

Reality is that guy could have killed that protestor and charges would be dropped. If not, trump would pardon him. There are no consequences

Stop trying to be correct. Just fucking win for a change. Being correct is not a win in today’s world. Way too many people that are wrong who keep winning.

Are you sure? I’m pretty confident that’s what happened on the weekend.

My point is it isn’t effective. What is the result as of today, tomorrow, a week from now. What has it accomplished. What will it accomplish. And as I said, if the goal is to spread awareness about an issue than let’s measure this against another method like shit posting. Which was my point about governments and think tanks who get paid to spread awareness. These groups are not doing protest, they create engagement online and in media. There’s a reason for it.

Also, relying on technology owned and controlled by the billionaire class is a bit rich…

Why? What will happen. How is that any different than relying on the city, the state and the government to not just beat your head in and arrest anything. If anything protests seem to benefit the other side when the other side are authoritarian. It lets them see who the leaders are and knee cap them.

Anyway, I don’t want to antagonise you. Just don’t discount the traditional methods of communication thinking it’s ineffective. In a world where privacy is almost non-existent and you’re constantly being monitored, going analogue is one of the best tactics there is.

I am an antagonist but not trying to troll. I just don’t see value in protests as they exist today. I think protests are a solved game. I believe police and authorities have such an upper hand that they prefer people to protest. The authorities ability to organize, coordinate and apply force is greater than the protestors. It’s a wasted effort on my books. The risk to reward is unbalanced and we need to adapt to modern times.

There’s one of the worst ways in modern times to get any message across. It’s like suggesting we use carrier pigeons to communicate on a battlefield.

The Internet exists. Hey did the Republicans protest in the streets to get their message across?

I didn’t see that yet every single person I know could reiterate almost all their talking points. If protests were stuff an effective medium for creating supporting and spreading a cause, how did they accomplish it without it.

Republicans hired think tanks. Same way the cigarette company did you delay laws. Same way energy companies did to delay and sew distrust on climate change.

The left for all the geniuses they say they are have not adapted to the modern world. Imagine if every single person at these protests stayed home instead and shit posted on every platform they could. That’s how you get messages out in modern times. You use the algorithms. You create content. You boost signals.

What you do not do is drag people into the streets banging pots. It’s not the 1960s

Everyone is online. You need people burying their signals and amplifying our own. You need memes. You need everyone to force their hand. The fucked up thing is they have such entrenched culture that you’d think it’s obvious where to apply pressure. It’s not calling them a Nazi. It’s culture jamming our society so we associate trucks with femininity. They are more sensitive than ever and it should be easy to find their soft spots. Can’t hit it from the middle of the road

I really don’t like the amount of violence being suggested here. Trump needs to be removed but a lot of you are suggesting to support violent fantasies.

By the way that’s a very strong tactic be terrifically Republicans to make the left look unhinged. And they’re correct. It will turn a lot of people against you. Most are not violent people.

How?

Nobody on the left is really working to spread any messages. A few comments per person isn’t doing shit. Seems like the most that can be mustered is a little property damage. Any voice that stands up to help spread ideology gets targeted by the right and knee capped. The mind blowing thing is the right actively hide online among the left convincing them to knee cap these people. I just saw a post a few weeks ago shitting on Jon Stewart here.

How exactly are they going to lose against a neutered and apathetic opposition

Why is this comment on every post where the post should be more popular.

But I guess this guy is right, fuck writing stories about Luigi. What else is going on. This stuff is old news

No fuck yes. Blame them.

Are you saying that trump won because his policy and campaign was stellar.

Trump won because his base acted instead of passively watching. They took over everything and all the left could say was “don’t roll with them something something pigs”

Actually, I really appreciate you putting that together. Yes, it captures a big part of what I’ve been trying to say.

Maybe it is bad faith, but I also think that speaking directly, especially online, is genuinely hard. Still, one of my biggest frustrations is how difficult it is to spread and sustain important ideas and perspectives.

What really gets me is seeing people pour so much energy into a single protest driving for hours, standing in the rain, even getting arrested but then showing almost no interest in doing something like consistently sharing content online, which is easier and arguably more effective in the long run. That disconnect baffles me. Like posting and commenting on an issue for 24 hrs isn’t enough

And on top of that, there’s a real failure to support strong figureheads or voices who are actually good at communicating the message. These people burn out or get drowned out because there’s no consistent effort to lift them up. It’s like the momentum gets lost the moment the event ends, and without that sustained effort, we just end up watching things fall apart from the sidelines.

Maybe or maybe there’s subtext

What

What the hell is he doing. A democrat man talks for a long time 👍

Just getting off a lazy ass isn’t enough. That’s not a win. Having someone drive two towns over just to stand in the rain and get their heads kicked in by police because they were misinformed how effective a protest would be is not winning. Telling each other we shouldn’t engage because it’s like rolling with pigs is self neutering.

My point is stop thinking that posting an article or making a comment is doing fuck all. Create good fucking content

Wow great job. You win whatever the you think you win here and still have a trump presidency and every other loss socially and politically and still don’t get why

Holy shit you people never understand this do you…

Why does every grandmother know every right wing issue while all of you smuggly keep saying ‘Google it’ while you lose every battle you barely attempt to be mad about

Do your work if you’re so committed to these causes. But the effort in yourselves or stop crying all over the Internet how everyone are fascists and Nazis now.

Make fucking content

Cut the shit and wake up

I don’t understand

There is no way this happens. Left can’t muster anything more then a mild protest

If I never came to this dark corner of the leftist space and checked everyday for updates, I’d never know this stuff occurred. Sucks that it just kind of floats here for a minute before disappearing in the ether