Tony Bark@pawb.social to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoNew data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US historywagingnonviolence.orgexternal-linkmessage-square166linkfedilinkarrow-up11.26K
arrow-up11.26Kexternal-linkNew data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US historywagingnonviolence.orgTony Bark@pawb.social to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square166linkfedilink
minus-squareMangioneDontMiss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agobecause protesting is useless bullshit. people need to get more comfortable with direct action.
minus-squareMangioneDontMiss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoless time spent impotently protesting and more time spent doing things that might actually have some effect is probably for the better.
minus-squarerbos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoProtesting demonstrates that people are available to be radicalized. It’s the first step.
minus-squareMangioneDontMiss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI think it’s already pretty fucking clear that there are people available to be radicalized.
minus-squarerbos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoYeah, because they’re out there protesting, which, to circle back, is not useless.
minus-squareMangioneDontMiss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoWe’ll just agree to disagree at this point
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 months agoPeople also need to have community to engage in collective action. Do you not understand that the things you want to happen cannot happen without the social foundation?
because protesting is useless bullshit. people need to get more comfortable with direct action.
Both are needed.
less time spent impotently protesting and more time spent doing things that might actually have some effect is probably for the better.
Protesting demonstrates that people are available to be radicalized. It’s the first step.
I think it’s already pretty fucking clear that there are people available to be radicalized.
And yet they need to be visible.
They are.
Yeah, because they’re out there protesting, which, to circle back, is not useless.
We’ll just agree to disagree at this point
People also need to have community to engage in collective action. Do you not understand that the things you want to happen cannot happen without the social foundation?