• ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Some dorks in this thread are the perfect example of who potential protesters need to ignore.

    I brought up “truckers blocking highways and important intersections” to my very good (but desperately clueless) friend. Violence free, requires few bodies, historically effective.

    He said “but what about the people they inconvenience?”

    I’m like dude. Inconvenience to power is. the. point.

    I love him but he’s a fool, guy thinks protests are people smiling and holding clever signs.

    Sad thing is he’s representative of a lot of people.

    They’ll be happy when things are better but idgaf about asking their advice. They don’t read history, the closest theyll get to a protest is the news coverage, and they’ll never be satisfied with less than some impossible dream of a “immaculate conception protestation”

    So like, fuck em

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Not to sound elitist, but most people are ill-informed from what I observed. They mean well, but they form their views and opinions from sources that aren’t great. It doesn’t help either that we are inundated by pleasures from all sorts of media, which distracts us from paying attention to what matters more.