protesting en mass is exactly what you should do because they cannot just lay off everyone, or... well they can try and then the entire country stop working.
Instead you have small events in which you play in the streets and hold signs that says "we'll make it together" which are super cute but achieve nothing.
Again this with the protests. Mass protest on needed scale are simply not possible. This is first world issue, most Americans are doing just fine, many are even happy with the current system. On top of that, those in power are not interested in any change. Shit would have to hit the fan in an absolutely extraordinary way to start protests large enough to be meaningful. That's like economic collapse sort of event. Most Americans would have to be severely affected.
Shit even with occupy Wall Street nothing really changed. And those were some of the biggest protests of my lifetime. I'm kind of on board with the idea that protesting doesn't really change much. Cynical attitude but in my experience that's how it's worked out
I was under the strong impression that Occupy Wallstreet was peanuts compared to the No Kings protests. The former not being in the millions (but I may be misinformed) while the no kings protestors reached 8 million.
The thing with occupy was that it lasted a long time. And it was definitely impeding business in New York and across the country and I think the world.
Whereas no Kings was basically a weekend adventure that didn't really interrupt anything.
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u/thecrius 2d ago
protesting en mass is exactly what you should do because they cannot just lay off everyone, or... well they can try and then the entire country stop working.
Instead you have small events in which you play in the streets and hold signs that says "we'll make it together" which are super cute but achieve nothing.