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"Safe" protests won't accomplish a damn thing.
I love the No Kings protests in Portland... congratulations, you're protesting for an audience who already 99% agrees with you.
But that's protests in Portland in general, BLM, Occupy Wall Street, etc. etc.
Want to make a real difference? Take that shit to D.C. and shut the city down for a month. That might move the needle.
Preaching to the pre-converted? Pointless.
Burn one billionaire or politician and you'll see some movement.
Look at Luigi Maggione.
We don't have a central figure or identity that can pull that kind of movement together. Single-day marches? Sure. Moving hundreds of thousands of people two thousand miles and then feeding them for a month? That's military logistics.
Yup, which is why nobody has done it since 1/6. 😉
i mean they only charged 1.5k-ish people. i was watching from california, there were obviously more but nowhere near 100k. i think official counts were somewhere closer to 5k.
Like I think Protests like No Kings and 50501 were great protests to get over the first hump of organization. Still is I suppose for those late to the party. However when they didn't evolve to armed protestors, then evolve further when people like Pretti made the news dying in broad daylight, documented from multiple angles. It ultimately became a resting place that misdirected our energy into pointless busy work.
It was a great first couple of steps, but everybody started getting comfortable staying there even as the government, and namely The Republicans and ICE kept escalating. Always fearing their escalation, that inevitably kept happening even without The Insurrection Act.
Our due process was the social contract that stopped us from just taking power from them, letting them represent our country, earn a salary, without the need for citizen violence to enforce order. They broke that contract. And they keep breaking it everyday. They are no longer protected by the contract. They do not deserve to benefit from the same contract they wipe their ass with.
To put it bluntly, people should have already organized and prepped already. What happens as midterms head towards election day, and the aftermath is likely to be violent either way. I really do not see Republicans giving up power willingly. Though I hope to be wrong, and everything just gets better without the need for bloody violence. I just don't see it happening currently. Even if The Dems win, there will be violence.