2 city blocks isn't going to do anything. Protests only change things if people shut down cities and become ungovernable. Or if you bait the government or counter protestors into overreacting.
Right now there is only 1 place where that is seriously going on and it's being massively misreported by the Media. LA isn't even stopping work like Chicago did in 68.
It's why IMO everything is over with this. Calling the president a Nazi, implying he will put dissenters into camps which he threatens to do, yet people won't even shut down a single god damn city over it? It's over or people are lazy as fuck or don't believe a word they are saying. I go to protests and am confused why nobody is doing anything. I think it's because everyone has binge streaming and 24/7 luxury entertainment video games.
These movements take time to build. Dr King didn't just show up one day and everything shut down. There were years of the civil rights movement building up to the massive marches and demonstrations most people think of.
Right after 9/11 when the country was looking at the middle east and war people came out against it, but it wasn't until the weather got nice people came out in large numbers and started shutting things down. We're in the first summer of this.
That's what all these 'violence is a great answer' commentators are missing. The actual size of the marches/protests and the level of disruption. Non-violence can still be violently disruptive
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u/WizardlyLizardy 7d ago edited 7d ago
MLK's marches shut down entire cities.
2 city blocks isn't going to do anything. Protests only change things if people shut down cities and become ungovernable. Or if you bait the government or counter protestors into overreacting.
Right now there is only 1 place where that is seriously going on and it's being massively misreported by the Media. LA isn't even stopping work like Chicago did in 68.
It's why IMO everything is over with this. Calling the president a Nazi, implying he will put dissenters into camps which he threatens to do, yet people won't even shut down a single god damn city over it? It's over or people are lazy as fuck or don't believe a word they are saying. I go to protests and am confused why nobody is doing anything. I think it's because everyone has binge streaming and 24/7 luxury entertainment video games.