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That’s pretty cool. Nothing is gonna happen.
Edit: Being told a protest won’t change anything disrupts the brain’s balance of dopamine, serotonin, cortisol, and oxytocin, triggering feelings of frustration, disconnection, and powerlessness.
To those downvoting blakenong, have a read of this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests
The day was described by social movement researchers as “the largest protest event in human history”.[1]
I don’t want to burst the feeling of optimism, but unless there’s consequences, a general strike, riots, whatever, I don’t know, something, nothing will happen.
If everyone goes back to their day job after standing out in the cold for a day or two and then pats themselves on the back saying “yeah, we showed them”, then nothing changes.
Protest is dead. The powers that be don’t care if there’s a million people shouting and screaming. Unless they suffer consequences, nothing will change.
Thank you
30k ppl showed up. That happened.
Damn straight. Right after a previous rally where 15k showed up.
These rallies are how you organize people. This is exactly what needs to be happening.
And yet…. Nothing is happening.
Well what the fuck are you doing about besides bitching on the internet? I’m genuinely asking because it seems like you’re doing nothing as well. We are way past the time to sit around and expect shit to get done without doing something ourselves.
Protesting in a group and then going home is sitting around and doing nothing, just in the cold.
Me? I’m causing property damage to right-wing things. Obviously saying more would be dumb. Could I do more? Yes.
But, complaining to me like this is enough and I’m the bad guy isn’t going to get us anywhere.
Is this the beginning of a 2028 campaign?
I do think Bernie is setting her up for that kind of run, since she will be old enough to be president. Could see her and Mayor Pete running a ticket together
Oh please don’t. I love her and Bernie but he’s too old and she’s too female/not white. Find a white man who is just okay and fix democracy before trying again with a woman.
2028 might be the only time to even consider a dark skinned woman tbh. People wouldn’t have voted for Obama if they hadn’t been fed up with Bush’s bullshit war (which Obama then of course did almost nothing to pull out of). If the American people are EVER going to vote for AOC it’ll be because the economy is shit from an old white man fucking everything up for everyone.
