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The answer is a general strike, but I have no fucking idea how we'd pull that off in the USA without the majority becoming homeless.
Historically it has been sustained, smaller, local action that has produced results far more frequently than attempted general strikes. Everybody wants to do this the quick way and they aren’t willing to roll up their sleeves and put in the time to do it locally. They think that everybody’s just going to nod and stop working and it’s all going to be glorious, but that’s just not how it goes down. You can count the number of truly successful general strikes that were clear victories on one hand.
Consumption strike. Just stop buying nonessentials. Rent strike, mortgage strike. Protests are worthless if you're still buying crap from amazon and eating at chain restaurants.
I guess I've been on an involuntary consumption strike for the last 10 years or so then lol
Like the Roman plebs used to do. Just every pleb go on vacation to the country at the same time, leaving the rich to fend for themselves.
Mutual aid is probably the best we could do in the short term
Peaceful protest is legal because it accomplishes nothing.
Peaceful protest was the compromise. It's time the owning class is reminded of this.
Peaceful protest is legal
And they're trying to change that too, just in case
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-passing-new-public-order-laws-marks-dark-new-era-peaceful-protest
Protesting does not do anything because politians are not accountable to voters. People who they are accountable to don't give two fucks if pleb burn down parts of cities. They will get contracts to clean it up.
Hurt their profits is the only language they understand.
Or, start taking the protests and riots to their doorsteps.
They don't care when you burn the areas they don't live in. But when you take the protest to them... They scream and call for more cops. But in the time it takes for the cops to show up, you can do a lot of damage, especially if you have a thousand friends.
I'm telling you, an army of vuvuzela-players and mimes to follow elected officials around in public, with a shift roster to get 24/7 coverage. No media interviews without the droning hum of a vuvuzela, no photo opportunities without a sneaky mime making an exaggerated lewd pose in the background, no pleasant meals with lobbyists without a distant but audible brrrrrrrrrrrr.
The media chooses not to report on peaceful protests all the time, but they always give coverage to Gaetz, Cruz and Graham talking absolute shit. Make them edit the videos to take out mimes and vuvuzelas.
If you even say the word "guillotine" in most forums and you get banned, so no wonder things will never escalate to where they need to.
Liberals: "We want change NOW!"
Me too my brothers!
Liberals: "The Christo-fascists are taking control!"
Too late, they're in control and consolidating power.
Liberals: "Cops are running amok and accountable to no one!"
No shit. Just now figuring this out?
Liberals: "Turn in your guns and disarm yourselves!"
hold up...
Well we should really try a mass protest first. If we can actually get people together we can see if mass protest work. The only other attentive is to compost the rich!
One huge problem is that we're too gatekeep-y to the political "other". If a large chunk of the population is excluded because you don't like who they voted for, you'll never get enough people marching to see a change
Vincent Bevins just published a new book on this topic:
If We Burn; The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
He was interviewed about it on the TrueAnon podcast, but I dunno if that was in the public feed or the bonus feed.
We all fart into pillows for hours, then tell the baddies we bought a new fabric softener that smells like peach
The only actual wealth redistribution to the working class that has happened in recent years are the flash mobs looting from stores during the pandemic
People expect way to much change from a single protest. You need to contact your representative and get enough people to join in order to get some attention.
Your protest also can't be silly like a lot of recent protests are don't go protest the 2016 election or 2020 election as you will accomplish nothing. Also make sure you have some sort of purpose or end goal. All of the protests I've heard about have no purpose.
So you're going to ignore the decades of protests about climate action? That have all been ignored because the people in power will never give a shit about your protest if its easily ignored.
If we take out the guillotines, there will be much change from a single protest