• Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    That is such a lot of people, such a lot of people sufficiently motivated to spend their day protesting. What I struggle to get my head around is what they achieve. I admire them being vocal and taking action at potential risk to themselves but what I take away is that you could have a million people at a protest and it still wouldn’t magically make a government or a president stand down. Does a protest need to be part of a larger strategy to cause paralysis to the state, to cause economic pain or to orchestrate violence. Simply getting mega amounts of people to turn out seems like a massive achievement but it isn’t actually working…

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      2 hours ago

      Look at protesters as the pawns in chess. They are the wall between the people willing to kill in [unofficial] war and the enemy.