Fuck man. In Europe we’ve beent through this. Why is the USA so naive and far behind on collective activism?
If the police cares enough to plan bad actors in your protest, sitting down will do fuck all.
There are kilometers of film (miles if you like) that show police on horseback trampling non violent protesters in pretty much every major European city in the last half decade.
If they plant them, you leave or your prepare for war.
You have an active coup and foreign state(s) sponsored assault on your democracy and you think you need to sit down when the cops put a violent plant in your protest? The cognitive dissonance is off the charts with these yanks.
I would almost argue: if you’re not more violent than the bad actors, soon you won’t have any chance to go and protest. They are removing your freedoms slowly and seemingly legally.
This is the hardest part of being human: you have to act on a future almost certain hypothetical. We were too late with the Climate Emergency and you will be too late to prevent the Fourth (Nuclear) Reich.
All we seem to be good at is reacting after hundreds of thousands of people already quietly suffered or died. It will baffle me to the grave.
My first guess is, they’re just not at all experienced with this, there’s no mass protest culture, just small individual actions or very rare punctual district wide walks
But that’s not an excuse, the yellow vests happened, the French pension reform protests happened, there’s plenty of other examples in Europe to learn from
Its like they’re reinventing the wheel and trying to figure it out on the go, but protest is cultural, it’s strategic, it’s thought out in depth before happening
Fuck man. In Europe we’ve beent through this. Why is the USA so naive and far behind on collective activism?
If the police cares enough to plan bad actors in your protest, sitting down will do fuck all.
There are kilometers of film (miles if you like) that show police on horseback trampling non violent protesters in pretty much every major European city in the last half decade.
If they plant them, you leave or your prepare for war.
You have an active coup and foreign state(s) sponsored assault on your democracy and you think you need to sit down when the cops put a violent plant in your protest? The cognitive dissonance is off the charts with these yanks.
I would almost argue: if you’re not more violent than the bad actors, soon you won’t have any chance to go and protest. They are removing your freedoms slowly and seemingly legally.
This is the hardest part of being human: you have to act on a future almost certain hypothetical. We were too late with the Climate Emergency and you will be too late to prevent the Fourth (Nuclear) Reich.
All we seem to be good at is reacting after hundreds of thousands of people already quietly suffered or died. It will baffle me to the grave.
My first guess is, they’re just not at all experienced with this, there’s no mass protest culture, just small individual actions or very rare punctual district wide walks
But that’s not an excuse, the yellow vests happened, the French pension reform protests happened, there’s plenty of other examples in Europe to learn from
Its like they’re reinventing the wheel and trying to figure it out on the go, but protest is cultural, it’s strategic, it’s thought out in depth before happening