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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. I want more strikes. I'm tired of everything going to shit and the masses sit back and do nothing. I've gone to a few protests recently, and honestly it's cheap therapy for me. Feels nice to actually DO something.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And what have you actually accomplished with marching and shouting? I went to quite a few BLM protests back in 2020, got tear gassed and shit along with my friends, and yet still haven’t seen anything meaningful change.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Change is slowwwww, my brother. It's rare that an actual upheaval happens and things shift noticably overnight.

It is and always has been a long, long struggle, and there is no final victory, only temporary triumphs that must be vigorously defended, because the enemy will never stop trying to take back every inch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Change doesn’t have to be slow and we don’t need to make more excuses for the people able to make the change. Protests outside of the US have shown how to accelerate change in the direction they want. At this point though, it appears that a lot of people have given up hope that anything will change

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And can you blame them? The opposition infrastructure is so incredibly overbuilt that it's like trying to chip away at a wall when they keep taking away your tools.