• pooperNickel@lemm.ee
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    And if they protested people commuting into a city, a huge source of global emissions, they’d be criticized for that too. People always manage to label protests as the wrong time/place. What they really mean is “protest is fine as long as no one, especially me, is asked to actually pay attention to it.”

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      And if they protested people commuting into a city, a huge source of global emissions, they’d be criticized for that too.

      May, just maybe, those aren’t the only two choices. Maybe they could also protest in front of offices of politicians and actually reach the people who can change anything.

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        And maybe, just maybe, the protesters should have a goal of not only getting their message out but winning people over to their side. Maybe a goal of gaining support.

        I don’t think this strategy of “annoy as many people as you can” will succeed in gaining any positive attention

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          I don’t think this strategy of “annoy as many people as you can” will succeed in gaining any positive attention

          It’s literally the only strategy that has ever worked before, other than outright violence.

          After all, who gives a shit about “positive attention” for its own sake? What matters is actually effecting change, and that does not require people to like you.

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          What if you want to make a movement lose support? Could you then do this as a tactic to hurt a cause?

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        Greenpeace recently protested on top of British PM Rishi Sunak’s private mansion while he was away. And they still got swamped with “YoU cAnT pRoTeSt LiKe tHaT” and people coming up with the most contrived reasons to say they are hypocritical.

        It literally does not matter how these people protests, people will always say they are doing it the wrong way, because chuds dont actually mean it when they say that. They simply dont want them to protest at all, so they can pretend its not happening.

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        100%. The moment you point out that this isn’t the way to go you’re instantly seen as the bad one, that you don’t want to be inconvenienced. It’s so dumb.

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          You know what that actually sounds like a very cool idea. I am sure I would get in trouble here in Germany for doing that, because how dare I put cleaning products on something I don’t own, but it’s a very cool idea nonetheless