> made people feel like they were Doing Something. Again—it's important to make people feel like they are Doing Something
Doing Something, and see that each individual is not alone, but instead really that we have a great collective potential. I would say that even the 2003 protests against the Iraq war, which had no chance of doing anything (esp. in Canada where Chrétien had pre-emptively bowed out, bless him for this singularly great act of reason even though his entire body is covered in the blood of Canadians and Afghans, and others whom I forget) where hugely important, even though they led to nothing at all. If someone else than Troskyists were running ANSWER maybe there would have been something to reach out to larger masses.
> weekend street demos
I mean bless everyone still protesting for Gaza, but at this point....
> LARPing of the kind of mass demos that have been happening since the 1960s,
Amen. I mean tradtionally, protest was threatening to the Established Order, but the ideology of Peaceful Protest, along with the militarization of police, means that protest on its own serves the above-mentioned collective self-revelation purpose, but from there new organizing needs to be done.
I'm kind of annoyed that there hasn't been more road and rail blocking. I know that can lead to arrests and serious legal jeopardy, but that's a kind of basic economic obstruction that Gets Attention and that also generally can't be filed under Terrorism, unlike other forms of economic disruption.
The failure of the parade has nothing to do with #NoKings, anyway... It's a parade set in DC, the place which probably has the highest percentage of the population hit by the Trump/Doge/RFK cuts in the country. Also a large black population city. And a large military/intelligence apparatus population which feels that Trump is there for them. Who did they thing would come?
I am particularly incensed at how Democrats Abroad turned #NoKings to #NoTyrants in the Commonwealth, as if we give a fuck about our King, and that tories are part of the population they're trying to reach out to? What??? Even Ontario's support for monarchy has drastically gone down. Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, Democrats....
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Date: 2025-06-17 04:13 am (UTC)Doing Something, and see that each individual is not alone, but instead really that we have a great collective potential. I would say that even the 2003 protests against the Iraq war, which had no chance of doing anything (esp. in Canada where Chrétien had pre-emptively bowed out, bless him for this singularly great act of reason even though his entire body is covered in the blood of Canadians and Afghans, and others whom I forget) where hugely important, even though they led to nothing at all. If someone else than Troskyists were running ANSWER maybe there would have been something to reach out to larger masses.
> weekend street demos
I mean bless everyone still protesting for Gaza, but at this point....
> LARPing of the kind of mass demos that have been happening since the 1960s,
Amen. I mean tradtionally, protest was threatening to the Established Order, but the ideology of Peaceful Protest, along with the militarization of police, means that protest on its own serves the above-mentioned collective self-revelation purpose, but from there new organizing needs to be done.
I'm kind of annoyed that there hasn't been more road and rail blocking. I know that can lead to arrests and serious legal jeopardy, but that's a kind of basic economic obstruction that Gets Attention and that also generally can't be filed under Terrorism, unlike other forms of economic disruption.
The failure of the parade has nothing to do with #NoKings, anyway... It's a parade set in DC, the place which probably has the highest percentage of the population hit by the Trump/Doge/RFK cuts in the country. Also a large black population city. And a large military/intelligence apparatus population which feels that Trump is there for them. Who did they thing would come?
I am particularly incensed at how Democrats Abroad turned #NoKings to #NoTyrants in the Commonwealth, as if we give a fuck about our King, and that tories are part of the population they're trying to reach out to? What??? Even Ontario's support for monarchy has drastically gone down. Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, Democrats....