Comment on People dont believe protesting works if they will only do it on their day off.

• garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve met people at protests who have organized boycotts, advocacy campaigns, fundraisers, and many many more things that enact measurable change. These people often meet through these types of events and I can guarantee you, if it wasn’t for rallies, I wouldn’t have even known where to start or how to find people that are doing the work.

  Your “truth” is only true if you (or whoever the fuck you’re talking about) isn’t benefiting from the protest/rally/event. So maybe you should go to a protest and find a network and do some work if you feel like you’re not getting what you need from protests.

  And just to be clear, I’m not judging people who only go to protests and then go home. That’s fine too. The whole point of activism is to do the best you can, and if it just means showing up on a weekend for 2 hours, that’s fine. Other people will see you, they will feel your support, and they will feel motivated to keep working toward whatever they were advocating for in the first place. That is the real point of protests.

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its your interpretation that I am saying “protest dont work.” Again, as if you feel some doubt in in their effectiveness and are in denial. The point of my post was to comment on the protesters resolve.

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Okay, so reading your title again, you are saying pretty much what I am saying - people that only go to protests on their day off (and don’t engage in any other type of activism), think that protests don’t work. Is that what you were trying to say with your title?

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      • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It has to be, right? If they felt they could truly effect change, looking at this world, they would be out there day in and out.

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• Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No trust me bro one more protest and we defeat facism, just one more bro. The 3.5% bro trust they are losing for real bro.

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• Bristlecone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nah man, you are just engaging in free boot licking propaganda for absolutely no reason. World is what you frame it to be, and you sound like you’re on the side of sociopaths here, trying to frame your way out of your own shitty ass behavior and/or fatalism

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thats a really scary thought. I hope you dont really believe that about me. Can I do something for you that might help you feel better about the situation?

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