Fabricated whole cloth by the French elites to satisfy their inability to perform simple arithmetic - good and proper!
Formed to be easy to use by centuries of laborers performing their work, beloved by all - verboten!
xXthrowawayXx
joined 2 years ago
Everybody got something to say til it starts giving brain.
It’s not bad, it’s ineffective and plays into the opposition messaging, police actions and activism and harms the future of your members.
I think there’s a real difference between saying “go bigger” and respectability politics. That’s why I got out in front of the accusation of respectability politics by saying “go bigger”.
I wasn’t able to find any examples of tone policing in my post. I have investigated myself and found me innocent of all charges.
Everyone involved just got run in. Assuming no one gets it when they check you for outstandings, you’re all in the system now. Immediately grinding up against the carceral state pushes away your people who are willing to protest.
Arrest records are public. Now all these people can be harassed by cops, the israel lobby etc.
Aside from failing the yippie test, blocking the roads is ineffective here. Take an incredibly sympathetic cause like the brutalized palestinian people and demonize it by making people late for work or to pick their kids up in its name.
What does it accomplish? The average highway driver has no way to control American foreign policy. The ceasefire already had majority support. Everyone already knows what’s happening.
Blocking the roads is the most wrong form of demonstration at this point.
In general, blocking the roads like this is the wrong way to protest. It puts you in opposition to people driving (that’s everyone) and only serves to get the word out but only because people are frantically searching “who are these assholes”.
If someone knows all this and still wants to do it, they’re a fed. If they don’t know and want to do this, they’re doing what the feds want.
Before some enterprising poster says this is all respectability politics and tone policing, when you don’t care what people think and need to disrupt traffic, tear the roads up. Literally take hand tools and destroy them. When you got so many people in the march that it spills into the street, that’s great! Don’t make a little pissant line of linked arms across seven lanes, bring a stadium! Wanna show people that it’s normal to do outstanding things because of the insane violence on the tv? Make it normal, with a big crowd! When people see thirty jerks keeping them from buying groceries emblazoned with the cause they’ve been told is wrong and crazy it looks wrong and crazy.
Idc what you think about roads and cars and using protest to disrupt everyday life, if someone in your organization suggests blocking a road they’re either a fed or a useful idiot of feds.
Firsthand experience of course!
Yes it does. Try saying it sometime.
No unless there’s an insane new industrial method that lets you make domed automotive glass like that for like zero dollars.
I could make the lag argument, there’s a lot of evidence that the combination of distance and all kinds of packet inspecting network hardware would make Chinese players harder to deal with…
opens big book of racism instead
Damn new seasons of American dad!
Damn it must be so cool to use light and naturally understand its speed over distances similar to parts of your anatomy.
I struggle to comprehend the speed of light as a measure of distance over anything less than about 300 miles. You must just be built different.