Protests don’t have to be about intimidating anyone. They’re important as a tool for letting other people, who might also want to resist, know that they are not alone. I’m guessing based on your phrasing that you aren’t from the US, so I’m going to assume you aren’t familiar with how things work over here. It’s a big country, in terms of landmass. The US is almost as large as the entirety of Europe (~3.5m sq. miles vs. ~3.9m sq. miles.) It’s essentially impossible to coordinate anything over that large an area, especially considering how spread out everything is. Organized protests like the No Kings events, though, present a unified front across the country, and let everyone know that people everywhere feel the same way they do, and even though they might only have immediate contact to their local community, the resistance is much larger than that.
“Standing up to our oppressors” is also more difficult than you seem to think. It’s really easy to sit there behind a keyboard in another part of the world and type big words, but it’s a lot harder to commit to an armed resistance that will, in all likelihood, result in dying. The US military is huge, and mega-funded. Local law enforcement is very likely to be on the establishment’s side. They’re all armed and don’t hesitate to quash even peaceful resistance with violence. How do you think it’s going to go when someone starts shooting back?
For a true resistance to be effective, it needs to be organized and coordinated, and that’s simply very difficult to accomplish. I certainly don’t know how to do it. Do you?
Or are you just advocating for people to go die in ineffectual attempts to assassinate government officials?
My takeaway is that you haven’t convinced me. I know you feel different, but I believe you to be wrong. There is nothing you can say to convince me otherwise because I have reality as evidence.
The United States is heading to an inevitable and irreversible state of decay. It’s going to make the fall of the USSR look like a party.
You can block your eyes and ears all you want…… it doesn’t make your words correct.
You offer no solutions, suggestions, or even counter-points - only negativity and nay saying. Frankly, that makes me not really give a shit about your opinion.
There is nothing you can say to convince me otherwise because I have reality as evidence.
Then there’s especially no point in discussing this further with you.
Protests don’t have to be about intimidating anyone. They’re important as a tool for letting other people, who might also want to resist, know that they are not alone. I’m guessing based on your phrasing that you aren’t from the US, so I’m going to assume you aren’t familiar with how things work over here. It’s a big country, in terms of landmass. The US is almost as large as the entirety of Europe (~3.5m sq. miles vs. ~3.9m sq. miles.) It’s essentially impossible to coordinate anything over that large an area, especially considering how spread out everything is. Organized protests like the No Kings events, though, present a unified front across the country, and let everyone know that people everywhere feel the same way they do, and even though they might only have immediate contact to their local community, the resistance is much larger than that.
“Standing up to our oppressors” is also more difficult than you seem to think. It’s really easy to sit there behind a keyboard in another part of the world and type big words, but it’s a lot harder to commit to an armed resistance that will, in all likelihood, result in dying. The US military is huge, and mega-funded. Local law enforcement is very likely to be on the establishment’s side. They’re all armed and don’t hesitate to quash even peaceful resistance with violence. How do you think it’s going to go when someone starts shooting back?
For a true resistance to be effective, it needs to be organized and coordinated, and that’s simply very difficult to accomplish. I certainly don’t know how to do it. Do you?
Or are you just advocating for people to go die in ineffectual attempts to assassinate government officials?
So you’re saying you can’t contemplate a way to make protests work. Got it. I agree.
Thank you for inadvertently proving my point.
I hope you have the day you’re willing to fight for.
Well, if that’s your takeaway from all that, I guess there’s very little point in trying to discuss this further with you.
My takeaway is that you haven’t convinced me. I know you feel different, but I believe you to be wrong. There is nothing you can say to convince me otherwise because I have reality as evidence.
The United States is heading to an inevitable and irreversible state of decay. It’s going to make the fall of the USSR look like a party.
You can block your eyes and ears all you want…… it doesn’t make your words correct.
You offer no solutions, suggestions, or even counter-points - only negativity and nay saying. Frankly, that makes me not really give a shit about your opinion.
Then there’s especially no point in discussing this further with you.
You offer no solution. I have a solution but we both know you won’t agree with it… so why bring it up?
there is nothing I can say to convince you
So there is especially no point in discussing this further with you.