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When we did it on a weekday they laughed and said we had no job and regular people said it should be on a weekend.
Eh none of this matters. MAGA are funding buses of people to protest where they want while claiming everyone else pays for buses. We are fucked because we let them fuck us.
my issue isn’t in the legitimacy in the eyes of the news media. it’s very obvious that the media is hostile to progressive direction.
my gripe is that protests are used to diffuse public pressure. it’s a tool to prevent change, another circus. any sort of leverage such a group could get to enact actual change is directly fought against, as unacceptable. their only goal is to get more people to vote democrat. but makes no demands from the democrats and is complicit in its rightward side.
in history peaceful protests do not acheive change as they are easy to ignore, yet we are taught otherwise, and said training conveniently ignored the more uncomfortable implementation of leverage to force change that are instead attributed to these protests. history is white washed in order to protect the stability of the exploitative system. any victims of said system are just collateral