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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:People on the freeway will get on the regional and often national news. And it gets those iconic shots of crowds of people from the view of a helicopter. the ol' Chris Christie, gets em every time Pajser posted:quite honestly and you can tell me im an idiot, but i don't see any other outcome for these protests other than being subverted and ending up being a massive scam as soon as it reaches momentum. they're like business socials for political activists unless you're cripplingly stupid and try to shut down a city to no clear end because you didn't like how people voted or something. nobody much cares that you protested beyond vague warm fuzzies/'grrr jail the hippies' sentiments that go nowhere but you might have a good time and meet loads of people doing something actually effectual who you'd never run into otherwise A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Nov 12, 2016 |
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Koalas March posted:yeah I'm sure everyone can afford to go out and buy a business suit to protest you should go out and get a thrift store business suit so you can get a job one day, if you're anywhere above homeless on the hierarchy of needs you can afford it as an extremely good investment for all sorts of situations where society rewards the respectable-looking you'll be overdressed for the kind of protest where punk kids who learned about politics from the internet go to get arrested for street cred, but you can probably talk your way into a city council meeting in one. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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waffles beyond waffles posted:City Council meetings are open to the public due to open meetings laws. Any taxing body can't close their doors and discuss anything about policy. Executive sessions are used for personnel matters. No suit required!  they might go if they think they're getting away with something
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there's been a whole longrunning thing of stay-at-home liberals trying to use respectability politics to choke off all political action more radical than voting for Hillary Clinton so insisting protests have a dress code is going to be a nonstarter, but taking deliberate control of your own public presentation is sort of a fundamental political tool to be considered in a discussion about protest strategy, and if your first reaction to the assumption that an adult would own one set of nice clothes is 'check your privilege shitlord' you don't have anything to say to the halls of power or poor folk who need to put forth effort to survive in society.
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Al-Saqr posted:Oh I'm all for wearing suits and stuff, I just know for a fact that people who view it as their deal breaker are loving liars who wouldn't do anything even if every protestor could scrounge up the money to by Armani suits for every single person protesting. Because underneath that suit a the end of the day is someone they don't view as worthy of having their human rights respected. yeah ok this is extremely fair we're on the same page
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A production manager in Hollywood should probably not try to pass himself off as the Lorax of the poor and disenfranchised, who he apparently presumes to be something like Dickensian street urchins. I am reasonably positive that guy owns several suits, and simply imagines it suits his Internet persona to pretend he doesn't.
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Big disorganized protests are also lousy with undercover cops so if some rando comes up to you talking about how cool it is to commit crimes, you should go commit crimes with him, stay away from that dude.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The single most terrifying thing to an administration is a diverse protest. If a protest is all one demographic you can write it off as "pfft, uppity (whatever they are) just don't realize how good they have it." If you can get enough groups on your side then you can squish opposition pretty easily. They sure can. How much of Obama's foreign and security policy over the last eight years did Democrats take pains to paint as Bush's foreign and security policy?
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