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People who say protests are useless should be cursed with diarrhea farts every time they sneeze

Maybe the point of the protest is to bring awareness to the public?

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Maybe the point of the protest is to bring awareness to the public?

Maybe. How useful is “awareness”?

When I look at the biggest protests in the US there’s plenty of awareness about around all the biggest protests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size

Going down that list, it’s hard to find evidence that the awareness got us anywhere.

  1. George Floyd - We keep saying his name. Has there been any change in police violence or accountability?
  2. Earth day - We’ve been talking about this forever and we keep breaking records on extreme weather events.
  3. 2017 Women’s March - We just elected the chief pussy grabber.
  4. March for Our Lives - Guns are still everywhere.
  5. 2018 Women’s March - See number 3.
  6. RickyRenunicia - I have to pass on this one. I have no idea what the state of corruption in PR is.
  7. Great American Boycott - Democrats switched to agreeing with Republicans on immigration.
  8. LGB - You can reasonably argue that sexuality related rights have improved. It’s not clear that this protest was a particular catalyst for that. If we want to pin things on a single event, Stonewall probably had a bigger impact.
  9. Anti Nuclear - More countries than ever believe they need nukes to survive. We’re now unironically talking about the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
  10. Million Man March - See number 1

I could go on, but the track record for the 10 biggest protests isn’t great.

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Whatever you say, diarrhea farts

You can type all that but not do even a tiny bit of research to look at thousands of examples worldwide and in history?

https://now.org/about/history/history-of-marches-and-mass-actions/

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It’s cute that you can call me names.

Can you also articulate positive changes that have resulted from the 10 biggest protest?

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Awareness of what? As badly informed as most people are, I’m still certain that most Americans know Trump won.

I’m all for protests, and lord knows we will be needing them, but protests should have some kind of coherent demands. The left wastes a ton of energy spinning it’s wheels.

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