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Underwhelmed by protests (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just went down to our local lib demonstration. All I could really feel was depressed. All those people waving signs but I wonder how many are willing to do anything more than that? Shit most of them were pretty old, tbh. I approached some people I clocked as comrades but I was very awkward and we didn't have a conversation.

I guess I don't really have a question here. Just feel like everybody has identified (some of) the problems, but have totally misidentified the solutions. Will these protests ever accomplish anything? Can we radicalize the protestors without them having to get beaten by cops? Or is that what it will take?

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'm seeing wayyyy too many Ukranian flags and anti communist signs. Russia is apparently still the USSR.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

It's amazing how media illiterate the average American is

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The amount of people that don’t seem to understand that the Soviet Union fell is insane.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

who-did-this we're all looking for the guy who made modern Russia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

It’s frustrating right?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago

I've accepted the Ukrainian flags at this point tbh, but it sucks seeing them outnumber Palestinian ones 100-1.