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Honestly, I think a lot of people are pretty sick of protests in general, regardless of their political affiliation (probably not on HN, since we're extremely o
by AussieWog93 4y ago
Honestly, I think a lot of people are pretty sick of protests in general, regardless of their political affiliation (probably not on HN, since we're extremely online and libertarian, but ask your grandma and see what she says).
Whether it's the left doing it or the right, it seems that many protests have nothing to do with the "movement" at all and are just thinly veiled excuses to act like an ape and smear shit on the wall.
- wolverine876 4y agoDo you have any objective information to support that? Certainly some reactionary groups want to stop protests, which are a threat to authoritarian power. The reason is protests are often very effective; they are a threat to their power. Look at Israel now, for example. Look at the US Constitution, which went out of its way to protect protests.
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- swayvil 4y agoVoting (on social media, like here) is like protesting. They're both public expressions of emotion. Online anonymity is also like being-part-of-a-crowd anonymity. Frame either in whatever rational interpretation you like. But they both amount to howls of embrace/reject.