Protest are not for changing something with a protest. They are about building, organizing, and recruiting.

Not every protest is a "no kings" event that everyone feels good about and goes home and does nothing for the next 6 months. But even those are opportunities for recruiting and radicalizing people.

It takes time. The decades where nothing happens are what build us to the weeks where decades happen.

If protest are not your thing find another way to get involved.

💯 with you.

I mean, it was a large factor in the Women's Suffrage and Civil Rights movements.

the no kings march itself is fostered by the american oligarchy (specifically walmart heirs) so it's silly to assume that they will let you change anything and its only goal is to expend leftward energy as a ratcheting effect, similar to the democrat's caving to republicans all the time.

look at Mexico circa 2017 to see how to protest effectively; it let to the first leftist government they've ever had and Shienbaum.

the global north's ruling class learned the hard way during the american civil rights era that protesting can be effective when done correctly; so they've made those laws like you've described and neutered the legacies of people like MLK jr and Gandhi to make non-violence the key part.

The cruel irony of our situation is that we have:

• An anti-democracy faction, that claims to believe that majority rule and bureaucracy are ineffective, and need to be replaced by a powerful dictator… but has only been able to gain as much ground as it has, because of a multi-decade effort to persuade regular people, build consensus and coalitions, and dive deep into procedure and obscure case law in order to move their agenda forward, one sub-sub-sub-clause at a time
• A pro-democracy faction, that seems to believe that it’s impossible (or immoral) to try to change people’s minds, and that if an action won’t result in radical, comprehensive, overnight revolution all at once then it’s basically not worth doing

Yeah protesting only how the rich and powerful will allow you to will get you nowhere.

Civil disobedience can work to an extent when the enemy has a conscience or is supported by subsections of the population with a conscience, but it requires breaking unjust laws. I am beginning to think liberals would rather die than do so. Further, the enemy has no conscience.

The worst part is they themselves believed it.

ALL OF WHICH ARE AMERICAN DREAMS ALL OF WHICH ARE AMERICAN DREAMS ALL OF WHICH ARE AMERICAN DREAMS ALL OF WHICH ARE AMERICAN DREAMS

I’ve got no patience now.

America is not even in the top 50 most free countries.

Shouldn't we demand it

Obviously there's more.
She has a picture of her waving a Palestine flag on facebook!
She's Khamaaazz I tell you!!!

The problem isn't necessarily standing.

The problem is that she got arrested in the first place. So now she has to pay an attorney to represent her, defend her from the shit charges, then countersue the police and the government, appeal it as necessary. It might be years before she sees a penny of any lawsuit.

Meanwhile the officer continues to be an officer. Politicians involved are usually gone.

This is a situation where justice is denied not once, not twice, but many times over.