Pro-Palestine protest shut down the Golden Gate Bridge
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get these nets
Veteran
People who support this, how does this help or advance your cause?
What was the desired outcome?
What was the desired outcome?
Mike Nasty
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...they protested against the segregation on Montgomery city buses by............. (wait for it)....boycotting the Montgomery city buses.
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They protested local and national injustices at the source of injustice. When Malcolm wanted the Muslims released, he protested outside the police department. When Martin wanted national civil rights, he marched on Washington. When Rosa wanted to desegregate buses, she protested on a bus.
What does blocking a major thoroughfare to civilian traffic do to force an issue with the people that control the problem? Nothing.
Can you give me an example where people only protested in front of the capitols and politicians offices for massive issues? I just need 1 example, please don't skip over this part
And this is ignoring that people have been doing that as well for Gaza and it barely gets any news coverage
1. You're not going to do shyt, shooting a protester is just a fantasy of yours
2. Where are their voices heard? They protest in official places too. They go to the actual politicians and protest. They go to their houses. They go into the halls of Congress and ambush these politicians. Where are they missing to get their voices heard?
Now what would be the equivalent to this for Israel?
Just to let you know boycotting Israel is illegal in many US states
The montgomery buses relied on black americans to support their business so without that income a boycott was very effective.
The palestine israel conflict is not being funded by americans so a boycott wouldn't work. Israeli people would have to be the ones boycotting.
or every nation could refuse to trade with them until they resolve the conflict. But americans don't have the power to set that up either.
This is due to the fact that were are a third party to this conflict that's not directly involved with either side and are electively choosing to take responsibility due to our own hubris. Limits our ability to effectively do anything about it except make our own lives miserable
JasoRockStar
Superstar
Protests are intended to be disruptive. 
If you aren't paying attention then we're gonna force you to pay attention.
What's more important: someone getting to their job on time or people being aware of their tax dollars being used to fund a genocide?
If you aren't paying attention then we're gonna force you to pay attention.
What's more important: someone getting to their job on time or people being aware of their tax dollars being used to fund a genocide?
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
This has to be the laziest/inefficient way of protest.
Like, your local/state elected officials work location and numbers are of public record...can't keep their jobs without votes. You could literally inconvenience their lives directly on a daily basis..... but you'd rather inconvenience people who likely believe the same shyt you do.
Like, your local/state elected officials work location and numbers are of public record...can't keep their jobs without votes. You could literally inconvenience their lives directly on a daily basis..... but you'd rather inconvenience people who likely believe the same shyt you do.
JasoRockStar
Superstar
The fight against apartheid in SA was international and the external pressure applied by people from other countries, along with the internal struggle by South Africans, helped bring the regime to an end. You don't have to be residents of a country to facilitate change in it.
And pressure from American citizens can influence our country's foreign policy toward other nations.
Bro are you high? We give Israel billions of dollars per year for weapons. We are Israel's biggest benefactor by a very large amount. Almost all weaponry they have was provided by us. The main reason we have all these pro Palestine matches in America is because we fund them and want our politicians to stop.
Boycotting Israel beyond protesting politicians is through products the country makes along with putting pressure on politicians. This is what happened with the South African apartheid. But this is illegal now in many US states.
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
What people strangely leave out of this.... is that black folks set up an alternate carpool system to get themselves places.
At this point, people have re-imagined it into something that couldn't have worked because they leave out this crucial part.
They do that and the politicians don't care, the politicians need pressure from the general populace in order to move in a different direction than the money wants them to
JasoRockStar
Superstar
Exactly. The ire in these protests are directed toward our American politicians. This isn't like the Ukraine protests where nikkas were tryna tell Vladimir Putin to chill out from a whole ocean away.
Join them and bum rush politicians.
In the last two months we've seen regular people flex their buying and voting power to force the elites to their knees.
McDonalds supports genocide, they get boycott across the world and lose hundreds of millions in share value and revenue. Same with Starbucks
Congress speed ran the tiktok ban bill exposing that they can be effective when they want. Their offices were flooded with calls and emails about that bullshyt and now the house is trying to kill the bill
Voting is not a magic pill. What it is is a mechanism to put the people in power who WILL act when you agitate and protest.
Trump will not bend the knee or acquiesce. That's why people are going to hard at Biden to stop this bullshyt. If he won't listen, then what difference does it make whether is Trump or Biden in Whitehouse?
We've seem to have forgotten that politicians WORK FOR US. WE pay their wages, WE put them in their offices, and WE outnumber them.
Fukk I look like letting my employee tell me what to do
