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Sadly, I think this is widely true about people in general. Actually commiting to change is so much harder than expressing dissatisfaction with your current state.
The George Floyd protests eventually brought about justice to the killers, but so many protests never pan out unless extreme violence and complete revocation of the current system takes place, which has never happened in American protests due to the general populace’s sense of comfort.
It smelled like a barn there when it was going on. No plan whatsoever to deal with hygiene. I talked to them a few times and listened. They couldn’t even set up a basic organization structure or even agree to decorum in voting like Robert’s Rules. Plus they couldn’t stay on message. I spoke to a person who identified themselves as a spokesperson who continued to say over and over again “I can’t speak for others about that”.
You don’t need to invent a plan by the CIA to destroy that. It is like every single idea of how to organize a protest was thrown out the window and replaced with well nothing.
COINTELPRO was an FBI thing (not CIA), but never mind that. Maybe the problem was that they were scared of such infiltration, and over-corrected by trying not to have any hierarchy at all.
Sadly, I think this is widely true about people in general. Actually commiting to change is so much harder than expressing dissatisfaction with your current state.
except this is not “I gotta threaten to quit my job if it doesn’t improve”, “stop eating meat”, or “switch to a bicycle instead of a car”.
This is a “I gotta open a different app and start lurking there daily and occasionally post”.
Switching to lemmy took me an hour. How difficult is this protest, really?
I mean, how much hope is there for humanity with that level of indifference/apathy.
*France enters the chat “The fuck we do”
Occupy Wall Street comes to mind.
The George Floyd protests eventually brought about justice to the killers, but so many protests never pan out unless extreme violence and complete revocation of the current system takes place, which has never happened in American protests due to the general populace’s sense of comfort.
Was that failure organic or due to sabotage from a modern COINTELPRO, though?
It smelled like a barn there when it was going on. No plan whatsoever to deal with hygiene. I talked to them a few times and listened. They couldn’t even set up a basic organization structure or even agree to decorum in voting like Robert’s Rules. Plus they couldn’t stay on message. I spoke to a person who identified themselves as a spokesperson who continued to say over and over again “I can’t speak for others about that”.
You don’t need to invent a plan by the CIA to destroy that. It is like every single idea of how to organize a protest was thrown out the window and replaced with well nothing.
COINTELPRO was an FBI thing (not CIA), but never mind that. Maybe the problem was that they were scared of such infiltration, and over-corrected by trying not to have any hierarchy at all.