The year was 2015 and a friend who lives in a school bus visited town. We were all smoking weed in his bus and he said "Oh please let Clinton loose". I asked WTF are you thinking? And he responded that he spent lots of time protesting and that it didn't work because people weren't listening. It seems no matter how many terrible fascists get elected, liberals still won't listen to him.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Liberals never pay attention to popular protests unless the talking heads on TV tell them to.

I lost my faith in American "Democracy" during Occupy Wall Street, when the national media completely shut out any of the actual demands being made in favor of a "they don't even have any goals" narrative.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

I still remember how well that propaganda worked on people. It became commonplace for liberals to complain that the OWS protests were aimless and lacked message.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Even when liberals are shown protests on TV, they often walk away with the wrong message. It seems the only time it doesn't happen is when the state uses violence in a way that is indefensible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

And even then it's down to a coin flip whether they'll care.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I protested at the DNC years ago with an anti-war group. Liberals won’t listen to anything that even remotely pushes them out of their comfort zone. They’d rather keep voting until something magically changes (it won’t), or they waste the rest of their time criticizing you for “allowing the right to win.”

I have to say, it’s pretty fucking annoying to be scolded by liberals that do nothing but fill in a circle, while you’re doing things like marching to protest war, writing articles, participating in things like Food Not Bombs… meanwhile, they are in a state of malfunction because you refuse to vote for one of the two right-wing candidates propped up in front of us by the ruling class so we can do the same old song and dance again while thinking something will be different this time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did his protests get more attention under trump?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

He doesn't protest anymore, but I get your point. As noted elsewhere, the protests got more attention because the responses were more violent. Is that good? Considering how the police have even more money than before I am not so sure...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

~~loose~~ lose

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

yeah turns out that pesky international policy liberals barely pay attention to? fucking us over big time. and by us i mean almost the entirety of the not-western world.

and it really doesnt matter how much you try to talk to them, i guess they will not care (or just pretend to) until its too late for they themselves.