Well this is where you normally would protest until they did their job. Except some one convinced everybody to blow their load with no kings 24 protest-a-thon

They should demand to only speak with democrats and or go the other way and say they’ll only speak to president Stephen Miller

😆 as funny as that would be, not sure what the charge would be.

Would totally love to see some real politicians step up and demand investigations and charges.

But we hate Trump, bigotry, racism.

This can’t be the answer. What is the difference?

Who? For what?

I see it more like a new frontier opened up and everybody gathered their supplies and such and headed west.

It was a race to be the first one to set camp and claim land. End of the day it was a numbers game. The left didn’t put up the numbers and in some cases they worked against themselves. This generation saw a new frontier and went “bah” but now those frontiers are where young men and women are getting their information, beliefs and ideas from. They will one day be the next general making decisions. How long until MAGA looks plain Jane compared to the people being raised today

Am I nuts or is this just her moving on. I imagine she goes to trump and says she’s had enough and he does all this as cover

I always feel like this is all governments trying to see what they can do to leverage social media for. These are all test runs that get studied and logged in a manual and every couple years a new one is tried

Iran could really fracture the country if it chooses it’s target strategically

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I’m going to offer my call to action that also gets shot down often but I want people to consider it honestly. I know it sounds crazy. It’s not fully fleshed out. But I believe efforts need to be more focused online. It is anonymous. They can’t beat your head in. The authoritarians invest heavily in it. The weakness in their efforts is that the thing they need to invest in can easily be leveraged by us to also spread an idea just like a protest. Except with so much less effort and risk.

What I want people to consider honestly is that I think the proof that this is where we need to focus is that the powers that be are actually trying to dismantle our ability to do this before we wise up to it. This is why they’re trying to introduce digital id’s. It’ll let them be able to identify leaders and voices online who organize and censor them. Right now they cannot do that easily. But they know if those 700 million people that showed up in the streets would instead show up online, their bots, propaganda and efforts would be crushed. You can control the narrative and flip it all back on them. I think we have wrongly been telling people to abandon all the social media we can. To block everyone. To ignore it all. I think that is contributing to all our countries sliding towards the right. We gave them all red carpet access to the eyes and ears of most people. Instead we should encourage each other to connect online. Take control of the platforms again and only then consider going back to the streets when the narrative can be controlled and messages spread.

My issue is this clearly doesn’t work. You’re being mislead that this works. You had 700 million people out there and nothing happened.

But 700 million people used in new and strategic ways can move mountains. Literally. But instead of moving mountains, you’re just in a street for a day.

Think about this. Protesting isn’t new. It’s occurred since the 1900s as a way to force government and the rich to bend to our will through collective action.

Do you people think that the rich and powerful haven’t solved this problem yet? Just think about it for even 10 minutes. It makes no sense that this type of collective action could ever work in today’s world like it has in the past. Say what you like about authoritarians, but they do coordinate and plan. Just look at all the events they attend with each other. It’s not just for drinks and cocktails. They use their resources to prevent us from taking their power away. They have created thick manuals for this very specific form of soft fleshy crowd. The powers that be have paid for the smartest Ivy league quants to think of strategy and tactics like an NFL coach does when reviewing games. They’re so ahead of us on this. The rich control the media. The same media that many of us decided is not important to use anymore or maintain connections on. The media they have heavily invested in. Turns out that this media is needed. If we don’t have a presence on social media then we cannot share our efforts. Without that media, the authoritarians can make this effort into anything they want.

If i was a rich guy I’d love these protests because it gives me an opportunity to arrest and financial bankrupt any of the leaders. So when I see that people are getting angry and there is this potential energy that could erupt against my class, then I can use the media to plan these things. When you all show up, the police can identify the leaders and arrest and charge them after kicking in their heads. The rest go home after 24 hrs. With the pressure now released, there will be another year before I need to rinse and repeat.

Compare this to say the clownvoy. They were connected to the police. The tow truck drivers that would be needed to remove trucks after an arrest were in support of them. They made it family fun with bbq and trampolines and bouncy castles and hot tubs because do you think police want to deal with any of that after they clear it all out. Every part of the clownvoy was set up to mess with the playbook that Authoritarians use to disrupt protests. That is what is lacking on the left. But there are leaders in the left who seem hell bent on maintaining status quo. But people are waking up slowly. The problem with doing these things slow is it gives the Authorities time to adapt. There needs to be serious critical honesty reflection on the left towards how badly these protests have damaged and harmed progress. Digging in is only going to keep the status quo which right now is causing huge losses day by day.

Right after I posted I saw this exemple of media being used in the way I described. My Facebook is getting filled with the posts rapidly. Take those same 700 million people and just image what you could do online with them.

When you’re not able to show I’m wrong just attack me. Fucking lemmy

This place is filled with bots too. Don’t kid yourself. You get bigger bang for your bot investment in smaller communities that grow larger vs waiting until the community has grown larger then trying to get in.

Holy shit, this doesn’t work. It’s 2026. You cannot get the runway you need to ever make this happen. None of you even bothered to create the runway. You handed the runways over to the people you want to protest.

The very last thing you should be doing is deleting any of that. You need to be creating multiple accts. Building groups. Building hype. Spreading information and stopping theirs. You have no business ever suggesting a general strike until you solve how to control the messaging.

General strike is maximum effort. Online action is much lower effort. If you can not find success at lower effort activities, you’ll never get success at higher effort. You don’t walk into a marathons without running 5km just because you have big feelings. Need to work up to it.

Something like that. I see a weird pattern with articles about AI and articles about immigration in right wing circles. They’re the same. Like the themes and focus in the headlines for each all seem to be reused

That’s not true

Someone the other day bragged that they tagged me as a fascist and racist 😆 I have no idea why but I think tagging is stupid in general.

I guess it freaks me thinking that maybe the real content was bots the entire time and that this is just us. No real insight. No moving anything forward. Just reacting and then telling each other to go outside or touch grass the minute anyone calls it out. Like “shut up and observe your cat memes you internet denizen.”

I did want to read some comments discussing the contents of the article. I’ll pop back later I guess

This is kind of what I’m getting at. Like no matter what post I go on, it is all the same. The comments are cookie cutter from post to post.

4chan had insane investigative abilities. Reddit had insight from experts on so many posts about anything. Lemmy is just people who don’t like things.