Hey America. Honest question. Does protesting do anything...

real protests do, but bought ones don't

thank you, first real post in the thread.

this is why dictatorships and other totalitarian governments heavily infringe upon freedom of assembly.

It helped with Family Seperation too. Media kept running it and Trump had to change it sadly.

>changes were made to society
>people protested for these changes to be made prior to them
>therefore protests change society rather than other unrelated things that share similar motivation to said protests
This is how the public thinks, unfortunately.

This is not protest, this is shit. They should start burning tires.

Sometimes a completely non aggressive protestor gets murdered on camera by the group they're protesting, that can help. But don't tell the NPCs the organizers want them to get martyred for the cause.

It just pisses off normal people, it's why I'll never go to a "protest"

Behind every protest is the threat of revolution. It only works if you gather enough people to overwhelm police/military, then the government will suck your cock so they don't get Gaddafied.

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Makes us feel good and that's all that matters.

>Does protesting do anything?
It only helps those protesting.

It's been decades since there was an honest protest that everybody got behind. Now, it's one-sided fake rage for the sake of their feelings.

A planned protest between truck and train drivers would do more harm and actualy achieve more than a million leftists blocking a main road in a city.

Judging by the Iraq war in 2003. It doesn't. Not in America, not in the UK and not in Spain.

Protesting the opposition while In the heart of One of the most liberal cities in the union.

>Not realizing you’re pissing in a sea of piss; and that the true enemy is watching you from their penthouses and spacious corner offices wringing their hands and grinning.

Look at those big beautiful golden arches. Mmmmm reminds me of how it feels to be free

Historically, in America, it can but not a lot of people realize how. Even the most poorly researched, shortsighted, radicalized and sometimes just dangerous ideas have gained a ridiculous level of traction and even become laws if they can accomplish enough economic consequence. For example, the civil rights movement in the 60's was only successful because they were strategic in how they protested. they picked cities that did not have enough police/fire/medical personnel on a regular basis. they would bus in protesters into cities that could not handle the volume of people all at once. cities would have to pay ridiculous sums of money and many times also have losses in business revenue and damages afterwards. this happened enough times that the economic consequence was practically the equivalent of extortion. its no surprise that dogs and fire hoses started to be used. to fight that technology, they made children surround the street marching formations (South Park's "operation human shield" in real life). Before that the suffragettes did strategically protest in ways that cost cities a lot of money and eventually lead to prohibition with help from the anti-saloon league, many churches and the group that made the privatized fed a real thing. a lot of modern feminist lobbies have found a surprising level of success via the digital equivalent of protest in ways that cost people a lot of money to the point that it influences legislation and business infrastructure. in person marches and protests usually do not accomplish much because many of the larger ones have to have multiple agendas to get enough people and those are easy to overlook most of the time.

Not really it's just millenials trying to be le revolutionaries and boomers trying to relieve their hippy days. Everyone has a nice little photo op than goes home. It's basically just a pass time at this point in time

Imagine the horror on the politicians faces when they saw times square being crowded, and traffic being unable to pass through in a timely manner.

They protest over shit that's already been in place for decades.

There's maybe 300 people there... Damn, I actually thought they could make something big.

>Narcissism
This user is correct.

So this was the big "Rapid Response" protest they've been threatening for months?

Drumpf btfo

Just went down to the 'protest' here in vancouver wa. Walked up at like 5:30, maybe 100 people with signs. They'd set up a soundsystem and had passed out little flyers with lyrics and were singing songs like "glory glory hallelujah" and other classics but with trump-bashing lyrics. I stood back and this old skinny "white" guy came and started talking with me, sat down on a bench. We go back and forth for about 45 mins, me just prying him for information / did not talk about my politics at all. Jewish guy, told me about going to san-fransisco state, said he graduated 50 years ago. Told me about being a part of the SDS (students for democratic society??) which was like an antifa precursor or something. Bragged to me about how he was friends with obama on linkedin.

Weird thing tho - as we were chatting this young dark-ish girl walks past and asks me "is this a trump rally?" and I said 'no, more like the opposite" and she says "screw that" and walks away. Not what I was expecting.
It was pretty cringe overall, and while the website said over 1300 had signed up I saw max 200. My county is 50/50 D/R anyway.

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few signs.
5:30, rush hours. people just getting out of work, trying to get home.
looks like that every day.

>Behind every protest is the threat of revolution. It only works if you gather enough people to overwhelm police/military, then the government will suck your cock so they don't get Gaddafied.

How can a group that want to ban guns for anyone but the military and police threaten revolution? The worst the left can do against the state is block traffic and whine on twitter.

It does work. The reasons the American left protests always fail is because they seemingly have no plan -- there is nothing specific they want (or no work-around) so there is no way to satisfy the protest even if you wanted to.

"Occupy Wall Street". No specific goals. Uh... redistribute wealth...? I guess...? Nobody knew what the fuck these people wanted. They were basically just angry at money.

"BLM". Statistics were never looked at to begin with so there was nothing that could be done to improve that could be measured. There was no way to make them happy.

"Pipeline protest". Oil's gotta move! Pipeline protesters had a specific goal but had no alternatives. They also lacked numbers. Buncha filthy hippies leaving their trash in the tundra. Nobody gave a shit, really.

Pretty much all protests are like this.

The ones that succeed have popularity but also have specific, measurable goals that lack any really good reasons to say no to.

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No. protesting has never worked. Not once. And it is even less effective the more you do it.

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Protests didn't do shit. Public opinion dropped inside of the homes thanks to television. Don't fall for the lie that the hippies won any kind of culture war.

protests are driven by narrative

if it's what (((they))) want it's seen as good and accomplishes public support with those manipulated by the media, however if you're a dreg of society like us you're achieving nothing but slander

You're partially correct. Peaceful protest has never worked, but violent protest sure as fuck has.

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The main goal of protests is to put soft pressure on a political person, letting politicians know how a group of the population feels. it was especially potent in pre-internet days for conveying the feelings of the public. nowadays, with the resurgence of political extremism in points of view, it's pretty much a given that none of these people are even considering voting for the other side, so there is no political pressure being applied; therefore the protest has no point other then virtue signaling.

Protesting is shit unless they are all armed, then it's an armed resistance. These pussies are against guns so no, ain't nothing gonna change. Trump may be doing some Kike shit here and there but he's also standing up to them and also getting some shit done that average Americans have wanted done for a long time. These leftist fags start arming themselves patriots will wipe them out. All there is to it. So don't worry, get a cup of hot chocolate and be comfy!

Every example of peaceful protests, Gandhi, Martin Luther King had a threat of violence from a more radical group behind it. Government pushes them as successes so people will burn off their energy with peaceful protests.

I've always wondered if there was a big fish kill from dumping all that tea in the harbor

tea doesn't steep in cold water, in addition boston harbor is big, it has a lot of water even compared to the amount of tea dumped. there are no reports, to my knowledge, of local wildlife being adversely affected.

>Does protesting do anything?

No, of course not. That's why the left is so big on protesting, because they're a bunch of useless idiots.

Protesting is what people do when they have no power.