Wait. What was the additional dildo for? But also were there more than one and what purpose did the first one serve?
At least they’re doing something. “Leftists” sit here arguing why concentration camps are a good thing.
What are they doing besides completely destroying the reputation of anti-ice protests?
If someone shoves a dildo up their ass in front of an ICE detention center you count that as “better than staying home”?
The guy who made the original post is a film maker who attends these protests against ice and posts a ton of footage. This is just a light hearted clip taken from his feed of aggravating clips. It got picked up by the right wing which is why you’re seeing it.
I see nothing wrong with this. People protest the way they want or are able to and looks like this drew attention at least here.
Did it save the people in the Broadview deathcamp?
It does absolutely nothing except deluding themselves into believing they aren’t complicit in creating this situation.
And it’s a great free fun activity for the weekend.I agree a little. Not doing nothing, sadly the people in there still suffer and a bit of awareness is raised.
What these people show most I think is that it’s okay to not be afraid of these assholes.
Some people are too scared to leave their homes, or speak out, or go to a demonstration for fear of being gunned down in the street or injured in some way. Or put on a list for targeting later on.
These people are being brave in the face of fascism even it was just being silly, the retribution they are putting themselves at risk for is very real.
I’ll copy my reply to another one who was so afraid of risking something.
Since forever people of the world have protested and rioted.
And this against regimes and ruthless dictators that make your orange look like a joke.
They 100% knew they would be shot at, maybe tortured if arrested.
They did it anyway, since they’re not absolute pussies and an embarrassment like your pathetic population.
Glad you’re finally admitting you’re cowards, not that we didn’t know already.
the thing i see wrong with this is that it’s fundamentally not helping anyone.
you’d need coordinated striking or disruption at the very least.
I replied to another comment with similar stuff but, whether or not this helped anyone we can never truly know.
It did not help the people in the center that day presumably because they were not released. Who knows if they were aware of what was happening outside and how they would have or did feel about it happening.
At the very least, this raised awareness and showed that people are willing to speak out publicly against fascism regardless that the government is threatening any and all who speak or act against them.
of course you can truly know, what are you talking about. if you have demands that are met (eg release the prisoners) you succeeded in helping. if they aren’t you didn’t.
this is the crux of the issue and what the people criticizing these protests usually mean. without a clear goal and a clear way to pressure them to cave, all you are doing is waste potential and tire people out on toothless protests.
the people not already hopelessly brainwashed by fascism already have “awareness”. the purpose of banding together now is not to show you can because you already did that. it’s to use that leverage to score concessions from the regime.
libjerk@anarchist.nexusliterally removed my video regarding their golden toiletbowl.Straight up libbing.
you had me at anarchist
Nah, that’s straight up libjerking.
the owner of that /c/ straight up protects liberals.
So the idea is that people should not have fun while there are terrible things in the world? Especially the people trying to improve the situation somewhat? Am I getting that right?
Running around throwing dildos at people doesn’t achieve anything except making a cause look exceptionally stupid.
Examine your motivations. You ain’t even throwing dildos right now.
All the terrible things going on, and this is what you choose to criticize. 🙄
Yes, he doesn’t understand you have progressively hardened your actions from interpretative dance to… this.
And I hear there’s plans to go on strike for a whole complete day!
Trump is already making plans to flee the country under this relentless pressure from the combative and revolutionary population of the US banana republic.You think throwing sex toys at ICE is an effective way to protest?
If it was a big angry mob throwing them, it could be? That could be both threatening and humiliating at the same time. I agree that whatever this is doesn’t seem too effective though, but then on the other hand I don’t trust this isn’t some misinformation campaign to make the protesting look stupid in general. Sad times
If you told me this was a CIA psyop I’d believe it but the event itself was real
I think I understand your feelings. I think I am your ally and you are mine.
I am upset daily that I go to work, without just stopping in the street and asking everyone, why aren’t we stopping this? I love being late to work because I stopped to help somebody, and I have been, I will always stop to help if I am aware of the opportunity.
Alas, we need numbers and organization. Focusing on the negatives we see in others actions, in situations like these where they aren’t obviously bad actors or feds, leads to division, which is a popular goal of our oppositions. Organize a dildo march whatever gets people together, gets more people to hear the next message.
Each demonstration I go to, the speeches are all focusing on what we need to do more of. They are helping people sign up for voting or getting in community groups to protect each other.
