• geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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    4 days ago

    I applaud the energy to want do something but people should consider whether they are spending their energy effectively.

    All this did was give right wingers an incredibly easy punching bag and make the left look like absolute clowns. Doing literally nothing would have been better than this.

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      4 days ago

      Well I disagree. I think ineffective protesting is better than no action.

      Who cares what the right thinks.

      If a person in a frog costume shows up at a protest I organize I would be fucking stocked.

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        4 days ago

        Exactly. If someone does a thing Republicans don’t want done, they’ll attack, regardless. Might as well make it interesting and keep the attacks anonymous.

        I mean, that army of frogs could be school kids or coworkers. Boys. Women. You don’t know. Facial and gait recognition aren’t going to be very effective. I love it!

        (I googled and just found out a group of frogs is an ARMY! It’s perfect.)

      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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        4 days ago

        It’s actually considerably worse.

        Non-acton means you retain the understanding that something still needs to be done and thus should be looking for an alternative to achieve the desired goal.

        Performative action that is not materially effective has the effect of making one think that they did “something” so they don’t have to do anything else.

        Action for the sake of action is just wasted energy. Do you spin your wheels in mud just because “it’s better to have done something” or do you look for an alternative that actually gets you out of the mud?

      • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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        4 days ago

        Who cares what the right thinks

        The in-power government who’s successfully turning the nation rightwing, as they control the press. You know, the people with the guns, killing political opponents in the very same deathcamps in this article.

        The very same one gifting a million dollars to a certified killer. There’s a reason why other nations are calling Americans Nazis, and you’re witnessing that praxis why.

        Ineffective protest IS non action. Not so sure what rightwing propaganda you swallow that not having a demand met is more than nothing, when it literally amounts to naught. You are saying interpretative dances fix killers.