Can protests be used as a gauge of someone's stupidity?

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at the end of the day, it never does jack shite and people just end up looking like fools on national TV.

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Tell that to every person who protested for pot to legalized.

But yeah, I will admit that there are some people who protest some pretty stupid shite and 99 percent of the time nothing is gonna change.

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Tell that to every person who protested for pot to legalized.

But yeah, I will admit that there are some people who protest some pretty stupid shite and 99 percent of the time nothing is gonna change.

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I'm not saying there aren't exceptions. There are exceptions for everything. Gay marriage and pot being the biggest two, but we see how much the abortion march in DC does every year. Nothing at all. Pot still isn't recreationally legal in most places, so even that isn't a resounding success just yet. Overall, it's a fruitless waste of time and resources.

Yea that MLK guy never accomplished anything from protests... Are most people wasting their time? Yea, but the OP is a pretty simplistic world view. Why do we bother doing anything that doesn't lead to a tangible result? Why volunteer? Why give small amounts to charity?

Two years ago In Ukraine they overthrew an authoritarian government







Here's the thing, though. It has to be a cross section of the community, not just twentysomethings with time on their hands. When the mawmaws and Joe the Barber are out there, it gains traction. It has to be in the thousands or tens of thousands, not just hundreds.

And it has to be disciplined. You can't flinch, you can't run, when they douse you with pepper spray, when they turn the firehose on you, when they set the dogs on you. When they drag you away, when they put you in the hospital, when they kill you, more have to step up and take your place.

When people tried to sit in at segregated lunch counters, when they tried to march across the Edumnd Pettus bridge, they were wearing suits and dresses like they were going to church. Their behavior was impeccable. And some of them were hurt badly and some of them died. But the public was revulsed at the sight of innocent people being attacked for doing nothing wrong, and they ultimately won.