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Have protests ever changed a mind?
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:35 pm
What have protests ever really accomplished other than pissing off the vast majority of people?
I'm all for free speech and all but I have yet to understand random protests at locations that have no power to deal with whatever they are protesting and can't influence any outcome.
People are stupid.
I'm all for free speech and all but I have yet to understand random protests at locations that have no power to deal with whatever they are protesting and can't influence any outcome.
People are stupid.
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Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:39 pm to Landmass
Gandhi
Civil rights marches in US/ Birmingham Bridge, the dogs and hoses got Kennedy to send in the troops
Civil rights marches in US/ Birmingham Bridge, the dogs and hoses got Kennedy to send in the troops
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:39 pm to Landmass
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People are stupid.
It’s not that people are stupid. It’s that they overestimate their influences to the world.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:40 pm to Landmass
quote:Merle Haggard The Okie from Muskogee
it irritated me a little bit to see ’em roaming the streets and bitching and burning and not really coming up with any answers to anything. So some of the frustrations came out in different songs
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:43 pm to Landmass
Protests are power contest, they're a show of force.
This post was edited on 5/1/24 at 10:43 pm
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:43 pm to Landmass
Massive protests in our history have worked before. Government officials have definitely been known to cave in some instances.
Now 50 kids on a college campus aren’t going to do shite or change the course of history even a little bit.
Edit: Nothing wrong with a protest in the grand scheme of things since I’m all for freedom of speech. It’s just counterintuitive when you piss off a large group of people by interfering with their commute, destroying people’s property, demanding things, etc.
Now 50 kids on a college campus aren’t going to do shite or change the course of history even a little bit.
Edit: Nothing wrong with a protest in the grand scheme of things since I’m all for freedom of speech. It’s just counterintuitive when you piss off a large group of people by interfering with their commute, destroying people’s property, demanding things, etc.
This post was edited on 5/1/24 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:47 pm to Landmass
I’m sure someone will come in here like a rabid waubanshee and tear me a new arse for being wrong either in part or in whole, but perhaps one could say that protests influenced a sitting President to not campaign/run for a second term. Lyndon Baines “Bangs” Johnson, aka LBJ.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:48 pm to Landmass
Yes they’ve changed mine. I now think they should be illegal.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:53 pm to Landmass
Yes. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:54 pm to Landmass
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Have protests ever changed a mind?
Northwestern gave em 5 scholarships baw thats a win
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I'm all for free speech and all but I have yet to understand random protests at locations that have no power to deal with whatever they are protesting and can't influence any outcome.
protests are mostly inconvenient bullshite but we should still protect our rights to do it at all costs.
This post was edited on 5/1/24 at 10:55 pm
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:57 pm to OWLFAN86
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Civil rights marches in US/ Birmingham Bridge, the dogs and hoses got Kennedy to send in the troops
The location was not irrelevant in those situations. Go read my post again.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 10:59 pm to Corinthians420
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protests are mostly inconvenient bullshite but we should still protect our rights to do it at all costs.
Like I said, I'm all for them and the right to free speech. I just don't understand having a protest at a random college town for something that is occurring 6,000 miles away. If they want to protest, go to DC where policy is made.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:00 pm to Landmass
No protest has changed my mind….but you’d better believe they have changed political figures minds. Pretty much every significant change throughout history has been made as a result of protests.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:05 pm to Spankum
I know I'm shite at making posts but it seems that people are just reading the subject and not the body.
Im talking about the ones held at irrelevant locations. These protests are like me expecting to get a raise at work by bitching about my pay to random strangers.
Im talking about the ones held at irrelevant locations. These protests are like me expecting to get a raise at work by bitching about my pay to random strangers.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:09 pm to Landmass
that was a march that got the public's attention
the, location-specific march/protest was relevant to your question
its historical fact
the, location-specific march/protest was relevant to your question
its historical fact
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:11 pm to Landmass
So you're saying that people marching in America about events in Palestine for example to you and have they ever worked
well they marched against the war in Vietnam and that was relevant in changing the government's approach But they were marching about things going on in another country
well they marched against the war in Vietnam and that was relevant in changing the government's approach But they were marching about things going on in another country
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:16 pm to Corinthians420
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but we should still protect our rights to do it at all costs.
to an extent….
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:16 pm to Lima Whiskey
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Protests are power contest, they're a show of force.
Yep. They aren’t done to change people’s minds. They are there to wear people down until people just give the protesters what they want.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 12:25 am to Landmass
I can’t speak for every single protest/issue, but protests in-general typically make me want to take the other side. Especially if the protests get out of hand.
That’s what I find ironic about protests… my belief is they benefit the other side moreso than their own. Because they inadvertently generate support for the other side that oftentimes wasn’t there before.
That’s what I find ironic about protests… my belief is they benefit the other side moreso than their own. Because they inadvertently generate support for the other side that oftentimes wasn’t there before.
This post was edited on 5/2/24 at 12:30 am
Posted on 5/2/24 at 12:44 am to Landmass
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Have protests ever changed a mind?
The civil rights and womens suffrage movements were pretty important. Our country was also formed by one giant protest.
That said, what’s going on now and what happened in 2020 are stupid
This post was edited on 5/2/24 at 12:48 am
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