Interrupting traffic has never been a successful strategy in the US. In fact it usually lowers support.
Success can only come by affecting the money. Targeted boycotts, if they can be widely enough embraced, would be 100 times more effective
To everyone tearing into this guy: Boycotts aren’t applicable here, but one important thing to note is that protests don’t work. Straight up, they’re a waste of time unless you use them as a stepping stone to some other, more effective method. Just blocking traffic and making noise only serves to exhaust people who want change. If protests were any good, y’all wouldn’t have went to war with Iraq.
Ukraine would like a word.
Yeah! Boycott ICE! When they come to take your friends and family away, say, “you cannot do that! I boycott you!”
I also hear if you put a line of salt across the door, they can’t cross it.
You wanna make noise, protest. You wanna make change, run for school board.
Boycotts won’t work, as the ruling class has far more capital to throw around than we do. Blocking freeways interrupts life for normal folks but does serve to make the issue visible and have some degree of impact on local commerce. Ultimately, though, I am starting to think that the most efficient means of resistance is to come up with a few more Luigis, since most other strategies have been rendered ineffective.
I knew about the LA protests before the reports of blocking freeways came out.
I gave them more respect until that. We don’t have to make it easy to vilify a cause.
Boycotts don’t really work. Is there a good example from the last ~40 years of a successful boycott?
20+ years ago in Hungary, against Danone, for them wanting to take the Győri Édesipari Vállalat to the Czech Republic. It didn’t work the second time, because Danone got a way bigger hold on the Hungarian market and they made sure a lot more children will cry if they get yoghurt not made by Danone.
There’s always some excuse for enforced silence.
Yup, same team folks.
If a vocal, active group (way to go LA!) is pitted against their peers (booo) it is a message divided and our opponents win.
I hope my city shows their strength and voice, and I hear rumblings of people planning things which is awesome, but I’m not for dicking around on freeways and being an arsehole for clout and attention.
Tell more people to go to the senator’s home or… hell, the mayor. Fucking someone who isn’t late for work, and might be concerned about Luigi’s unknown brother…
Ffs, if these people are our rebellion, we are fuuuuucked.
I’m sorry, but these people are at least spending their Sunday drawing attention. What are you doing that’s so superior? I agree that it’s not my kind of protest, but at least doing something is better than sitting on your thumb hoping for a savior.
