• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    If you’re not willing to go to even simple protests, I have terrible believing you’d be up for anything violent.

    Plus protests have more users than their immediate effects.

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      4 hours ago

      I’ve been to lots of protests, even crossing half my country to go to some (huge country btw), for decades. I just got tired of everybody pretending to be angry and then celebrate pyrrhic victories, if we even managed to get one. I was politically involved and pissed since my early teens, but nothing has ever truly changed due to protests. Only shallow changes, promptly reversed a few months or years later and nobody cared, because nobody was willing to even cause destruction of property at the very least. I got pepper-sprayed too many times to bother with fake outrages. If nobody is going to really care, neither will I.