Who would've thought that dragging in all the top brass from every corner of the world to give them information that could've been an email would've pissed them off?

Art imitates life.

Kinda hard for him to anticipate the ability of people to form factions and organize over the Internet at breakneck speed.

Google: enshittification

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Should be a litmus test for anyone running for piblic office. From school boards up to the White House.

jfc, why are you the way you are?

That's not what he posted. He said people thanked cops. Whatever. I wouldn't do it myself, but I certainly not going to tell people how to live their lives when they're actively willing to do something they normally wouldn't do. We need more people to do so, not less.

Shaming people for not protesting the "right way" only reduces numbers and makes you look like an asshole. Cut this shit out.

4/ Anyone that discourages engagement with regular people, be it through fear or silence only does the administration's bidding. It's compliance.

Instead, be loud and be heard. Live outside where everyone can see us.

3/ Anonymity also feeds into the narrative of the faceless paid protester or Far Left Antifa Deranged Communist. We need people to see us. We need them to know that their neighbors, their teachers, their gas station cashiers are out there fighting fascism.

2/ But we want the general public there. We want them to see it's safe; safer than it is for our children to go to school, in fact. So why promote anonymity when you can immediately dispel the fear of danger?

I absolutely do, but the difference is negligible when you consider we live in an era where everyone has a camera and potential reach.

The larger point is we should be amplifying courage in the face of tyranny rather than irrational fear of our right to peaceful assembly.

Why am I so angry?🤔 Modern day Gestapo being deployed into our cities. Concentration camps at home and abroad. Political enemies being jailed. The oligarchy. People losing healthcare. Threats to our 1st Amendment rights.

You should be angry, too.

What is the point of attending if you're not seen? It's literally the entire point of a protest.

I don't even know what that means.

I've been going to protests and organizing protests for years. I've run safety patrol at more than half of the protests I attended, and know from experience that the vast majority of them are safe. Calling me a plant is the dumbest possible response.

Protesting is inherently an performative act designed to encourage others sitting on the sidelines to engage. If people don't see us doing it, we're literally preaching to the choir.