Has protesting ever changed anything?

No. Just ask Martin Luther King

Violent protest? Yes

>>138484432
No. It may actually reverse the intention.

>>138484432

If the leadership are cucks and cave in, then yeah.

>>138484530
I would have asked him, but I was too busy being a hero.
t.James Earl Ray

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Nothing has ever been done yet in this world except by the collective action of individuals coming together in faith, in belief, in will, and resolution, and then making their collective action, building parties and popular movements to do it. And that's what we have to do in the modern world.

>>138484432
It may have in a time when people had less distractions and politics was less confused/contrived.

>>138484432
no and this>>138484734

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>>138484432
Protesting in DC helped stop the draft in the 60's.

Since then protesting has not worked once. However boycotting can work if enough people do it.

It seems like a pressure release valve thay has little effect on anything.

Compare protesting to lobbying, to consumer campaigns, to fundraising, to terrorism. All of those achieve so much more.

In my opinion rallying and protesting are only morale-building and networking events. Do you agree?

>>138484432
>Has protesting ever changed anything?

blacks in america got civil rights and voting rights because they protested non-violently, were attacked with police dogs and fire hoses, and some of them died. when some white morons blew up sunday school and killed four little girls that helped immensely.

so they got the bills passed, and within two weeks of one of them, the first major race riot of the 60s took place in Watts, California, but that's another story.

If the alt-right had let eric clapton and the others beat them bloody, by now the MSM would be like whites in the 60s: unable to deny it any longer, and ready to put an end to it. Of course, the alt-right fights back on occasion so that's all you hear about.

Also Ghandi vs. the british empire. that one worked tool.

>>138484432
Yeah. East germany opened it's borders after peaceful, absolutely not western-financed protesting, leading to germany being united without having to declare neutrality in USA-Russia conflicts (Which is what the russians wanted) and becoming americas servant in NATO.
Also Gandhi, but I don't remember the details.

However, protests only work if a society is already destabilized badly. peaceful protests in a more or less stable society only serve for the rulers to identify those that do not agree with them and to give the norms an enemy to unite against.

>>138486029
They were able to use non violence because they had the jews backing them which means the media, entertainment and universities were all on their side.

>>138484432
Protests these days are really good at tracking down "motivated" individuals, "tagging" them, and monitoring them above the "social static" that prevents us from analyzing every single person with a political opinion

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Corruption wasn't legalised in Romania 6 months ago, so that's pretty cool I guess

>>138484432
When you're protesting against democracies who can't use outright violence against you, yes.

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>>138484432
For worse

>>138486370

Wow, you sound very... knowledgeable on the topic

>>138484432
Think about most regime shakeups. Were they peaceful?

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>>138484432

Never

>>138486029
Gandhi did nothing. India was going to be independent anyway. We actually supported Gandhi's non-violent revolution as that would have been the most peaceful way we could have left. During that time, India was heading to civil war between Muslims and Hindus and following WW2 we didn't have the resources to waste for it so we just tried to leave as peacefully as we could.

>>138486305
>the media, entertainment and universities were all on their side.

in the 50s and early 60s nobody was blatently on their side, especially in the south. blacks in movies and tv shows were either clowns (amos and andy), criminals, servants, or non-existent.

universities used to teach content, not social marxism.

the civil rights movement succeeded because the black people were non-violent and were treated like absolute shit by whites, and that was shown on tv because it was what people wanted to see. White morons caused the civil rights bills to pass by being white morons.

the alt-right destroyed itself by protesting

>>138486789
When was this pro-refugee demo?

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>>138486636
I am

>>138484432
Depends on how well armed the protestors are.

>>138484432
Protests were very effective before the digital age.
Before, you had to have an idea, you build a grass roots movement around that idea, those whom were best at articulating that idea became leaders, those leaders attracted more followers. and then demands could be made to authority based on your idea. And if your idea sucked, you wouldn't get enough ppl to mount a protest.
These days, you send out a tweet saying "we're protesting wall st" and within a few hours thousands of ppl are on wall st, leaderless and without and ideology to follow, so no demands can be made, so no changes can be introduced.
Same thing with The Arab Springs.

>>138487637

Hm, reverse image search turns up no matches

>>138487637

If this was your role, why would you announce yourself here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Solidarity

>>138488352
This basically.

>>138489215
If you've got nothing to hide, then you've got nothing to fear if we are here. I won't be screencapped and discussed like FBIanon is, so who cares?

Monitoring this website means we also monitor the "shills", and in many cases, we are able to track their online movements through the anti-/pol/ posting that they perform here. The ones that post here are held under greater scrutiny.

Trump is right about the existence of an "alt-left", but that's not the term we use.

>>138489215
Fuck off cringy summerfag