May be phrasing it wrong, but I look at actions like Labor rights, Pride, Civil Rights, Black Panthers, etc. where actions of protesters felt much intense and made more of an impact in actually changing things vs now where there are protests but it feels like it constantly falls of deaf ears.
Have we just not hit that breaking point yet? Have we collectively been beat down so hard? Or have we forgotten how to truly fight for rights? Or… am I just completely off the mark and missing something else?
They stormed capital hill lmao
That wasn’t a fucking protest. Give me a break. There’s a difference between a riot, an insurrection and a protest.
Really? Because it seems to me the only difference is what your preferred media decide to call it.
That was literally a right wing protest about an election result. Protests aren’t always good. All those words you used have broad overlap and generally things escalate from protest to riot to insurrection.
Your logic is misaligned in this comment itself. In your comment you state that “generally things escalate from” and then list three different things . . . A protest, a riot, and an insurrection. This is because they are all different and your logical brain knows it. Your illogical brain uses them as an excuse for the right wing extreme behavior that occured during the god-damned insurrection. How any true patriot could be okay with what happened on the 6th is beyond me. We are supposed to be bonded as Americans. We are supposed to understand that we might not agree on everything, but we are in this together. We are supposed to agree that voting is sacred and that the results are the results.
Protest - a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.
Riot - a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd.
Insurrection - a violent uprising against an authority or government.
The insurrectionists held an uprising against the government, stormed the capital, and threatened to take over and change the election results. This is fact neither born from one media outlet or another. It had witnesses and is a part of this countries history now.
Right. So using your definitions of protest, riot and insurrection and using your statement that protests, riots and insurrections are mutually exclusive; How would you describe a situation where a crowd is demonstrating their objection to the government with a violent uprising?
Every use of language is contextual and by forcing yourself into an absolutist understanding you’ll lose nuance in your interpretation.
That said. Idgaf loser keep coping
It’s the end product that I am giving a definition. By the way, what did I “lose”? How am I a loser for caring about my young family and my country that I care about? Why is this a competition for you? I am an American who is worried about where this country is heading in many aspects of it (Dem and Republican alike). I do not belong to a single party and I vote my conscience on issues. So, I ask you again . . . What did I “lose”? I am worried about a corporate America where working class people are duped by their government officials and are losing the ability to make a living. If that makes me a “loser” than I guess we’re all losers. And if you think that I am the enemy (a fellow American) then we are definitely all “losers”.
Coup attempts aren’t protests and neither are riots and all the gaslighting in the world won’t change that. That an event can change from one thing to another is meaningless to that fact.
Gaslighting isn’t real and you’re fucking crazy