Thurgood Du Bois
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Looking at these protests break out over what's happening in #Gaza , if people in 🇺🇸 had this same energy over the last 4 years?

We'd possibly have:

1. The John Lewis Voting Rights Act

2. Freedom to Vote Act

3. The George Floyd Act

4. Miranda and Roe
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11:02 PM - May 01, 2024 (Edited)
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Anton Brakhage
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I doubt we would, honestly. I's not like the Gaza protests have won major policy changes, at least not yet. The Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 seem to have had little lasting effect.

The only protests with long-term success lately seem to be the Covidiots, because this is a vile timeline.
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06:29 AM - May 03, 2024
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Ronald Alexander
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In response to Anton Brakhage.
IMO the only effect these mass protests have is the doubling down by the authoritarians of the right to chill peaceful assembly. From run the bastards over law to no right to assemble and sometimes Democrats fashion the noose for them in the name of bipartisanship.
06:34 AM - May 03, 2024
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Anton Brakhage
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In response to Ronald Alexander.
Note I don't think the takeaway is protest is ineffective so we shouldn't try- that's a terrible lesson to learn, especially going into a possible fascist coup this Nov.

I do think protest movements likely need to revise their tactics, especially re attracting broad support over ideological purity
06:41 AM - May 03, 2024
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