• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Stop watching media that highlights the extreme and watch crowdsourced videos of the actual protests. They’re not the LA riots that mainstream media is portraying. I’m in NY and haven’t seen any violence first hand. There have been small altercations here and there, but millions are protesting, connecting, and influencing others to join.

    There is no better way to grow our numbers. We need to take advantage of this opportunity to engage and organize. There is no benefit to accelerating into assembly restrictions with only ~2% of our nation, mostly 40+ in age, ready to take action.

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      10 hours ago

      Okay so im not getting the extreme from videos. I have not been watchibg videos of protests.

      And repeating copy pasted talking points isnt going to convince me of anything.

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        9 hours ago

        That’s fair. I’ve provided cited sources, facts, and statistics. You’ve shared your feelings. I’ll reconsider my stance on peaceful protest being the most effective method to engage and build a communication network when you provide some convincing evidence to the contrary.

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          8 hours ago

          ‘Sources’, you linked to a youtube video of presumably chenoweth.

          Facts. Okay. And in the 2024/25 agricultural year, the united states grew 1.97 billion bushels of wheat on 38.5 million acres. The seychelles giant tortoise can live for 200 years. Sagrada familia was consecrated in 2010, but still isn’t finished!

          There, i have facts too now. And the tortoise one is way better than yours.

          No approach is going to get everyone, but what approach you take determines who you pick up. Im not sure the people 50501 is grabbing are going to be very steadfast or have broad utility. It’s not bad that it’s happening, but it’s not the best thing going right now.

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            6 hours ago

            What other method has successfully mobilized more than 10M people? I’ll get behind it if it’s more effective. My loyalty is to successful strategy, not 50501.

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              6 hours ago

              It hasnt won yet, and y9ure repeating the exact same talking points.

              You do not win alone. Not a thing. You do jot win with a single tactic. Thats absurd.