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  • World_Wario_II [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah there’s also no major lockdown making people insane and restive to boil over. There will never be another protest like 2020 in the USA until lived conditions seriously deteriorate to the level that many people faced during the pandemic

    Idealists and Liberals like to think protests are based on principles and specific events. George Floyd’s death could happen today and it would barely make the news. There was nothing particular about that specific incident that lead to the biggest protests in decades, it was just the spark that lit the gas built up from conditions. Riots and protests aren’t about idealist principles, they are about food, jobs, energy, state violence, etc. It has to be real and felt by a large chunk of the population, not activism