I asked my little sister (19) who is pretty far left if she knew about any of these. She did not know about a single one.
Part of the problem with an echo chamber is that no outside voices get in, BUT (and more relevant to this conversation) your voices also never leave because you guys only interact with other people who already share all your same opinions 24/7.
None of these events will ever do anything if you can’t get other people involved.
That’s part of the problem with the media circle we’re in here in the U.S. - 4 of the richest American own and run 7/10 the most popular websites on the entire internet. The people who need to be reached won’t leave their platform because it’s all they know.
The only way to actually reach people, to actually make change, is IRL. Write letters, attend protests, invite people to protests, encourage discussion outside an online space.
That’s certainly part of the problem. But my comment was more directed at these protests being planned almost exclusively in spaces that are already deeply saturated in left leaning opinions and people.
This is like screaming about the dangers of Satanism while inside a mega church surrounded by people who already agree with you. Not gonna do much.
But if you do that same screaming about satanism somewhere where you aren’t surrounded by people who already agree you have a much better chance of reaching a new audience.
My main problem with them is that they were on a federal goddamned holiday.
Everyone met at empty state capitols to protest, in a way that would inconvenience and send a message to literally none of the people who should be receiving it.
It was something in Denver. There were tons of people, even in the snow. Many, many blocks were shut down. My 15 minute drive turned into an hour and some change just trying to get South of the Capitol. I saw a lot of news crews, too.
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I asked my little sister (19) who is pretty far left if she knew about any of these. She did not know about a single one.
Part of the problem with an echo chamber is that no outside voices get in, BUT (and more relevant to this conversation) your voices also never leave because you guys only interact with other people who already share all your same opinions 24/7.
None of these events will ever do anything if you can’t get other people involved.
That’s part of the problem with the media circle we’re in here in the U.S. - 4 of the richest American own and run 7/10 the most popular websites on the entire internet. The people who need to be reached won’t leave their platform because it’s all they know.
The only way to actually reach people, to actually make change, is IRL. Write letters, attend protests, invite people to protests, encourage discussion outside an online space.
Hey that’s not true I also interact with people that have the same opinion on other social media 😉
That’s certainly part of the problem. But my comment was more directed at these protests being planned almost exclusively in spaces that are already deeply saturated in left leaning opinions and people.
This is like screaming about the dangers of Satanism while inside a mega church surrounded by people who already agree with you. Not gonna do much.
But if you do that same screaming about satanism somewhere where you aren’t surrounded by people who already agree you have a much better chance of reaching a new audience.
My main problem with them is that they were on a federal goddamned holiday.
Everyone met at empty state capitols to protest, in a way that would inconvenience and send a message to literally none of the people who should be receiving it.
I honestly would believe this was actually planned by some trolls the dates seem so ineffective.
It was something in Denver. There were tons of people, even in the snow. Many, many blocks were shut down. My 15 minute drive turned into an hour and some change just trying to get South of the Capitol. I saw a lot of news crews, too.
Great to hear too bad it wasn’t shown in the International media
There were at least 200 people at my states Capitol. It may have been closer to 300.