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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
(www.theguardian.com)
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Know what works even better? Voting.
*People mad at me suggesting voting lol.
Depends entirely on the vote and the country/region. Generally I disagree with you for the US at least. But the fun part is we get to do both. We should use every tool we have
So voting doesn't work I the US? So your screwed cause protesting doesn't work. Especially the half assed way Americans do it. Go out on weekends and have a big one every couple of months. Look at France for where it worked but they didn't do it half assed.
Voting works, but it doesn't work if that's your only tactic.
Depends on the integrity of the election system. With the current gangsters in charge, that's subject to question.
There are also other strategies that are as efficient, probably even more so: one is to expand the attack surface. It's exponentially easier to defend a few dozen potential targets than thousands. This should happen in parallel with voting and peaceful demonstrations. I won't elaborate further on this platform.
Let's not even argue what "works better", we need a diversity of tactics and we need to take all the power available to us.