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Hope he keeps that same energy when the mob walks him up the scaffold.
I'd love to see it, but let's all be realistic. Americans didn't band together to make cost of living affordable nor took it to the streets to demand universal healthcare. You REALLY think Americans will suddenly band together about AI affecting their way of life?
Americans couldn't even band together to stop the re-election of... Coup attempt... Etc etc etc it's kinda too long and exhausting to state even 1/4 of it at this point. But everyone knows about it.
They literally did and do, though. We have mass marches and protests that fill up city streets on a regular basis in the US. We had Occupy. We had the BLM marches. We had Women's Marches. We've had Palestinian Solidarity Marches. Israeli Solidarity Marches. No Kings Days. Earth Day. National Boycotts. Rallies to Restore Sanity. We had a mob of people ransack the US Capital five years ago, ffs.
The problem with Americans is not that they don't band together and take to the streets. The problem is in the leadership, which has alternately cashed out, been actively corrupted or mysteriously murdered.
Organizations that aren't infiltrated and subverted from within are pincered between malicious DAs and nefarious NGOs - as was the case with Ohio's ACORN in 2009 and the Harvard anti-Genocide activists organized during the tenure of Claudine Gay - and rubbed out of existence.
There's a naive assumption that politics in the US simply isn't happening. The bitter truth is that we're in the middle of a Cold Civil War, the casualties are mounting, and most people simply can't acknowledge it because the reality is too horrifying to accept.
I think they already are. And I think the Silicon Valley influenced state and national governments, combined with their lobbyists and media allies, are working to identify, subvert, and expunge anyone with meaningful purchase in civil society.
Group leads march in Downtown Memphis to protest Elon Musk's xAI
Organizations like this exist today. Idk if they'll exist tomorrow.
The problem with protesting in modern times since social media dominated the majority of our lives is how most show up on a weekend, take photos and a hashtag, then brunch.
It's all performative because if people were really serious, then there would constant protesting like how it was done during the Civil Rights era. The closest to a continuous protest we had was Occupy Wallstreet, yet so many fell for the media's propaganda of it being a bunch of jobless hippies. Same rhetoric that could had described the Civil Rights protestors.
Don't blame leadership when it is truly the people who are goddamn selfish and stupid. The final culmination of what Republicans and the owner class wanted out of a populace.
That's always been true.
Social media as a means of drawing big crowds and engaging idle residents has been great. But what do you do when you've got the crowd? What's the next steps?
Which is it?
Are people selfishly withholding their time, labor, and money from effective organizations and able leaders?
Or are they stupidly wasting time, labor, and money on con artists and turn coats?
They are too busy fighting themselves over irrelevant media slop...