Okay, so I think this should put paid to the "I feel terrible and depressed because people aren't even resisting like they did in 2017" argument. - ThreadSky

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Okay, so I think this should put paid to the "I feel terrible and depressed because people aren't even resisting like they did in 2017" argument.

Reposted from Erica Chenoweth

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

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minimallycrazy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Should, but won't, because there's too much clout in dooming

minimallycrazy.bsky.social•3 days ago

At least now if you do, the data says you're a shithead!

utanarchist.bsky.social•3 days ago

White folks rights are now born threatened, so….

brentwaggoner.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is encouraging.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•3 days ago

That IS surprising! But goes to show that "protest movements" are just as much vibes as everything else is. They're big and significant if people THINK they're big and significant. 2017 just FELT more "resist-y" to some people because those were the internet and tv vibes at the time!

henleyparker.bsky.social•3 days ago

@teslatakedown.com protests have already been effective

tomscud.bsky.social•3 days ago

so starting the graph specifically on january 22 is a choice link unrelated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March

tomscud.bsky.social•3 days ago

if you add 400 to the green line right at the beginning the blue line still crosses over it in early February.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•3 days ago

Heh. But would that just count as one?

tomscud.bsky.social•3 days ago

i figure you should probably count per location, so 408 if the wikipedia article is right

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•3 days ago

I was totally at the one in the pic just saying

davidjorgonson.bsky.social•3 days ago

That does bring up that the graph isn't showing size (not a dunk, no graph can show everything)

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•3 days ago

(Descriptive not normative, to be clear! This is just how psychology operates. I definitely wouldn't have believed you that there were more protests now without seeing that!)

bananashirt.bsky.social•3 days ago

doesn't this mean it's on us to change the vibes?

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sure, if that's what we want! And to the extent that it's possible. "Changing the vibes" is a lot of what "doing politics" is!

aiddonvalentine.bsky.social•3 days ago

"They aren't resisting" is easier to believe when most major news channels are trying to pretend resistance doesn't exist.

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•3 days ago

NBC News aired footage of people in my (red) district raising seven kinds of Hell at my Congresscritter.

doebeekeet.bsky.social•3 days ago

The amount of opposition we’re seeing now is in spite of, not because of, Trump having been president previously. Sure, the diehard MAGAts think he didn’t go far enough last time and love the current shitstorm. But the rest of us have 2016-2020 as a baseline and know how much worse things are now.

doebeekeet.bsky.social•3 days ago

*because of, not in spite of

therealnui.bsky.social•3 days ago

We are in this very strange moment where virtually all of the tastemakers and masters of the universe are showing their bellies while everyday folk are rip roaring pissed and that leads to skewed perceptions of what is and isn’t happening

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Virtually all" is just wrong, we're seeing higher levels of resistance in the legislature and judiciary this time around too. Don't let Chuck the Chicken fucking snow over your memories of the past two months.

doebeekeet.bsky.social•3 days ago

*inner 12 year old snickering at chuck the chicken*

therealnui.bsky.social•3 days ago

My apologies, I should have been more clear: the “cultural” tastemakers and masters of the universe like the news and social media, not the political branches

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•3 days ago

I still think that's a whiff because the "cultural" tastemakers are very split.
Like, hate Disney, I'm certainly not much of a fan, but they're going ahead with a movie whose major subplot is about brown people being victims of racism and colonialism for their tentpole release this year.

brandonbird.bsky.social•3 days ago

They are remaking a 20 year-old movie; that's not resistance to anything, that's playing it safe with cultural tastes.

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•3 days ago

They are making a movie about Native people and Native culture which stars Native people at a time when the admin tried to erase Jackie Robinson's military record as DEI.
It is a thumb in the eye of the admin even if Disney didn't intend it to be, which they didn't.

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•3 days ago

(The "Lilo and Stitch" remake, to be clear- I saw people getting blown up about the haole character being Hawaiian now, but I think that's a small thing to fixate on when they have the actual core plot of Lilo vs. that white girl still clearly in-picture.)

jeninmotion.bsky.social•3 days ago

And their Captain America is still black so you have a point

therealnui.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don’t disagree, I should have been less broad with my original statement

xanadian.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is REALLY good to see.

ianbobmorris.bsky.social•3 days ago

people are ready to flip their shit and a lot of Tesla properties are conveniently located to people who oppose Elon's stuff

sweatband09.bsky.social•3 days ago

What a damning indictment of the mainstream media.

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