They spent 50 years working toward the overturn of ROE.
We cannot resolve it with 1 presidential election.
Real change must build from the ground up. Local primary races.
Reform the party then win with the party.
It also depends on getting the RIGHT Democrats on the ballot.
Joe Machen and Danica Roem are both Democrats, but they are not the same.
Get involved in your local party.
People also need to understand that what majority leader they’re going to vote for matters. Majority leader is the one who decides what is even voted on.
Right.
But the difference between a Corpo Dem and a Progressive is decided in the primary/caucus process.
The reason we keep having to choose between 2 evils is because we don't engage at the primary layer.
Movements are built not spawned whole.
We're 60 years removed from a communist straight up taking out a president, and leftists today are shocked that congregating in a park for a couple days isn't toppling the system.
The difference between tactics and strategy and between a show of support and actual establishment of political power / coalitions is surprisingly hard for some people to grasp.
There seems to be a group of people that rather than wanting political change, is in favor of burn it to the ground now change. And this is probably the group that are cashing you a fed.
Hmm. You did say though that the pro-Palestine actions haven’t been “significant in any sense”. (can see how that’d be upsetting)
That said I think it’s more fed to advocate for political violence on a social app.
yes, a week-long boycott isn’t significant. a single protest, even a large one, isn’t significant. that’s tough to hear but it isn’t false. the point of my video is that you can make these things significant, but that is hard work.
Or a presidential election. I feel like there’s a certain population that believes everything hinges on who is president, completely ignoring the other branches of government. Political involvement shouldn’t be every 4 years, but every election. Local, state and federal.
Yes I worry about the people who vote for Biden because of what's happening in Palestine, but won't turn up to vote for the reps in their area that have taken a stand for a ceasefire.
The loony wing of the far right managed to seize the levers of power by starting at the ground level during the Reagan administration. The presidency is meaningless w/o Congress, courts, & state legislatures. But I'm just an old, out-of-touch white man who loves genocide, apparently.
That makes sense. It seems like we are all a bunch of babies who don't want to understand the process it actually takes to initiate any kind of change.
I avoid a lot of political content on Tiktok due to those type of reactions. I do like it for political takes on the local level. One of my favorite apps otherwise.
I agree in general to the point, but it grates on me when people imply that young people are just impatient and stupid when they're looking at a rapidly narrowing (let alone already closed) window of opportunity to stop climate change from rendering entire cultural regions literally uninhabitable.
In terms of showing up consistently for extended events,
People's jobs (and therefore their healthcare) entirely hinge on being able to show up at work. Can't fault people for not being able to participate en masse if everyone's one bad month from homelessness.
Shrug.
Let alone when participation in broader social issues is finance and job dependent, it seems weekly now that I'm hearing about thousands of people losing their jobs to automation which has approximately zero regulation around it. So I'd be impatient for change too if I lost my job to a chat bot
I was once told everything I said in a tiktok was Western propaganda. The video in question was a story from when I was growing up in communist Poland.
I wonder how many of the folks agreeing with that (frankly hilarious) denouncement could say off the top of their heads how long the Montgomery bus boycott lasted
I realized I was getting too old for young liberals when I went to a pro-choice demonstration in DC the weekend after Dobbs was released and the crowd I was marching with just started chanting ACAB. I'm no fan of law enforcement, but it's such an unhelpful, absolutist sentiment.
The first temperance movements cropped up around 1808, and the 18th Amendment was ratified in 1919. The Anti-Apartheid movement began in 1959 and apartheid ended in 1990.
Consider that the Vietnam War, which involved very large numbers of people protestors knew personally, lasted over a decade. The first abolition society was established in 1775 and slavery ended in 1865, only after a massive years-long unforced series of errors by the pro-slavery contingent.
Done. It's nearly spirit-breaking, though, seeing how clearly those reflect the particular intransigence of the political apparatus of the USA. This has been framed as a zero-sum existential dilemma; whereas, it appears (by most?) to be a choice between mutually assured destruction v. co-existence.
I got it on here for suggesting that Russia had a dictatorship, continually worked through mafia organizations including via US conspirators like Trump and other Republicans, and that its invasion of Ukraine was bad and imperialist.
TikTok is definitely pushing divisive content that warps people’s understanding of politics. I think it’s a major problem in the future that we’re not gonna have a good answer for.
I really like this video that says in order to be a good activist you need to develop social skills. Too many people think yelling on the internet is the way to go. Really it just turns people off to your cause: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8weMWvN/
it would take at least two weeks of absolutely shutting everything down, and then the billionaires would start pushing their politicians to "do something". Even the expected military response would have to be short-lived under such circumstances. REVOLT, GODDAMNIT!!!
Pretty sure the J. Edgar Hoover/MLK thing was Hoover calling MLK a half-assed slacktivist, telling him he should do the Montgomery bus boycott for a whole year if he wanted to accomplish anything, and saying Malcolm X was better
This may be a dumb question, but is there any way for me to watch your Tiktoks other than on Tiktok? I don't have an account and am trying to limit the number of social media apps I use regularly, but it sounds like you make some great stuff on there.
The big lesson we should have learned from Occupy Wall Street onward is that having people show up for a singular event is easy on the internet, but creating a worthwhile movement requires organizing work.
I have a lot of thoughts about how protest is framed these days for folks and none of it is palatable to the set out there. Still at its core some folks seem genuinely upset at the idea that even with heartfelt and strong protest change takes decades.
It’s a ten minute limit now. It’s more than an app with an average user age of 18 doesn’t understand long term projects because to them a long term project is half a semester. half
Brevity might be the soul of wit but long rambling nonsense is the most inclusive way to allow teenagers to become millionaires by spreading misinformation via dances and pointing at things while a robot voice says them in a patronizing tone
19 year olds come on social media to demand respect and reply "grow up" under obvious gag posts, and to them I say "I'm sorry, I cant hear you because I have reached the age where my ears can only perceive sounds made by people whose skulls have fully closed."
Why won't the feckless DNC just do something!?! They just want to lose so they can fundraise off of it! We need systematic change, and voting never changes anything! They always say this is the most important election ever, every 4 years! Blah, blah, blah
50 years of consistent voting. Rain or shine, enthusiasm or not, always pick the closest thing to what you want— like this person quoted below, because it’s a matter of survival for many people.
I love TikTok but it makes me feel SO. OLD. all the folks talking about not voting because they didn’t live through the year 2000 and somehow think this is a brand new idea…
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We cannot resolve it with 1 presidential election.
Real change must build from the ground up. Local primary races.
Reform the party then win with the party.
Joe Machen and Danica Roem are both Democrats, but they are not the same.
Get involved in your local party.
But the difference between a Corpo Dem and a Progressive is decided in the primary/caucus process.
The reason we keep having to choose between 2 evils is because we don't engage at the primary layer.
Movements are built not spawned whole.
I'm-a fed up with these people who don't understand how political change works
That said I think it’s more fed to advocate for political violence on a social app.
So many people think real life is TV time; everything can be solved in 45 minutes.
People's jobs (and therefore their healthcare) entirely hinge on being able to show up at work. Can't fault people for not being able to participate en masse if everyone's one bad month from homelessness.
Shrug.
And it was an anti-capitalism video too.
2) …
3) utopia
but, is there a ballpark based on past successes?
/ironic
I weep for our nation's history teachers.
Interesting, I wonder why that possibly is
The Pokémon go crowed is really angry about your clear and present danger podcast
I think for many terminally-online “activists”, this is unacceptable.
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