I get the sense that a lot of people see protesting as cringe because they don't understand what it accomplishes, and I get that... to them, I say: just go. Experience what it feels like to be part of a Very Large Crowd of your fellow citizens. That feeling has radical political implications.

it's the duty of every journalist to include a paragraph somewhere in your story making it clear to your readers that grotesque corruption has actively destroyed the entirety of U.S. consumer protection and corporate oversight because it's somewhat fucking relevant to anything you are writing about

Fucking thugs.