The problem is that these protests and the party organizing them are generally a feckless form of controlled opposition, not that overseas citizens shouldn’t be engaged in the politics of a country they still pay taxes to and still have relatives living in.
even if they weren’t run by the democrats literally what is the point, you go show up in the middle of London going “down with the U.S.” like idk just seems like a massive waste of time when I think protests within the U.S. are already a massive waste of time. My entire life I have only ever seen masses of people go out to “show support” for whatever, but who cares? not the people in power, at least not in a way that gets anything positive done about the issues being protested (they might care enough to, yknow, funnel more weapons to the police)
I said it yesterday but it’s like going out to vote in an election that’s already over. It doesn’t matter how many millions of bodies you mobilize in the street unless there’s some framework for that to matter, whether it’s an election or having enough people in that crowd being willing to physically, violently do something about it
and then again, for protests about the U.S. to be happening outside of the U.S.? i just cannot imagine a more useless action or a bigger waste of time for all involved. But hey, it’s the democrats
This doesn’t mean “don’t be aware of U.S. politics” like idfk how you got that from my post. Going to a march in downtown Toronto to say “down with ICE” (and let’s be real, this would be way more radical than 90% of what you’d see there) isn’t really engaging in politics in a meaningful way though
The problem is that these protests and the party organizing them are generally a feckless form of controlled opposition, not that overseas citizens shouldn’t be engaged in the politics of a country they still pay taxes to and still have relatives living in.
even if they weren’t run by the democrats literally what is the point, you go show up in the middle of London going “down with the U.S.” like idk just seems like a massive waste of time when I think protests within the U.S. are already a massive waste of time. My entire life I have only ever seen masses of people go out to “show support” for whatever, but who cares? not the people in power, at least not in a way that gets anything positive done about the issues being protested (they might care enough to, yknow, funnel more weapons to the police)
I said it yesterday but it’s like going out to vote in an election that’s already over. It doesn’t matter how many millions of bodies you mobilize in the street unless there’s some framework for that to matter, whether it’s an election or having enough people in that crowd being willing to physically, violently do something about it
and then again, for protests about the U.S. to be happening outside of the U.S.? i just cannot imagine a more useless action or a bigger waste of time for all involved. But hey, it’s the democrats
This doesn’t mean “don’t be aware of U.S. politics” like idfk how you got that from my post. Going to a march in downtown Toronto to say “down with ICE” (and let’s be real, this would be way more radical than 90% of what you’d see there) isn’t really engaging in politics in a meaningful way though