My vision for this community is a space where people can encourage others to vote with their dollar and with their feet by educating them on the fucked up shit that people and companies are doing. When the community reaches 500 members, mods will also select one “cause” at a time for the community to support.

If this sub grows it will need more mods, so please reach out if you’re a perpetually pissed off person. :)

Thanks for joining!

  • scarabic@lemmy.world
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    Great idea. Can you create a community rule that saying shit like “it won’t make any difference” is an instaban?

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      Even though it usually doesn’t make a difference, I’d agree because it’s the whole point of the community.

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        That’s a huge generalization from someone who’s enjoying many of the benefits brought about by activism.

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          From the text description I was assuming this is boycott-focused. None of the successful past movements I can think of used boycotting specifically. Civil disobedience, labour actions and basically terrorism were more characteristic, off the top of my head. Running for office too, once they’d beaten the old aristocracy down enough to be able to.

          The thing is maybe a few percent of the population are activists, so you either have to take advantage of the people that are sympathetic but don’t really care or be obnoxious enough on your own that you can’t be ignored (for better or worse).

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        It usually doesn’t result in the immediate attainment of all the protests’ aims. It quite often makes some kind of difference

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          I feel like most of the boycott efforts I’ve seen start have been nothingburgers. Things like the Bud Light boycott or the Chick-fil-A boycott started a conversation, at least, but I didn’t say never.

          That being said, I’m not sure what the best form of activism actually is.

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      @scarabic you folks go and have fun. but fyi discouraging thinking about whether this particular action will have any effect even in the ballpark of the goal will pretty much ensure whatever you are doing won’t make a difference.

      enjoy your masturbation

      @pineapplefriedrice

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        I might reply to your point if you hadn’t gone totally vulgar at the end just to be a dick.

        I always enjoy my masturbation. You don’t?

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    There’s some sticky posts for this community - on the importance of initially populating a community, and providing links (I’ve no idea where ‘protest’ is hosted)

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      The community appears to be hosted here, on Lemmy.world. The link being !protest@lemmy.world (I think)

      But yes, OP does not seem to follow the rules of this community, and I find it mildly amusing that you are being down voted for pointing it out.

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        Oh right, I tried that - I was going to put a link in my comment, not just complain - but it didn’t work, so I assumed it must be elsewhere. But now I’ve clicked on your link a few times, it shows up. Thanks.

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          Np. When I just posted the comment and pressed the link for the first time, it gave me an error before showing the community, so I had a second where I though I had made a fool of myself. :p

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      This is primarily meant for people to organize themselves online. Local networks already exist and those are the channels through which protests have traditionally gone. Organizing the internet tends to be a bit messier, but when it works it’s usually via several “hubs” (think fucknestle, save3rdpartyapps, etc.).

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        Local networks already exist and those are the channels through which protests have traditionally gone

        I’m sorry, I don’t understand the purpose of the community you’re trying to assemble if local groups already exist for this.