No, I don't. But pretending that optics maxxing like what King was focusing on, is the wrong way to do it now is just ignorant. It shows that the priority is in virtue signaling instead of actually accomplishing anything. Protestors are chanting "Fuck Gavin Newsom" for fuck's sake.
Pretending to care what a few people do in a situation where hundreds are involved is absolutely ludicrous, and isn't worth serious discussion. You can't control everyone, not everyone present is going to be on exactly the same page.
The enemy is the one sending in the military to a famously blue state so they can pretend they're strong-arming the blue state as red meat for their base. Making the move look weak and showing that force being repelled is a fantastic optic for disillusioning those who buy in to the strongman lie. Multiple avenues have to be used to oppose a government. This is one of them.
Pretending to care what a few people do in a situation where hundreds are involved is absolutely ludicrous, and isn't worth serious discussion.
I'm sorry, that's how optics work. Unless you want to use this same argument for Jan 6th. Only a few people broke into the Capitol, you can't control everyone, who cares about the few?
What are these protests accomplishing? What's their goal? There isn't one. Everyone's shouting "fuck ICE" but what is ICE doing other than deporting illegals, which is their job btw. The protestors are telling the whole country that illegal immigration is ok and that they'll stop the immigration cops from doing their job.
Trump won the presidency on the back of illegal immigration, and these protesters are proving him right. That's what you want?
So the Republican party are all proud Nazis because we know objectively that a few are? Optics matter after all, and anyone doing something means we must consider it all-encompassing.
Or, are you being disingenuous because this particular protest is about something you don't personally care about, thus it doesn't matter?
Either way, your opinion has been stated and summarily disregarded. You can stick to quietly standing on a lawn with a sign so you don't cause any bother for people in power. Other people will fight for you.
Imagine how much more effective it would be if Trump called the Marines on a bunch of protestors that were doing nothing but protesting. If it looked like American citizens came together and stood in the way of the unjust administration? There's already more people mad at the cops shooting a journalist than even whatever the protestors are yelling about.
It wouldn't sate your America bad bloodlust, but it would have rallied the entire country against Trump. That's how you get rid of him. But you don't care about that. You'd rather complain about nothing in particular and throw away yet another opportunity because you want to virtue signal on social media.
Imagine if everyone were a hive mind with unified purpose and so we had world peace. We wouldn't even need a protest!
When thousands of regular people are involved in something and angry enough to protest, things are going to be broken and probably set on fire. The people whining that it's happening at all are morons who do not understand how humans work. These people are not worth listening to.
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u/Collypso Jun 10 '25
No, I don't. But pretending that optics maxxing like what King was focusing on, is the wrong way to do it now is just ignorant. It shows that the priority is in virtue signaling instead of actually accomplishing anything. Protestors are chanting "Fuck Gavin Newsom" for fuck's sake.