On this server we are often victim of this stuff, i hope we can all improve

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    10 hours ago

    The 50501 protests have mostly been organized through Social media. As was the Arab Spring.

    At some point mainstream media and corporate social media can silence that movement if they wish, which would damage its ability to organize.

    Federated social media would not be so easily silenced, and would be able to continue to operate and act as a place e I’d organization regardless.

    That’s a powerful ability to make things happen in real life.

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      The 50501 protests have mostly been organized through Social media

      Are they working?

      is any protest or rally or general strike working? to me looks like they became just another thing

      in the past they probably worked because the threat of violence was real, now it’s just walking together mostly. If you don’t undermine their comforts or their money you can have as many people in the street you want but that’s not gonna do anything if it’s just showing up once and bye

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        I can’t predict what the outcome will be. It might fizzle out, or it might gather momentum and produce a result.

        We’ve already seen that it seems to be effecting Tesla’s stock price. I think either way it’s important for people to see others openly defying all this, if only to prevent the chilling effect that Germany seemed to go through by the lack of visible resistance to the Nazis.

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          imho, you are too deep down into the path to fascism right now. Stock prices won’t change the plan of becoming Russia 2.0. Don’t need capial market value when you have de facto slaves, oligarch power and isolationist economy.

          btw i was talking about “protest or rally or general strike” in general, not only US. In italy they have not much value anymore. Indefinite strikes (i mean “we strike until you give us what you want”) and focussed strikes (as in one single company) are the ones that work. + all the little stuff that won’t make headlines or virality on social media because ‘‘person convinced their whole department that that thing was bad and they fixed it’’ is not cool enough