Fascism aside, who thought it was a good tactic to simulate homelessness as a protest tactic in the US?
Americans hate homelessness so much that they’re okay with government spending more on the issue because, while cruel policies are more expensive, we collectively like the cruelty.
People complain if you protest on street corners, or if you block traffic, or if you make a scene, or if you break some billionaires $200 window, and they always say some shit like “Im all for freedom of speech but they shouldn’t be doing it like this”. And then the same people complain about students chilling on a lawn on a campus that the students have to pay $20k+ a year to be enrolled at. Just like homelessness, people just don’t want to be reminded about things that inconvenience them.
There is nowhere you can protest that matters when protesting issues that matter. The state will have none of that, the media will make meaningful movements seem like a joke, and important figures will be extinguished before they are big enough to become martyrs.
That’s true, but one can look at historical protest movements and learn ways to be more effective about this. MLK and Malcolm X were exceedingly strategic in what they did.
Or hire The Satanic Temple to do it for you. They’re better at protests than anyone else.
Simulating homelessness is a shit tactic.
Yeah, but the ops for breaking up and disorganizing community are much more sophisticated now. Just look up what happened to the original 6 founders of the BLM movement. Seems they are more likely to go after little guys to exactly prevent another Malcolm/MLK situation. Pretty scary times to rage against the machine.
The United States of Israel sure loves its fascism.
