So's the 👌hand sign, I suppose I'm going to get dogpiled for that too?

Look outside, (big ask for this website), we're literally in hard times made by weak men.

I swear, this site is worse than 4chan about groupthink. Someone uses a slightly weak example or a cancelled idiom and all your minds just shut off and you start parroting your self selected propaganda.

She's willing to dishonor the memory of her son by blaming all foreigners for her son's death.

Anon turns on his camera app and tries to capture his 'diglett'

Human nature. We need living people to tell us what happened the last time something happened society-wide, else we forget and repeat the same mistakes. It's the whole hard times make strong men thing. It's on about an 80 year cycle. The good news is that we're right at the point in the cycle where real changes are easy to make.

Read the book The Fourth Turning for many examples of the pattern repeating.

Year's end feels like forever away

Agreed.

Ok, so you do think the only options are "exactly the same" or "nothing alike". No shit it's a generalization, the discussion is about the general population of a country born within the same ~20-year timespan.

I think everyone in my generation was raised at the advent of the internet, and had 9/11 as a defining moment in their childhood. I think they entered the workforce around the Great Recession, and it affected the way they see the idea of corporate culture and their likelihood of achieving 'The American Dream'. I think those events affected my generation differently than they do one born 40 years before, since they were at a different stage in their lives.

To ignore that is to be willfully blind. You can easily look up polling data by generation at each stage in their lives and see that each generation as a whole has different attitudes about politics, or desired income, or family preference.

Manual stimulation 3x a day for a few months

So apparently you think there's no options other than "every person in this generation is exactly the same" and "generations have no bearing on identity at all".

Generations are raised at a similar time with similar cultural events that shaped them as a whole. To claim that the time a generation is raised does not affect them as a population is to claim that nothing that happens during people's childhood affects their personality for the rest of their lives.

An entire generation in America was raised on Dr. Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, another was raised on Sesame Street, does that make no difference?

One generation was raised to be afraid of stranger danger, another was kicked out of the house and told not to come back until it was dark. But to you, they're still the same?

Class matters, but to pretend that it's the only thing that matters is putting Marxist blinders on your reality.

I don't know about that specifically, but he believes in simulation theory and thinks he's the only human playing, and therefore the main character.

My advice in that case is to immediately plant some trees around the perimeter of your property and turn it into a little isolated grove

No, I'm saying that Stonewall was a singular event in a larger movement. I'm saying that indiscriminate disruption only turns everyday people against a cause as you are making their days worse. I'm saying that choosing your targets and your disruptive protestors to be disruptive is a skill.

Several months before Rosa Parks chose to sit at the front of a bus, an unmarried pregnant young black lady did the same thing. The Civil Rights movement chose not to elevate her and make her arrest a big deal, because it wouldn't have been bad optics. They waited and picked a nice old lady coming back from work, someone unimpeachable to turn into a national story. They didn't say "all protest is good protest" and throw their entire weight behind a figurehead that could be easily torn down.

So if you think all protest is good protest, then by all means, put on your "Palestine lives matter" T-shirt and start throwing rocks through people's windows in broad daylight. Your cause is so just that people won't help but join you, right?

I'm not writing the whole history of the gay rights and civil rights movement, do your own research, but I'll share this article for an overview:

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/different-fight-same-goal-how-black-freedom-movement-inspired-early-n1259072

So you think squirting people with water pistols is more effective? It was an either/or question.

Or maybe a different, historical hypothesis?

You're a Roman Senator, trying to gain support for election. Do you

a) give bread to plebians with your name carved into the crust or

b) have your personal guard beat anyone that doesn't promise to vote for you?

Reagan was a fucking actor that was reading lines, shooting him would have done nothing. They'd just find a new electable moron to read the party's script.

People love trotting that quote out, don't they? They hide behind it, defending their ineffective protests and their unwillingness to improve. Any criticism and here we go, it's time to blame "the White moderate".

They think that gay rights started and ended with the Stonewall riots, ignoring how veterans of the Civil Rights movement taught the gays when and how to protest effectively. Protesting is a skill, and ignorance of that skill harms the cause.

Sometimes the people they work with, services, and customers need to be inconvenienced.

Thats what I'm advocating for. Targeted disruption is necessary. Indiscriminate disruption is harmful to a cause.

If your cause is so just that random people automatically empathize with your protestors as soon as they are aware of the protestors, no matter how much the protestors make their day worse, then what's the point of disruption?

Clearly they're just waiting to be made aware of your cause, just say hi and they'll join you. You've already won, go forth and make changes with your broad support of the population.

I'm not saying effect nobody, I'm saying that the right people need to be effected. Effect the wrong people and you just make enemies.

Why does "R rated cartoon comedy" automatically mean gross animation and gross humor?

Not all protest is good protest. Criticizing the form of protests is valid.

Block a random highway and all you're going to do is get people mad at your cause for making them late for work. Those people could be future allies that are getting driven away.

What's a more effective protest, people holding signs handing out cookies, or people holding signs squirting passersby with water pistols?