Whose mansions are you talking about? Just protesting at some random Sociopathic Oligarch’s palace isn’t going to do anything, they’ll never even see it. These people configure their lives so they never have to be touched by real life. They’ll just spend the day on their yacht or at a different palace. If they are in town, they’ll just chopper in/out at the residence, which will be behind walls and gates a quarter mile away.
Nope, flood the streets in every major city, disrupt everything, block Federal buildings, be as inconvenient as possible. That’s far more effective.
If you want to piss off a Sociopathic Oligarch, then protest at their place of business. Block their entrances, interrupt the flow of business, make it difficult to do business, inconvenience their employees, irritate their neighbors, embarrass them to their neighbors, etc.
If you want to piss off a Sociopathic Oligarch, then protest at their place of business. Block their entrances, interrupt the flow of business, make it difficult to do business, inconvenience their employees, irritate their neighbors, embarrass them to their neighbors, etc.
So how does gathering outside the White House or town halls move us towards this goal?
It gets SEEN. Sociopathic Oligarchs generally live far away from every one else, so you are a tree screaming in an empty forest - nobody hears it.
Instead, fill the streets in front of their offices, so neither they, nor (more importantly) their employees can get to work. It will piss off the other tenants in the building, the building owner, the buildings and businesses next door and across the street, etc. The message gets sent that it’s this Sociopathic Oligarch’s behavior that is causing all this trouble, and they’ll want him gone, too.
Instead, fill the streets in front of their offices, so neither they, nor (more importantly) their employees can get to work. It will piss off the other tenants in the building, the building owner, the buildings and businesses next door and across the street, etc. The message gets sent that it’s this Sociopathic Oligarch’s behavior that is causing all this trouble, and they’ll want him gone, too.
You’re living in a fantasy world if you think people getting blocked on their way to work by protestors are going to blame the oligarchs and not the protestors, they get mad at the protestors every time. Literally zero of them go “Hey maybe they have a point” and skip work that day to join the rally. No, they go “Fucking hippies” and roll their eyes before laughing at them with their work colleagues and taking loyalty paychecks from the oligarchs that employ them. Rather than pissing off fellow workers in an attempt to convince them (which it famously doesn’t) perhaps actually directing the attack towards the actual culprits. Again, it seems like everyone (and you) seem to try their best to figure out how NOT to go after the oligarchs, and that we should try every other roundabout idealistic mystical way instead.
The impact on the locals is irrelevant, they aren’t your audience. They’re in the same neighborhood as the Sociopathic Oligarch you are targeting, so they’re probably more like him than not. Fuck them.
Besides, even if they don’t come over to your side, they’re still going to hate the SO that is causing the disruption to their businesses. Rich fucks dont like to be inconvenienced, that was one of the primary motivations for getting rich. So they’ll be pressuring him to shut the fuck up, or stop doing whatever sociopathic behavior that is jiggling his jollies. Have you noticed that we havent heard much from Skum over the last couple of weeks? No doubt his Board of Directors, at the very least, are telling him to calm the fuck down.
And an ostracized Sociopathic Oligarch means his social status is impacted, and Mrs. Sociopathic Oligarch isn’t going to appreciate it when she doesn’t get the e-vite to the next brunch/ book club meeting because her husband is being a national dickhead.
Your audience is those who see your protest in the media. Seeing monster crowds that are pissed off and taking bold action also attracts a lot more of the same, leading to steadily increasing crowds at more and more protests.
Those growing crowds start to scare the politicians, who are all craven cowards, and they start to panic, and make political moves both positive and negative, but the main thing is that they are on the run. As the citizens see the crowds gaining political power, and the politicams panicing, many will shift their support to them.
During the Vietnam war, that’s how protests helped to force the government to end the evil draft, and eventually the war (or at least weaken political support of the war so much that they lost it, thus ending it).
Whose mansions are you talking about? Just protesting at some random Sociopathic Oligarch’s palace isn’t going to do anything, they’ll never even see it. These people configure their lives so they never have to be touched by real life. They’ll just spend the day on their yacht or at a different palace. If they are in town, they’ll just chopper in/out at the residence, which will be behind walls and gates a quarter mile away.
Nope, flood the streets in every major city, disrupt everything, block Federal buildings, be as inconvenient as possible. That’s far more effective.
If you want to piss off a Sociopathic Oligarch, then protest at their place of business. Block their entrances, interrupt the flow of business, make it difficult to do business, inconvenience their employees, irritate their neighbors, embarrass them to their neighbors, etc.
So how does gathering outside the White House or town halls move us towards this goal?
It gets SEEN. Sociopathic Oligarchs generally live far away from every one else, so you are a tree screaming in an empty forest - nobody hears it.
Instead, fill the streets in front of their offices, so neither they, nor (more importantly) their employees can get to work. It will piss off the other tenants in the building, the building owner, the buildings and businesses next door and across the street, etc. The message gets sent that it’s this Sociopathic Oligarch’s behavior that is causing all this trouble, and they’ll want him gone, too.
Make their lives miserable.
You’re living in a fantasy world if you think people getting blocked on their way to work by protestors are going to blame the oligarchs and not the protestors, they get mad at the protestors every time. Literally zero of them go “Hey maybe they have a point” and skip work that day to join the rally. No, they go “Fucking hippies” and roll their eyes before laughing at them with their work colleagues and taking loyalty paychecks from the oligarchs that employ them. Rather than pissing off fellow workers in an attempt to convince them (which it famously doesn’t) perhaps actually directing the attack towards the actual culprits. Again, it seems like everyone (and you) seem to try their best to figure out how NOT to go after the oligarchs, and that we should try every other roundabout idealistic mystical way instead.
The impact on the locals is irrelevant, they aren’t your audience. They’re in the same neighborhood as the Sociopathic Oligarch you are targeting, so they’re probably more like him than not. Fuck them.
Besides, even if they don’t come over to your side, they’re still going to hate the SO that is causing the disruption to their businesses. Rich fucks dont like to be inconvenienced, that was one of the primary motivations for getting rich. So they’ll be pressuring him to shut the fuck up, or stop doing whatever sociopathic behavior that is jiggling his jollies. Have you noticed that we havent heard much from Skum over the last couple of weeks? No doubt his Board of Directors, at the very least, are telling him to calm the fuck down.
And an ostracized Sociopathic Oligarch means his social status is impacted, and Mrs. Sociopathic Oligarch isn’t going to appreciate it when she doesn’t get the e-vite to the next brunch/ book club meeting because her husband is being a national dickhead.
Your audience is those who see your protest in the media. Seeing monster crowds that are pissed off and taking bold action also attracts a lot more of the same, leading to steadily increasing crowds at more and more protests.
Those growing crowds start to scare the politicians, who are all craven cowards, and they start to panic, and make political moves both positive and negative, but the main thing is that they are on the run. As the citizens see the crowds gaining political power, and the politicams panicing, many will shift their support to them.
During the Vietnam war, that’s how protests helped to force the government to end the evil draft, and eventually the war (or at least weaken political support of the war so much that they lost it, thus ending it).