Wow, watched two posted comments disappear as I was replying to them. Either Johnstone’s hacked or her attitude has changed.
Protest must have as its purpose a) making it okay to be anti-war, b) reifying the threat of economic repercussion in the perception of the financial sector’s leadership.
It was not the silly longhairs throwing flowers at cops who brought the murder of Vietnam to an end. It was the dawning realization of the working class that the war was being fought for profit, and that the corpses were being pre-selected along class and race lines. The warmongers spent the 60s laughing at the students and their ‘leaders’, but shrank back in horror at the first grumbles from the working class. Yes, the protests were important. They were also reported by a competitive press composed of thousands of independent outlets. Today the media, all of it, is an outstanding example of the need for antitrust enforcement. Five enormously bloated mega-corporations control what 95% of Americans still think of as the news, and the interests of those five entities mostly overlap and intertwine.
Today dissent means economic noncooperation. Stop paying debt. Stop buying new if you can get it used. Stop hoarding. Start sharing. Start rebuilding the back door economy your grandparents took for granted, and save thousands of dollars a year.
You can’t sell out and go live in the woods, but you can find creative ways to bypass the system. The only protest that matters is the one that makes it harder for the system to wage its wars.
After the violence (caused by all sides apparently) of the Portland protests and the circus of 1/6 and all of the censorship and propaganda, and don't forget robbing supporters of the truckers, people are afraid to get on their lists already and self censor.
Occasionally people fail to read a comment in full, then go off half-cocked and post an inapposite response, only to delete it a few moments later. I've done this at least once in the past 24 hours.
Wow, watched two posted comments disappear as I was replying to them. Either Johnstone’s hacked or her attitude has changed.
Protest must have as its purpose a) making it okay to be anti-war, b) reifying the threat of economic repercussion in the perception of the financial sector’s leadership.
It was not the silly longhairs throwing flowers at cops who brought the murder of Vietnam to an end. It was the dawning realization of the working class that the war was being fought for profit, and that the corpses were being pre-selected along class and race lines. The warmongers spent the 60s laughing at the students and their ‘leaders’, but shrank back in horror at the first grumbles from the working class. Yes, the protests were important. They were also reported by a competitive press composed of thousands of independent outlets. Today the media, all of it, is an outstanding example of the need for antitrust enforcement. Five enormously bloated mega-corporations control what 95% of Americans still think of as the news, and the interests of those five entities mostly overlap and intertwine.
Today dissent means economic noncooperation. Stop paying debt. Stop buying new if you can get it used. Stop hoarding. Start sharing. Start rebuilding the back door economy your grandparents took for granted, and save thousands of dollars a year.
You can’t sell out and go live in the woods, but you can find creative ways to bypass the system. The only protest that matters is the one that makes it harder for the system to wage its wars.
After the violence (caused by all sides apparently) of the Portland protests and the circus of 1/6 and all of the censorship and propaganda, and don't forget robbing supporters of the truckers, people are afraid to get on their lists already and self censor.
Occasionally people fail to read a comment in full, then go off half-cocked and post an inapposite response, only to delete it a few moments later. I've done this at least once in the past 24 hours.
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense.