• mayo@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    I went to a climate protest in Canada last week and it was way to tame to actually get anything accomplished.

    The main part of the protest was walking down a main artery. For protesters, there is incentive to walk slowly and spread out to make the walk longer and disrupt status-quo longer, but the organizers clearly only had permission to march for a specific duration so they were in the back hurrying people forward so we’d stay within our allotted time window. Maybe 30 minutes. Once a year. It was pointless.

    Add to that that 90% of the people there were exactly the people you’d expect to be there and it just felt like a waste of time.