What do they think they’ll actually achieve by that?
Filling up the prisons? Like they wouldn’t just build camps within a matter of days.
Or do they think mass arrests will spawn major support from the rest of the people? If that would be true, we’d already be living in fully automated luxury space communism.
No, it’s purely symbolic. The arrests are prenegotiated with police who then do "catch and release"detainment, often not even arrests.
Same tactics that Fight for 15 used. I remember when burger town, or whatever it was called in Portland, unionized, some big shot from the LA branch came in to give us a pep talk about how organizing can’t be done that way anymore and the Fight for 15 was doing it right using the catch and release tactic seen here. Basically condescendingly trashed them for no reason.
I was done with them when they blocked a subway car in a working class neighborhood of London. If they can’t have class solidarity then fuck 'em
If there’s still people who think there’s any way to remotely do anything about climate change which is not either rigorously socialist or explicitly anti capitalist, I have a bridge to sell you.
haha, of course not. Actually, individual consumer choice is the solution to climate change 😎
“Just to be clear, we are not an ideologically coherent movement. We do not trust theory or thinking, we trust the randos still hanging around at the end of our game of woke musical chairs.”
Shit like this fucking enrages me - I know it’s stupid, but it’s so emblematic of the goddamn dumbass lib mindset. Their insistence on distancing themselves from organized, methodical revolutionary change is going to kill us all. Screaming into the void etc, every day is exhaustion
“we’re not a socialist movement, because we don’t know what that means. We just believe in supporting the people, the working class people, and want decisions about the future of be decided by, owned by, and supporting all of the people.”
Also we don’t really want that because we can’t imagine anything other than liberalism.
