Protests are not useless but only doing protests is useless. There are quotes from Marx and Lenin about participating in politics to show that liberal democracy is a sham and that the entire system needs to be overthrown. Protesting can be an organizing and radicalization point within that context of raising class consciousness.

These protests however are useless because there are no real demands, there is no mass movement or organization at work, they aren't even consistently done, and there is also no threat in any capacity to the system as a result. At the end of the day what is really being accomplished other than liberals blowing off some steam?

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours ago

Yes yes you know what I meant.