I'm in a less-active corner of a major metro area and went to the event closest to where I live instead of one where major socialist contingents were planning to be - partially to get the lay of the land in my new neighborhood, partially to avoid transportation costs. It looks like what I really need to do is go to the bigger events and form / join a working group that focuses on my city. Most people here that I've talked to are anti-police but I guess they all went to a different protest yesterday. I should have been at yours!

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

Yeah - a lot of NK protests are put on by church groups and County Dem groups and end up reflecting more conservative ideas. But even then, I've spoken to some of those people and while many do just kind of suck, at others the organizers actually do have pretty alright politics but just have the "I don't want to alienate my less radical anti-Trump neighbors" brainworms. I think the key, again, is calmly and in a friendly, helpful tone explaining to them that their fence-sitting is alienating people who they agree with even more.

I don't want this to come off as tone policing, though. Sometimes people are shitheads and need to be mocked and flamed. A few minutes after my speech I was petitioning for a local anti-Zionist independent candidate and I ran into some old Karen-ass removed who didn't want to sign because she supported the Zionist Dem he was running against. She just rubbed me the wrong way so I loudly told my fellow petitioner "She doesn't want to sign, she thinks bombing Palestinian children is good" and walked away as she was yelling at me lmao. But I also recognize that was not an effective use of my political speech but something I did for me, as a little treat.