The railroad workers are in a union and where not allowed to boycott/protest

If you want evidence of this, watch Iran right now. We are bringing an economic revolution to get rid of the dictatorship. #womenlifefreedom

So you’re just talking to make noise? You’re not trying to say that the article I posted is bad?

There are a lot of billionaires that have a little bit too little terror in their lives.

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It's not an either or.

Most people that protest, don't buy the things they're protesting against. Protests can raise awareness to some causes.

I think part of the problem is that many protests tend to have broad goals protesting a broad problem

They’re much more effective when it’s “Hey, that law you passed, the X act? Get rid of it, and we’ll chill” or “give us a law that protects against Y and we’ll chill”.

The specific message allows for easy buy in, makes it hard to misrepresent their demands, and gives a clear path for politicians to calm things down and resume normalcy.

Like for example, protesting “gun violence” is too broad, it’s hard to get sustained but in, easy to distort what they actually want to drum up opposition, and vague to fix, but if you were to protest and demand “we want to raise the age to buy guns to 21”, that’s very specific, there’s no questioning what they want, it’s really easy to know which side you’re on, and it makes it VERY clear what needs to be done for the protests to stop. I’m not trying to make any specific arguments here, rather just providing an example about what I think works better.

Protesting to express frustration over a problem and saying “please do something” is much less effective than “we demand this law be stricken down” or “we demand this law be put in place”. But in the US specifically, a lot of protests have been more vague, which doesn’t mean they’re invalid in what they’re upset about, but the vagueness of demands make sustained buy in difficult, make disinformation campaigns easier to leverage against it, and give politicians too much leeway in how to handle it, so they kind of fizzle out because it’s unclear when enough has been done to meet demands.

Compare this to France’s current “don’t raise the retirement age”, it’s very clear what they want, and if their politicians want to quell unrest, it’s very clear what needs to be done, if they simply do not raise the retirement age, things go back to normal immediately, and it’s kind of hard to distort such a simple demand

Protesting has never done anything tbh. When the first railroad strikes happened (the ones back in the 1800s if you know about US history) the workers boarded themselves up in the facilities or they destroyed them.

The lessons history teaches us is to fuck up their shit cuz they ain't payin you

Check out Dungeons & Dragons changing the OGL. That's happening right now.

Fans hated what they were doing and started canceling their DnDBeyond subs. WoTC lost and estimated 40,000 subscribers in a couple days and changed their story.

I'm not trying to prove anything, Socrates.

We have different points we’re trying to make, genius.

Strikes and boycotts are forms of protest

Tell that to the women of Iran.

Your goal was proving the point, not mine...

Go to lunch with your boss.

right. i have never had a job i could choose my own break

So your objections are based solely on your “feelings” about their accuracy, and not hard data? And your biggest objection is that you feel the effect of the boycott is “somewhat exaggerated”?

One of us is failing at proving their point, but it’s not me…

I would avoid saying “don’t stick your dick in crazy”

I didn't read them all, all the ones I read I felt were at least somewhat exaggerating the results of the boycotting.

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wow. as if the BLM riots did nothing...

I'm assuming you're in the US. guess what - the government is by the people and for the people.

boycotting does literally nothing. show me a successful boycott in the last 5 years.

Were there any on the list you don’t object to?

This may be one of the worst LPTs I've ever seen

That does sound effective. I imagine grocery stores had to start stocking more ofnthose alternatives as well to support the cafes.

Just cafes that didn't have non dairy alternatives. It was a slow boycot, people just would walk in "do you have soy milk or something non dairy?" If they said no, people went somewhere else. Cafes learn, and now they all have options. This sort of thing leads to change pretty quickly.