The majority of the world has always been in a bad mood because 90% of planet has always been poor, struggling, doesn’t have enough, live in poverty, are hungry and are generally not happy.

On one hand, there is absolutely harsh struggle around the world for the vast majority of the world.

On the other hand, it’s not as if most people are never in a good mood. Australia’s state broadcaster (ABC) had a show where people in small or disadvantaged groups answer anonymous questions, and when it came to Sudanese Australian refugees, a few were saying that life in Sudan was often happier despite their material struggles. IIRC a main part was that they had a collective culture, in some places outside of the cities even a communal village culture, and where good fortune was cause for celebration. Some contrasted that with our largely individualist, money-centric culture here.

All that to say, money doesn’t buy happiness, poverty doesn’t guarantee sadness. Money and other resources really really help, but it’s far from the whole picture.

The media sanewashing/legal sanitizing is actually pretty disgusting.

It’s laughable that neo-fash and their friends think the ‘Roman salute’ excuse is rational. Nazi culture was heavily inspired by the myth of Rome, from architecture to that salute. People in the US don’t just do that salute. No sane person will say ‘ah clearly Elon felt the need to do an ancient roman gesture’. And in case anyone needs this stated: neo-nazi groups colloquially refer to the salute as a ‘roman’.

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Footage appears to depict the alleged billionaire on a so-called ‘stage’ performing what could be interpreted as a possible Roman-inspired gesture.

I’ve been to protests and thought ‘well obviously most politicians won’t see this and change their mind, we’re dozens of thousands but not millions’, but then that’s not the actual point of most protests. I’d say they’re:

• to publicly establish that there is an organic movement that you can get involved in
• to raise public awareness (e.g. there was recently a nearby protest at a facility manufacturing weapons which locals didn’t even know was there and advertising in their schools to groom weaponry engineers, and since most of that community are Middle Eastern war immigrants, it was a big deal to raise awareness)
• to get interested activists, new and experience, all together in a place to network
• to build connections and form political organisation, which can accomplish more than a peaceful authorised protest

If you go there and stand around yelling, you might be wasting time. But if you go there and get involved, that’s how you can begin resisting the regime. The people handing out fliers aren’t just pests. (only half of them are ;)

I seriously hope you’re not comparing one (1) vote in the US electoral system to actual political organisation, or rationalising non-participation in politics because you already expressed that opinion on a ballot.

That’s not the goal of a protest. There’s only one way to stop it, and the last couple of attempts missed. If you’re not willing to do that, a protest is at least a step towards resistance.

The best way to get something out of a protest is to find your local activist groups there. Political organisation is how regimes are resisted. If you go there, yell, and leave, you’re not really making much of a change.

Yeah I misread the context, sorry mate.

Generalizing 350 million people, yay.

Perth isn’t in South Australia, but AFAIK Adelaide doesn’t have an underground train line either. Australia doesn’t really have ‘subway’ systems, just a few underground stations around the inner city, at most.

Yep, had to ask teacher for permission. Some would say ‘you should have gone during the break’ but I can’t remember if anyone was denied (and I don’t know if that would be illegal).

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Nah I’d say crickets because OP is banned from instances like lemmy.ml, and as a result, most MLs won’t even see 0x815’s constant stream of propaganda. Win-win, I guess.

but open to other rabbit holes

If you like satirical comedy or entertaining educational shows, there’s a lot on Australian television (particularly shows from the national Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Also, for people who enjoyed The Office (at least, the UK version, I haven’t seen the US variant), I recommend Utopia - it’s far from a clone but has a lot of similar themes of workplace life mixed with poking fun at bureaucracy and government.

but I don’t live in australia, or have a VPN to access ABC iView!

Visit the sidebar resources of !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, or even just YouTube will get you a lot of them.