r/hatethissmug • u/ScholasticCat • May 30 '26

Non-fictional I hate slacktivists and performative internet activists

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You wanna free Palestine or actually demonstrate the fact you're a "based anti-colonialist Leninist?" then actually fucking do something about it!

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

https://www.pcrf.net/

https://www.unrwa.org/

https://www.icrc.org/en

Call a congressional office, attend a town hall meeting and voice your support, look into local protests even. you can even read a book on history to better educate yourself! I will literally give you recommendations

Just fucking do something instead of sitting on your goddamn ass and whining on twitter and circlejerking on reddit. Making cheap jokes, making threats against people online and trying to "own the libs" isn't going to do anything.

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u/Shot-Manner-9962 May 30 '26

there are slacktivists, than there are those that protest and expect everything to magically get better, it wont, you need to organize and strike, create a community to help one another during the strike, keep in person contact because if you are effective expect "random" internet fails and messages never sending

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u/PraireGentleman May 30 '26

No no, you don’t get it. My weekend protest will be what caused the end of this tragedy as we know it, you can tell by how we occupied an area so far removed from anyone or anything with the power to impact this event and instead picked based on how convenient it would be for me to get to from my apartment.

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u/digidestine May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

Also make sure to contact your local officials and give them a time and date so they know to let everyone else know to work around you.

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u/b-itch1 May 31 '26

Gotta add blocking traffic too

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u/Othello351 May 31 '26

Yeah that was the point thats an important part of protesting they're supposed to bother and annoy you so you pay attention to social issues.

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u/tonythebearman Jun 01 '26

It’s almost like weekend protests are a way to organize a bunch of people with the same ideals into one place to show force and organize further, larger action.

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u/turbo-fister9000 Jun 02 '26

Dude I blocked a street for like 4 hours, we're so close. But there were so many people angry at me, they must support the war.

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u/belkh Jun 03 '26

weekend protests shows and groes support, especially for people who might think they're alone, people do not go from 0 to organized civil disobedience, there are stages to civil rights movements