Occupy may be a better example, but, yeah.

To be fair while leftists were involved in those protests those crowds were still mostly outraged liberals

The problem here is worse: there is no left.

Until you have an actual organized movement with a clear strategy and a clear desire to take power to achieve real political goals (not cosplaying as resistance at rallies), none of these spontaneous actions will lead to anything substantive.

Remember, we went from single payer healthcare being on the table, to getting zero concession on healthcare rights during a global fucking pandemic, to no discussion about healthcare issues at all in the most recent election.

The left, if there ever existed one, has been systematically wiped out over the past 8 years. That’s how far things have fallen.

It’s by design, the left doesn’t (seem to) do anything because leftist movements are 20% feds, 50% libs and the remaining 30% have varying flavours of leftist ideologies that tend to not get along long term.

Hexbear wouldn’t be such a unique website of gay non denominational anarcho-Stalinists if leftist co-operation was commonplace.

Occupy Wall St had all that momentum absorbed and redirected at a brick wall thanks to the Libs. The Black Panthers were targeted by feds. The BLM protests were fairly prominent and Derek Chauvin got jail time, sure, but cumskins are still getting away with murdering POC and no amount of Democrats kneeling wearing Kente cloths will change that.

Then there are the Palestine protests. The kids are alright, but the Zionists hold both major parties and most media outlets. What can men do against such reckless hate?

Even the libs have an uphill battle. The agreeable parts of their ideology such as feminism, reproductive rights and (some measure of) LGBT acceptance can be undone so easily. They push that boulder up and it just rolls back down but they’re unwilling to ever change. They have to appease capital and be civil above winning. For leftists it’s not just uphill, it’s a sheer cliff that must be scaled. The establishment, the media, the average uneducated rube, the aging ghouls and warmongers, etc etc are all against even Dem Socs, and it’s no wonder so many get disillusioned then compromise or burn out. But between the darkness and the dawn there shines a red star.

Or on the flip side people acting like this act of adventurism is productive. The 2020 revolt is instructive that huge masses of Americans can say they want something and then just not do shit to actually achieve that goal. Why anyone else thinks this is different now with huge masses of Americans laughing at the death of a CEO is beyond me. The new CEO of UHC, who they were able to hire in like two days, has already said that this will not change their operations in the slightest. The American government is already quite clear that this will not change anything. Does anyone really believe that this will spur the American public into revolt? Maybe anarchists I guess. Maybe “Marxists” so desperate for anything good that they’ve strayed into Narodism. Either way it’s basically never worked because it circumvents the hard work of organizing people and fighting as a class and not petite bourgeois individuals.

Don’t make me tap the chart

It feels like nothing because the release valve Democratic Party was able to co-opt it into voting for Joe Biden, now he and Kamala lost an election and the same piggie that (explicitly) encouraged unadulterated and premeditated police violence is back in office.

So when we say the Left does nothing, it’s because it doesn’t capture the revolutionary energy in any way except chants, marches, and some arson; which if anyone remembers the 2020 riots, there was a weirdo with an umbrella walking around setting fire to things. An organized revolutionary movement could/should have seized the police precinct, escaped with guns and armor, and released all the investigate files, missives and software that the police own.

2020 Uprising was a moment of revolutionary potential, where many things could have happened, but didn’t. They were feet, or yards, away from the White House; Trump was even escorted to shelter like a scared little fascist. So yeah, the potential was there.

These people think the libs were the main heads behind the 2020 protests and that the leftist were there just to cause trouble and bring a bad name to the protests.

It’s so weird when Australians think they’re American

CHAZ maybe.

set fire to a pig station FFS

I thought a right winger from texas did this? Although, collectively, the left still got credit for it in 99% of discourse online.

The left does stuff I promise, but what the left does now has changed, and you’ll never stumble into that world. Decades of counter intel work has meant most public orgs are compromised, and what small networks can do is limited, and their priorities will probably not be highly public displays, nor operating with classical marxism lol, orgs like that are high-cost-to-join kinda like more hardcore religions you’re living and breathing a different mindset and their version of the eternal science might be uhh, wild to hear about without their own highly cultivated context

I’m not in that world but i’ve sniffed it and I guess it’s just sensible that it’s there, it always has been.