Protesting with a sign and snarky message doesn’t do much. Everyone agreeing to do one simple (non violent) thing would work much better. It has to be just one thing though. The “don’t buy anything” day is ineffective and confusing.
“No kings” day should be more like “No Kings & uninstall Twitter/X” day. At rallies, people could give advice on how to delete their accounts on that platform.
Then at the next rally, it’s cancel Amazon Prime.
Snarky signs still welcome of course.
Why would you limit yourself from using a wider array of tactics? Of course, violence isn’t applicable everywhere, but it’s an effective way of achieving change.
I always see this whenever people talk about protesting or trying to enact change. Everybody is horrified of the big scary V word so they have to make sure everyone knows they won’t use it ASAP. Like I went to a socialist meetup a couple weeks ago and the organizer made sure to bring up that violent actions are bad and should never be used cause they’re laughably stupid which everyone else seemed to agree with. Drove me crazy hearing people just ignore a massive aspect that even the implication of existing will actually enact change.
Direct action can be surprisingly effective.