bumpusoot
I highly doubt it's even the world's shortest international bridge. Many nations' borders follow a tiny brook or stream, which will likely be bridged at some point.
I already know and agree with what you've said here. I would happily concede that both of our positions lack good evidence for a wide, systematic effect.
I can only share my experience which is proof that, at least in my tiny part of the world, these protests have worked. You're very welcome to have anecdotal evidence to the contrary, I was just sharing my own and I'm unsure why I'm getting logic'd for it. I think perhaps you're inferring a much larger claim from my words than I was trying to make.
The claim does lack evidence, I agree! I'm only speaking anecdotally - But that's a little more evidence than the claim that the protests don't work.
I know a couple people who outspoken about climate change for scientific or observable reasons.
But I know more who are outspoken because they're polarised against fuddy-duddy conservative anti-climate-protestor attitudes.
Because it's largely made up and vastly exaggerated. If people had actual details or critically thought about what 'russian disinformation' really was, it wouldn't be an effective boogeyman to blame for all the world's ills.
Somehow the west has found a way to say "You're right our democracy is broken, but it's all Russia's fault!!!"
The Chinese Communist Party of China
The codec pack was named after the USSR, it was great.
These protests do work. And is suspected to be largely behind why a fair fraction of the population care about climate change. And working class people will be pressed into cleaning up the mess of direct action too, so I don't understand the argument there.
Fucking up rich people's pretty shit is a perfectly valid, if somewhat toothless, response. Yes, direct action is better, but is also more heavily violently cracked down on, the mass movement needed to make it viable isn't there.
As time goes on, I think the capitalist machine just requires more and more sections of the population to "other", to blame for the failing state of the world. Divert attention away to anyone but the richoids.
Sorry, I clearly didn't deliver it well, but the "bourgeois decadence" was honestly just a joke. I agree with all thata you said.
To be honest, you could replicate this same graph for everything and anything in life. To me personally, it really isn't news, neither is the size of the effect. Social mobility in western society is insanely low (and honestly not amazing anywhere). :same-graph:
However, this fact really does need to be hammered into peoples' heads: Even if you only care about meritocracy, capitalism is an awful system as we're clearly denying ~90% of potential achievers from achieving by allowing this kind of inequality. The wealth you're born into is the biggest indicator of success in life, to such an insane degree that it's borderline the ONLY indicator of your chance of success in life.
Even revolutionary leaders are most typically bourgeoisie-born class traitors. Turns out having food, education, stable family, reliable shelter and healthcare, and opportunities in life really, really helps.