self-flagellation doesn't help anyone either. to us looking from outside the west it makes you look silly.

nobody is born knowing how to protest. the countries that do it more commonly do it because they put time aside to organize in their local communities.

I'm not sure protesting is worth that much energy anyways. the partisans didn't eliminate Nazis by protesting, they acknowledged that the time for that was long gone.

the impactful shit can't be legally talked about in public. we need more of that.