Mass protests have failed to bring about social change. It’s time for a new strategy.

The answer is a general strike, but I have no fucking idea how we'd pull that off in the USA without the majority becoming homeless.

- Cops can't stop general strikes
  Crackdowns only turn supporterts to active rebels, and sympathizers to supporters.
  State Violence only strengthens the movement.
Historically it has been sustained, smaller, local action that has produced results far more frequently than attempted general strikes. Everybody wants to do this the quick way and they aren’t willing to roll up their sleeves and put in the time to do it locally. They think that everybody’s just going to nod and stop working and it’s all going to be glorious, but that’s just not how it goes down. You can count the number of truly successful general strikes that were clear victories on one hand.
Consumption strike. Just stop buying nonessentials. Rent strike, mortgage strike. Protests are worthless if you're still buying crap from amazon and eating at chain restaurants.
- I guess I've been on an involuntary consumption strike for the last 10 years or so then lol
Mutual aid is probably the best we could do in the short term

Peaceful protest is legal because it accomplishes nothing.

Peaceful protest is legal
And they're trying to change that too, just in case
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-passing-new-public-order-laws-marks-dark-new-era-peaceful-protest
It can if you do it right and have a purpose. Martin Luther King Jr. Did peaceful protests and changed America for the better.
The problem is there is very little to protest. If you are protesting current issues chances are your political party is already trying to accomplish those things. They are then fighting the opposite party for control.
- This is a very uninformed understanding of history and politics.
- "riots are the language of the unheard" -MLK peaceful protests are the alternative you give, the other option is violence. MLK new this. Despite how incredibly watered down and whitewashed his message and words have become when they teach about him in school.

I guess that depends on who 'we' means? The September climate protests were pretty big globally, with 50 countries participating.
As someone who has been to protests in the past for various topics, my experience is that the media isn't interested in reporting on them unless they get dramatic eye-catching footage. Which unfortunately usually means just the ones that have a physical fight break out make the front page anywhere.
What is there to protest?
- Climate Action, housing crisis, massive debts, pollution, minimum wage increases, racism, police brutality, rich people not getting punished, politicians not keeping their word, corruption, ...

Or, start taking the protests and riots to their doorsteps.
They don't care when you burn the areas they don't live in. But when you take the protest to them... They scream and call for more cops. But in the time it takes for the cops to show up, you can do a lot of damage, especially if you have a thousand friends.
The people protesting are most likely a extreme minority. Also they are often politically affiliated which accomplishes nothing

I'm telling you, an army of vuvuzela-players and mimes to follow elected officials around in public, with a shift roster to get 24/7 coverage. No media interviews without the droning hum of a vuvuzela, no photo opportunities without a sneaky mime making an exaggerated lewd pose in the background, no pleasant meals with lobbyists without a distant but audible brrrrrrrrrrrr.

The media chooses not to report on peaceful protests all the time, but they always give coverage to Gaetz, Cruz and Graham talking absolute shit. Make them edit the videos to take out mimes and vuvuzelas.

- Police can arrest someone for playing a vuvuzela and being in the background of a photo? Probably, but... what do they charge you with, a noise disturbance? Better than an assault charge. The police are going to defend the rulers no matter how peaceful the protest.
  CW: police violence
  Remember when those UC Davis students got pepper-sprayed while sitting? Or "don't tase me, bro!"?
Do you want fascism? Because vuvuzelas are how you get fascism.
- So that's why FIFA and the London Olympics banned them? /jk
  I just want what the interviewee wants. Media that can't easily ignore the angrily trumpetting elephant in the room.
Sir, this is a taco bell

People expect way to much change from a single protest. You need to contact your representative and get enough people to join in order to get some attention.

Your protest also can't be silly like a lot of recent protests are don't go protest the 2016 election or 2020 election as you will accomplish nothing. Also make sure you have some sort of purpose or end goal. All of the protests I've heard about have no purpose.

So you're going to ignore the decades of protests about climate action? That have all been ignored because the people in power will never give a shit about your protest if its easily ignored.
- Small protests are easily ignored. DC climate action protest - 75k people in a nation of 300+ million - even if the muster 1m it's still peanuts. It doesn't even move the needle.
  Take that same number, 1 million, and have the vast majority be from Georgia marching in Atlanta. Georgia is 10m with 7m available voters. Now we have enough numbers to push the needle.
  Sure it's not on a Federal level, but politics are local. Federal action is a quagmire unless enough localities begin to gel behind a single direction - then those seeking Federal office will have to pivot.
If we take out the guillotines, there will be much change from a single protest

What mass protests? Have any of yall been protesting?

That's what I want to know

Mass disruption of the economy?

- Oh I apologize, but you aren't nearly close enough to the retirement age of 86. You'll have to wait for 2050 for it to be raised to 93. But by then it will actually be 102.
- I'm not that desperate, yet. Give it 2 more years of centralizing wealth and power.

Well we should really try a mass protest first. If we can actually get people together we can see if mass protest work. The only other attentive is to compost the rich!

To protest what? That's the problem with modern times. Everyone is dead set in there beliefs and protesting doesn't change that.

We all fart into pillows for hours, then tell the baddies we bought a new fabric softener that smells like peach

Vincent Bevins just published a new book on this topic:

If We Burn; The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

He was interviewed about it on the TrueAnon podcast, but I dunno if that was in the public feed or the bonus feed.

and no one gives a shit ( anyhow his first book about the CIA was pretty cool, too! I heard an interview with him about the new book on the Intercept podcast, and his narrative is something I‘ve been thinking about for some time. It‘s actually insane how the right could take the initiative instead of the left and now there‘s only little room to manoeuvre.
- If you mean The Jakarta Method, Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, that was one of the best books I've ever read. Blew me away. That's how I recognized his name in the show notes for the latest podcast interview.

The only actual wealth redistribution to the working class that has happened in recent years are the flash mobs looting from stores during the pandemic