I don't *really* wanna add more of my thoughts to the "protests: are they good or pointless" conversation, but one thought I don't always see talked about is that the same protest "tactic" can be less or more pointless depending on where it's occurring & in what context.

Like, to me, massive citywide protest in big "liberal" city where libs peace-police everyone and then by & large go home without having actually changed or even challenged anything is a very different scene than "300 folks in a Nazi town put themselves out there & show others in that town that not everyone supports or agrees with the fuckin Nazis."

I think those two protests, though organized on the same lines, have achieved (or maybe just, put into motion) very different things.

Personally, I'm severely over the whole protest scene. But as a historian, I also know that context can alter meaning significantly.