Woof that’s a take, you think we can food bank our way out of this?
While I would agree these stickers are not giant forms of activism and can only hope it’s not the only thing whoever has this sentiment is doing, I wouldn’t say it’s useless.
It’s cathartic for one, and helps broadcast and share to like-minded people there are allies in the area, while also helping cultivate a sense of shame onto any of Trump’s enablers, which is what they need to have done to them.
Note the distinction between making them feel shame (which is impossible) and shaming them.; these enablers have shown they lack empathy, which means they distill interpersonal relationships down to transactions; what can someone else do for them? If another party can’t do anything for them, then that party is useless and in the negatives, “subhuman,” pretty much.
Shaming these Trump enablers offsets their interpersonal transactions, putting them in the negative, leaving them in a defensive position instead of offensive.
Granted one little sticker is not going to do that alone, but you can’t make waves without drops.
I don’t judge anyone for buying or using these stickers. To each their own.
I’m just over here amazed that anyone expects me to be excited at this pointless, performative nonsense. People can’t eat in this country, but folks honestly expect me to pump my fist that someone plopped a sticker on a gas pump.
And yes, there are better uses for the money being spent on it. If you have money to spend on this crap, make better choices with it.
You’re operating in black and white in a world of grays, bud. I already stated the catharsis and swaying minds and public shaming, and your response is pretty much “food banks or bust.”
I know dogmatism when I see it, so have a good one.
There’s also the matter of protests not being intended to make onlookers “fist pump” or be excited. They’re SUPPOSED to be uncomfortable, they’re supposed to make people upset or inconvenience their day, or else they can just be ignored. What’s the point of just making people happy or go about their day? That’s not a protest, that’s just doing random shit like every other day.
Reminding anyone who drives a car why their gas prices are so high and who is responsible for that, is not a pointless gesture.
Also, how would it be performative if literally no one knows who put the sticker there? Isn’t the whole point of performativism specifically to garner approval?
You could say that about literally anything. You realize there are different purposes for different things and people will spend money as they see fit?
While food banks are important, if those stickers manage to influence the minds of the voters, the money spent on them could achieve way more against poverty and hunger than any food bank could.
“Jesus said the poor will always be with us, so we’ll always have time to prove our faith by alleviating their suffering. Therefore it would be a sin to try to end poverty, because it goes against God’s will.”
“The bible says we’ll be persecuted, so if people don’t hate us then we must not be living according to God’s will. We have to be even more annoying in order to prove our faith!”
Can’t tell you how long into my adulthood it took me to unlearn the pattern that “If I can get people to hate me, then I must be doing something right. In fact, if people like me then I must be doing something wrong!”
I mean, even years after dropping christianity, that subconscious pattern was very much still underlying my perceptions and behavior. Sometimes I couldn’t figure out why it was so difficult to make friends, why I always compulsively self-sabotaged. There was this deep-seated feeling of guilt that always accompanied any sign of approval that I received from others. Even today, I feel uncomfortable whenever I receive a compliment or praise (rare because I avoid situations where that might happen).
People are really mad at you for wanting the poor to eat food instead of spending money on paper they can’t eat.
Yeah that tracks for this community. Performative fluff but don’t actually get involved in helping people. Just vote the problems away that can’t be solved by voting!!
None of them.
The beautiful geniuses are donating that money to food banks instead of spending it on dumbass, pointless stickers.
Woof that’s a take, you think we can food bank our way out of this?
While I would agree these stickers are not giant forms of activism and can only hope it’s not the only thing whoever has this sentiment is doing, I wouldn’t say it’s useless.
It’s cathartic for one, and helps broadcast and share to like-minded people there are allies in the area, while also helping cultivate a sense of shame onto any of Trump’s enablers, which is what they need to have done to them.
Note the distinction between making them feel shame (which is impossible) and shaming them.; these enablers have shown they lack empathy, which means they distill interpersonal relationships down to transactions; what can someone else do for them? If another party can’t do anything for them, then that party is useless and in the negatives, “subhuman,” pretty much.
Shaming these Trump enablers offsets their interpersonal transactions, putting them in the negative, leaving them in a defensive position instead of offensive.
Granted one little sticker is not going to do that alone, but you can’t make waves without drops.
I don’t judge anyone for buying or using these stickers. To each their own.
I’m just over here amazed that anyone expects me to be excited at this pointless, performative nonsense. People can’t eat in this country, but folks honestly expect me to pump my fist that someone plopped a sticker on a gas pump.
And yes, there are better uses for the money being spent on it. If you have money to spend on this crap, make better choices with it.
You’re operating in black and white in a world of grays, bud. I already stated the catharsis and swaying minds and public shaming, and your response is pretty much “food banks or bust.”
I know dogmatism when I see it, so have a good one.
There’s also the matter of protests not being intended to make onlookers “fist pump” or be excited. They’re SUPPOSED to be uncomfortable, they’re supposed to make people upset or inconvenience their day, or else they can just be ignored. What’s the point of just making people happy or go about their day? That’s not a protest, that’s just doing random shit like every other day.
Reminding anyone who drives a car why their gas prices are so high and who is responsible for that, is not a pointless gesture.
Also, how would it be performative if literally no one knows who put the sticker there? Isn’t the whole point of performativism specifically to garner approval?
You could say that about literally anything. You realize there are different purposes for different things and people will spend money as they see fit?
While food banks are important, if those stickers manage to influence the minds of the voters, the money spent on them could achieve way more against poverty and hunger than any food bank could.
You’re right, more direct action is necessary. Where do you want to meet and what should I bring?
No no, you heard them, donating to a food bank will fix it all.
That sounds a lot like the conservative christians who use it to argue against government welfare…
It does to me, too, (but they’re being sarcastic here, of course.)
“Don’t tax the church, they provide charity to the needy. It’s the community’s job to provide for the less fortunate, not the government’s.”
“Jesus said the poor will always be with us, so we’ll always have time to prove our faith by alleviating their suffering. Therefore it would be a sin to try to end poverty, because it goes against God’s will.”
Literally the logic I’ve heard from these people…
Depressingly unsurprising. Up there with viewing being opposed as proof that they’re right.
“The bible says we’ll be persecuted, so if people don’t hate us then we must not be living according to God’s will. We have to be even more annoying in order to prove our faith!”
Can’t tell you how long into my adulthood it took me to unlearn the pattern that “If I can get people to hate me, then I must be doing something right. In fact, if people like me then I must be doing something wrong!”
I mean, even years after dropping christianity, that subconscious pattern was very much still underlying my perceptions and behavior. Sometimes I couldn’t figure out why it was so difficult to make friends, why I always compulsively self-sabotaged. There was this deep-seated feeling of guilt that always accompanied any sign of approval that I received from others. Even today, I feel uncomfortable whenever I receive a compliment or praise (rare because I avoid situations where that might happen).
People are really mad at you for wanting the poor to eat food instead of spending money on paper they can’t eat.
Yeah that tracks for this community. Performative fluff but don’t actually get involved in helping people. Just vote the problems away that can’t be solved by voting!!