none of them work in reality, or maybe wish there maybe a Mao in the US someday

or for a more popular opinion from most chinese people: you guys have guns, what are you waiting for?

>> How many Trump's bad polices did the protestors force him to retreat? if nothing changes, its a shitshow just for the people to feel good about themselves.

> What's your alternative suggestion?

Good question. For starters, the common saying about "doing the same thing over and over expecting different results" applies here, which you seem to at least entertain.

What I would do is try and figure out exactly how and why people protest some things and not others. What spurns them on to stand in negative weather with snow and windchill standing for Cause A but not Cause B, C, or D?

My theory is essentially manipulation. The trolley problem is interesting to apply here. Why are some causes (lives, because people are dying every day across many conflicts) worth protesting and others simply don't matter?

If this theory has any value (probably not, but maybe) what should be done about it? I posit trump is a symptom. Focusing on the symptom is why harris lost. "I'm not him!" didn't work as a platform. Protesting against the symptom is like slapping a cold cloth on a fevered person instead of treating the infection causing the fever. It might even work for a half hour or so, a little, maybe.

What is the root cause of all this? How did we get here? I posit, and hold your breath for this one: money and power. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I cannot figure out how the stock market is at ATHs, unknown hundreds of billions are sloshing around for "AI" and I have friends making over 130k/yr trying to figure out how to pay their electric bills. How does that happen? How do we fix THAT?

I don't think protesting trump fixes that. If anything, it emboldens him. "Oh you don't want me to stop hitting you? You mean like this hit (punches you in the face) or this one (punches you in the stomach)? Ok, so not the face?" [Proceeds to punch you in the stomach]

Follow the money. Figure out the inception of these causes people get off their couch to protest. Fix that. These epstein files might have been a good start. Find the other 100 epsteins, they're out there. Blow the whole up for real.