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QUOTE: "There are active political movements which aren't based on dressing up in silly masks and annoying people, but which actually make a difference to the political landscape." No there are not! The trade unions and the established Labour movement have failed to change anything since the Tories got re-eclected in 2010! See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbZbhRsKrg
Millions of people across the country have demonstrated against government austerity cuts since 2010 but have been totally ignored as the government plough on with mass privatisation and mass austerity cuts to public services! Anonymous and its more militant forms of action are the new way forward as the parties of the past have failed time and time again.
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What are your new mechanisms for change if you won't engage with democracy?
Demo's can have an effect and it's patronising to say they've been ignored. Hunt couldn't ignore the junior doctors (without political cost) for instance. But demo's are not new. You're not occupying or closing down businesses that benefit from unjust policies. You're not informing or educating anyone.
Flash mobs? You don't effectivley utilise these (FoE did yesterday outside Barclay's branches).
Hacking?
Feeling badass in a mask?
Reenforcing some hoody stereotypes in the mind of Daily Fail readers?
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They've demonstrated while showing their faces and carrying banners of established political organisations. That takes more balls and commitment than putting on a mask and shouting stuff. Do you really think a few kids wearing stupid masks are going to change things if people who actually know what they're doing can't?
Anonymous seems to have no overarching message other than 'Yeah. Fuck the government!' What solutions or alternatives is anonymous offering? You can't change something if you don't know what it is that you're fighting or what you're suggesting instead. It comes back to it not being a 'protest', more a bunch of entitled idiots shouting random demands.There's a sense of self-importance and arrogance, and then there's your typical 'Anonymous' member's sense of self-importance and arrogance.
miro_o
dglshrn
Again: we get it, people agree that the Tories at evil and they have actively fucked people over in this country. No one is disputing this. Your 'protest' is just a bit silly, particularly as anonymous are viewed as a pretty alt-right organisation. There are active political movements which aren't based on dressing up in silly masks and annoying people, but which actually make a difference to the political landscape.