Where I’m from cities like Boston are the norm. When I was in a grid city for the first time, I immediately got lost on the roads because everything just looks the same.
On the other hand, Americans seem to have a more intuitive sense of the cardinal directions than Europeans do from my experience. Which makes sense if you’re used to roads aligned with them.
I think it does. One problem we’re facing is that many people are just apathetic and keep to themselves instead of doing literally anything. Protests like these are for many people the first political protest ever in their lives. Are they gonna overthrow Trump? No. But they’re a stepping stone. People feel what it feels like to be part of something bigger, and will potentially be willing to do more. And I know that there’s leftist groups attending to inform people about further, more effective actions.
I think people who complain about No Kings not doing anything are kind of insufferable. People always complained that liberals don’t do enough and don’t want to listen. Now that’s changing, and instead of using the opportunity to have conversations with them about how all this came to be and what’s necessary, they’re being shamed. I used to be apolitical, had I not be welcomed by empathetic people I probably wouldn’t be active today. I want to pay that forward.
Kinda like we have Shirts with nonsensical Chinese characters.
What I’m mainly wondering is why they basically ceded, moved to the right and don’t talk about it anymore. They did pick up some steam online recently in adressing the fossil corruption, but nothing much about being basically beaten in line. Do they think it’s not worth it?
I suppose some of the more center greens like Özdemir aren’t that unhappy about the party’s changed orientation at least.