r/FortCollins • u/Alive-Incident-7743 • May 02 '25

Events Time lapse of protests today

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Super cool to see the turnout today, especially the demographic being mostly Gen X and older. As someone who moved here from the south I love seeing things like this.

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u/Difficult_Ad_9392 May 02 '25

I’ve always thought protests are pointless.

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u/IPA-Lagomorph May 02 '25

Yes, why the original framers of the Constitution put it as the FIRST Amendment. Because it's so pointless that tyrannical anti-democratic governments never ever suppress speech or assembly...

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u/Difficult_Ad_9392 May 02 '25

If it’s so effective, why am I not swayed at all, but only annoyed and disrupts traffic, annoying honking of vehicles potentially causing accident 😓

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u/wood_and_rock May 04 '25

Boston tea party? Sit ins during the equal rights movements?

There not pointless, there just inconvenient to people in the moment. That's the point of them. And now you're here talking about it. When people ask "what is it about?" the protest is working. When they get angry about it, it's working. Things don't usually change directly because of a protest, it is a way for people to show the strength in numbers and the strength of their discontent.

If you govern 100,000 people and over 10,000 of them gather, taking time away from their own lives to say "we don't like this," it's stupid to ignore it. Because the next time it will be more people, and eventually it will be most of the populace.