that's on us. There's libs out here going "take that you shitty leftists, clearly we were right and it worked" and that's infuriating, but the response is to point out everyone took a baby step towards what leftists activists have been doing for ages and that it's not that scary to take more steps.

to convert the libs to do more real shit at some point that's a personal failing. Marches move very little forward, but not every strategic manoeuvre is about moving forward. If there was nobody at the event trying to reach people, if we're not trying to build on the energy people feel right now

the question of "ok what's next? what's the point?" became one best asked of oneself. Like, yeah, none of it was planned to direct the energy towards anything better but if you believe branded walks with a mail list aren't the way forward... there's praxis to be done... if there's nobody trying

Like, it had no demands or aims, was plagued by teaching people the worst practices, and it's all clearly just a thing for the people organising it to capitalise on career wise later. However that's criticisms relevant in the planning phase. Once the march became a thing that was gonna happen

I think many people kinda got lost in the sauce failing to distinguish when criticism of the organisers of the event turned into criticising the people participating in it.

and/or when we see escalating waves of bans and rule tightening to make it ever more against the rules to be rude to the US federal govt accounts. many opportunities for this website's leadership team to debase themselves and crawl around on the dirt like worms