Being annoying as praxis is only the first step. The second step is to gather likeminded neighbors and friends and ask each other how you can maximize your joint annoyingness. Congrats: this is called organizing, you’re building a base of your common man united on a common cause.
Then you and your organized group of annoying people KEEP GOING until you got the thing you were being annoying about. Rest assured that the people with power will do their best to make it hard for you to be annoying, up to and including state sanctioned violence. But there’s more of you than them.
Don’t let despair defeat you. There’s more of you than there is of them. They will try to break your spirit but there’s more of you than there are of them.
this. that’s why they rig elections, that’s why they stockpile guns, that’s why they puff their chests out and act tough. they’re in the minority. and at their core, they’re weak.
in any other country the phrase "the far right is stockpiling firearms" would be considered a national crisis and a sign of a coming civil conflict. in america, we just don't think about it! you do gotta hand it to us!
Agreed--even if someone doesn't know exactly what steps to take, getting on mailing lists, learning names, exchanging numbers etc is empowering, in short-term "feeling safer" sense and long-term organizing sense. And this is REAL power, not timeline cleanse stuff that soothes your brain for 10 secs
Insane that I spent the first 15ish years of my life figuring out how to not be annoying, and now instead I'm figuring out how to be most annoying a productive direction.
