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akagoldfish:atomicsocialist:lonelyvagabond:atomicsocialist:lakrymosa:atomicsocialist:thebluesader:gaelen:(via New Yorkers Experience the Horror of Drum Circles | Uptown Almanac)Yeah, seriously. Let’s stop with the hippie crap. It’s not the 60s. We have our own protest movement now. We need to find a new aesthetic.…Of course, that will probably just be hipster d-bag shit, so fuck that.Let’s have a steampunk protest! Or let’s do retro 20s! If we want to revive Progressivism, we might as well dress like it.I’m down for a revival of the turn of the century progressives. Fight like you’re fighting for an 8 hour day!>: I still don’t understand the “hippie” hate.but eh. I’ll go to OSF in Victorian garb if I can make it over there again. :3The hippies were largely a failure in their attempts to reform the system. Why would we want to paint ourselves as said failures stylistically? Progressives were just capitalists that felt the need to help the unions, sometimes. You take whatever allies you can get. If we’re to all remain as ideologues we will never get anywhere. Drums are actually an important protest tool because just a few of them can make a helluva lot of noise but aran’t electrically amplified.That said, fuck bongo drums. There’s so many better drums to choose from, drums that make your blood pump and make people want to do things like stand in a human chain in front of the police line. No one is going to risk arrest because of a bongo drum. Bongo drums are just fucking silly. -- source link