fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Feb 8

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example

The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.

Fortune
Show threadMacFeb 8
@fromjason The only problem with this is that while the No Kings protests are not really creating change into ways many of us would like, literally nobody else is doing the work to organize to make protests (or anything else) more effective. I would be more sympathetic to doing things different if people critiquing these protests were willing to do more than just critique, but at this point those participating in No Kings are doing a lot more than literally anyone else at this point.
Show threadElizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboFeb 8

@MackenzieD @fromjason

I think its important to look at protests like No Kings as being on completely different layers of a protest movement as participation in things like Food Not Bombs, ICE Watch, and other community self-defense actions.

No Kings is symbolic action, ICE Watch is concrete action. Sometimes one leads to another, other times it doesn't. It does help take the temperature of a society, though.

I've been part of protest movements at many levels and have zero desire to criticize No Kings, mostly because it is at the very top of the funnel. When I ride my bike around a No Kings protest, I see them primarily composed of disabled people, elderly people, and people with young families.

Show threadElizabeth 💚 anarchist bimbo

@MackenzieD @fromjason

FWIW, I'm not saying it isn't worth critiquing. I just personally see that sort of symbolic event as an opportunity to invite its attendees to do more.

Feb 8 at 9:34pmWeb
Show threadfromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Feb 8

@InnateOptimist you can also network at a farmer's market.

@MackenzieD