Tonight's drink: red bull whisky
After several days this week where we had blackouts for 8, 12, more hours, there was finally a demonstration at the government-owned power company.
I went to see how the demonstration was organized out of curiosity. (Previously I have attended OccupyICE, CHAD, #BLM etc).
They were still assembling at 23:00. I scoped out the crowd. Almost all high schoolers or middle school age, wearing their street clothes, parked motorbikes half a block away. No one wearing masks. I asked the kids casually "So I heard there's a party here tonight?" and they laughed. One kid was really eager to show me that he had a bag full of fireworks. He pulled out fireworks one by one and kept pointing at the building which was surrounded by a perimeter of police, and there were pretty easily police inside the building, probably videotaping everything (you recognize the signs with age and wisdom).
Noped away from the front lines pretty quick and watched the rest of it on a livestream. The kids lit off some fireworks and lit a tire on fire in the middle of the road. They yelled and ran up and down the street until they got tired and went home.
I would rate the demo 3/10. Very boring, very poorly organized, bad optics, awful opsec.
Even useless protests are still good opportunities to learn how to play with the media and work as an organized body, but these kids weren't even doing that. What kinds of headlines are you planning to win by showing up at a building with fireworks in the middle of the night? How are you going to win the sympathies of housewives and office workers, even politicians and business leaders? Sigh.