do protests work?

[kanzeon_2040]

With K living on the west coast and being more of a night person, sometimes I wake to find a series of texts from him. Last night he texted me about a group of climate protesters who attempted to disrupt a tennis match at the US Open. [I also follow a local climate protest group on Twitter that occasionally blocks traffic

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[matrixmann]

When will a protest be successful? - I'd think the answer to that question would be delivered by the fact if it was backed by an US embassy

[kanzeon_2040]

I think in a world of the Internet for a protest to be successful, yeah, it would need to be supported by powerful interests, or nobody would even ever hear of it in a positive way, via the media and algorithms.

[matrixmann]

Even before the age of the internet, this was the case.
Mass protest and coups d'état were investment projects, mostly initiated by the US, respectively its secret service.