Eneasz

I didn't come here because of that one act, I came here because, as outlined in section 1, I'm horrified by how much of the population talks about lynching people to take their stuff, and that this is viewed as normal or good.

I refuse to repeat Derek's words when he said, thank you billionaires.

I'm thankful to the social code that created this, not to individual men.

There was a lack of unified message that made it much harder for everyone to be enthusiastic together.

On the one hand, maybe this helped.

The march was thrown together with just one week's notice and it needed to gather the biggest tent possible.

If the march was just about the California Billionaire Tax Act, I probably wouldn't have come.

Since it was about the right for billionaires to exist honorably, I did.

On the other hand, the ambiguity meant that when opposition showed up there wasn't a central unifying core that everyone could rally around.

We were easy to overwhelm with just a third of our numbers.

The second was that there was no preparation.

It would have been good to have everyone ready with a few chance that we could all practice before we left and really get behind.

Some thought of what to do if Heckler showed up would have been good.

Ideally there should be several people picked out beforehand, who had gathered the day before to practice linking arms to create a cordon, and were instructed in whatever is best practices when running into this sort of harassment.

people that the march leader could look to when in need of backup.

Things turned out surprisingly well given that no one had any idea what they were doing.

All that being said, this was all thrown together in a week over a group chat and got a surprising amount of media coverage.

I'm very pro people doing things.

The default is that nothing happens, and for someone to actually try something and get this going on such short notice is amazing.

The world is better than it was the day before, even just a tiny bit, because a few people were willing to risk failing publicly at something hard.