Protest via Boycott and Voting With Your Dollars

I encourage people to protest the oligarchy/patriarchy through boycotting it and voting with their dollars, instead of mass in-person protesting. Yes, you could go to an actual physical protest against fascist authoritarianism with thousands of other people, but honestly, what good would it do? No one that can make a difference cares and the fascist authoritarians certainly do not care. Your participation has a negligible to potentially harmful effect (especially if the fascist authoritarians decide to punish you). 

You'd actually be better off protesting through intentional self care activities (which might include buying less stuff). The effect of self care is about the same as the effect that protesting has on defeating the bad guys, which is to say pretty much zero effect. But viewed more globally, self care has an entropy reducing advantage over protesting (which may increase entropy). Self care has a significant net positive impact on your health, well being, and quality of life (unlike protesting, which may feel good in the moment, but has not long term reward). It also has the advantage of happening behind the scenes and under the radar, so it's much harder for the bad guys to push back on it.

As an example, one could argue quite convincingly that my vegan diet and bike commuting (instead of driving) have a significantly greater impact on climate change than me attending a protest against global warming ever could. So, if I do those things INTENTIONALLY as a form of passive protest, it makes a bigger difference. I encourage everyone to protest in this way, because the impact will be additive, amounting to basically a General Strike against the evil-doers (i.e., The Man).

Think on it.

The End.