What can be done?

At least post a coherent ideology you fuck.

Maybe the government literally murdering them has something to do with it… hmm…

In all seriousness I do think first world westerners today are absolutely pathetic when it comes to anti-imperialism, they aren't even doing the bare minimum to counteract it (i.e. voting for the few somewhat anti-imperialist representatives they can vote for).

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If this is bait, it is too real. Fails the whole point of bait, doesn't it? I mean, yeah, you got them but it was totally believable, practically anything could be bait in that case.
I can't tell you what to do user, but you should stop engaging with bourgeois institutions to undo them. That is retarded.

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A small group of ruffians throwing temper tantrums because of something they and only they saw on the interwebs is not going to cause revolution. Their actions are actually likely to be perceived as a scary outside source to the status quo and it might even make the masses afraid of going down that path in fear of emulating them. Activism is detrimental for this reason, when the material conditions are right for the general populace communism will happen.

There should have been a lot more than just protests going on during the Iraq war and occupation, during Vietnam there was at least Weather Underground doing some radical shit, the first world anti-imperialist response to the Iraq war was not good enough.

Ah yes, ineffectual bombing campaigns: I wonder why people didn't try that tbh.

9/11 didn't happen, that's what caused tthe hatred of the middle east in the U.S, and "justified" actions against tyranny in the 2000's.
Those made it harder to convince people that you were dying, or being put in danger for nothing

There was at least an effort, terrorism is obviously not an effective solution to anything in the first world, but there was revolutionary fervor and if that energy were to have been better utilized I think a semi-effective revolution could have occurred. Meanwhile during the fucking Iraq war you have a few sign wavers spending an hour outside shouting every now and then. Then they go home to drink their literal slave labour derived tea and get ready to go to work for their imperialist corporation the next day. There is absolutely no comparison between the anti-Vietnam War movement and the anti-Iraq War movement.

Sorry but this is a pile of steaming horseshit. You are complaining what people did was useless by advocating they should have done something else more useless that would have got people killed: great logic there lad. And you don't just bomb your way into a revolution, read Lenin on the SR's tactics.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, stop being a bourgois moraliser.