How do you know what does and doesn’t work before you try doing that thing? This is why I brought up the example of Amazon, what crazy person in the 90’s thought that an online bookstore was going to work?

If you cherry pick protests that didn’t work shouldn’t I then cherry pick protests that did work? How about the Protestant reformation, the orange revolution, the Berlin Wall protests, the Boston tea party, the storming of the bastille…heck, protesters weren’t all that far away from seizing US congress on January 6, 2021.

I think that your examples of protests that didn’t work also had some level of success. A non-zero number of municipalities passed police reform bills after the George Floyd protests. A non-zero number of people have gone vegan due to PETA’s activities.

You don’t even have to protest physically anymore to invoke change, a literal hash tag took down Harvey Weinstein and R. Kelly, who had escaped justice for decades.

I would also say that your own decision to comment is somewhat hypocritical because that fits your description of “doing nothing, loudly,” which you are supposedly against.