Protests are definitely meant to be noticed, and should also make you think. Ideally they should also be attractive for others to join, allowing the protest to gain momentum. But being annoying (at least to regular people) seems counter productive to that? Sometimes it is unavoidable, but I don’t think it should be desired.

Of course being annoying to the body being protested against is definitely desired.

Upvoting because this is definitely a controversial take

This sounds very much like the German electoral system, except in the German system your address and your preferred “group” are relevant. You get two votes, one is for a local representative, the other is just for a party (so you could freely vote for the “gamer” party if it existed), and both votes contribute seats to government.

Leftists practice tolerance but they’re not really willing to go as far as actually compassion, empathy, and mercy.

Are there specific leftist philosophies that imply this? Or is this a bad faith generalisation?

I’m confused, are you saying that most straight white men are not left… Because they all want to go to mars?

While I think this is mostly true, I think there are some potentially problematic “edge cases”, for example do you think it would be moral for someone to abort all girls until they eventually have a boy?

I would describe myself as fairly left, but I’m not the most educated on accurate political terminology

I believe that the vast majority of people are inherently good, and that tribalism and political divisiveness are some of the biggest issues we have to face.

Political differences arise mostly from different values, fears, education (or lack thereof), etc, but most people if you get to know them believe what they do because they believe it is genuinely good. But increasingly politics is focused on vilifying others, instead of trying to understand each other.

Strongly agree, though is this really an unpopular take?