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If you live in a depolitized society, the worst you can do is to annoy people.
Especially don't do anything annoying to their property. Nobody is going to change their mind by reading what you wrote on their door or on their car. The reaction will be exactly opposite.
If you live in a depolitized society, visual IRL agitprop should be as subtle as possible.
Let people specifically looking for political protest see it, let everyone else ignore it and walk by.
But it is just my experience.
You are encouraged to try different things, "measuring" how your social environment would react.
This is the only way to check whether a theory is relevant. If a theorist says one thing, and you observe a different thing, this means the theory doesn't pass reality check.
Simply observing the reality is not enough.
If you need to "measure" it, some kind of intervention is always necessary.
These are just my thoughts, although I can quote Marx's relevant article "Theses On Feuerbach"
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
@artem@social.edist.ro@cybertailor subtility asks of people to be a part of a discourse. practicing visual analogues of secret handshakes can make one feel good, but avoiding audacity means avoiding the audience.
it certainly helps being creative in one’s interventions, but creativity’s not subtility.
also, speaking about being subtle reminded me of Willie G https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-gillis-you-are-not-the-target-audience
@artem when most people are not ready to hear, they won't hear and will take strongly defensive position against shoving politics into their faces
@artem@social.edist.ro@cybertailor so, people are “not ready,” we practice secret handshakes to our own amusement?
@artem@social.edist.ro@cybertailor I am sorry if repeating myself seems rude, but, since you ignored what I said the first time, I thought maybe some parts got lost in the static or something
@artem no, this would be pointless. The question is, how can you understand that people are "ready" without doing anything? When do people not previously involved in politics start to look around instead of just walking by? Without social practice it's impossible to tell.
@artem@social.edist.ro@cybertailor then let one practice it loudly!
Any given tactic is going to alienate some people and draw in others. There is no such thing as a universally well-received action.
then let one practice it loudly
I don't mind. Something that doesn't work in one place can work in another, and vice versa. Every kind of social practice needs to be adapted to a specific social reality.