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The George Floyd protests ABSOLUTELY did something, don't believe that bullshit. Primarily what they achieved was to publicly demonstrate to anyone that was still paying attention (most especially internationally) and unsure of whether the police state in the US was dangerous or not, that yes in fact the police state had such a strangle hold over power that effectively nowhere in the U.S. actually changed policy despite MASSIVE popular support.
The George Floyd protests changed how people in the US think about their country, their communities, it obliterated the old Overton window and got people to stand up and not tolerate being treated like shit.
Don't let cynics spit on that protest, all you have to do is look at the ferocity and more importantly complete saturation of police state/neoliberal blowback from the George Floyd protests in terms of what actions and policies were actually enacted by government at all levels to see the idea that conservatives in the U.S. would ever allow for any material change is an illusion. There are a few exceptions, but the fact that they are exceptions speaks volumes to how fucking cooked the U.S is.
If you want to know why leftists in the U.S. hate centrists/neoliberals with such passion, it is because they played a crucial role in maintaining that illusion by being incompetent losers who never really wanted to win if it meant addressing the actual issues at hand, they set the table for fascism and then gleefully swung the doors wide. If you want to know why leftists in the U.S. make fun of centrists/neoliberals with such unrelenting glee it is because one of the only silver linings here is how funny this is, neoliberals are like the second tier fool in a comedy who is even more pathetic than the fool because they take so much pride in not quiteee being the biggest fool.
No, the George Floyd protests achieved a strategic success that doesn't have to do with material gains or losses or having any degree of leverage on the status quo power structure at all (which in the U.S., the left doesn't), it changed the hearts and minds of people all over the U.S. to a truly massive degree, that is backed up by polling and changing attitudes towards issues, as well as a rise in awareness of issues where previously a lot of people unconnected to police violence were comfortable ignoring it and letting it happen.
The George Floyd protests changed so much, and were so large that any honest account of U.S. history will surely locate them as a watershed moment in U.S. culture, that both spoke to the desperation of the moment but also of the future to come.