I mean, yeah, he was there, being offensively non-violent. That’s the point he’s making. He knows how easy it is for the authorities to use any sort of physical (and sometimes even just verbal) aggression as an excuse to start to escalate things.
He’s not saying “don’t protest”. He’s giving tips on how to.
People please remember there are people actively posting Russian propaganda and trying to divide and break the US even further.
The first fight is against disinformation and propaganda.
Dude they don’t give a fuck what the truth is - they call it all violent regardless. He should speak out against their lies, not give credence to them. That’s the point. By saying that crap he’s implying that there is some major violence issue that needs to be addressed before people can be heard. It’s insane to hear this from Sanders.
There are always violent protestors, there is always property damage. It is never 0%. Stop letting the small fraction define the whole.
His recent tour makes this all even more insulting. He sounded like he was actually going to do something.
He’s not giving credence to them. He’s not implying anything, he’s not saying “these protestors are violent.”
He’s just saying we need nonviolent resistance. It’s a call to action, not a condemnation of it. The exact same things that Dr. King said, even while political cartoons like in OP slandered him.
Them not caring might mean you don’t care, but it doesn’t mean people don’t care.
There’s a reason they “make truth” whatever they want; because they need at least some semblance of justification for wider propaganda. Now which do you think will set off more people, watching cops maze and watercannon people sitting and singing kumbayaa, or using those same tactics on a violent group of people tearing up storefronts?
Which do you think will have a larger impact in motivating the general public? Which is easier to modify into whatever the fuck they want, even if there was justification for rioting? Which will play better for the State when ran in news highlights?
You are misrepresenting the situation here/reducing it to a far too simplistic binary.
Hmm?
This is so insufferably and needlessly patronizing that I’m not going to continue this discussion with you. I don’t know what gives you the impression that you can talk to people this way.
“Oh I didn’t realise you were going to challenge my bullshit. From now on, I’ll highroad this whole debate while not being able to address anything said in the previous comments.”
With more respect than you are due, I really could not give less of a shit. Have a good one. Feel free to have a last word, I’m sure it’s very important to you.
using those same tactics on a violent group of people tearing up storefronts?
Even if they don’t show watercannons being used on people actively breaking glass, they’ll show separate footage of the violent and unruly side-by-side in order to implicate the peaceful.
Liberals need to stop pretending as if ‘public perception’ is something protestors have any control over. Yea, by all means, make a point to call for ‘peaceful’ protests. But even when a protest is completely peaceful, corporatized media will find sometimes even completely unrelated footage from a different time with different people, and place it next to images of police violence.
Liberals should be placing every bit of emphasis on the reasons those protestors are demonstrating, not the way they are demonstrating. Conservative media will paint whatever picture they want no matter what, but democrats have to keep on message.
There’s no need to be concerned about “optics” when you’re protesting non-violently. Or do you disagree?
You’re using very definite language with absolutes, as you could always just run b-roll from some 90’s riots as modern stuff. See, I can strawman as well, because obviously there’s going to be material better suited than any news material from the 90’s. However, you’re strawmanning too, pretending that modern news doesn’t have any standards of veracity. I know Fox gives little fucking respect to veracity, but there’s a certain point at which it goes just… absurd. And yeah, even then, some channels will keep doing it. I mean just look at NK television and Russian and Chinese propaganda. It’s utterly ridiculous.
But don’t pretend like that doesn’t matter. It’s much easier to influence people through news when the news actually has credibility, than when you’re knowingly watching shitty deepfakes. Or the news is claiming something about June protests while showing material from the winter or something equally ridiculous.
You need to stop pretending that the media, corporations and the state are some all powerful entities mind-controlling everyone, and you’re the only independent mind.
Liberals should be placing every bit of emphasis on the reasons those protestors are demonstrating, not the way they are demonstrating.
Followed immediately by:
Conservative media will paint whatever picture they want no matter what, but democrats have to keep on message.
But you don’t see that as a contradiction? You’re saying people should stop imagining they can influence anything, but also, they need to be emphasising the reasons for their protests, ie talking, ie communicating their fucking thoughts and needs because violence as a language is not one with a wide vocabulary, ie people need to be emphasising the reasons and not protesting badly. So… we need more discussion and more non-violent protesting, and less distracting violence? Wow. Is there an echo in here?
edit remember that “non-violent” doesn’t mean “dispassionate”
There’s no need to be concerned about “optics” when you’re protesting non-violently.
Begging the question.
It’s much easier to influence people through news when the news actually has credibility, than when you’re knowingly watching shitty deepfakes.
I’m not going to litigate this with you when your chosen example of misleading reporting is deepfakes. I can’t say anything that hasn’t been articulated far better than Noam Chomsky, so I’ll just leave this here. Go argue on behalf of your favorite media choice with him.
You need to stop pretending that the media, corporations and the state are some all powerful entities mind-controlling everyone, and you’re the only independent mind.
They’re not, and I don’t. But it’s an open secret that corporate media seek out examples and footage that evokes the greatest amount of emotion, and cities like LA are huge, with millions of people and dozens of protests happening at any given time. Where one protest, in one location, during one part of the day may be 100% peaceful, another across the city, with different people, at a different time may be violent and unruly. Even if they give both protests an equal amount of air time the next day, which one do you think will leave the larger impression? And which one will be used as justification for escalating police violence?
Uhhh, no, because protestors aren’t the ones being asked to comment on the protests, political commentators are. Very rarely do protestors get to publicly defend their demonstrations and messaging, and even when they are, they don’t get to pick the footage or framing that gets communicated on network reporting. Protestors can’t control public perception
You’re saying people should stop imagining they can influence anything
Lmao, no, what I said was “Liberals need to stop pretending as if ‘public perception’ is something protestors have any control over.” Protestors don’t get to chose how other people characterize their demonstrations or their messaging, nor do they have any control over what other people do at large, city-wide and nationally covered protests. Acknowledging that idiots like you will accept any footage or example of unlawful activity as indicative of the character of the whole demonstration is like saying water is wet.
Especially when we all agree that Trump is a fascist who is actively dissolving democratic checks on his power, the level of urgency should - you would think - drown out any piddling examples of rambunctious demonstrators. If liberals were serious about their stated fears about the end of democracy as they said they were, they wouldn’t be spending so much time complaining about the optics of anti-fascist demonstrations.
I’m not going to litigate this with you when your chosen example of misleading reporting is deepfakes
I explicitly went from a less obvious example, to the most ridiculous one, deepfakes, while explicitly mentioning that’s what I’m doing.
I started reading Chomsky back when he was a linguist, so yeah, I don’t need some youtube shorts about his highlights, and if you can’t be arsed to make an argument, I’m sure as fuck not gonna bother to watch some rando’s videos.
They’re not, and I don’t.
50% correct
“Corporate media wants to twist the truth” isn’t exactly as easy to punch as a strawman, is it? Oh, sorry, I meant “the media can just make the truth whatever they want”.
That’s my point. Your rhetoric is full of naive absolutes and you don’t recognise your own strawmen, while trying to pretend you’re a master debater. (Pun intended.)
Here’s the thing. One of those things is legal, one isn’t. If you want to live in a democracy, with rules, you’d probably agree that the government should reflect the will of the people, and that there should be established rules.
Uhhh, no, because protestors aren’t the ones being asked to comment on the protests, political commentators are.
And which one do you take me for?
“Protestors can’t control public perception”
Remember when I mentioned the “naive absolutes”?
This is one of them. You genuinely think there’s some hegemonic entity called “media” do you? ‘There’s no such thing as independent media in the US’, that’s literally what you’re arguing. Because if there is independent media, then yes, absolutely protestors CAN control public perception. The control is limited, yes, but to argue it’s non-existent is literally to argue there’s some hegemonic entity controlling it all. Which is kinda childish.
Especially when we all agree that Trump is a fascist who is actively dissolving democratic checks on his power
Again, a naive absolute. If you all actually agreed, then he wouldn’t be in power in the first place, ffs. You feel like everyone agreed, because everyone you interact with seems to agree.
I’m not complaining about any perceived optics, as I keep repeating. Rather, I’m actually reiterating Bernie’s point, and again, it is not to complain about any optics. It’s to instruct on the best approach to protesting.
You can tie up police resources without being violent or breaking the law. It will come at personal cost, but it the best way to approach this increasingly shitty situation. If you give in to the (justified) wrath and start acting like a fucking animal, then Trump gets what he wants; justification. If you don’t give it, he will probably try manufacturing it anyway, but why the fuck would you want to make his life easier by giving it to him?
Neither, you’re the one attributing protestors with the optics of their demonstration. I’m saying that even a perfectly peaceful protest can be implicated with a violent one down the street or later in the day.
If you all actually agreed, then he wouldn’t be in power in the first place, ffs. You feel like everyone agreed, because everyone you interact with seems to agree
A strange semantic injection to what was clearly a reference to ‘we’, the people protesting against him. Am I wrong in assuming you agree?
You can tie up police resources without being violent or breaking the law
Two things:
-you can also not break the law and still be implicated in other people breaking the law
-we have a “moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”
If you don’t give it, he will probably try manufacturing it anyway, but why the fuck would you want to make his life easier by giving it to him?
Because knowing you could be killed or deported to a prison in El Salvador and demonstrating against a fascist anyway sends a far more potent message than obediently staying out of the street or dispersing your demonstration when the police give the order for you to. I’m not advocating people throw shit at the police or light cars on fire, I’m saying that even those small acts of rebellion pale in comparison to a tyrant illegally deploying the US military on US soil against civilians. And complaining about minor vandalism when the US is slipping into an actual dictatorship is a little lopsided, if not entirely suspect. Would it be preferable for there not to be disorder? Certainly. Does the presence of disorder invalidate the urgency or cause for protest? Absolutely not. And expecting perfect order when the community that’s protesting has been under actual assault from ICE agents abducting their friends and family is twofaced.
The problem isn’t protestors being disorderly, the problem is the tyrant in power who is actively eroding what little democratic checks on his power are left. And now I’ll remind you that Trump has already granted himself immunity from constitutional limitations by making spurious claims of ‘invasion’ at no fault to any of these people who are now being forcibly removed and sent to known torture prisons. He will take whatever power he wants regardless of how much people kick and scream in response. The fact that you’d rather chastise those people fighting against it than amplify the opposition to the tyrant they’re responding to says all I need to know about you.
You’re still saying, explicitly, that I’m doing something that I explicitly said you’ve misunderstood, and I am not doing, and then pointed out the reasons. This isn’t about the optics of anything. It’s about how you’re gonna protest.
“We have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”
That’s sort of very strongly included in the concept of civil disobedience, which I have advocated for in this thread several times, but I can understand missing that implication if you’re not familiar with the concept. Do you think laws that are against violence against other people are inherently unjust, so one should break them? Or which laws specifically are you talking about? Or are you talking about the right to protest? Because yes. That is indeed important. “You should emphasise the reason for these protests, more than complaining about how” I heard someone saying recently. You have the right to protest, and should they try to take it away from you, you have a moral duty to oppose that. But you don’t have a moral duty to violently riot just because. That’s what I keep iterating. THIS ISN’T ABOUT ANY ‘OPTICS’. This is about how to protest.
Because knowing you could be killed or deported to a prison in El Salvador and demonstrating against a fascist anyway
What are you talking about? Remember how you just argued that the protestors don’t actually get to influence how they’re perceived? Then why the fuck would you choose to do violence on people and make it easier for them to enact their bullshit on you, when you can try non-violent protests to begin with? You can go on the street to protest without throwing stones in windows, you know? Throwing stones in windows makes you a worse person, not a better one.
He will take whatever power he wants regardless of how much people kick and scream in response.
Ah yes, “don’t do anything because you can’t do anything since there’s nothing to be done it’s all been done already by the giant absolute hegemony who’s absolute and who can’t be influenced in any way just give up”. Remember those childish absolutes I keep mentioning? This is very much your central theme through-out your messages. “Give into apathy, you won’t win anyway.”
No-one has “chastised” anyone. I’m just schooling you.
You don’t know how the MLK Jr. protests actually operated.
Pick up a fucking book about it.
It was a very complex organized effort centered around litigation, and peaceful protesting protected all the people participating in it.
Civil disobedience is far more powerful than any violent resistance, because it plays against the fascists’ narrative. There will be a lot of causalities, a lot of pain and sadness, but the more people participate in peaceful protests, the more it raises awareness and grinds the machine to a halt.
There is no economy if the laborers don’t participate in it.
You have no idea how much I’ve read about the civil rights movement as a whole.
Fascists don’t need anyone to play into their narrative. They will create it by any means necessary knowing that even if it’s complete bullshit most will do fuck all about it.
In this country things will be way too far gone before you get enough people to participate to grind the economy to a halt. Some of y’all have way too much faith in your fellow American to do what’s right.
I doubt that, because you are falling for the fascist playbook.
A) They can make up whatever narrative, but they do need others to play into it because otherwise they just look insane and fascists are incredibly sensitive to mockery.
B) If you choose violent resistance, it will alienate your fellow Americans unless you can completely protect them from your actions (like Lūîgï).
C) It takes a really long time for a complacent nation to be convinced that it is worth joining a cause. You need a lot of charismatic and intelligent leaders to convince them, like Bernie, AOC, David, Jasmine, Frost, etc.
Without Gandhi, without MLK, without Malcolm X, there wouldn’t have been any protests to turn violent. It’d be incredibly willfully ignorant to claim that protesting and civil disobedience don’t matter. So stupid, I might even make me suspicious of whether one can — in good faith — be that ignorant.
Whatever I say, you’re gonna just write a childish “nuh-uh” reply, so I don’t think there’s anything you can write that’s even of remote interest to me.
I mean, yeah, he was there, being offensively non-violent. That’s the point he’s making. He knows how easy it is for the authorities to use any sort of physical (and sometimes even just verbal) aggression as an excuse to start to escalate things.
He’s not saying “don’t protest”. He’s giving tips on how to.
People please remember there are people actively posting Russian propaganda and trying to divide and break the US even further.
The first fight is against disinformation and propaganda.
Dude they don’t give a fuck what the truth is - they call it all violent regardless. He should speak out against their lies, not give credence to them. That’s the point. By saying that crap he’s implying that there is some major violence issue that needs to be addressed before people can be heard. It’s insane to hear this from Sanders.
There are always violent protestors, there is always property damage. It is never 0%. Stop letting the small fraction define the whole.
His recent tour makes this all even more insulting. He sounded like he was actually going to do something.
He’s not giving credence to them. He’s not implying anything, he’s not saying “these protestors are violent.”
He’s just saying we need nonviolent resistance. It’s a call to action, not a condemnation of it. The exact same things that Dr. King said, even while political cartoons like in OP slandered him.
Them not caring might mean you don’t care, but it doesn’t mean people don’t care.
There’s a reason they “make truth” whatever they want; because they need at least some semblance of justification for wider propaganda. Now which do you think will set off more people, watching cops maze and watercannon people sitting and singing kumbayaa, or using those same tactics on a violent group of people tearing up storefronts?
Which do you think will have a larger impact in motivating the general public? Which is easier to modify into whatever the fuck they want, even if there was justification for rioting? Which will play better for the State when ran in news highlights?
Hmm?
William Randolph *Hearsts, the lot of them
You are misrepresenting the situation here/reducing it to a far too simplistic binary.
This is so insufferably and needlessly patronizing that I’m not going to continue this discussion with you. I don’t know what gives you the impression that you can talk to people this way.
“Oh I didn’t realise you were going to challenge my bullshit. From now on, I’ll highroad this whole debate while not being able to address anything said in the previous comments.”
A rather gross misuse of “needlessly”.
With more respect than you are due, I really could not give less of a shit. Have a good one. Feel free to have a last word, I’m sure it’s very important to you.
Aaaand there’s the highroading and ignoring of the actual arguments. Like always.
Zzzzzzz
Even if they don’t show watercannons being used on people actively breaking glass, they’ll show separate footage of the violent and unruly side-by-side in order to implicate the peaceful.
Liberals need to stop pretending as if ‘public perception’ is something protestors have any control over. Yea, by all means, make a point to call for ‘peaceful’ protests. But even when a protest is completely peaceful, corporatized media will find sometimes even completely unrelated footage from a different time with different people, and place it next to images of police violence.
Liberals should be placing every bit of emphasis on the reasons those protestors are demonstrating, not the way they are demonstrating. Conservative media will paint whatever picture they want no matter what, but democrats have to keep on message.
Stop concern trolling about optics.
There’s no need to be concerned about “optics” when you’re protesting non-violently. Or do you disagree?
You’re using very definite language with absolutes, as you could always just run b-roll from some 90’s riots as modern stuff. See, I can strawman as well, because obviously there’s going to be material better suited than any news material from the 90’s. However, you’re strawmanning too, pretending that modern news doesn’t have any standards of veracity. I know Fox gives little fucking respect to veracity, but there’s a certain point at which it goes just… absurd. And yeah, even then, some channels will keep doing it. I mean just look at NK television and Russian and Chinese propaganda. It’s utterly ridiculous.
But don’t pretend like that doesn’t matter. It’s much easier to influence people through news when the news actually has credibility, than when you’re knowingly watching shitty deepfakes. Or the news is claiming something about June protests while showing material from the winter or something equally ridiculous.
You need to stop pretending that the media, corporations and the state are some all powerful entities mind-controlling everyone, and you’re the only independent mind.
Followed immediately by:
But you don’t see that as a contradiction? You’re saying people should stop imagining they can influence anything, but also, they need to be emphasising the reasons for their protests, ie talking, ie communicating their fucking thoughts and needs because violence as a language is not one with a wide vocabulary, ie people need to be emphasising the reasons and not protesting badly. So… we need more discussion and more non-violent protesting, and less distracting violence? Wow. Is there an echo in here?
edit remember that “non-violent” doesn’t mean “dispassionate”
Begging the question.
I’m not going to litigate this with you when your chosen example of misleading reporting is deepfakes. I can’t say anything that hasn’t been articulated far better than Noam Chomsky, so I’ll just leave this here. Go argue on behalf of your favorite media choice with him.
They’re not, and I don’t. But it’s an open secret that corporate media seek out examples and footage that evokes the greatest amount of emotion, and cities like LA are huge, with millions of people and dozens of protests happening at any given time. Where one protest, in one location, during one part of the day may be 100% peaceful, another across the city, with different people, at a different time may be violent and unruly. Even if they give both protests an equal amount of air time the next day, which one do you think will leave the larger impression? And which one will be used as justification for escalating police violence?
Nevermind that they absolutely have been known to shown footage from unrelated events before.
Uhhh, no, because protestors aren’t the ones being asked to comment on the protests, political commentators are. Very rarely do protestors get to publicly defend their demonstrations and messaging, and even when they are, they don’t get to pick the footage or framing that gets communicated on network reporting. Protestors can’t control public perception
Lmao, no, what I said was “Liberals need to stop pretending as if ‘public perception’ is something protestors have any control over.” Protestors don’t get to chose how other people characterize their demonstrations or their messaging, nor do they have any control over what other people do at large, city-wide and nationally covered protests. Acknowledging that idiots like you will accept any footage or example of unlawful activity as indicative of the character of the whole demonstration is like saying water is wet.
Especially when we all agree that Trump is a fascist who is actively dissolving democratic checks on his power, the level of urgency should - you would think - drown out any piddling examples of rambunctious demonstrators. If liberals were serious about their stated fears about the end of democracy as they said they were, they wouldn’t be spending so much time complaining about the optics of anti-fascist demonstrations.
I explicitly went from a less obvious example, to the most ridiculous one, deepfakes, while explicitly mentioning that’s what I’m doing.
I started reading Chomsky back when he was a linguist, so yeah, I don’t need some youtube shorts about his highlights, and if you can’t be arsed to make an argument, I’m sure as fuck not gonna bother to watch some rando’s videos.
50% correct
“Corporate media wants to twist the truth” isn’t exactly as easy to punch as a strawman, is it? Oh, sorry, I meant “the media can just make the truth whatever they want”.
That’s my point. Your rhetoric is full of naive absolutes and you don’t recognise your own strawmen, while trying to pretend you’re a master debater. (Pun intended.)
Here’s the thing. One of those things is legal, one isn’t. If you want to live in a democracy, with rules, you’d probably agree that the government should reflect the will of the people, and that there should be established rules.
If not, then go watch this
And which one do you take me for?
“Protestors can’t control public perception”
Remember when I mentioned the “naive absolutes”?
This is one of them. You genuinely think there’s some hegemonic entity called “media” do you? ‘There’s no such thing as independent media in the US’, that’s literally what you’re arguing. Because if there is independent media, then yes, absolutely protestors CAN control public perception. The control is limited, yes, but to argue it’s non-existent is literally to argue there’s some hegemonic entity controlling it all. Which is kinda childish.
Again, a naive absolute. If you all actually agreed, then he wouldn’t be in power in the first place, ffs. You feel like everyone agreed, because everyone you interact with seems to agree.
I’m not complaining about any perceived optics, as I keep repeating. Rather, I’m actually reiterating Bernie’s point, and again, it is not to complain about any optics. It’s to instruct on the best approach to protesting.
You can tie up police resources without being violent or breaking the law. It will come at personal cost, but it the best way to approach this increasingly shitty situation. If you give in to the (justified) wrath and start acting like a fucking animal, then Trump gets what he wants; justification. If you don’t give it, he will probably try manufacturing it anyway, but why the fuck would you want to make his life easier by giving it to him?
Neither, you’re the one attributing protestors with the optics of their demonstration. I’m saying that even a perfectly peaceful protest can be implicated with a violent one down the street or later in the day.
A strange semantic injection to what was clearly a reference to ‘we’, the people protesting against him. Am I wrong in assuming you agree?
Two things: -you can also not break the law and still be implicated in other people breaking the law -we have a “moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”
Because knowing you could be killed or deported to a prison in El Salvador and demonstrating against a fascist anyway sends a far more potent message than obediently staying out of the street or dispersing your demonstration when the police give the order for you to. I’m not advocating people throw shit at the police or light cars on fire, I’m saying that even those small acts of rebellion pale in comparison to a tyrant illegally deploying the US military on US soil against civilians. And complaining about minor vandalism when the US is slipping into an actual dictatorship is a little lopsided, if not entirely suspect. Would it be preferable for there not to be disorder? Certainly. Does the presence of disorder invalidate the urgency or cause for protest? Absolutely not. And expecting perfect order when the community that’s protesting has been under actual assault from ICE agents abducting their friends and family is twofaced.
The problem isn’t protestors being disorderly, the problem is the tyrant in power who is actively eroding what little democratic checks on his power are left. And now I’ll remind you that Trump has already granted himself immunity from constitutional limitations by making spurious claims of ‘invasion’ at no fault to any of these people who are now being forcibly removed and sent to known torture prisons. He will take whatever power he wants regardless of how much people kick and scream in response. The fact that you’d rather chastise those people fighting against it than amplify the opposition to the tyrant they’re responding to says all I need to know about you.
You’re still saying, explicitly, that I’m doing something that I explicitly said you’ve misunderstood, and I am not doing, and then pointed out the reasons. This isn’t about the optics of anything. It’s about how you’re gonna protest.
“We have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”
That’s sort of very strongly included in the concept of civil disobedience, which I have advocated for in this thread several times, but I can understand missing that implication if you’re not familiar with the concept. Do you think laws that are against violence against other people are inherently unjust, so one should break them? Or which laws specifically are you talking about? Or are you talking about the right to protest? Because yes. That is indeed important. “You should emphasise the reason for these protests, more than complaining about how” I heard someone saying recently. You have the right to protest, and should they try to take it away from you, you have a moral duty to oppose that. But you don’t have a moral duty to violently riot just because. That’s what I keep iterating. THIS ISN’T ABOUT ANY ‘OPTICS’. This is about how to protest.
What are you talking about? Remember how you just argued that the protestors don’t actually get to influence how they’re perceived? Then why the fuck would you choose to do violence on people and make it easier for them to enact their bullshit on you, when you can try non-violent protests to begin with? You can go on the street to protest without throwing stones in windows, you know? Throwing stones in windows makes you a worse person, not a better one.
Ah yes, “don’t do anything because you can’t do anything since there’s nothing to be done it’s all been done already by the giant absolute hegemony who’s absolute and who can’t be influenced in any way just give up”. Remember those childish absolutes I keep mentioning? This is very much your central theme through-out your messages. “Give into apathy, you won’t win anyway.”
No-one has “chastised” anyone. I’m just schooling you.
Yeah, defeat fascism with a witty sign and a good chant! Law enforcement will NEVER escalate if you don’t!
This is the problem, right here:
You don’t know how the MLK Jr. protests actually operated.
Pick up a fucking book about it.
It was a very complex organized effort centered around litigation, and peaceful protesting protected all the people participating in it.
Civil disobedience is far more powerful than any violent resistance, because it plays against the fascists’ narrative. There will be a lot of causalities, a lot of pain and sadness, but the more people participate in peaceful protests, the more it raises awareness and grinds the machine to a halt.
There is no economy if the laborers don’t participate in it.
You have no idea how much I’ve read about the civil rights movement as a whole.
Fascists don’t need anyone to play into their narrative. They will create it by any means necessary knowing that even if it’s complete bullshit most will do fuck all about it.
In this country things will be way too far gone before you get enough people to participate to grind the economy to a halt. Some of y’all have way too much faith in your fellow American to do what’s right.
I doubt that, because you are falling for the fascist playbook.
A) They can make up whatever narrative, but they do need others to play into it because otherwise they just look insane and fascists are incredibly sensitive to mockery.
B) If you choose violent resistance, it will alienate your fellow Americans unless you can completely protect them from your actions (like Lūîgï).
C) It takes a really long time for a complacent nation to be convinced that it is worth joining a cause. You need a lot of charismatic and intelligent leaders to convince them, like Bernie, AOC, David, Jasmine, Frost, etc.
Read. A. Fucking. Book.
ReAd A fUcKiNg BoOk
If someone told me I needed to read a book about a subject in order to educate myself about the facts, I would ask:
“What books would you recommend?”
Because I actually like challenging my ideas.
Is your supposedly sarky comment supposed to imply peaceful protests are less effective than, idk, all out war, or whatever the fuck you’re proposing?
Non-violence and civil disobedience are where it’s at, and exactly what Sanders did in that image and what he is advocating now.
You’re not familiar with a guy called Gandhi, I take it.
Ghadi wouldn’t have done shit with out the violent movements going on at the same time.
Without Gandhi, without MLK, without Malcolm X, there wouldn’t have been any protests to turn violent. It’d be incredibly willfully ignorant to claim that protesting and civil disobedience don’t matter. So stupid, I might even make me suspicious of whether one can — in good faith — be that ignorant.
So go read a history book, you’re boring me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance
Whatever I say, you’re gonna just write a childish “nuh-uh” reply, so I don’t think there’s anything you can write that’s even of remote interest to me.
The audacity lol
Ah yes, the reply without anything to say.
Like I said, there’s nothing you could say that would be remotely interesting to me. Guess I was right.
I don’t care to entertain a dull mind.
And whys would you try something you know you’ll fail at, completely understandable buddy.
You couldn’t hack it with the conversation and now you’ve just ignored it completely, because again, you need to go read some history.