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What about losing people to fear of unsafe protest conditions and incarcerations makes sense to you? All so a few people can get their rocks off like Leroy Jenkins throwing shit at officers? It’s completely counterproductive when we don’t have the numbers to take it all the way.
I’m not taking any of this personally. I’m taking the logistics of it very seriously. This type of half-assed violent resistance is exactly how Hitler chipped away at the population. We cannot be dumber than Trump, especially when we literally have his playbook.
Please read and learn history. As others say they will make up escalations or excuses for violence because the point is to crack skulls and terrify civilians.
Like labour strikes broken up by police, voting rights broken up by police, soldiers camping for their pay broken up by tanks, civil rights protests broken up by police and brutality, Vietnam https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240503-kent-state-university-1970-protests-that-shook-the-us, BLM, and those Protesting against the genocide in gaze.
The only constant is protests are always a risk precisely because those in power are always afraid. Your point should be showing how to prepare not just go how dare those protesters do anything in response to getting upset.
you clearly aren't, again learn history as the Reichstag fire was just the Nazis doing a false flag to make up reasons for escalations and excuses for violence because the point is to crack skulls and terrify civilians.
I’m very familiar with history. What you fail to acknowledge is that our largest nationwide peaceful protest, which will ALWAYS outnumber the violent resistance, was 5M people. That’s 1.5% of our population.
My point of the Reichstag Fire as a metaphor is that Trump is clearly using this to incite us. If the goal was to get criminals first, they wouldn’t have stated in downtown LA. That’s a high profile message. He also chose to use the National Guard before ICE stated it was necessary, over the governor’s head.
I’m sorry you’re too passionate about this topic to see it for what it is, but I will not accept your misguided interpretation of the best strategy for our current situation.
Mate your strategy is do nothing instead of preparing or doing tutorials on how to prepare for violence against protesters.
And as usual ignored everything any other person has pointed out
Protesting and reaching out to the disengaged is the strategy. I’m part of multiple groups that got our protests up to 5M nationwide in just a few months. We’re getting there, but we’re not there yet. Acting on emotions and driving people back into their homes in fear will undo real progress.
But I get it. You have big feelings.
Oh I see, your protest is the only one that matters. Yet I'm the emotional one?
I'm extremely curious which part of this you think is based on emotional.
I don’t follow. I’m in complete support of protest. I’m only condemning violent resistance with less than 1% of our population because of the damage it would do to protesting.
Then spread how to prepare for when the police gets violent towards protesters instead of just saying the national guard should know to stand down
I do, when the conversation isn’t promoting violent resistance.
Ah yes people pointing out how the police are the violent ones using overwhelming force is promoting violent resistance.
There should always be discussions on how to prepare because the police/those in power never hesitate to use it, as evident by ice starting this with running someone over
“They started it” may work in third grade, but not here. Don’t let their violent behavior provoke you. Instead, record and document it, gain a safer position, and continue to protest.
Again way to miss the point.
Maan. Don't be a jerk. It undermines you.
It's okay, they're apparently the only one allowed to talk about protesting. Then again if they're gonna be in a massive one youd think they'd want to work on preparing for how to handle police brutality and retaliation instead of yelling at others to just be peaceful or convince national guard to not go wild on protesters