Why can’t people ~~protest peacefully?~~ shut up and let me live in willful, convenient, ignorance?
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As someone in Minneapolis it's also the most out of touch bullshit to say to people that are just trying to walk to a bus stop or pass some car on their street when it's parked in the middle of the fucking road. It's impossible to not 'interfere' with those shitheads because they think they own the 9 blocks around them
Yep, I've heard all manner of ignorant and anti-social shit along those lines.
"If you don't like it, leave." - From people who bitched and moaned about everything for 2 Obama terms and 1 Biden term.
"Why don't they have jobs? / Why aren't they in church?" - About people out protesting on a Saturday morning.
"This isn't going to accomplish anything." - From people sitting on their computers doing nothing, except claiming they want the same things as me, even though they're not willing to put any effort into anything at all that involves leaving the comfort of their devices' screens.
Yep and also whats your definition of "peacefully" because often people try to frame any disruption of life as "violence" never even mind property destruction.
ITT: People ignoring-concept because of the use of "fck" instead of "fuck"; also others undermining the usefulness of mass-movements without violence
I'm all for offensive-defending, but we aren't quite there yet (but unfortunately close). It's trying to save what we can and take back what we lost. The consequences can be read about later, but for now... fascists are cowards and fear actualization of their own consequence
They'll fight tooth and nail to instill fear of repercussions, because of the fear of their own actions having consequences... cowards — as well as a small minority.
They're afraid of peoples united, so they act-out and terrorize in order to stave-off the people, and defend their own intolerance
It won't be pretty, but it doesn't need to be a blood-bath. "Strong in the real way" is harder for masses to agree on... but that's what the fascist fucks count on. They need fear to survive and control
Fuck Nazi's. (pissant peasants clinging to an idea of power to quell their own self-hatred)
Every proteat over ICE I've seen HAS been peaceful. The only time things get non-peaceful is by ICE. Spraying pepper spray in childrens faces. Slamming elderly face first into pavement. Oh, and would you believe ICE is actually murdering people now? It's true.
Peaceful protest means not pushing back against officers. Peaceful protest means not breaking windows. Peaceful protest means not setting fires or blocking roads. Peaceful protest means not taking a knee before the football game.
Peaceful protest actually seems to mean sit in the corner, shut the fuck up, and do as your told.
Property damage isn't violence. And it's become wild that people equate it as such.
Peaceful protests can include property damage. I think it's entirely valid to obstruct, damage, and impede.
The only people using violence, the ONLY PEOPLE, have been ICE and the police. The only people not being peaceful have been ICE and the police.
The issue is that property damage usually just fucks over the community long term. Cool, you ransacked some corpo shit. Now who's going to be willing to move into that space?
And it never stops at just damage to government and corpo-shit. Go ahead and fuck up your local spaces, but don't be surprised if things don't magically build back better when people don't want to live in places where this sort of shit goes down.
At this point, the administration is treating words as violence.
Sure, but "non violent" is not the same as "peaceful".
Naaaah, LA was peaceful and they set fire to some police cars and a waymo. They didn't hurt anyone.
Sorry if I was unclear, there is no protest peaceful enough for anyone claiming No Kings / Anti-ICE marches are not peaceful. Those types simply don't want protest, full stop.
Oh I see, I agree. The don't want protest because they work. That's why parts of Asia and the Middle East try and stop them by slaughtering them.
I will say though, it's easy to get your point confused with the people trying to start chaos in America by saying peaceful protests aren't enough, that you have to commit suicide by nazi or you don't love your country.
..........really hoping you dropped this: "/s"
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You can say fuck on the internet.
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Even this post mocking the concern trolls is too generous. People are already protesting peacefully - what they want is for you to protest in a manner that won't make them uncomfortable. In other words, where they can ignore it.
Put them on the defensive. Ask MAGAts why they hate freedom when they try and shit talk about protesters.
Can agree this is very effective at shutting them the fuck up. All of them have moved so incredibly far away from even a basic understanding of freedom that it becomes the easiest thing to point out with pretty much every talking point they have.
Freedom is slavery.
The word is "fuck." Lemmy isn't TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, or whatever location you got this habit from. Stop censoring yourself. We know what you're trying to say when you abbreviate it; doing so is complying with the corporate powers and other entities that want to control our language.
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What does she suggest everyone do? Get executed like Alex Pretti for just having a gun on him?
Minnesota fucking rocks and don't belittle how they and LA handled this shitty situation. Fuck, trump had to pull his goons in LA because they didn't get what they wanted.
I'm really worried that it's the people protesting the illegal death squads that aren't peaceful enough
i have a friend who keeps touting the line of "oh they attacked ice first." he's even been spreading j6 denialism too. i absolutely hate this timeline, he wasn't always like this.
You are in control of who you’re friends with. People change, for better or worse.
easier said than done when you've known someone for half your life. i've known some others who have gone way further off the deep end than him. i guess i'm just holding on hoping there's a come to jesus moment.
You know your situation better than a stranger on the internet, but all I can say is that I’ve gone through it with many from my past and I never looked back with regret.
Like cops yelling "Stop Resisting" while they beat you with their batons.
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