Unfortunately, some people have an intense "don't rock the boat" worldview. I know some people who genuinely think that any kind of protests is "extremist", even if it's protests on worsening cost of living and housing affordability.
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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 setting fires. Peaceful protest means not breaking windows. Peaceful protests means not 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.
At this point, the administration is treating words as violence.
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.
Paraphrasing Kimberly Jones of BLM, they're not 'your' local spaces to begin with.
Respect for property starts with equity.
(Note: I do not endorse the censoring in the video, but I couldn't find a complete version.)
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.
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Bush II's wars generated the largest peaceful protests of their time. They were ignored.
What do you mean by “Il’s”
There were two presidents named George Bush. I'm referring to the one who used 9/11 as a pretense to invade the wrong countries and steal their oil.
I think they just wrote 2 like a lunatic. Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003).
I'm referring to the second Bush president.
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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.
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
The thing they're protesting isn't peaceful.
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.
War is peace
Why can’t people ~~protest peacefully?~~ shut up and let me live in willful, convenient, ignorance?
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.
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.
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.
She's not referencing the protesters here.
All the violence has been from the feds. And she's calling out the dogwhistle nazis and troll farms are using to belittle the protests calling them "violent".
I agree, I was corrected in another part of the thread about this.
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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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