Anonymous #1 2w

What is one person supposed to do vs several thousand?

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Anonymous OP 2w

You can’t talk shit about the people going out and protesting when you aren’t. That’s all I’m saying. Protesting *is* doing more than you are.

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Anonymous #1 2w

Thousands of people “peacefully protesting” and me sitting at home have the exact same effect on the material reality.

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Anonymous OP 2w

Protests legitimately help change policy outcomes😭 A Harvard study (Chenoweth) looked at hundreds of protests over the last century, and found that “There weren’t any campaigns that had failed after they had achieved 3.5% participation during a peak event,” termed the 3.5% rule. Large-scale nonviolent protests statistically increase the likelihood of political change.

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Anonymous #3 2w

How many of those protests turned into or were proceeded by violent civil unrest lol

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Anonymous #2 2w

The feds watching people dress up in frog suits and dance in front of ICE buildings:

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Anonymous OP 2w

is this the extent of your political position regarding protests? memes about feds laughing at people? you realize protests are where the majority of organizing starts, right? you realize protests have a massive influence on local economies, infrastructure, and public goods and services? you realize peaceful protests brought about some of the most revolutionary civil rights changes in US history? jfc the education system should've left you behind

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Anonymous OP 2w

if you think protests are themselves supposed to be the event that directly causes change you're a helpless buffoon who was failed repeatedly during your early education. they are a form of organizing and exercising speech to signal to others who may want more that there is support. go fed post elsewhere nerd

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Anonymous #2 2w

I’m educated enough to understand that peaceful protests and pacifism isn’t how the civil rights movement actually gained traction. the only reason gay people have SOME civil liberties is because patrons of the stonewall inn got tired of the police raiding their bar and beating the shit out of them. the stonewall riots were six days of civil unrest and violence. maybe you outta pick up a book before lecturing others on the history of “peaceful protests”, you spineless snide liberal shithead

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Anonymous OP 2w

yes it fucking is you smarmy couch potato tw@t. you clearly do not understand effective escalation and diversity of tactics. peaceful LGBTQ advocacy and protest had been going on for MONTHS before stonewall happened. had that not been the case, there wouldn't have been the extreme tension that made stonewall the powder keg that it was and it never would've popped off. same for civil rights. same for virtually every revolution

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Anonymous OP 2w

you HAVE to have peaceful activism to build a base and support. that way when you inevitably encounter violent suppression you have hoards of people who will show up because they relate, sympathize, and consider themselves a member of the targeted group - be it activists, queer folk, black folk, etc.

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Anonymous OP 2w

your politic is absolutely useless. sitting on your lazy ass and fedposting is so incredibly pathetic and disgusting. you've done absolutely nothing for anybody with this post and i'd bet youve done nothing in general. spare me

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Anonymous OP 2w

the world will be a better place when conceited dipwads like you learn to either shut the fvck up or actually do something other than b!tch and whine about what everybody else is/nt doing. you are part of the problem. you're not a revolutionary. you're a bitter, reductive dodo with too much free time

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