I’m afraid this fascist lot doesn’t give the tiniest shit about protests. At some point, what needs to happen will have to involve violence, meaning the fuzz - and possibly the army - will have to side with the dissenters, which is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Protest is probably the first step of escalation. It only takes a small tipping point to push things further. Things will have to get pretty uncomfortable for people to be spurred into further action
In at least a couple states, the police have said they won’t follow demands from ICE without a court order. It could be a lot worse. Progress is still progress.
You lack imagination. Or maybe you’re understandably having an anxiety attack about what’s going on. Either way, we don’t have to crab bucket about it.
There are plenty of examples where protest movements have forced the resignation of authoritarian leaders without major acts of violence. So this is not accurate.
Also, the most effective movements violent or nonviolent are large and diverse. So the main actions need to be building the movement first rather than direct confrontation—unless that confrontation is strategically designed to further grow the movement.
Yup. Gene Sharp outlines successful nonviolent action in his book “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” I’m not opposed to violent action, but nonviolent is preferred if possible.
I’m afraid this fascist lot doesn’t give the tiniest shit about protests. At some point, what needs to happen will have to involve violence, meaning the fuzz - and possibly the army - will have to side with the dissenters, which is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
But yeah, it’s a start and that’s something.
Protest is probably the first step of escalation. It only takes a small tipping point to push things further. Things will have to get pretty uncomfortable for people to be spurred into further action
In at least a couple states, the police have said they won’t follow demands from ICE without a court order. It could be a lot worse. Progress is still progress.
I’m not sure how…
You lack imagination. Or maybe you’re understandably having an anxiety attack about what’s going on. Either way, we don’t have to crab bucket about it.
There are plenty of examples where protest movements have forced the resignation of authoritarian leaders without major acts of violence. So this is not accurate.
Also, the most effective movements violent or nonviolent are large and diverse. So the main actions need to be building the movement first rather than direct confrontation—unless that confrontation is strategically designed to further grow the movement.
Yup. Gene Sharp outlines successful nonviolent action in his book “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” I’m not opposed to violent action, but nonviolent is preferred if possible.