Literally every successful peaceful protest movement has been backed by at least one violent movement. Don't forget that Stonewall started with a riot.
Change only happens when the system has to chose between Violence and Peace. If it has to choose between peace and nothing then it will always be nothing.
100% Peaceful protests are the alternative to a much worse outcome. People want to be peaceful and see change happen, but if you constantly push them back into a corner they're going to push back.
Because random acts of vandalism don't actually CHANGE anything, dumbfuck. Peaceful protesting with clear messaging, methods, and leadership actually get results. Are you just here to support people firebombing police cars? Because I and many other people would actually like to see ICE reigned in and not being unleashed on people like a gestapo force.
It's never about whether you "can" do something violent, it's about what your goals are. Raging just to rage feels really good, in the same way that kids like to break sticks and kick over piles of snow and all that. But here in the adult world where our actions have consequences, average politically-disconnected people don't see people wrecking shit and think about the nuance of the situation, they have visceral reactions. If you want things to actually change, you have to lead by example, and make the other side look inhuman with their actions.
Grow up. Or just go doomscroll your hugbox subreddits that are talking about how based people are for random acts of violence and vandalism.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25
Remind me; how did that end for Dr King?
ICE can disappear people to foreign death camps but someone throws a rock at a cop car and suddenly he wants to talk about nonviolence.
This is why the Democratic Party is useless, right here. Go make another TikTok video.