Protests that are 100% peaceful and attended by millions of people tend to bring out millions more peaceful, protesting people. Protests involving teargas tend to bring out people who crave an adrenaline rush, which is OK for some, but like peanuts, some ppl are allergic - ThreadSky

skywitches.net • 49 days ago

Protests that are 100% peaceful and attended by millions of people tend to bring out millions more peaceful, protesting people.

Protests involving teargas tend to bring out people who crave an adrenaline rush, which is OK for some, but like peanuts, some ppl are allergic

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drsoup34.bsky.social•49 days ago

Plus, you just know Fox News is going to try to make this as Marxist-Leninist-Antifa stuff funded by Soros and ANTI-AMERICAN!!!!, so having a bunch of polite* gray haired ladies gathered with cringey signs makes their lying even more obvious

drsoup34.bsky.social•49 days ago

*marching around San Pepe today, stopping at red lights, shouting Dump Trump instead of the F*ck Trump I'd prefer, so polite!
😂

sac-rad-edu.bsky.social•49 days ago

Protests that are 100% peaceful are not immune to police violence. Perhaps old white people are immune, but that is a different conversation.

skywitches.net•49 days ago

they also tend to send a message to police, which is “The skirmish line is behind you. Find it”

lisarokusek.bsky.social•49 days ago

I’m less interested in peaceful and more in tune with non-violent protest personally.

I’m most definitely disturbing a lot of things through protest - especially peace and complacency.

skywitches.net•49 days ago

Most people - *even cops* - have a Kindergarten level of morality within them, and most people - *even cops* - can do the basic math of “That’s my nan carrying a protest sign”

hrryan.bsky.social•49 days ago

As long as the nan is white. Important caveat.

janepublicnz.bsky.social•49 days ago

💯 Nonviolent protest is no less effective than violent activism. Turning out and being seen is the point

okayrobot.bsky.social•49 days ago

Your assessment isn’t wrong but it’s important to acknowledge what turns a peaceful protest to a teargas one. There is a long history of events to learn from, a pattern of instigation and manipulation to turn opinion against protesters. These protests are not immune from those tools and we need to

okayrobot.bsky.social•49 days ago

stop falling for the tricks.

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