• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I think threats of violence actively detract from the value of protests, its kind of achieving the opposite of its goal when you promote yourself as the enemy of the people you’re asking to change.

    That’s why Fox News displays every protest as a riot, to lessen their effectiveness and to mobilize opposition.

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      19 hours ago

      You’re probably right, must be time to be done with mere “protests”… How do threats of violence affect revolutions?

      Hopefully soon we’re done asking the enemies of the people to play nice

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        19 hours ago

        You should take a gander at how revolutions affect governments.

        (90% chance everything gets worse for at least a century)