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That has literally never worked.

ya, one protest a month isn't doing a damn thing.

The time for peaceful protests is over. They clearly aren’t effective. It’s time to raise some hell and make some messes. These people are only bothered by money and disruption, and police coordinated parades do not count as disruption.

I wish you all good weather and a huge turnout. Start planning now to be there.

they are counting on us being peaceful. thats the point you are missing.

Yes, the most useless thing that's a constant historical failure and just so happens to have been framed as useful and the only option by authoritarians as propaganda after the failure of the civil rights movement is clearly the only effective way.

Or random violence against the state , whatever your choice 🤔

what’s the power behind “they can’t” and “it’s illegal”? repeatedly “drawing attention to it” doesn’t equate to enforcement

Talking isn’t enough. If it were, we wouldn’t be in this mess. It’s time to make demands and back them up with tangible actions. (Parades are not effective tangible actions)

they're still gonna do it there's no manager you can call down to fix this

Fuck you. These assholes will not leave quietly. They know that as soon as they are out of power they will be held accountable for the criminal malfeasance and abuse of that power. There will be violence before this ends.

Here’s a thought- maybe read the article before you comment on it?

Yea well now the mfrs are embedded in our government and courts etc

The known solution to fascism is to make fascists scared enough to eat a bullet themselves, or feed it to them.

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No, communism is the only known solution

I’ve been trying…one sign at a time…

And now, what?

This is going to get bloody sooner or later and it needs to. Because it's time to push back or get pushed under. You don't want to live under these people. You hang fascists. Try something else like prison, they'll come right back...

I can think of a solution to authoritarianism that actually worked.

I know of another solution.

Whole lotta people here in these responses eager to call for violent revolution from the comfort of keyboards. Y'all won't show for a peaceful protest and want me to believe you'll be there for a bloody one? You are not serious people.

Ah, the Disney way of dealing with armed murderous fascists.

Yeah, they aren't creeping. They're rolling down the fucking street in armored vehicles.

Forgive my persistence… tell me to fk off! Water off a Duck’s back tbh! A contemporary non-peaceful movement… isn’t that usually younger, less informed and enthusiastically willing humans… perhaps “indoctrinated” by older revolutionary figures (who I add, tend not to get mowed down by authorities)?

Also widespread coordinated boycotts. Target one bad acting company at a time. Bring them all down one by one. They can’t control what we choose to purchase or not purchase.

Wtaf

Disagree. Violence is what he wants to provoke so he can bring martial law or similar. That a pathway to his canceling elections,etc. We need massive peaceful popular protests that convince the gop further support for trump means they are out of power. Then his support erodes

You're playing right in to trump's hand if you don't stay peaceful. That's exactly what he wants. He wants to call a national emergency to call in the troops, cancel elections, martial law, the whole 9 yds. If you think that's where we are, you've not seen nothing yet

Have sign, will protest—I’ll be there!

For peaceful protest to work, non-violence has to be a *choice* the protestors are making It being a choice implies the protestors are willing and able to use violence. If the protestors *cannot* use violence, or predictably won’t use it, then they can be safely ignored

Peaceful protest has never once stopped fascism. It's fake. Total fabrication. Never happened.

I remember when the Nazis were overthrown through broad-based peaceful mass engagement on the beaches of Normandy...

Lyudmila had a solution which worked, but you're not going to like it.

Guns, too. Lots of guns.

What about when it passed the 'creeping' stage some time ago and progressed to the 'stomping' phase?

I’ll be there

National Blackout - Sept 16th thru 20th

how many times have peaceful protests in america actually worked? no, you don't get to claim the civil rights movement, because the other half of it was armed. women's suffrage beat the shit out of people. striking miners fought and died for better conditions. slavery ended because of a war.

Like 50501, no kings has been captured by centrist liberals who would rather see the status quo kept, then actually cause change. People do show up because they believe in the cause. But the goal is making money. Anytime thoughts of actual resistance pops up in discussion, they quash it.

Neat. I have an AKM, 1911, and Mossberg 500. My grandpa took similar tools through North Africa when he was fighting fascists. They worked pretty well at being a solution to living fascists. Very easy "point and click" interface.

Enjoy the rubber bullets.

Chat. Can someone tell me if nepal used peaceful protest to throw out their PM?

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No, that is very historically not what works. What actually works is revolutionary violence.

No police would be a good place to start with them. You won’t overthrow fascism while working with the people enforcing the fascism.

Fascists: Actually its just better to peacefully protest against us. Bo other way to do it! I’m sure if you do it enough we’ll change!

These protests need to be every. Single. Weekend. Bigger and bigger. You think the massive protests in South Korea were every few months? No. They went every weekend. Bigger and bigger.

Burn it down

I’m in

Is that how we stopped the nazis?

The most armed country on earth is trying to fight fascism by mildly inconveniencing exactly no one.

@rollingstone.com LOL peaceful because that is what freed the 13 colonies from the tyranny of George the 3rd. Peaceful is what freed the enslaved people of the south. Peaceful is what stopped the Nazis and Imperial Japanese. Peaceful is NOT the only way to be freed from a tyrant.

yes, peaceful protests are notoriously good at ejecting authoritarian, fascist governments from power. really cool how germans just kept protesting nonviolently until the nazis ceded power back to democratic forces.

"only" is a pretty historically illiterate thing to say

… just remain dwelling in our digital cage of infinite echos, perhaps?!

“You people”… sounding a bit othering there man! 😉 I’m as real as anyone else… my mantra/take on shit, it ain’t for everyone… I get it! What’s your solution?

I disagree with your assertion that; “people who have been telling me …” We don’t have to agree on Jack! That you’re an invested and evidently active opposer of the current US administration… gives me the knowledge I need 🤜🤛 I’m in my 6th decade of existence… people tend not to “tell” me.. I read

You’re from Dayton!! GBV fan?

No… it “doesn’t” have to be peaceful?

Americans are the most pacified and propagandized nation on Earth. Going to the slaughter wearing a silly hat that will make the orange man slightly irritated (it won't)

I’m begging people to read Gene Sharp. On my knees, hands clasped before me, full-on supplication-style begging. www.aeinstein.org/self-liberat...

When has this worked in history? And eveb if you manage to find an example I've got hundred more where it took direct physical action to remove an authoritarian govt. These sorts of people don't go away willingly.

@timdickinson.bsky.social I'm genuinely curious, did MAGA pay you to write this?

This is ahistorical and incorrect. We did not end the Nazi regime by being peaceful with them.

Well, historically speaking, that's flat-out completely wrong.

Counterpoint

Oooh! They’ve got a flag? The fascists will be trembling in their boots🙄 Go watch Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary-series again.

this… this isn’t any kind of solution to authoritarianism.

Peaceful demonstrations are a single tactic in a big playbook. To pretend they are the be-all end-all of resistance is wildly irresponsible.

Thank you for your service 😌

Is there much functional difference at this point?

Agreed. People are too worried about what "could" happen to them in the short-term versus long-term. Yeah, you may lose your job in the short term but in the long term we won't have fascism. To me, that's worth it. Plus, if we end up like WWII they won't have a job anyways cuz we'll be in a war.

Several revolutions would concur with this statement

America was created by the barrel of a gun

Hasn't worked so far, has it?

Still not defeated.

You can vote your way into autocracy. You can’t vote your way out of it.

The revolution will be paywalled.

Well, whoever you’re quoting is wrong

No Masters feel like a fucking psyop

Wrong

This just seems like a way to capture people's energy and make sure it doesn't actually go anywhere

dictatorship of capital be like

do as much as you can

Peaceful protest is how America was formed 🙂‍↕️ The colonists all marched and chanted and didn't let things get out of hand.

"Only", you say? I can think of other, more effective things

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I'm aware. Didn't matter to MAGA on January 6.

This has to be sustained protest over many days, weeks and months. You’re not going to have an impact by doing it every few months. Unfortunately, now many are just trying to survive in a bad economy so who can sacrifice that kind of time?

It takes years to plan the type of mutual aid needed to support workers during an effective general strike. Who is doing that? Are democrats using their power and platform to do this? (No) Are random tiny groups doing no planning but calling for one on the internet? Yes.

Wrong!

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Peace has failed, this is a nation at war with itself. If we don’t start acting like it, we’re going to lose that war.

have they never read a history book lmao

fucking liberal reformers think vigils and vibes are gonna do shit... this permissive attitude is what got you in this mess, you think having a goddamned block party is gonna force regime change? what planet do you live on?