Nobody gives a fuck about the Waymo cars, there's kids being ganked by Nazis in masks and the wholesale destruction of our economy, people and way of life. If peaceful people are gonna be disappeared and killed anyway, then we might as well burn the whole goddamn country down.
Peaceful people don’t burn cars.
Again, nobody cares about the cars. I was talking about the women and children, the queers and people of color. The people who's lives were destroyed BEFORE the protest.
Hot take: vandalism is not inherently an act of violence. Burning a self-driving taxi is only hurting Google, unless you adhere to the embarrassing belief that corporations and AI are people.
Peaceful people aren’t treated like rabid dogs by masked thugs without warrants or IDs, either, but here we are. How’s the air up on that high horse you ride, anyway?
Being peaceful is our most powerful weapon.
We were already peaceful. They shot us with tear gas. They took kids from schools. They sent people to concentration camps. What fucking more do you want? Should we just lay there? Listen to yourself.
By engaging in violence you give them the excuse for more tear gas and police beatings. You cannot out-violence the police. Take the tear gas. Take the beatings. And remain standing. Like John Lewis, MLK, and Gandhi before them. If it’s violent revolution you want, you will be on the losing side.
You are wildly mistaken. There has never been a successful revolution that wasn't violent. The civil rights movement was not peaceful. www.amazon.com/This-Nonviol... And Ghandi said "You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere".
Thanks, I’m going to read it.
Right now I’m rereading Gandhi’s “Satyagraha”.
What you want is for nothing to change. Change is disruptive. We’ve been taking this shit for too long. If we take anymore of it, there will be nothing of us left.
I want change as much as you. I just think violence is counterproductive.
If you want change, support those who are risking everything to have it. These people are risking their lives, their wellbeing, their everything.
Then you do not understand how the world works. There is no peace when people are being ripped from their homes. There is no peace when queer and trans people are being murdered, their murderers running free. You know nothing of being a tool of fear. You know nothing.
You’re not entirely wrong, but a staunch refusal to partake or plan for forceful actions leaves a movement toothless. Mlk understood the consequences of a populations peaceful protests being beaten down. While not an advocate: rioting is the voice of the unheard. But yeah cons wont see it as so.
Yes they are. You said so yourself. Violence is their game and they are better at it.
It stopped being peaceful when they started shooting gas into crowds and shooting people point blank with rubber bullets. These people WERE peaceful. Now they have the right to defend themselves, and this IS defending themselves
A riot is the language of the unheard. The world is not black and white. Get a better understanding pf the world.
Fuck off Russ.
Tell cops to not be violent then