• Godric@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Why are you pro-rioting before a massive rally? The regime WANTS a riot so they can engage in massive retaliation. You’re literally doing their work for them, get smart.

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      9 days ago

      The regime is currently kidnapping people off the streets and raiding homes.

      They do not need pretext. They will manufacture their own regardless of what we do. You are arguing that we should not remove the boot that is currently pressed on our neck.

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        9 days ago

        No I am not. I am arguing a disorganized riot accomplishes nothing and turns the boot into a machete. If your enemy wants you to do something, why are you dead-set on doing it?

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          They don’t want us to; they’re perfectly happy killing and kidnapping people without retaliation right now, and know that so long as we never fight back, they can take as long as they want to murder us slowly under the pretext of whatever laws they feel like making up on the spot. We’re slaves with a slim chance to escape our inevitable execution, but you’re so worried about how hard they’ll whip us if we fail that you don’t even want to try until it’s too late.

          The very fact that you’re able to march and feel safe enough to not get murdered outright speaks to how you don’t understand that other people are already being removed from the equation just for walking through a park in Chicago. A significant amount of people aren’t safe enough to leave the house, and you think that we’re going to show them our power by peacefully telling the government that’s bad as if they aren’t aware? When they control the laws and have shown that they willfully change them to suit their agenda, what else will stop them but the fear for their own lives? Who will remove a tyrant from power when all forms of enforcement have already bent the knee to him?

          Protests are to warn the government that we’re mad and might get violent if ignored. We’ve been ignored for long enough.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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      9 days ago

      At this point, we aren’t living under liberal democracy and a peaceful rally is more illegal and dangerous than rioting was. The point is to not demonize the language of the unheard when few states will have free and fair elections next year.

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      9 days ago

      They do want a riot; that’s why they are talking about enacting the Insurrection Act. They want their use of force and illegal tactics to be justified to their base.