• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      So some of the largest protests in the country’s history count as docile now…? No revolution in history has started with the bloodshed, it always escalates (like it is actively doing in the US) and aside from that blindingly obvious historical truth, it’s really weird how attempting to avoid violence is now somehow a societal failing.

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        The GOP has said the next civil war we’ll be bloodless if the left allow it. And that is exactly what is going on. No amount of yelling into the wind is going to do anything to a person or people who don’t follow the rules. But keep thinking it might make a difference.

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          So the use of protests to establish broad community support for a cause won’t make a difference…? That sure seems to contradict every historical example, but you do you.

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      They’re extremely organized and unrelenting. This con has been running since the late seventies at least. It all started because a religious school wanted to be racist and didn’t want to pay taxes. Jerry Falwell noticed that they could turn fundamentalists into angry voters and they just never stopped accumulating power.

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      Americans will spend more energy arguing why revolution is bad, than it would take to revolt and win.