Every proteat over ICE I've seen HAS been peaceful. The only time things get non-peaceful is by ICE. Spraying pepper spray in childrens faces. Slamming elderly face first into pavement. Oh, and would you believe ICE is actually murdering people now? It's true.

You can say fuck on the internet.

Yep, I've heard all manner of ignorant and anti-social shit along those lines.

"If you don't like it, leave." - From people who bitched and moaned about everything for 2 Obama terms and 1 Biden term.

"Why don't they have jobs? / Why aren't they in church?" - About people out protesting on a Saturday morning.

"This isn't going to accomplish anything." - From people sitting on their computers doing nothing, except claiming they want the same things as me, even though they're not willing to put any effort into anything at all that involves leaving the comfort of their devices' screens.

Put them on the defensive. Ask MAGAts why they hate freedom when they try and shit talk about protesters.

Unfortunately, some people have an intense "don't rock the boat" worldview. I know some people who genuinely think that any kind of protests is "extremist", even if it's protests on worsening cost of living and housing affordability.

As someone in Minneapolis it's also the most out of touch bullshit to say to people that are just trying to walk to a bus stop or pass some car on their street when it's parked in the middle of the fucking road. It's impossible to not 'interfere' with those shitheads because they think they own the 9 blocks around them

Bush II's wars generated the largest peaceful protests of their time. They were ignored.

Even this post mocking the concern trolls is too generous. People are already protesting peacefully - what they want is for you to protest in a manner that won't make them uncomfortable. In other words, where they can ignore it.

The thing they're protesting isn't peaceful.

Yep and also whats your definition of "peacefully" because often people try to frame any disruption of life as "violence" never even mind property destruction.

Just a quick reminder,

Protests are the peaceful alternative. Even "violent" protests are the peaceful alternative.

If you want to see what kind of behavior let to e.g. democracy and protests, think french revolution.

French revolution like stuff is the default. Protests are the mercy of the masses.

I'm really worried that it's the people protesting the illegal death squads that aren't peaceful enough

Why can’t people protest peacefully? shut up and let me live in willful, convenient, ignorance?

What does she suggest everyone do? Get executed like Alex Pretti for just having a gun on him?

Minnesota fucking rocks and don't belittle how they and LA handled this shitty situation. Fuck, trump had to pull his goons in LA because they didn't get what they wanted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail#Summary_and_themes

Like cops yelling "Stop Resisting" while they beat you with their batons.

The word is "fuck." Lemmy isn't TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, or whatever location you got this habit from. Stop censoring yourself. We know what you're trying to say when you abbreviate it; doing so is complying with the corporate powers and other entities that want to control our language.

i have a friend who keeps touting the line of "oh they attacked ice first." he's even been spreading j6 denialism too. i absolutely hate this timeline, he wasn't always like this.

Why couldn't ICE been a little nicer about murdering Renee Good and Alex Pretti?

Fck

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Just say fuck.

ITT: People ignoring-concept because of the use of "fck" instead of "fuck"; also others undermining the usefulness of mass-movements without violence

I'm all for offensive-defending, but we aren't quite there yet (but unfortunately close). It's trying to save what we can and take back what we lost. The consequences can be read about later, but for now... fascists are cowards and fear actualization of their own consequence

They'll fight tooth and nail to instill fear of repercussions, because of the fear of their own actions having consequences... cowards — as well as a small minority.

They're afraid of peoples united, so they act-out and terrorize in order to stave-off the people, and defend their own intolerance

It won't be pretty, but it doesn't need to be a blood-bath. "Strong in the real way" is harder for masses to agree on... but that's what the fascist fucks count on. They need fear to survive and control

Fuck Nazi's. (pissant peasants clinging to an idea of power to quell their own self-hatred)

I go to peaceful protests and I yell at the liberal cucks "why can't you be violent! Kill people now. Condone first degree murder. Commit arson!"

These protests are the fisher price version of what should be really happening.

We are basically fighting organized crime with pool noodles.

Imagine being so absent from reality that you aren't at a point weighing life and death in order to make change for the positive cause.