I hope someone has a way of getting this image (which I screen-grabbed from nokings.org) into Trump’s brain.

Originally Posted By u/FrenchPressYes At 2025-09-27 08:37:15 PM | Source

  • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Oh, yes, I guess you haven’t been at it for long, then.

    Protests are not the only thing going on in social change situations. When speaking about it, you will find people just assume you know about the shitton of other concurrent organizing associated with movements.

    Protests are about building participation as much as threatening the monopoly of power. (Note that smashing store windows is not what threatens that monopoly, that’s usually idiots or provocateurs.)

    Think of protests as foundation, and the civil development of organizations as walls. They also need a unifying idea to cover things, and since anti capitalism is taboo in the USA, that’s where they’re really fucked.

    • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I’m just confused as to how this threatens the monopoly of power without any use of violence?

      • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Better to keep those things, reasonable people upset about things, and power-threatening violence, kind of separate if not surgical.

        There’s a reason fascists send brick throwers into protests. It forces the protesters to cede the high ground, which divides public opinion and is a loss of the primary goal: to grow until you can no longer be ignored.