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Peaceful protests across the nation haven't accomplished jack.
Burn a few Teslas to the ground and one of the US's most damaging enemies decides to back off from government.
Shoot a CEO that puts his own greed over human life, and we see other insurers loosen their grip a tad.
...and it goes both ways: carry out an insurrection, claim the presidency.
The system we live in responds exclusively to violence.
We've accomplished a lot, but at the end of the day we're still a bunch of dumb fucking cavemen.
These two options are not mutually exclusive.
Do not make it sound like violence is the only option. Peaceful protests invite the community and nurtures rapport.
I don't believe peaceful protests have been effective since the civil rights era.
I can't legally justify violence.
What's the third option?
They've put a lot of effort into convincing us that it's was only peaceful protests that were effective in the civil rights era. IDK if they were really peaceful but at the time they were certainly called violent.
And the government made sure to make white people genuinely afraid of violence.
They worked because the Black Panthers were standing by with rifles, making it pretty clear what the next step would be if the peaceful protests were ignored as they are today. Today's protests are all bark with no teeth to back to up in case barking doesn't do the trick.
...and barking isn't doing the trick.