Marx and his permanent revolution.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Did you see what they did to the pool, Mr. B? They flipped the bitch!
Well that can't be right because I read on here that liberals are the worst.
So you're saying someone should do it?
I can name several historic US riots which were not justified.
The Tulsa Massacre of 1921.
The series of riots occurring after the removal of confederate statues in the last decade.
When men marched with torches and firearms after the inauguration of Barack Obama.
During the BLM movement a white couple was charged with Arson of a restaurant as they were trying to delegitimize peaceful protests.
Meanwhile the most successful social movements were not accomplished with violence at all. Women suffrage, equal rights for protected classes, gay marriage, etc. Some movements had a mixture of peace and violence, such as rights to unionize, but far more effective than riots were the affected workers like miners and industrial manufacturers striking.
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riots are not a valid form of protest unless all peaceful means have failed, and then they are far less effective than other non-peaceful methods. riots are what you do when you are too stupid to find a solution.
Right, and protests will make trump think twice? You realise that trump is not the mastermind right
riots dont do anything. calling a riot a protest is just a way to rationalize mindless looting and destruction of innocent people's property. if you think we are in a situation where peaceful means no longer work then organize a real attack that directly hits the people you're mad at. if the situation isn't bad enough for coordinated violence with a real goal then it's not bad enough for violence at all. I don't care about trump specifically and I never mentioned him, what I care about is people ruining good causes to justify mindless destruction and theft. protest if peaceful means are still there, fight if they aren't. riots are neither of these things, they're just idiots breaking things for fun.