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Peaceful protests are more likely to succeed and no peaceful protest that drew in 3.5 percent or more of the population has ever failed.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Once you use violence, they will use that to justify using violence and putting down the movement.
You want to win people’s hearts and minds. You do that by being peaceful. Your opponent will make a mistake, but you stay peaceful. Remember MLK Jr.’s successes.
Edit: downvotes, sorry that history and facts don’t support your view of things. But, don’t do violence and damage the movement for the rest of us.
And surely the people who lie about everything wouldn't lie about violence happening anyway to justify using violence...
They'll have some infiltrators with the protestors trying to whip up some raw emotions and instigate violence. The move against that is beating the crap out of anybody talking violence.
How nice of you to suppress yourselves in order to save the administration the effort of having to do so.
It does not matter what you do, they will call you violent and treat you as such. I don't know if Lemmy has an actual community for the extreme right MAGAs, but go look at the Reddit r/conservative community on any day and see how many posts are calling the current protest violent. Reality has a Liberal bias so they do not care what it says, they will listen chronic liars that tell them what they want to believe is true.
Edit: https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-trump-fake-protest-images-2085492