Full tweets with context: https://xcancel.com/hasanthehun/status/1932168427470516520
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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I mean, yeah, he was there, being offensively non-violent. That's the point he's making. He knows how easy it is for the authorities to use any sort of physical (and sometimes even just verbal) aggression as an excuse to start to escalate things.
He's not saying "don't protest". He's giving tips on how to.
People please remember there are people actively posting Russian propaganda and trying to divide and break the US even further.
The first fight is against disinformation and propaganda.
Them not caring might mean you don't care, but it doesn't mean people don't care.
There's a reason they "make truth" whatever they want; because they need at least some semblance of justification for wider propaganda. Now which do you think will set off more people, watching cops maze and watercannon people sitting and singing kumbayaa, or using those same tactics on a violent group of people tearing up storefronts?
Which do you think will have a larger impact in motivating the general public? Which is easier to modify into whatever the fuck they want, even if there was justification for rioting? Which will play better for the State when ran in news highlights?
Hmm?
William Randolph *Hearsts, the lot of them