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Yes, we were trained how to protest wrong on purpose. Ask any product of the public school system about protest and they'll either look at you confused or start babbling on about the most PG version of MLK and/or Gandhi imaginable. Nonviolence only works when it is understood by all parties to be the alternative. Many forms of effective protest have been outlawed and the owners, in a masterstroke, turned much of society's valid anger (along with a great deal of less-than-valid anger) into self oppression with the MAGA movement and similar movements in other countries.

tldr; we're too stupid to save

Now name all instances where the violent overthrow of a repressive system did not result in it being replaced by another one.

It's high time for a riot.

It doesn't have to by killing people violence though. But just going on a parade isn't doing anything on it's own.

It could work to show how much support a movement has, but you need something to follow up if demands are not met and you actually want something to change.

A strike or blockade isn't violent. Non violent also doesn't mean legal. See how many non violent terrorist pensioners the UK is locking up.

The trolls are heavy with this post. "Americans are cowards." "Pick up a gun and fight."

While I see thier points in relation to this post, they rarely look at America tactically. If I wanted to do a violance, I'd need to know the location of my targets, so I look them up, turns out they move from town to town state to state for mettings and things. Now that I know, my options is to go rogue and independent or gather a group. Too many are tired and exsuasted trying to survive. Many are afraid to loose thier job. Many are afraid to loose thier home... So all that's left is lone actors. I personally have a good reason why I'm not attacking, I have a disease that makes doing any significant travel impossible. Once Americans have a garuentee that violance will give them what they want, then, and only then will violence occur. For all our bravado, we are a risk adverse people, surprisingly.

Violence is always the answer. Plus it makes the best airplanes.

The State only respects power. If you can show the State that you have more power than the State, you can influence the State.

Power isn't just physical violence. There is:

• Economic power, which is show cased through boycotts, strikes, and other means
• Soft power, which is shown through lobbying and other diplomatic means
• Political power, which is shown through the ballot box
• Protest power, which is shown through protests and marches
• Violence, which is how much violence can be afflicted onto the State
• Cultural power, how has the dominant culture

This list is no means exhaustive. Each form of power has a time and place for it.

To be fair, we're perhaps at the most viable moment for nonviolent "passive" revolutions. Our economical system is giant and needs constant growth not to crash, while having a too high inertia to adapt. We only need to make a general strike or a general stop on overconsumption (everyone only buying the very essential, like food and medication) to create enough chaos to take down the ones with power.

Don't believe me? Just look at how desperate corporations and governments get when some sector shrinks a few percent points, or when people reduce consumption of something. Also look at the obsession of monitoring and understanding our consumption habits, especially from younger people, in order to prepare in advance and never go down a single bit.

• What do the last 20 years tell you?
• There is so much surveillance and military power, how does it turn out?
• What are the Black Panthers up to now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_Revolution

You don't need violence to achieve meaningful resistance.

Literally just flash mob to the capitol and stop them from doing anything. They will most definitely use violence to stop us but we literally outnumber them.

Liberals rely on you never reading lol