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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Not what I said. If protests last long enough and are founded on unsustainable material conditions, the State has failed and protests will become Riots. "Riots are the voice of the unheard," after all.

If you think peacefully asking people to stop being pieces of shit works, then you learned a completely whitewashed version of the Civil Rights Movement. MLK led marches and tried to maintain peace, but alongside the militant Black Panthers there was genuine revolutionary pressure that forced the state to act.