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Paratroopa1 posted...

In my opinion, the most achievable goal of peaceful protest is to convince the masses of feckless idiots that you're on the right side of history when you eventually get met with violence

This is a pretty good way of putting it. I thought of the Peterloo massacre, in which the initial response was actually much harsher restrictions on freedoms, but ultimately it led to a mass changing of public opinion that eventually resulted in more modern democracy in the UK (it also directly led to the founding of The Guardian). Unfortunately, in modern democracies governments seem to have realised that you can just ignore peaceful protests. With that said, the current US government is not nearly sly enough to do that.

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