• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    Understand that it won’t matter. They will find a way to make it fit the narrative and do exactly what they are planning to do, even if this somehow ends up being the most peaceful protest of all time.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      These movements will only be effective with wide public support, though, and if they’re able to loop footage of protesters ‘being violent’, public support will collapse.

      Even when they provoke us, we need to remain as peaceful as possible, not because doing otherwise will incite more violence from them, but because we need it to be obvious that the violence is entirely one-sided and unwarranted.

      They’re already lying about us – we can’t verify their lies.

    • humanamerican@lemmy.zip
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      It still matters. A video of peaceful protestors being abused by cops/soldiers/ICE is powerful, and even with all the corporate media in Trump’s pocket, those types of videos still get seen.