What people forget is protests are the civil reminder that we have the numbers.
That’s why armed protests are what matters now. Without visible weapons (full on rifles) numbers don’t matter. Cops have too much “non lethal” equipment that they will quickly resort to.
The only way they won’t instigate violence, is if the people they’re attacking could respond with lethal force as a reaction instead of running away.
I’ve never seen an example of cops instigating violence on an armed group of protestors. And I’m convinced the insistence on no open carry at protests is a psyop.
People leading these movements and enforcing those rules can’t be so fucking stupid they haven’t noticed the only thing that stops cops from turning protests into riots.
To clarify what I think you are saying. You don’t do an “armed protest” by just doing the same thing you’d do at a normal protest + guns.
This is a recipe for chaos and literally just a blank check to the CIA and military to slaughter you before anything is achieved.
Armed protest are not a thing. At least not for the left. When the right brings guns to a protest they are doing it to protect state power. That is allowed.
Arming yourselves and taking actual strategic objectives, having sustainable and multiple routes for resources, and obtainable demands/goals are what are required. You don’t just give a gun to the “no Kings” libs and a expect that to happen or go well for the few that actually join.
The revolution doesn’t happen by a bunch of people storming the capital or white house as the first event. That’s Hollywood shit and it’s why the dumb hogs did it and were allowed to do it.
The revolution ends there. It starts with strategic objectives. Taking over power, transportation, and communication infrastructure, taking over state police and other resources.
The Joes in the military will bomb the capital and everyone in it before they start defending a leftist revolution.
Wow a Lemmy user who actually understands politics? Well I’ll be…
Thanks. Some of us in .ml actually understand what we read and more importantly are able to apply it. Sadly too many that are attracted to revolution like it’s a Hollywood movie. Ironically the same attraction the maga chuds have, but, with at least the correct moral compass.
You need to read more studies on this. You see, that’s how they note this stuff down. And then they take a bunch of them and summarize them. From that, we get phrases like “unarmed protests are usually far more effective”.
When you hear sociologists say things like that, they’re not just making it up!
It’s not too late to storm maralago
insurrectionists
Sorry you got confused. Rectifying the historic record is still under way.
What is that people like to talk about? Vote with your wallet.
I mean, yeah, that seems to be how most oppressed win
