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LightningThief posted...

@NoMeLx22x
Your argument is basically demonstrating you don't know how to protest effectively to begin with. You are misconstrueding "Hey, how about not destroying property so the protest doesn't draw in the wrong attention like you know, the authorities. For you to then act surprised destroying of property tends to bring in the authorities to forcefully stop it" to....... "all protests are bad."

All they are doing by storming the building and breaking property is providing low hanging fruit for Newsmax, Fox and the likes to point at them every time Jan6ers are brought up.

What you are protesting becomes background noise, because to no surprise the new topic of discussion becomes about the obvious of the authorities being called to shut it down and violent protestors not cooperating.

The message of the protest gets lost tends to resonate with those who already supported it. You also may not like hearing this, it also hurts those support your cause.

Brother, Fox and Newsmax were already condemning these protests even when they were absolutely peaceful. The message of these protests was already misrepresented by even liberal media before last night.

The fact that you think a protest has to remain perfectly peaceful and docile to have any impact runs counter to almost all protests in history.

As a matter of fact, Ive seen infinitely more people this morning talking about how horrific it is that the police (and the counter protestors at UCLA) were the real violent forces last night. Which is great. It's gotten some people talking about it.