Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh issued a grave warning that the Trump administration is planning to “incite” violence during Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, which he said he expected to be the “largest peaceful protest in American history.”“Trump and his people, they want violence, and they'...
Obviously not; I wouldn’t be posting here if I were. I wouldn’t encourage spontaneous violence at protests either. There’s more ways to have consequences than just violence though. Simply closing off streets in downtown business districts could be part of that, although not sure how doing these on a few hours on a single day on a weekend would contribute do much - still better than what I’m doing with my day. Weekdays would be far more disruptive. Especially since a lot of people would have to skip work to go (of course I’m a hypocrite on this given I’m skipping today because I’m at work). But yeah; I’m a coward who certainly wouldn’t actually commit any violence even if I’m though I think what happened to United’s CEO was cool. And I don’t think many other people have been pushed to the point where they’d consider that a viable option. Nor do I think many people in the US would be willing to be disruptive in other ways (such as general strikes). So I expect things to get worse, regardless of the behavior of protestors today.
Obviously not; I wouldn’t be posting here if I were. I wouldn’t encourage spontaneous violence at protests either. There’s more ways to have consequences than just violence though. Simply closing off streets in downtown business districts could be part of that, although not sure how doing these on a few hours on a single day on a weekend would contribute do much - still better than what I’m doing with my day. Weekdays would be far more disruptive. Especially since a lot of people would have to skip work to go (of course I’m a hypocrite on this given I’m skipping today because I’m at work). But yeah; I’m a coward who certainly wouldn’t actually commit any violence even if I’m though I think what happened to United’s CEO was cool. And I don’t think many other people have been pushed to the point where they’d consider that a viable option. Nor do I think many people in the US would be willing to be disruptive in other ways (such as general strikes). So I expect things to get worse, regardless of the behavior of protestors today.