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  • Shoq 🌿shoq@mastodon.social
    Oct 15, 2026, 12:15 PM

    Respectfully, I find that’s a very romantic notion, but one that is completely counterfactual. I watch a lot of news, national, international, and especially local. I very rarely see that coverage of issues that you claim to. Not until things explode and the press has to cover it for competitive reasons.

    Protests turned violent have created real change far more than peaceful ones ever have. Historical examples abound: Storming the Bastille, the Boston Tea party, Stonewall riots, Soweto, …

    What bull shit. When protests are violent, press reports on violence. When protests are peaceful, press reports on issues. Pay attention.
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  • Shoq 🌿shoq@mastodon.social
    Oct 15, 2026, 12:15 PM

    Suffragette Bombings and Arson campaigns, Homestead strike, Haymarket, Indian Rebellion, Quit India movement, Chicago DNC, Chicago race riots, the Holy Week Riots, Newark & Watts riots.

    And that’s a short list. Google “impact” of any of these to see just how much change came from them.

    Meaningful change has always come from bloody encounters in one form or another. The people who most often disagree are the rich and powerful who are rightly terrified of violence upending their greed, and …

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  • Shoq 🌿shoq@mastodon.social
    Oct 15, 2026, 12:15 PM

    their favorite besties, the advocates of nonviolence who are typically working from deeply suspect datasets.

    I’m not endorsing violence. I’m simply citing the history of its many impacts on society. It’s a lovely aspiration to think that humans can achieve change peacefully. And that should always be the tactic of first resort. But facts are facts. It rarely drives the political action and social change that violence.

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