One thing I have been thinking about without really being able to fully come to a conclusion is whether or not peaceful protest is actually better than what we saw last weekend.
I want the answer to be peaceful protest is better but I wonder if it just makes it easier for people to ignore. You even see it in this thread where the posting is something entirely different than what it was last weekend. Last weekend we were all riveted to the scenes. This weekend there have hardly been any posts about the protests.
It makes me wonder. If we are actually wanting to accomplish something is this really the way to do it? And to be clear I am not necessarily talking about burning cities down so much as do something to meaningfully inconvenience the powers that be and their supporters. These protests have been moving to me. The couple hours I spent doing it here was moving to me. But at some point the millions protesting want large scale change. I am struggling to see how this accomplishes that.