Peaceful protests do NOTHING against a government that disregards laws and instead writes their own to allow selective tyranny against any political dissidents.
They hear you talking (and only talking), shrug, make up a BS law, march their thugs in to haul you away, then go back to what they were doing as if they were shaking off a gnat that landed on their shoulder.
Then why do they crack down so hard on them?
They would be ignored if they were doing nothing.
Because they’re a nuisance and if they grow, there could be eventual trouble. They stop them BEFORE they become something actually dangerous to their control.
But they fight passiveness with oppression and violence and suffer zero consequences.
They hear the protest, mow it down, continue unmitigated business as usual furthering their agendas virtually uncontested.
Then the proper response is to allow the peaceful protests grow, and that can't happen if you make them violent.
Only after the government gets violent does it make sense to respond in kind.
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