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Ok, I don't disagree with the spirit of this, but I've never understood how protests are supposed to work.
Step 1) Protest.
Step 2) ??????
Step ???) The bad behavior stops.
Ok, so walk me through the steps, and tell me what I'm missing. I support Luigis method. I've just never seen a protest work, and I'm not even sure what you're aiming for without violence and death.
Even the french revolution didn't immediately solve things, but at least they removed one set of corruption. They just had such a corrupt culture at the time that it bled over to the new guard too.
But please, walk me through this.
Protests can be an implied threat. Consider that when a state is resisted violently, a certain number of people is generally required for that effort to have a shot at success. When protests gain large enough numbers, there's an implication of "we have all these people angry about this thing. Imagine what might happen if they were to stop being peaceful".