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Peaceful protests actually work better, but requires actual action not just sitting at home and upvoting shit.
Poland was able to overthrow authoritarian regime via peaceful protests, general strikes. Yes, at moments they turned violent, but it is because the government escalated it.
We don't want this administration to use protest's violence to be used to consolidate their power, instead we want the violence caused by the government to encourage more people to join protests. It is more of us than them, we actually have more power and it is a matter of everyone realizing this.
I encourage everyone to take Resistance Lab training: https://www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistance-lab
The admin will arrest innocent citizens and declare martial law no matter what we do.
Fight back
It is much harder to get a buy in from general population that arrests and natural law was necessary if the protests are peaceful.
Escalation caused by the government motivates more people to join the protest. While of protest was violent from the start more people will be against it and will avoid being part of it.
Another example, Ukrainian orange revolution and Euromaidan. It was started by students (BTW this is why trump attacks students) and as the government started being violent, made other Ukrainians join.
"People are afraid of opposing the police state because the police state oppresses them" is not an endorsement of peaceful protest.