You should be aware if you and your friends want to do the bottom half of the picture, you can organize and go to any of the protests and fuck shit up.
In fact the large side of the crowd is what makes it possible to conduct more disruptive acts. Those people are at best your allies and at worst your sheep providing cover.
A lot of people here don't wanna be shot, so there's that. Police are just looking for any opportunity and with the shithead-in-chiefs blessing.... yeah, they could mow you down with impunity.
And don't forgot many Americans are a single paycheck away from being homeless. An unexpected medical bill can and bill ruin lives here. Oh and then there's the removal of protections--- jailed for protesting, lose your job, congrats now your destitute.
When more and more of us are THERE, then Americans will have no choice
You don't think the people of La Résistance didn't want to get shot or otherwise assaulted by the authorities? You don't think they had their protections or even their rights removed? Unlike the Americans the French had a good idea of how to take care of fascists.
The thing is, none of the people posting these memes are going to "be ungovernable" either.
Any and all resistance is resistance.
Protest. Fuck shit up too.
These things are not mutually exclusive.
While I understand why people protest in the street, it really doesn't do all that much... Perhaps there should be another term we use for large, permitted street gatherings, like an 'awareness campaign' or something.
I thought protests are supposed to be illegal, as you're purposely disobeying a rule to show how ridiculous/unjust it is.
purposely disobeying a rule to show how ridiculous/unjust it is
I think that's civil disobedience, the definition for protest is below:
protest /prə-tĕst′, prō-, prō′tĕst″/
To express a strong objection to (something).
"protest a job assignment."
To participate in a public demonstration in opposition to (something): synonym: object.
Civil disobedience can happen at a protest, but the protest itself isnt the same.
Civil disobedience is the active and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government (or any other authority).