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Yes, protests are the impotent desperate cry of the unheard. I love of the free because, no matter how much corruption, we will not lose that voice of last reso

Yes, protests are the impotent desperate cry of the unheard. I love of the free because, no matter how much corruption, we will not lose that voice of last resort. Millions of us are willing to fight to the death to preserve it.

Dah00n 5y ago
If it doesn't make any difference, why is it important? It seems it is a security valve working directly against the average citizen that is "willing to fight to the death to preserve it". It is there to keep the status quo.
- wolverine876 5y ago
  > If it doesn't make any difference Can you support that? History is filled with protests leading to change. Just looking at 100 years off the top of my head: Women's vote, Gandhi, civil rights, S. Korea, the fall of the Soviet Block, the Arab Spring ...
  - laurent92 5y ago
    As GP said, protests are scenarized. It looks like good protests are successful, but other protests are just delegitimized by inserting violent people in them and not arresting them. In France, countless pictures of pallets of bricks being delivered to demonstration sites in the night before the protest opposed to the leading party, in addition to criminals not being arrested, should at least give you a doubt on how much the “bad vs good” show is artificial. Many legitimate protests from people who actually are minorities in their nations, were put in bad light and you never heard of them.
    - wolverine876 5y ago
      > protests are just delegitimized by inserting violent people in them and not arresting them It's an attempted tactic, though in the US I think by the political opposition (radical neo-reactionaries) and not the government. It has uneven success. > countless pictures of pallets of bricks being delivered to demonstration sites in the night before the protest opposed to the leading party Do we know those pictures were legitimate? Countless pictures on the Internet doesn't mean much. > Many legitimate protests from people who actually are minorities in their nations, were put in bad light and you never heard of them. How do you know?
- bosswipe 5y ago
  We preserve it because we don't want only powerful special interests to be allowed to speak and be heard. We are willing to die for our freedoms because we believe in the idea that we the people are our own rulers and we will fight to keep the power . If it is so useless why does China work so hard to prevent any protest?

Dah00n 5y ago

If it doesn't make any difference, why is it important? It seems it is a security valve working directly against the average citizen that is "willing to fight to the death to preserve it". It is there to keep the status quo.

wolverine876 5y ago
> If it doesn't make any difference Can you support that? History is filled with protests leading to change. Just looking at 100 years off the top of my head: Women's vote, Gandhi, civil rights, S. Korea, the fall of the Soviet Block, the Arab Spring ...
- laurent92 5y ago
  As GP said, protests are scenarized. It looks like good protests are successful, but other protests are just delegitimized by inserting violent people in them and not arresting them. In France, countless pictures of pallets of bricks being delivered to demonstration sites in the night before the protest opposed to the leading party, in addition to criminals not being arrested, should at least give you a doubt on how much the “bad vs good” show is artificial. Many legitimate protests from people who actually are minorities in their nations, were put in bad light and you never heard of them.
  - wolverine876 5y ago
    > protests are just delegitimized by inserting violent people in them and not arresting them It's an attempted tactic, though in the US I think by the political opposition (radical neo-reactionaries) and not the government. It has uneven success. > countless pictures of pallets of bricks being delivered to demonstration sites in the night before the protest opposed to the leading party Do we know those pictures were legitimate? Countless pictures on the Internet doesn't mean much. > Many legitimate protests from people who actually are minorities in their nations, were put in bad light and you never heard of them. How do you know?
bosswipe 5y ago
We preserve it because we don't want only powerful special interests to be allowed to speak and be heard. We are willing to die for our freedoms because we believe in the idea that we the people are our own rulers and we will fight to keep the power . If it is so useless why does China work so hard to prevent any protest?