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While voting should be done, it is not always effective/possible. An obvious example to bring up is the suffragist, since they were not allowed to vote. The po

While voting should be done, it is not always effective/possible. An obvious example to bring up is the suffragist, since they were not allowed to vote. The point of protesting in a manner that is truly disruptive is to force the problem to be dealt with. This concept seems to allude many, to them the only acceptable form of protest is one that is entirely ignorable. I’m not sure we would have many of the important freedoms we have today without people choosing to be disruptive in this manner you find unacceptable.

c1sc0 3y ago
Good reading on this is “How to blow up a pipeline by Andreas Malm” … the disruptions we see right now are pretty mild & maybe this preventive detention is an attempt to reel in the more extreme activists before they do something truly disruptive?
rob74 3y ago
"Voting is not always effective" is true especially in Bavaria, where the CSU has perfected populism to the point that they have managed to stay in power basically since the current Federal Republic of Germany exists (with a brief interruption from 1954 to 1957) - if they don't get more than 50% of the Landtag seats, they can pick and choose their coalition partner, and they have already excluded a coalition with the Green party, because other parties (FDP, Freie Wähler) are more pliant.