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Bernie the sheepdog (and suspiciously many social media posts like this one are doing their best to make it as harmless as possible.
Even in the comments the feds are busy: https://lemmy.world/post/31384291/17679569
The 'author': https://inthesetimes.com/article/wikileaks-docs-expose-famed-serbian-activists-ties-to-shadow-cia
You know the sheep are being good when you see posts like this:
Just yesterday there was a post in TIL which was reasonably high in All were somebody said stuff like how they had learned that "non-violent demonstrations are more successful than violent ones" and "any demonstration with 3.5% or more of the population succeeds" which turned out to be complete total bullshit.
Of course, this was a lemmy.world poster.
Even in Lemmy, there are quite a lot of propaganda sock-puppets tasked with herding people into only getting angry at each other, foreigners or meaningless puppets: the "lefties not voting caused Trump to win" sock-puppet posts are almost tradition nowadays, as are the "Russia cause Trump to win" ones, not to mention the endless reactive posts to whatever mindless inanity Republicans are saying this weel to rage-bait the loudest sheeple) and doing the kind of actions which won't threaten the real powers.
Mind you, at least the technique of calling for people to "sign an online petition" I saw so often deployed in the UK to disperse people's righteous anger with a totally meaningless and innefective action isn't being used on Americans yet.
They based that on a study https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240678278_Why_Civil_Resistance_Works_The_Strategic_Logic_of_Nonviolent_Conflict
And from what it seems they worked backwards from a position they held and got to exclude events that were peaceful but were not noteworthy, considered peaceful protests that the police instigated violence as “violent”. Narrowly set the windows for change for violent protest. And counted peaceful protests that happened in situations of concurrent government collapse as successful regardless of the reason the collapse was happening.
It points out that the media is the largest contributor of success for peaceful protests, as IT is the pressure. But fails to consider an adversarial media presence, as in our case with a full captured media apparatus. If all protests are framed as both ineffective and violent regardless, then that leaves only riots as effective pressure.
Man you should look at my Modlog, what comments they removed comments and banned me.
and especially the so-called reasons.
These people are a joke and worse than Reddit.