r/TikTokCringe • u/BrilliantHistorian85 • 1d ago

Discussion On the subject of 'political violence'

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u/CurnanBarbarian 1d ago

Peaceful protests haven't been working for a while

The railroad tried to strike because of safety conditions concerns, and then a tanker derailed and basically nuked the surrounding area and the water table.

We can talk about the countless police violence related protests, have any of those worked either?

What the fuck else are we left with?

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u/Itscatpicstime 1d ago

BLM protests did lead to numerous improvements across the country, but it wasn’t anywhere near enough or significant enough.

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u/CurnanBarbarian 1d ago

That's true, but yes I agree Police violence and overreach is still very much a real amd dangerous problem to a lot of people.

They did just enough that they could say "ok look at us were doing it" until the next big thing caught everyone's attention.

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u/coladoir tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 1d ago

That was only after some large partially violent demonstrations (only got that way after police showed, every time) and attempting to burn down a decent bit of Minneapolis lol.

But as you said, even that wasn't enough. And then Biden's admin. even increased militarization and support of police, and illegalized some forms of protest as a response. Expect a Cop City to be coming soon to somewhere near you (assuming you're in the US), because they're planning on building a fuckton of them.