Protesters take over Trump Tower in NYC to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil

Never go to a second location.

There are many ways to fight injustice.

i read it as the opposite

if by against protesting you mean in favor of more direct action

Why else would they be trying to scare people from taking action?

He had his green card. He protested against Israel. He's now in jail, somewhere unknown.

The judge said he couldn't be deported because he's a resident, but he's still in jail.

History won't take excuses.

Those were made to be a humane execution method.

I just have an axe. Much cheaper, and these perpetrators don't deserve humanity. Call me.

Guillotines are for nations with fewer guns than people, son.

This. The only reason to keep it peaceful is the optics of others, not because you'll be branded a law-breaker otherwise. MAGA will excuse unnecessary use of force, but people who might be sitting on the side lines are less likely to ignore it.

Violence was pretty common in those days. The problem with the German opposition is that they were waiting for a red line. But the nazis incrementally racheted up their actions so they didn't recognize that red line until it was too late.

The difference being that USA 2025 is not actually a totalitarian dictatorship. It's the "tipping point" observation about authoritarianism: there's a point beyond which, yes, you have no choices left but bloody revolution or foreign intervention. Only a handful of countries in the world are currently in that situation. America is nowhere near it.