archomrade [he/him]"You're fooling yourself, we're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...."
A protest that can be safely ignored is just a circlejerk where slacktivists gather to congratulate themselves about how virtuous they are.
But a protest that can’t be safely ignored is a choice to destroy the country, apparently
Well, as JFK said, a nation that makes peaceful protest impossible makes violent protest inevitable.
It doesn’t have to destroy the country, but if it comes to that…you can’t say nobody warned you.