Another inch forward and we all stupidly pretend this means nothing.

I said this is the other thread, but what is the appropriate response? He’s clearly setting the board, and he definitely wants to shoot protesters. He very likely wants sufficient violence to do something dramatic. They even may try to instigate, but have thus far been unable to get the desired response to enable martial law or whatever they plan.

So you have three options:

Violent response

Non-violent response

No response

Which of these three do you propose?

You left out the General Strike response

That would fall under non violent