• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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    4 days ago

    You’re so close to getting it…

    Now guess who starts the violence in all other instances of progressive radical change. Hint: It’s not the ones making the change.

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        Everything meaningful we will do will be labeled as “violence”. The point is that the things that will not be labeled as “violence” will be meaningless.

      • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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        “Violence is when I can’t get on with my life and ignore everything bad that has been happening quietly”

        Like, Euromaidan here was definitely what most would label as “violence”. It’s also how the place I live in is still not a part of the imperialist shithole that is russia.

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          Euromaidan was peaceful until the anti-protest measures were used by law enforcement, the Berkut deployed to violently disperse them, at the request of the then failing government. It started with 1,500 and after the crackdown grew to hundreds of thousands. After multiple weeks news of riots began to spread, but much of it can be attributed to Russian propoganda trying to lable the movement as xenophobic and hateful.