Well yeah. It’s possible for peaceful protests to work, but let’s look at history. In reality, the pigs are going to get violent regardless of what anyone does, the national guard will be called out and they’re going to use tear gas because their bosses want them to, and despite the fear of injury or death, large groups of people will keep working to make things better.

This is guaranteed to occur. For good or bad, whatever, it will happen. So let’s stop worrying about certain outcomes and move our focus to the uncertain things.