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      Yup. Protests are clearly effective. One thing about the point of violence- if you’re at a protest and you hear threats or see violence, speak up or leave. With the new ruling by SCOTUS, one bad actor can have the entire protest charged with criminal behavior. Stay safe. Protect yourselves and one another.

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          True. Although it doesn’t matter if it’s a provocateur or an actual racist, they’ll get you arrested just the same.

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            Except all the nazi demonstrations get police escorts to/from the site and maybe a slap on the wrist if they hurt or kill someone.

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              Because the police protect their own.

              Its why every time the nazis/fascists/racists march, the cops always have their backs to them watching the crowds… yet when people like the college students march, they stand facing them, salivating for an excuse.

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      No backbone, they just got caught red-handed and even now are trying to weasel out by setting the voting date 6 months from now. They’re hoping the media attention would have died out by then.

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    Does selling their stock really do anything? All the big investment firms will still buy these up for their mutual funds. Unless everyone agrees not to buy their stock, I don’t see how this helps. And even then, their stock would be so cheap they could just buy it back themselves and go private right?

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      Does selling their stock really do anything? All the big investment firms will still buy these up for their mutual funds. Unless everyone agrees not to buy their stock, I don’t see how this helps. And even then, their stock would be so cheap they could just buy it back themselves and go private right?

      Its what forced South Africa to break up their apartheid state. Yeah, it really actually works and its one of the only things that has historically been demonstrated to work.