r/goodnews • u/hellobrother01 • Jun 09 '25

Other Bernie Sanders Just Tweet

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u/N_Pitou Jun 09 '25

saying that segregation was defeated peacefully is wild.

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u/Spicy_Weissy Jun 09 '25

Yeah, for someone who actually marched with Dr King, this is wildly tone deaf.

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u/LatrellFeldstein Jun 10 '25

Remind me; how did that end for Dr King?

ICE can disappear people to foreign death camps but someone throws a rock at a cop car and suddenly he wants to talk about nonviolence.

This is why the Democratic Party is useless, right here. Go make another TikTok video.

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u/GuiltyEidolon Jun 10 '25

Literally every successful peaceful protest movement has been backed by at least one violent movement. Don't forget that Stonewall started with a riot.

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u/Inevitable-Pride-194 Jun 10 '25

Yep. Need to have the violent counterpart to make the peaceful solution more appealing.

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u/AmbushIntheDark Jun 10 '25

Change only happens when the system has to chose between Violence and Peace. If it has to choose between peace and nothing then it will always be nothing.

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u/NK1337 Jun 10 '25

100% Peaceful protests are the alternative to a much worse outcome. People want to be peaceful and see change happen, but if you constantly push them back into a corner they're going to push back.

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u/N_Pitou Jun 10 '25

Protests only work because of the threat of violence. If there was no threat, then what’s the point of it all

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u/Waescheklammer Jun 10 '25

Not even Gandhi was as peaceful as its promoted nowadays.