A lot of glowy handshake accounts are posting comments like non-violent civil disobedience doesn't work. Likely FBI agents.
Remember when tens of thousands of businesses in every state defiantly reopened? Remember when we choked off DC highways with hundreds of trucks parked in the road? Remember when millions of us walked around in the supermarket without masks? Remember when we held sit-ins at Twitter and Facebook HQ for weeks?
No, of course not. We never actually did that. I live in a so-called red area and all of the businesses are still closed and everyone wears masks. The trucker strike never happened. Most of us are still compliant.
Civil disobedience worked for the civil Rights movement. Czechoslovakia's Velvet revolution was non-violent and it overthrew a communist regime far more totalitarian than what we have. They didn't even have fucking guns.
No, we skipped all of that. A handful of idiots decided to go full retard and fight with cops and try and storm Congress when both houses were in session. Some were likely plants, but most of them including the woman who was shot were Trump supporters who did not need to be there in the building. they could have stayed on the steps and made their point just as well.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about the four boxes. Yes, the voting box has been taken away from us, but that doesn't mean going straight to the ammo box. There are so many options for civil disobedience that we haven't even tried yet. FBI glowy shill handshake accounts get the f*** off this site.
Absolutely, we definitely need a different plan and no two countries or situations are the same. I'm definitely not saying that civil disobedience is 100% guaranteed to solve our problems.
What I am saying, is that our actions need to be well planned for maximum impact. Storming the capitol was a fit of blind rage provoked by Mike Pence's actions. It wasn't a planned event.
You're right, the media would never cover it, that's why our actions need to be totally massive. Blocking off DC with a bunch of trucks would be non-violent. Just park them in the middle of the highway. Yes it's illegal, yes you'll get a ticket, and you probably should get a ticket, but people will know about it regardless of whether or not the media covers it.
Same thing with the masks. If every single Trump supporter quit wearing a mask, the mandates would be totally unenforceable. Or reopen the businesses. That would be way way way more effective than what happened on Wednesday.