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Did rioting work for George Floyd? Every single police reform bill was killed when Fox News exploited the riots to portray the whole police reform movement as crazy.
Rioting just injures a couple of working class cops, gets yourself arrested, and plays into their hands. If you want the ruling oligarchs to fear you, don't riot. Harm the economy. Boycott. General strike. Make the line go down.
The Oligarchs -"we are gonna crash the economy so we can buy everything up at a fraction of its value."
You -"Crash the economy that will show them."
I get the sentiment. Riots probably going to just end up bad. The only way they work is if you don't stop until everything is changed. They can't fizzle out or they don't accomplish anything.
But wouldn't a general strike would just play into their hands. Also, If fox News can twist the BLM protests, they can twist a general strike. Trump will just blame his economic failures as our failures. So, using Fox, and a twisted narrative as reasons to not do something means we will never do anything at all because every thing will be twisted.
Yes, because rioting definitely never has any sort of effect on the economy.