Full tweets with context: https://xcancel.com/hasanthehun/status/1932168427470516520
I don't think Hasan actually read Bernie's post.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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I don't think you understood Bernie's post.
He's telling people to keep the protests peaceful. He's literally speaking from 1st hand experience about what works to achieve your goals.
How exactly does that play into Trump's narrative?
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Both people are right in a way here.
It's the masses joining non-violent protests that gets shit done. They can't ignore it when it gets big enough. Violence makes it that much harder to hold those safely.
The mainstream media and the right wing propaganda machine will amplify any small amount of violence to try to tarnish the whole movement.
The problem is that the protests are already extremely peaceful... Until the police show up and start blasting.
The media instead will take the 3 pictures of the Waymo on fire and plaster it on the front page everywhere to pretend the protests are extremely violent riots and give a pretense to send in the police which starts blasting.
They'll do that if there is trash on the ground and claim it's looting. They'll do that if anything catches on fire and call it a riot.
Dropping rocks, lime scooters, and molotovs on police cars parked under an overpass doesn't need any sensationalism to amplify AND it gives the police a great reason to start blasting.
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Don't tell anyone to remember their umbrella unless it's absolutely pouring or you'll give into the propaganda that water is falling from the sky.
The right-wing thinks we're giving rioters a pass and, not that we need to satisfy their demands, don't give them a pass. You can denounce setting fires and shooting reporters in the leg in one breath you know.
"Guys it is not raining today. But you should not forget to bring your umbrella if it rains."
Totally normal statement.
They only do that when they speak about Israel. They start the statement with OCT 7 then end it with "all hostages should be released" and in the middle they water down whatever genocide and war crimes happening.
He could have done the same here. Could have said, the ICE violated people rights, and reforming the ICE should be the first step to peaceful solution.
Instead he basically ignoring everything leading to the riot and expect people to take it until, maybe, they can pass something in congress to be then reject by the house.
classic useless politician.