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Wish we could have something like this in the US, but apparently we’re just going to let the Nazis take over instead.
There have been great lengths taken over the course of decades to make protestation on this scale prohibitively difficult for Americans. The exact numbers are apparently up for debate but between 40 and 80% of Americans can't afford to miss a single paycheck. Splinter protests across the country do fuck all for federal issues and since most people can't afford to make the trip to DC we're stuck with a non-starter until things get so bad that it doesn't matter if people are getting paid or not.
Protests aren't going to stop the Nazis in Germany, either.
Support of AfD rightwing extremist party is down 2% which is maybe not enough, but it's something.
Not true. In Germany, extremist parties can actually be banned.
Are they banned by demonstration? Or is there a process that is under way? One that'd actually keep the individuals from simply moving parties.
Raising awareness of a problem is the first step towards solving it. The AfD and its followers are nothing but alt-right fools.
Are protests the only way people communicate? That has some serious, "don't take my statue, how would I know history!?" false logic energy there.
Protests are an expression just like a riot. Riots are outright damaging while protests make people feel better. What they specifically do not do is solve any problem that cannot be solved in much better ways.
Making people feel better without actually doing anything to slow down bad people... is not a positive gain from a situation. If anything, people who feel better about a situation are less inclined to DO something about it.
An important point for them is the belief that they are the "silent majority". Showing that they are not might help to reduce some of their support
It would at least help the completely ignorant from simply going with the flow, though many would argue someone so detached from the concept of freedoms hardly deserves them. Like Thomas Jefferson, "When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither."
Contrast that with, "When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." and it should become VERY obvious he and many other defenders of freedom throughout history were very OK with punching Nazis, even if they lived before Nazis were a thing.