Without going out and checking it appears to be true of every successful nonviolent movement. During Ghandi's time there was absolutely a violent independence movement, and Mandela literally started out as a "terrorist" (and those more active orgs were still around when he rebranded as non violent). Why would the powers that be give in to a group that doesn't threaten them otherwise? Certainly not because they suddenly grow a conscience. If it were just Dr King and a bunch of nonviolent protesters - even a lot of them - why would the American government listen? It's pretty obvious they don't actually have to listen to people's opinions, or they wouldn't be supporting Israel and ICE would either be abolished or at the very least very, very different. Nope, gotta be materialist about these things. Peaceful protest alone has never achieved anything and even when it's successful tends to only be partially so, because the peaceful protesters are there to negotiate and have more moderate demands to begin with - consider MLK v Malcolm X and exactly how much further they each would have liked the civil rights movement to proceed - obviously neither would have been happy with where it ended but I suspect Malcolm X would have been less so and would have driven it further.
Blakey
I'm picturing a looney toons-esque scenario where she keeps taking a spoonful and he keeps bending it, dumping out the soup each time, then accelerating until the bowl is empty. Maybe in a fury she dunks her head in the pot and slurps it up directly.
"grassroots organising and militancy" doesn't really sound like an endorsement of trying to "win this one within the liberal system" to me tbh but I could be wrong;)
Are all of the other millions of steps also performative rubbish that neither protects the oppressed nor fights the oppressor? Do they also make people feel like they've achieved something while actually accomplishing nothing? Coz I gotta hunch on that score.
Why is it being "peaceful" a good thing if you believe they're literal Nazis? Were the allies wrong to take military action in WWII? The Trump government is doing actual, physical, direct violence to the most vulnerable people in America and you're glad that people have come up with something that makes them feel like they're "fighting back" without causing even the most depraved of their stormtroopers even a moment's inconvenience. They don't even need to ACKNOWLEDGE this. It's the most pathetic, toothless thing imaginable.
Now personally I recognise that peaceful "protest" that doesn't even cause minor inconvenience to your target is pointless. Worse than pointless - it makes people feel like they've achieved something when what they've done is something that trump et al. can simply ignore with zero repercussions. If you're trying to change things, what's the point of taking an action that won't l, and can't, cause any change? God, you would have loved Neville Chamberlain.
where do you think you are
They didn't say it was a "good protest" or any kind of protest, they said that if it pisses off trump (which it apparently does), then that's funny, which is true. Making dipshits mad is hilarious.
I'm an arab, and naturally i'm pretty anti-US, anti-EU, anti-NATO etc etc (Gee, i wonder why?) you CANNOT criticize any of those three here* (You can criticize US under republicans, not US under democrats 🌚)
There's such an extreme inability to see things from a different perspective among liberals who live in the imperial core. It's where the whole "Chinese citizens are brainwashed" thing comes from, too, they can't grasp that maybe in its progress towards superpower status, China's actually made things better for a lot of its people, and as a result they're happy with their government.
GOOD post 
Are you denying the very well documented firebombings of vehicles and lynching of unarmed officers by rioters that preceded the deployment of armed soldiers at Tiananmen square?
Also there was no violence inside the square - it was all in the streets surrounding the square. But because this is such an important event to you, you've put in the research and understand that- right?
Barrels and suspenders are also produced through exploitation of the global proletariat; fig leaves or nothin'!