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Violent protest never works, both because the State can easily overpower any gathering, & because violent protestors, when they realize how ineffective they are, start inflicting violence on themselves: the outliers, misfits, those who don't conform to their procrustean rules.
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Potestation: Pass or strike down this bill, make these reforms, give this or that ruling, etc., or else (i.e. meet our demands or the unrest persists, peaceful or otherwise). "Do as I see fit, not as you see fit" could be heard, omnidirectionally.