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It's not the right way to get your point across. I am not a Trump fan, but stirring up shit is not the way to go. It's immature, and it's dangerous. It doesn't make the situation better. If anything, it actually makes things worse.

Peaceful protests are fine. Violence and destruction of property is simply childish. It only hurts the message they're trying to get across.

While it's true that violence like that won't accomplish anything, there are protests that are peaceful and genuinely fight for the well being of others. The whole reason this started was because of Trump's ignorance, islamophbia, objectification of women, and bullying. Trump supporters and bigoted Republicans can be pretty nasty and ridiculous too, and even worse.

I agree with the protests.

I think that if you're going to protest, you should do it peacefully. It's immature and it makes people who oppose Trump, like myself, look bad.

I feel like people love to focus on the few violent protesters and discredit the protest movement as a whole. There are millions of people across hundreds of cities (Washington, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Seoul, Tokyo, Bangkok, even Antarctica) peacefully participating in pro-women, anti-bigotry, pro-climate-action marches... why do we pay attention to the very few isolated incidences of violence, like it's somehow more important than the voices of millions exercising their democratic right?

^ Agreed. The massive, global Women's Marches have been very peaceful, even despite the violent and hateful rhetoric the March was organised to oppose.

You mean like the violent and hateful rhetoric of Madonna yesterday saying she's thought about blowing up the White House?

I wouldn't vote for Madonna to lead my country. Like I would never vote for an advocate of sexual violence and nuclear war.

Plus, I'm unconvinced that 1 mention of a fantasy of blowing a building up is equivalent to Trump's entire life of being an exploitative, abusive, ignorant cunt.

^^Yes, those are the type of things I was referring to, the actual violent riots and people constantly threatening to kill him and his supporters.

So... Trump can run a campaign based on violence, a presidency based on violence, and live a violent life, but those who push back with violence are "ridiculous"?

^Trump did not run a campaign based on violence or any of the other things you've mentioned! Do your research!

If this is really people's greatest concern about politics atm, I'd recommend they read more politics.

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How does Trump live a violent life? What has he done in his 2 days of Presidency that was violent? I mean aside from him saying he wants to "eradicate" Islamic terrorism. He ran a very aggressive campaign and at times said things he shouldn't have but his unfiltered honesty was why people loved him so much. And still continue to.

^Exactly. The only thing having to do with violence in his campaign was him wanting to "eradicate" Islamic terrorism, not kill all Muslims. Unfortunately the media has twisted that to mean that he's got Islamaphobia.

I have, unfortunately, done a lot of research. Research I fear few of his voters have.

If his comments about Muslims are the only violence you saw, then good luck to you with your love for him. You will need it.

BTW, still trying to understand the mental gymnastics involved in claiming Trump is loved for his "unfiltered honesty". Is that another term for "alternative facts"?

^Lol.

Independent fact-checking organisation Politifact has checked hundreds of his statements and link he was lying 51% of the time. That figure rises to 70% if you include 'mostly false' statements. Pretty much exactly the opposite of "unfiltered honesty".

^ And as far as I can tell, they haven't included things like his pledge to "drain the swamp" (one of his main campaign promises) and his pledge to release his tax returns if he won etc etc.

No sane person believes that riots help. They just vindicate the side they are supposedly are fighting. Protesting is a good thing but coming from a country where these kind of protests and riots have always been abused and used from powers for nefarious purposes, I fear that the Americans and the West will soon come to realise that the purpose of these demonstrations are to prepare the public to take sides in the ultimate battle of the far ideologies; antifa and neonazi. In the end, noone will wan't want to protest or won't be able to protest and that's when the real fun will begin. I would appreciate this protest more if the same people prostesting would have marched during the Obama administration for promoting regimes and groups who have repeatedly violated the rights of women. But apparently, all women and people in general are equal but some are more equal than others.

^Excatly no sane person, rather they support Trump or not, would believe that violent riots help.

Protesting is A okay, have at it. Rioting and destruction of property is not. People have smashed windows and I read one story about s chick who lit another girls hair on fire. That is not okay. The reason I was fine with the women's marches is because they (for the most part) didn't get violent. On top of that he's our president unfortunately. And rioting is not going to change that. By all means let your voice be heard but don't bring harm to others in the process and that goes for all sides.

I'm also gonna bring up Berkly University. This is a very recent protest. It goes to show the volume of riots are increasing daily and getting worse. In this riot you have women being pepper sprayed mid interview and people getting beaten with poles and such.
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This kind of stuff is insane and ridiculous. And it is a cause for concern. As more and more riots happen and more and more people get hurt. It shouldn't be taken lightly. Protest all you want but if you start beating people, there's s huge problem.