Its basically a massive “you are not alone” statement.
Because if the protests stops happening, people will start to feel like they are the only freedom fighter in a sea of authoritarians, then they might lose the will to fight, or even stop thinking about it, they’ll think: it’s futile, why bother resisting, tyranny always wins. That’s why tyrants always want to shut down protests, they don’t want words to spread, because eventually the anti-tyranny sentinment evolves, and even the most peaceful of protests could become a revolution that will cause the downfall of tyrants.
Edit: I want to share something interesting about lingustics: In Chinese, “political demonstration” is translates as “示威”, 示 means to show, 威 means force, 示威 is literally translated to “show of force”.
[示威]
(1) to show power; to show one’s might; to show one’s state of being intimidating
That’s what this is. We’re proving to the government that we have the numbers on our side. “Comply with demands or risk escalation” is the message. Americans have always been very rebellious, its one trait I always loved about Americans, I have hopes.
Its basically a massive “you are not alone” statement.
Because if the protests stops happening, people will start to feel like they are the only freedom fighter in a sea of authoritarians, then they might lose the will to fight, or even stop thinking about it, they’ll think: it’s futile, why bother resisting, tyranny always wins. That’s why tyrants always want to shut down protests, they don’t want words to spread, because eventually the anti-tyranny sentinment evolves, and even the most peaceful of protests could become a revolution that will cause the downfall of tyrants.
Edit: I want to share something interesting about lingustics: In Chinese, “political demonstration” is translates as “示威”, 示 means to show, 威 means force, 示威 is literally translated to “show of force”.
[示威]
(1) to show power; to show one’s might; to show one’s state of being intimidating
That’s what this is. We’re proving to the government that we have the numbers on our side. “Comply with demands or risk escalation” is the message. Americans have always been very rebellious, its one trait I always loved about Americans, I have hopes.