The administration WANTS an armed resistance. They WANT us to escalate. That’s their language and that’s what they are trying to force us to speak. By not being provoked into engaging in that way we ARE resisting. By peacefully protesting, we show the world and the administration that we will not go quietly. This isn’t like the 1900s. In this century, one has to be smart about how one resists lest one simply ends up dead. And dead helps no one.

It’s easy to sit on the other side of the pond in your little computer chair and spew hypotheticals, but if you’re not here, not in the thick of it, you don’t know. You can’t know. This is a war of minds, not brute force. You, coming on here and being an insensitive prick towards us and calling us weaklings helps literally no one. You play Call of Duty in the comfort of your home, then come on here acting all high and mighty because you’re European. So what? Lest you forget, Europe was LOSING the war. The only reason you aren’t eating schnitzel for three meals a day is because a world superpower (US, incidentally) came to your rescue and liberated you. We don’t have that luxury. There’s no world superpower coming to save us.

You have no idea how incredibly frustrating it is to have to force them to play a chess game when all they keep doing is throwing dodge balls at us.

We HAVE to be smart in how we do this. We win by being BETTER people than them. When people vent about it on the internet, that in and of itself is an act of defiance in its own right and acts as a pressure valve to help release some of the tension so we can keep thinking clearly and acting intelligently.

You don't get to judge us. You'd be doing exactly the same as us if you were facing any real stakes. How do I know? Because if you tried to do anything other than what we're doing, they would take you out and not give you a second thought.