I believe the consensus is that a successful popular movement needs 3 elements:

• a nonviolent protest movement to communicate and build support with the broader population
• a political party to communicate and enable negotiations with the opposing group
• a militant wing to provide a threat that incentivizes negotiations

Without the popular front, the political and militant groups will lose support of the population as well as their recruitment pipeline.

The political party can reduce the amount of violence and deprivation required to achieve objectives, by setting clear goals.

Without the militants, the opposing power already has a monopoly on violence and has no incentive to come to the table peacefully.

It's how the Suffragists finally got heard.

They aren't arguing in good faith and don't want to change their opinion so force has now become nessisary.

They fear ONLY for their personal well-being, they don't even care about their own kids.

You must speak before you fight, its the first step on the escalation ladder.

I am ok with them becoming physically unsafe.

Yep, my hair is almost white from the stress they've put me and everyone else in, they should feel a little stress in return

I want them to feel unsafe all the way up to the blade drop. Actually they say the brain stays on for a few seconds after so until the eyes stop blinking.

Short of Monopoly ever being a fun game, I agree. Push people far enough, and they'll push back.

I don't like the comparison this suggests, because it paints the data-center protestors as fascist overlords.

Good analogy. One ugly creature is scared but were still fucked...

Better that the shitheads think it's operational. Let them lose sleep over what's coming.

It doesn’t mention anywhere that the guillotine was not functional.

I just looked at the social media post. It's a tiny scale guillotine. It'd struggle to slice anything larger than a carrot. The blade probably isn't even real, nor made to come down.

Sounds more like a shitty resistance. You can't behead the overlords with a prop.