Germany riot in Frankfurt targets new ECB headquarters | Dozens of people have been hurt and some 350 people arrested as anti-austerity demonstrators clashed with police in the German city of Frankfurt.

The reason there is nothing to get violent over it is because the only thing that the violence is acheiving is wasting yet more money. So yeah. There's nothing to get violent over in this topic, this situation. The violence isn't helping anyone, isn't changing anything for the better, isn't changing opinions.

What else can they do? Well, how long has this protest been going on? Say its, two weeks, as an example. So what if for two weeks these people actually do something. Instead of sitting around stupidly and then gettimg violent?

But what can they do? Yes, what can they do. They can donate to charity. Theu xan work for charities. They can actually literally help people, right now. They cab get into politics or into banking, educating yourself isn't hard in Germany. They can actually pisitively change things instead of mindlessly desttoying shit and literally wishing death on policemen because reasons?

But that doesn't change the system? Yeah, it doesn't exactly change the system right now. But take a look. Thw violence isn't changing the system either. It's hindering change to the system. The protests aren't great at chanfing the system, but yes, they can have an effect. But all that effect is lost when these people who just want to destroy become violent and ruin it for everybody.

There isn't anything insulting about suggesting that there are no reasons to be violent. There are reasons to be angry, yes, I get that too. That's not a reason to get violent. Thwre is no excuse for getting violent. A reason to be angry isnt a reason to be violent. And people who claim they want to help others and change thinfs for the better and then proceed to attack dictors are base hypocrites.

Fir what it's worth, what am I doing? I'm eduxating myself. I'll work with children, be a teacher. Educate in turn. I'll work with charities, with people who sincerely need help. Yeah, I'm not changing the system. But I'm actually giving real help to real people with what I will do with my live.

Nonviolence isn't a novel idea. Look at the things acheived by nonviolent resistance.

And sorry about typos, am on mobile.

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