@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... ... culture, it's pretty easy to form the opinion that US folk should "just" protest, because it works just fine here.

IMHO it's a pretty good defusing strategy. Make people feel good about their protest, but ignore it as much as possible.

It backfires sometimes. But not enough. Some years back, there was one of those "mild" protests which local police seems to have massively underestimated. So instead of a few thousand, there were orders of magnitude more.

I recall...