There is not "winning" situation. People will continue to have a boot pressed firmly down upon them regardless of which action they choose, because those in power also control the flow of all nearly all mainstream consumer information.
If people are peaceful, they'll cherry-pick a verbal argument people may have had and inflate is as "violent." If they're violent, they'll cite it as confirmation bias. Simultaneously, they'll completely ignore or excuse the actual violence commuted by the side that they support. When they can't obfuscate it from the public, they'll do precisely what they did here: blame the "right-wing" — even with absolutely zero corroborating evidence. They'll simply make a baseless allegation in order to promote their agenda.
 

Last year, I went to film and document a protest at an election office counting ballots in the aftermath of the 2020 election. After speaking to many of the regular people there, I learned that a very large portion were not conservatives at all, they simply didn't like Biden and felt the Democrat party was going too far left. Especially after the "summer of love" that many had just witnessed. Nonetheless, they were all having issues with their votes either saying they had already voted, completely missing, and many other anomalies. The majority of them were just every day normal people. There were children of all ages present and entire families just hanging out.
Naturally, there were a ton of reporters in attendance from all over the nation, as well. They were standing quite a distance away from the protestors in their own little "clique" — about 30 or 40 meters away.
At one point, it was getting late into the evening. Around 8:00 or 9:00pm (20:00 21:00), an employee went to leave — probably to go home early for whatever reason, since none of the others were leaving yet.
As she walked out of the office, she was surrounded by police protection. The people present who were protesting, politely cleared a path for her and actually thanked her for her hard work. They were about as polite as can be; far more so than one would think considering the situation, offering prayers, well wishes, and their gratefulness. They made sure she had plenty of space to get through and didn't even bother screaming or going wild at her at all.
As she made her way further into the parking lot with her escort, I noticed a female photographer break away from the press group and begin following closely behind her snapping pictures.
I found it strange, because there just didn't seem to be a reason for her to be so interested in someone simply leaving to go home. So, as she took pictures of the escort, I filmed her from behind and off to the side, because it just didn't feel right. After she got the photos, instead of returning to the press group, she crossed the street and left. Not long after, the night began to wind down and people began to leave. Overall, it was pretty uneventful. The only drama was when random liberals would ride by on rickshaws and start screaming and antagonizing people. No one even bothered with them. They just laughed and ignored them — which seemingly pissed them off more for some reason. Even more so when people laughed, turned up music really loud, and began to dance without engaging.
Eventually, the place emptied out and everyone went home. I was actually one of the last people to leave, because I was having a debate with an absolutely insane ideologically obsessed fanatic from the Associated Press, who somehow thought his fantasies were representative of reality, no matter how much I showed him the actual reality that didn't agree — citing media accredited sources, or direct evidence that contradicted what he believed. But that's besides the point.
The next day, I was at the store, and I noticed that the largest local paper — one that's actually pretty well acknowledged across the country — had a top headline that read something like, "Violent Right-Wing Extremists Threaten Ballot Counters." The photo that was used was one the female photographer took of police escorting a woman to her car, completely unimpeded and with no one else around. Except, they cropped the surroundings to only show the woman surrounded by police officers.
Even with the huge national media presence at the event, not a single outlet refuted the lie and false information being presented. In fact, several even cited it as an example of "violent right-wingers." They labeled them as "neo-Nazis," even as the person who was mainly in charge of organizing the rally, as well as the person taking affidavits, and the notary present to verify them, were black conservatives.
During the evening of the second night, the people were far less accommodating of the press and made it a point to not let them interview or speak to anyone. Whenever they would try recording, using the protestors as a backdrop, the people would either chant loudly to drown out the report, or they would all take a knee in silence and pray, so that they couldn't misrepresent them again. This only served to infuriate the reporters present. I overheard many of them getting noticeably agitated that they weren't "getting the story" — which I can only assume would be that people weren't making it easy for them to create propaganda.
In the following days, the only time things got violent is when a large group of leftists showed up. They were forced to stay on the opposite side of the street, but the entire time they screamed obscenities, threw rocks, bottles, and other such things. There were even a few who actively tried to assault those who were leaving and heading toward their cars or who went around vandalizing cars themselves. None of this was ever reported by the media — at all. The only thing they mentioned was that "counter-protestors" had shown up and were "peacefully demonstrating against the extremist groups."
 
I could probably go into more detail and describe other shit that happened but I'm sure the point has been made.
Relying on the media, in any form, is a completely fruitless effort. They will get their story one way or another. They will push their propaganda to promote their agenda by any means necessary. They're also so self-obsessed and saturated in their own political activist beliefs, that they'll openly deny objective reality and instead substitute their imagination instead.
This was the closest I've gotten to seeing just how corrupt our news media institutions really are.
It's also what helped galvanize and reinforce my belief that these people truly are the enemy of the people.

There is not "winning" situation. People will continue to have a boot pressed firmly down upon them regardless of which action they choose, because those in power also control the flow of all nearly all mainstream consumer information.
If people are peaceful, they'll cherry-pick a verbal argument people may have had and inflate is as "violent." If they're violent, they'll cite it as confirmation bias. Simultaneously, they'll completely ignore or excuse the actual violence commuted by the side that they support. When they can't obfuscate it from the public, they'll do precisely what they did here: blame the "right-wing" — even with absolutely zero corroborating evidence. They'll simply make a baseless allegation in order to promote their agenda.
 

Last year, I went to film and document a protest at an election office counting ballots in the aftermath of the 2020 election. After speaking to many of the regular people there, I learned that a very large portion were not conservatives at all, they simply didn't like Biden and felt the Democrat party was going too far left. Especially after the "summer of love" that many had just witnessed. Nonetheless, they were all having issues with their votes either saying they had already voted, completely missing, and many other anomalies. The majority of them were just every day normal people. There were children of all ages present and entire families just hanging out.
Naturally, there were a ton of reporters in attendance from all over the nation, as well. They were standing quite a distance away from the protestors in their own little "clique" — about 30 or 40 meters away.
At one point, it was getting late into the evening. Around 8:00 or 9:00pm (20:00 21:00), an employee went to leave — probably to go home early for whatever reason, since none of the others were leaving yet.
As she walked out of the office, she was surrounded by police protection. The people present who were protesting, politely cleared a path for her and actually thanked her for her hard work. They were about as polite as can be; far more so than one would think considering the situation, offering prayers, well wishes, and their gratefulness. They made sure she had plenty of space to get through and didn't even bother screaming or going wild at her at all.
As she made her way further into the parking lot with her escort, I noticed a female photographer break away from the press group and begin following closely behind her snapping pictures.
I found it strange, because there just didn't seem to be a reason for her to be so interested in someone simply leaving to go home. So, as she took pictures of the escort, I filmed her from behind and off to the side, because it just didn't feel right. After she got the photos, instead of returning to the press group, she crossed the street and left. Not long after, the night began to wind down and people began to leave. Overall, it was pretty uneventful. The only drama was when random liberals would ride by on rickshaws and start screaming and antagonizing people. No one even bothered with them. They just laughed and ignored them — which seemingly pissed them off more for some reason. Even more so when people laughed, turned up music really loud, and began to dance without engaging.
Eventually, the places emptied out and everyone went home. I was actually one of the last people to leave, because I was having a debate with an absolutely insane ideologically obsessed fanatic from the Associated Press, who somehow thought his fantasies were representative of reality, no matter how much I showed him the actual reality that didn't agree — citing media accredited sources, or direct evidence that contradicted what he believed. But that's besides the point.
The next day, I was at the store, and I noticed that the largest local paper — one that's actually pretty well acknowledged across the country — had a top headline that read something like, "Violent Right-Wing Extremists Threaten Ballot Counters." The photo that was used was one the female photographer took of police escorting a woman to her car, completely unimpeded and with no one else around. Except, they cropped the surroundings to only show the woman surrounded by police officers.
Even with the huge national media presence at the event, not a single outlet refuted the lie and false information being presented. In fact, several even cited it as an example of "violent right-wingers." The labeled them as "neo-Nazis, even as the person who was mainly in charge of organizing the rally, was a black conservative.
That evening, during the second night, the people were far less accommodating of the press and made it a point to not let them interview or speak to anyone. Whenever they would try recording, using the protestors as a backdrop, the people would either chant loudly to drown out the report, or they would all take a knee in silence and pray, so that they couldn't misrepresent them again. This only served to infuriate the reporters present. I overheard many of them getting noticeably agitated that they weren't "getting the story" — which I can only assume would be that people weren't making it easy for them to create propaganda.
In the following days, the only time things got violent is when a large group of leftists showed up. They were forced to stay on the opposite side of the street, but the entire time they screamed obscenities, threw rocks, bottles, and other such things. There were even a few who actively tried to assault those who were leaving and heading toward their cars. None of this was ever reported by the media — at all. The only thing they mentioned was that "counter-protestors" had shown up and were "peacefully demonstrating against the extremist groups."
 
I could probably go into more detail and describe other shit that happened but I'm sure the point has been made.
Relying on the media, in any form, is a completely fruitless effort. They will get their story one way or another. They will push their propaganda to promote their agenda by any means necessary. They're also so self-obsessed and saturated in their own political activist beliefs, that they'll openly deny objective reality and instead substitute their imagination instead.
This was the closest I've gotten to seeing just how corrupt our news media institutions really are.
It's also what helped galvanize and reinforce my belief that these people truly are the enemy of the people.