i do appreciate the eastern euro spite though. hes wearing a military field jacket rather than a full suit, just to be sure that he's both not cucking to the white house, and showing that he's war leader vs the people he's standing next to
i think a better distinction would be riskless protests rather than peaceful protests. the civil rights protests and gandhi's protests were rather peaceful, but not riskless to those actually protesting (same with general strikes and labor strikes)
the flipside of this is that pride can also be good and that we should be okay about flaunting that we are actually good at things/experts/obsessives (see dieworkwear for the style i mean)
mine is that social shame can actually be good and the lack of it (especially around being stupid or tasteless) is partially whats fueling the downfall of america