meat consumption is one of the first things to rise as people escape poverty! getting people to embrace vegetarianism / veganism is hard! over a quarter of habitable land goes to livestock production! good meat alternatives would be one of the best things to happen to the environment!

Again, this isn't to say you should stay home. But those encouraging people to march on 11/30 (I included) have a responsibility to tell people of this risk, that legality means nothing to the state, always hasn't. Do not be mystified by what the bourgeois tells about itself.

When you're going to do something, like on 11/30, please be cognizant of the risk. Peaceful protests and pragmatic pacifism will not protect you from the police if they really wanted to beat you up, arrest you, and torture you. That trauma stays with you forever.

Yes, I'm referring to the noble savage as a fallacy of thinking. In this sense, thinking of democracy as a noble savage is like, if not for current bad thing, we'd have good democracy, same with colonialist fiction.

I've elaborated in replies.

I read once in an essay about repression against anti-genocide protesters for Gaza: “We live in a class dictatorship thinly disguised as a democracy.” But democracy has always been class dictatorship. There was never a democracy that wasn't. Same with the noble-savage trope.

The idea that if democracy wasn't bourgeois, liberal, colonized, settler, white, etc, etc, it would be good is kinda noble-savage coded. That there exists a pure democracy under the snow of capitalism is a myth.

Maybe don't