Kamala said she was going to look for a ceasefire. Trump told Netanyahu to hurry up and finish the job. Get off your high horse.

EDIT: wow the tankies are out in full force tonight

Of course they can. Dictionaries are not the Bible. They exist to describe how words are used, not how they should be used. Words’ meaning changes over time (“gay” meant “happy” in the 20th century, to use the tired example) and new words get added to the dictionary every day (most dictionary websites have little blurbs showing words they’ve recently added). Dictionaries have historically, and continue to, change in response to how people use words, not the other way around. If your entire argument rests on the dictionary definition of the word “protest” not explicitly mentioning that to be considered a protest, something must be disruptive, it’s not a very good argument.

It also fails to consider that methods of convincing people who would rather simply ignore the issue to care about it that are not disruptive are few and far between.

Ah yes, the massively disruptive tactic of checks notes saying genocide is 1) bad and 2) happening prior to playing a piano piece. You’re right, he’s really crossed the line this time. How can he ever expect to garner support like that?

He’s almost as bad as the people with megaphones and signs marching and repeating chants!

And when exactly did “people turn it into” that? The purpose of a picket line is to be disruptive, and people have been doing those for over a century.

The point of protest is literally exactly that. The point of protest is to make the message impossible to ignore.

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