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Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote: post #794
thinkingtoilet wrote: post #629

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Colin Kaepernick protested very peacefully and people were irate. The vice president went out of his way to just to walk out of a game. Let's stop with the "I'd be ok if it was a peaceful protest" nonsense. The protests in LA were peaceful until the military showed up. It was intentionally escalated because they know people will believe anything they see on TV. The burning cars didn't happen until after the military…

No military assets were deployed in response to Colin Kaepernick's peaceful protests.

The vice president was. And the head of the military said he should be physically assaulted. The same people calling for "peaceful protests" actively hated people for doing it. The calls are hollow. You know this, and you know what point I was making.

Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by dfxm12 »

lemoncookiechip wrote: post #497
Larrikin wrote: post #224

If illegal immigration is such a problem, why not fine businesses 5x salary for using the labor, for as long as it was used? There are a lot of systems in place to verify working status at this point. It eliminates any incentive to hire this cheaper labor willing to work for lower wages. The people coming will be coming for a variety of reasons but it won't be to take the jobs of the uneducated Americans

Because this isn't about that. This is about having a perceived enemy that only you can fight. If it wasn't immigrants (legal or illegal), it would be a different group, within or outside of your borders. It's fascism 101.

In the context of finding an enemy, the admin literally tried to recreate the premise of the Michael Moore film Canadian Bacon before realizing it just wasn't sticking. I'll bet they took it as a challenge.

Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by bigyabai »

typeofhuman wrote: post #542
Ylpertnodi wrote: post #469

Don't forget the Epstein files, whilst all the current events play out.

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Elon has a working relationship with the Israelis. If any of what you said is even remotely true, then why would Musk betray the Mossad to expose a sitting president? Why can't Trump go to Bibi and make him admit to fielding a (now dead) operative and exonerate the case entirely? That makes no sense.

If you want to manufacture a wholesale lie like this, at least make it believable. I know it's hard to grapple with the fact that America elected a pedophile and convicted rapist as it's president, but you'll need more than tough words to blame it on Israel.

Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by hypeatei »

ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote: post #798
lemoncookiechip wrote: post #497

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because this isn't about that. This is about having a perceived enemy that only you can fight. If it wasn't immigrants (legal or illegal), it would be a different group, within or outside of your borders. It's fascism 101.

Trump would not have won if Dems had not escalated illegal immigration 2020-24. It was such an unforced error on Biden's part

Ah yes, you're doing the meme: if ANYTHING happens it means "fuck the Democrats"

Sure, it couldn't possibly be anything else like inflation after COVID (which happened globally) that caused incumbents to lose around the world. No, Dems just needed to get this one thing right and they're to blame for Trump. Sure.

EDIT: https://imgur.com/uPJAxEl

Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by ElevenLathe »

matt-attack wrote: post #602
JCattheATM wrote: post #591

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> If illegal immigration is such a problem, It isn't remotely the problem or even in the same galaxy as needing this type of response. The cause for the actions is racism. The protests are due to calling out racism and removing due process. Anything else is denial or sophistry, that's the simple truth.

So all counties with strong border policies are racist? That’s preposterous. Australia has some of the strictest border policies (drastically more strict than us). Do you believe they’re just racist policies too?

Yeah Australian immigration and border policy is super racist. It's not even up for debate.

Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by JCattheATM »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #768
Workaccount2 wrote: post #635

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If the Dems of 2020 understood that twitter is largely a fringe group of outspoken individuals, they probably would have won in landslide victories. Even if Biden had chosen a strong leader as VP rather than go with a diversity hire to appease the twitterites, we still could have probably avoided this.

Replacing him with kamala was the stupidest thing the dnc has done in recent years. What a vote of no confidence towards your own party when you actually bend to trumps bullshit ageism rhetoric and replace him at the final hour with a pick no one voted for. I just do not understand the logic behind the move for the dnc at all. Especially in hindsight when whatever it was supposed to achieve did not work at all.

> Replacing him with Kamala was the stupidest thing the dnc has done in recent years.

Not really. The choice between her and 45 should have been clear as day. She might have not been everybody's first choice, but she was more than qualified, more than competent, especially given the alternative. It shouldn't have even been a question, at all. But with how rampant misinformation is and how rare critical thinking is, here we are.

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Post by [deleted] »

lordfrito wrote: post #811
spencerflem wrote: post #793

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I think its reflective of broader society. For this issue in specific- You either think sending the military to break up protests against the wishes of the governor and mayor and against the bounds of the constituion is a problem, or you are insane. When ICE wears masks and whisks people off the street and sends them to overseas torture camps without warning or due process, you are either opposed or insane. There's h…

> To be clear- if you support what's happening here: you are a bad person . i genuinely hate you. This is the kind of political reductionism I was referring to. It's not OK to "genuinely hate" a person (or group of people) you've never even met, based on a single binary opinion you hold.. that's some serious "othering" going on. People aren't so black and white. If your comment was meant as sarcasm I don't get it.

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Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by drysine »

croisillon wrote: post #781
drysine wrote: post #691

Time for a Russian diplomat to go to LA and give cookies to the protesters in show of support? [0] [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/6/61/Victoria_Nula...

this might come as a shock but Kyiv is not in Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27

Re: Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests

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Post by croisillon »

drysine wrote: post #829
croisillon wrote: post #781

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this might come as a shock but Kyiv is not in Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27

oh you meant Lithuania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania
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