• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    People say it’s hard to protest because America is so spread out.

    It also means that when the Fed tries to crack down on protests, there’s too much ground for them to be everywhere at once.

    They can’t handle one city, if they try and deploy all over it’ll be an even bigger cluster fuck, and make the military even more fed up with trump.

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    In Austin, police were forced to use pepper spray and tear gas…

    i’m sorry, who is forcing the police to do this? it seems like they are willingly doing this, not being forced.

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      They wanted to play with their military grade toys, and live targets got them salivating like the predators they are.

      So you see, “forced”.

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        22 days ago

        Woah, inflammatory language! Not all of them are “predators”! Some of them are fascists, or racists, or bullies, or spouse-beaters, or cowards, or…

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      23 days ago

      Resist this Macho Military Mayhem produced by BIG TACO & Co. !!! Press on, siblings & niblings!

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      Had a sales call with a big client in Chicago. They were all told to wfh and not come into city bc protests. Minor disruption but that’s lost revenue to Chicago transit, food vendors, etc, plus the tax revenues. Bad example bc most outspoken mayor in America but you get the point.

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    This is good news. We can’t call ourselves a moral country with these masked ICE thugs going around kidnapping with impunity.

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    That’s the right flag. Gotta make it clear this is the Orange turd attacking American citizens.

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      That’s actually bad ass. Most of the time I see american flags, I think that’s some bootlicker shit. But man an American flag while getting teargassed by the same people who vowed to protect their citizens, there’s something powerful about that message.

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        And imagine the symbol of that very flag being waved this coming 4th of July. They better saw o large one together and have everyone come and touch it or see it or recognize it somehow. I have a feeling that if it survives this, it will go to a museum. I’m sure the flag from the iconic image of the motorcycle guy with the Mexican flag too will get to be in a museum. But that’s not our flag and it sends the wrong message. They are attacking Mexicans for sure but mostly Americans. The American flag should fly to remind the soldiers doing the attacking who they are attacking. Americans don’t take well being attacked.

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      Seems like many MAGAts were mad at LA due to the non-American flags being shown. There were some… but not as much as the media (or individuals videos) was showing.

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    Fresno as well. Only a small amount of news picked it up, but there was a huge amount of people out.

    Im seeing a lot of local cities doing the same.

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    Where’s that guy who was like “I don’t see any American flags at these protests” in complaint about the Mexican flags at the LA protests

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      Even so, with where things are now and are going toward, we will suffer greater injury if we do not act.

      Their’s not to make reply, 
      Their’s not to reason why,  
      Their’s but to do and die