• ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org
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      You’ve been led to believe this by a media narrative. The protests are not violent. The policing is violent, but the protests are not.

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          And that “certain level” is very low. The media narrative is trying to make it seem much higher than it is. They largely omit the speeches, the chanting, the dancing, and the standing around. They minimize the extraordinarily violent response.

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          Even if there was a certain level of violence occurring and it was not caused by the completely disproportional response of the LAPD, would that make the protest invalid? Because that’s what they are trying to make you think. That want it to be impossible to protest, which we are supposed to have a right to do in this country.

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      Every fucking post has at least one of these faux-incredulous replies now… This shit is so disingenuous.

      Fuck off with the concern trolling.

      They act like they’re “just asking questions,” yet they end up arguing with anyone who actually answers them, with obviously no interest in finding the truth.

    • I’ve seen exactly 1 Waymo car from several different angles on fire from several prominent news sites, and I’ve also seen the videos of how that 1 car got set on fire (it wasn’t the protesters; it was the pigs’ flashbangs).

      All the violence has been completely 1 sided and it’s not the protesters who are being violent.

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      Another idiot that doesn’t bother to research what is actually going on and relying on their goon media to fill them in.

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        Don’t you get it, they’re “just asking questions”?

        Please ignore the fact that they have doubled and tripled down by arguing with everyone that actually answered them.