Anonymous #1 14w

Good one drone!

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Anonymous #2 14w

The Jan 6 protestors were using violence to try to impose a far right dictatorship on the rest of us

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Anonymous #2 14w

If this government is so tyrannical why are they rioting in a refusal to go home? Sounds like Gucci mane in 2006 to me

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Anonymous #2 14w

Violence is not an acceptable form of protest and should be dealt with swiftly and effectively

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Anonymous OP 14w

I agree… the National Guard should be held responsible for inciting violence

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Anonymous OP 14w

🤓 GoOd OnE 🤓

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Anonymous #1 14w

Care to elaborate on that?

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Anonymous #1 14w

What do you consider January 6th to be?

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Anonymous OP 14w

The one where the losing party tried to overthrow the government? I’d call that treason. And it’s the same administration that is now widely overreaching their authority… shocker

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Anonymous OP 14w

Well they started the violence AND shot a foreign news reporter with a rubber bullet. I think we agree they should answer for that

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Anonymous OP 14w

Soying out

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Anonymous #1 14w

I don’t think you’ve seen what’s been going on in LA buddy. Deploying the national guard really is not an overreach of authority at this point 🤣. These people are destroying Los Angeles what good leader would sit back and watch foreign invaders burn their cities

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Anonymous OP 14w

So LA is like a city. And the US capital building is like a building owned by the government. So it’s pretty easy to say breaking and entering into one was domestic terrorism. But it’s pretty hard to say the same of many separate protests comprised of different groups of people across the second largest city in the nation. Hope this clarifies it for u <3

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Anonymous #1 14w

Explain how the national guard started the violence

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Anonymous OP 14w

And the National Guard started all of it. Trump is manufacturing a crisis to gain total control. It’s really quite obvious

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Anonymous #4 14w

I’m not confused as to why you consider Jan 6th to be an act of domestic terrorism, I’m confused as to how you say that and then try to rationalize that the burning of the American flag to wave another one above it, throwing large rocks at and attacking local law enforcement, pouring gasoline over and setting fire to civilian vehicles, and burning and looting local businesses are not acts of terrorism

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Anonymous OP 14w

They went in there without the authorization of the governor and started tear gassing peaceful protests

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Anonymous #1 14w

“Peaceful protests”

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Anonymous OP 14w

I’m not a lawyer, some of those probably are domestic terrorism (with the exception of both burning the US flag and flying a foreign flag both of which are protected rights per the 1st amendment) but those are individual actions taken by individual people. These protests are thousands upon thousands of people who are spread all over a massive city and the vast majority of them are not only not being violent but actively discouraging violence around them.

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Anonymous OP 14w

The point of Jan 6 was destruction and chaos. That is not the point of these protests. And they are being escalated by the Feds

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Anonymous #4 14w

So to me it’s strange that people want to declare the whole series of protests not only violent but terroristic if even one person acts violently. People are always going to show up to protests with bad intentions and it’s an intentional act of reduction to claim the whole point of the protest is moot the second someone in the protesting city does a crime.

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Anonymous #4 14w

I could argue that the vast majority of the people at Jan 6th were not being violent either but you would still consider them terrorists. Same thing here. Im not here to argue about whether or not Jan 6th was an act of terrorism, just saying that you look a little silly and frankly like a hypocrite pointing the finger then turning around and defending this

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Anonymous OP 14w

Ya absolutely not. Protesting is legal. Jan 6 was an intended takeover of the capitol. It was not and never will be the same thing as what’s happening in LA. What’s happening in LA is about equivalent to Kent State

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Anonymous #4 14w

There’s not just “one person acting violently” though is there?

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Anonymous #1 14w

Earlier you claimed that what was going on in LA is “patriotism.” If these people want to be so patriotic about Mexico, why do they insist on staying here and burning down LA instead of going home and making their country liveable. Protesting is legal, attacking law enforcement, burning civilians vehicles, and looting businesses are not.

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Anonymous OP 14w

Would it make a difference to you if it was though? That’s my whole point, you see burning cars and broken windows and condemn the whole movement. For every one person in LA using the protests to justify whatever crime they wanna do there are 100 people trying to make their voices heard peacefully. But you don’t care to hear them and you never will until 100% of the population of LA acts in a way you deem worthy. And that’s rlly lame dude

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Anonymous OP 14w

Most of the people protesting… aren’t illegals 🤯. I’m sure the Latinos would be happy to fly the American flag if this administration wasn’t trying to cleanse them. Also… Hispanics have been in Los Angeles for FAR longer than white people

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Anonymous #4 14w

If you do a crime you are a criminal but if you’re at a protest acting peacefully I don’t think you should be lumped in with criminals. That goes for Jan 6 too, the terrorism was breaking into a building and threatening congresspeople, not protesting. I think the goal of that day was centered on disrupting the election process which isn’t exactly legal, but even so I wouldn’t say everyone there was a criminal.

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Anonymous #4 14w

I’m not condemning the whole movement. I think it’s pretty lame you’d make that assumption of me. I just think that it needs to be recognized that there is indeed domestic terrorism going on here and that it needs to be stopped immediately, then I do think that those peaceful voices deserve to be heard whether I personally agree or not but i believe that we need to get rid of the people who only want to cause violence and chaos first

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Anonymous #1 14w

I’m sure this administration wouldn’t be trying to cleanse them if they entered the country legally!

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Anonymous OP 14w

The thing that sparked the LA protests was ICE arresting people at their immigration hearings. So shut the fuck up about “legal.” This admin wants zero immigrants

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Anonymous OP 14w

I mean hey I don’t know how realistic that is because you can’t know someone’s intentions at a protest until they act on them, but I basically agree with your sentiment. But when you look at a protest with tons of people being peaceful and significantly fewer people being harmful and choose to only talk about the property damage instead of the content of the protests I can’t help but assume that you’re doing it because deep down you’re not trying to hear what they have to say.

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Anonymous OP 14w

If they actually cared about that they’d implement immigration reform. The only thing they’ll do is make it harder

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Anonymous #4 14w

When listening to protesters is contingent on the absence of crime at the time of the protests, you’re condemning every protest movement before it begins. Bar none.

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Anonymous #1 14w

Once again the bad apples ruin the pie for everyone. There wouldn’t be mistakes like that if the last administration didn’t leave the border wide ass open for everyone and their abuelita to come through without a care in the world

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Anonymous OP 14w

Trump literally told Republicans to not vote for border reform so he could campaign on it 🤦‍♂️

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Anonymous #4 14w

I can understand the point you’re making here and it is actually an interesting argument. However i think that the “crime” (I think the right word here is violence) takes away from the protest no matter what someone like me thinks because the argument from both sides of the isle becomes more of a bickering match about the violence going on than the actual argument that was made in the first place.

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Anonymous OP 14w

No matter how “just” the protest may be people absolutely have a right to not accept violence. I get that no matter what there will be violent people at protests, but there will also always be people who oppose violence especially violence going on in their own country.

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Anonymous OP 14w

So why bother contributing to the bickering like you are with this post, yk? Like if I went to the strawberry festival and someone else there fucked your dad, I didn’t fuck your dad. I was there for the strawberries. And now you’re trying to compare me to someone from the much smaller blueberry festival last year where like a lottt of people fucked your dad. Like it’s just not helpful because I can’t control what other people there are doing

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Anonymous #4 14w

The strawberries are important, I went to the festival for the strawberries. And focusing on your dad and the various people fucking him just isn’t fair to the people who are trying to raise strawberry awareness. (This is a crazy analogy but this is kinda my point, large gatherings of people provide cover for violence and crime and there’s no way to organize a protest that will prevent that. So it has to be less important than the actual purpose of the gathering)

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Anonymous #4 14w

Also not for nothing if the cops stopped treating everyone at the protest like a potential criminal and stopped shooting rubber bullets randomly into the crowd and lighting off flashbangs, they would probably be more effective at actually catching people who are being violent, looting, etc.

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Anonymous #4 14w

The bickering will happen with or without me on here and the country will continue to be divided. Not sure where you’re going with that analogy as I never said ever protestor was a domestic terrorist I just think we ought to acknowledge that some of them legitimately are

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Anonymous #4 14w

Those cops would be a lot less on edge if there weren’t people throwing bricks at their heads

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Anonymous OP 14w

If there was an angry group of people and some of them threw a brick at you I think you’d be wary of anyone who associates with that group

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Anonymous OP 14w

Be a lot less bricks being thrown if the Feds didn’t place them there and start throwing them 😬

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Anonymous OP 14w

Not saying that’s necessarily right but human nature and survival instincts absolutely

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Anonymous OP 14w

Now that part I acknowledged like 50 comments back. But violence occurring at the time of a protest doesn’t mean the protest isn’t peaceful. The aim of the protests is overwhelmingly peaceful and most people are abiding by that. And I only argue because saying a protest isn’t peaceful and saying it’s domestic terrorism also means saying it shouldn’t be happening. Doesn’t matter if you don’t think that, that’s what you’re saying by only focusing on the violence and not the protests.

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Anonymous #1 14w

Yeah pretty sure yall placed those

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Anonymous OP 14w

Known Fed tactic for protests. Saw videos of bricks placed outside of ICE offices in LA… was not citizens

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Anonymous #1 14w

And your proof it wasn’t California feds? Or even that it was feds at all?

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Anonymous OP 14w

Idk if you’ve ever been to a protest but forming lines around the protest and firing inward is the standard practice and that’s what I mean by treating everyone as a criminal. That’s just not necessary to prevent crime. And if they’re shooting everyone including people without bricks because they’re scared, maybe they should do a job that doesn’t involve protest control. They, like you, shouldn’t see the entire group of people as a monolith. It’s not just intellectually bad, it’s bad policing

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Anonymous OP 14w

It’s literally a known protest tactic…

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