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Yes, Newsom is kind of a scumbag. Yes, he just says what people around him want to hear. Yes, he pals around with far-right nutjobs. Yes, he's like every stereotype people have about politicians come to life...
... but the poasts.
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Even if location tracking is turned off, people can be and have been tracked just based on cell tower pings.
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Real risk that Waymo displaces the bus and not the private car, though.
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Speaking as a Gav Newsom hater, I feel like Newsom has been really on-point during this whole crisis.
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I was there yesterday. 99% of the protesters were peaceful. There were babies, dogs, - people in wheelchairs. People were handing out free water and masks. Out of 10's of 1000's of people, only a handful were responsible for the graffiti. The only scary part was the threat of getting tear gassed.
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Just in general when it comes to protest discourse... Be the change you want to see in the world.
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Trump is coming for my home in Seattle and your home in Minneapolis, next. I'm frankly scared, because Trump is TRYING to cause hurt and chaos for the (many) Americans that he views as his enemies.
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So, like, a half-Shrek?
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So I assume this Nick Huber guy is now a tomato mogul, right?
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And at least for now, Newsom is OUR scumbag!
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Newsom is kind of a corporate scumbag, but then that's also Trump. Gotta send a scumbag to understand a scumbag.
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What to expect next:
– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”
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"Likes sports and wants to get laid" is like 90% of men. If that's how we're defining "bro" then "bro" has no meaning.
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She says some insightful things but it just seems like she has a big, big chip on her shoulder that dominates her perception of *everything*.
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You gotta consider the cost/benefit here though, don't you?
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Really, fuck looters. If you use legitimate civil grievance to steal shit, you are at best a nihilist.
If "violence" means throwing a tear gas canister back at police then I can defend that, but if "violence" means robbing the local small businesses then eat shit.
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The party of American values and the party of the actual people currently living in America are the Democrats.
World-class PR victory of the Republicans to convince people otherwise.
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Republicans actually hate America. They loathe the people of a diverse nation. They have contempt for its laws and constitution and that is perfectly reflected in Donald Trump.
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And really, PR aside (because yeah, we clearly lost that war), the police WERE the reason the protests escalated. I was here. I believed it then, and I believe it now.
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The protest I linked was months later. Each new protest was fueled *primarily* by anger at the police response to the prior protest. When I went to the marches people were substantially more angry at SPD than they were angry about George Floyd.
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As I recall, there was a lot of looting in the first couple days of protests here, and it was bad. Looters should get arrested, and I think those people didn't get much sympathy (certainly not from me). Aside from low grade random vandalism though, it was a slow simmer for a long while after that.
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Anyway, it was a complicated time, but I went to protests that summer, and I'd do it again. Indeed, if what's happening in LA isn't happening in Seattle too by the end of the summer I will be *shocked.*
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Both the level of destruction and the first hand accounts of what actually happened were just not widely spread outside of the city limits. I suspect the same thing will happen in Los Angeles. Frankly, that kind of thing has been happening throughout history (see, like, The Paris Commune).
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It was a funny thing ("funny"), where the people in the city were mostly supportive of the protests and mad at SPD, and the people outside the city who only ever heard about things on the news thought the place had burned down. We're living in that bifurcated reality still.
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... than any of the *three hundred* largest cities in America
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It was a few days later that SPD abandoned the east precinct (after several more outrage attacks and escalations on protesters).
Out of curiosity I went to the "autonomous zone." It was a pretty typical protest camp, yet Fox News turned it into The Last of Us.
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The police escalated at every step - from grabbing the pink umbrella to pepper spraying the crowd to bombarding the area with tear gas. SPD turned what had been a peaceful protest for the prior *two hours* into a melee.
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I don't mean to pick a fight, but this always gets stuck in my craw. As someone who lived/lives in one of the main cities where this was happening, the police were responsible for maybe the *majority* of the disorder.
This is the protest that spawned the "CHAZ."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NpX...
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Wasn't BLM like 2-to-1 popular in 2020 public opinion polls?