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Physically overpowering officers making arrests was never going to be an effective opposition strategy, so it’s just as well that there is sufficient force on hand to prevent it.
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Right, a step forward on the path to civilization.
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Let me know when the military attacks any protesters.
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Santa Monica, after watching my old Fairfax neighborhood burning the night before. In many ways SM has yet to recover, though that is also due to long term retail trends. Still the $1B+ damage during BLM protests is probably why we have Trump today. And looting has already begun today.
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He was shot by police, not military. And there will be more police violence if they feel like they are overmatched.
Of course it is not protesters who do the looting and wanton destruction. That’s why protesters will be largely unaffected by the military.
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Obviously, Trump is at fault and is trying to stir up violence to entertain his supporters. Troops will prevent that, as long as no one takes the bait. 1 in 4 Marines are Latino. They aren’t going to be opening fire on protesters.
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After watching my city looted while police were preoccupied with BLM protests, the arrival of troops was welcome, though late. While Trump’s motives are despicable, I see no reason troops protecting property should be a problem or be used to inflame protesters.
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Can’t wait to see him shaking his fist at the rain.
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Yeah, they are not going to target peaceful protesters.
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We had 2700 Nat Guard deployed here in January to prevent looting in aftermath of fires. They didn’t start shooting people. They kept things from getting out of hand, so nobody got shot. 1 in 4 US Marines are Latino. CA NG probably even higher
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BLM riots caused $1B+ in damage and are likely why we have Trump today. They are baiting protesters to entertain Fox viewers and distract them from failing policies. You folks are playing right into it.
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Santa Monica, looted in broad daylight. That was after watching Fairfax where I used to live looted the night before. Criminals take advantage of the police preoccupation with crowd control. BLM riots caused $1B+ in damages and are likely why we have Trump today.
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We use the word tribalism because people used to kill members of unfamiliar tribes who encroached on their turf.
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They’re not going against protesters. They’re preventing looters and anarchists from destroying property. There was zero violence in my city once the NG arrived, and I’m not aware of problems elsewhere. It’s bad optics for all involved, but it shouldn’t be an excuse to escalate violence.
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I watched my city get looted while police were overwhelmed by BLM protesters. I don’t mind troops standing around as a deterrent, as long as police are doing all the direct engagement. And honestly, better to preempt a riot with early show of force. Still should be local call.
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1 in 4 Marines are Latino
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I got a cab ride from an amnesty beneficiary from El Salvador. He was planning to retire in Nicaragua, where we lost, because it was too dangerous in El Salvador, where Reagan’s Contras won. Refugees still fleeing our victories in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
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Republicans perfected the art of carping from the sidelines when every blue collar worker had the radio tuned to Rush Limbaugh. Dems can’t and shouldn’t emulate. Voters will learn over these next 4 years that entertaining messaging does not make for good governing.
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I think he just has a keen nose for issues that pit Americans against each other. He’s a media producer, drawing insights from pro wrestling.
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Can’t they just say it’s for media headlines?
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administration famously known for honesty and integrity.
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His wife accused him of an affair and government corruption last year. Sounds like she is bringing receipts.
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He leads by suggestion, to maximum flexibility for evading responsibility. Habits of a lifelong criminal. Disastrous in a president.
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And completely ignoring the fact that it is operated by a billionaire to serve his personal agenda. How can McCardle not see that fundamental flaw?
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Stablecoins have legit use as borderless digital money. Many economies do not have ubiquitous digital bank money as we take for granted, and banks are not always heroic public services. Reliance on cash hinders economic development and is vulnerable to theft. www.forbes.com/sites/roomyk...
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But unless the goods exist in digital form it’s impossible to execute an atomic exchange. That’s why crypto has been largely limited to exchanging invented digital assets or illicit goods where no legal mechanism exists to secure an exchange in any case.
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And you might think about sticking around to make it a better place, but then you remember it is operated by a right wing billionaire to serve his personal agenda.
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Case in point
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I think it’s more like desperation, knowing Americans are consolidating against his failing policies, looking for issues to divide us
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1 in 4 Marines are Latino.
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All large companies have people sitting around doing nothing, or worse, generating work for other people that achieves very little else.
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Right, but people were saying her mistake was trying to appeal to centrists. The quoted results suggest the opposite. Real answer is the electorate is stupid and needs to get a bloody nose to wake up and remember why you don’t follow guys like Trump.
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Left
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That suggests that her message was more appealing to progressives than to moderates.
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Just thinking how we get first dibs on imports arriving from Asia.
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Only that protests will stop if Trump team follows the law.
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Doubtful. There are ~13M undocumented immigrants. 75% have no legal basis to be here. They deserve due process, but it will not make them happy to leave. I would be happy to see them stay. But other people disagree and they have a right to enforce the law.
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We don’t know what Covid would have been like without mitigation efforts, but we do know what influenza is like: it kills 20x as many without mitigation. Hard to imagine how Covid would not be effected similarly, saving millions of lives www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-...
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Right, but impossible to stop Fox from finding a few offensive clips to fill a broadcast. What will move the needle is consequences in their own lives overshadowing what they experience on TV.
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Undoing my like
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But that doesn’t mean you need to spend all day discussing it’s shit
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Governing so much different than campaigning.