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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL.

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Clearly the No Kings protests struck a nerve. They sent a message and it appears it was received. [/quote]

I get the purpose behind the protests...but honestly...aside from making you feel better, what did it really solve? Sure, it proved that you did what you have the right to do...protest. But the protests are over and tomorrow it's back to work. Back to school.

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Welcome to 2025. I’m a Fed who has been dealing with DOGE for six months. WTF is wrong with something that “just” makes me feel better? Like I’m less alone? Like the opposition is organized an growing?  I could absolutely use it before I go deal with DOGE in the morning.

But also. LA was the first city. A test case. It’s not meant to be the last one.  Can you imagine living with that in DC where half the city is federal?  And, look at those crowds in Chicago, Philly, SF, NYC— all the places they said ICE would be ramping up efforts soon.  They got a hundred thousand protestors out as a show of force in big blue cities before they send in ICE and the marines.  That’s a lot of bodies that are willing to take to the streets. ICE plus 500 National Gurdsman plus 400 Marines aren’t going to be able to do anything if they roll in unless the start killing people. If they send in Marines and that number of people turn out and peacefully hold their ground— what’s the plan?. People are getting smarter about tear gas and rubber bullets and having medics at demonstrations. They’d have to use live ammo to disperse a crowd that size.

Now, I realize Trump is fully willing to have the Marines open fire on peaceful American citizen protestors. But Kent State was a turning point in the Vietnam War. Are you, MAGA, ready for our military to mow down your fellow citizens? Even if they are beta liberals? Are you ready for the next POTUS to open fire on you?

At any rate, it makes a “don’t f—k with… Philly, Chicago, NYC, NOVA (someone please tell them we aren’t a “city” when they list cities ICE is headed to), insert your large blue city here.  There are more of us than you. A lot more.  And we won’t be violent. But we won’t back down. So go on and have the military attack American citizen on live TV. Even in China, on live TV, the tank stopped in Tienamen Square rather than kill a citizen while the world watched. Talking tough is one thing. Killing your own citizens while the world watches is something else altogether.

So yes, the masses of people in cities being targeted makes a substantive point. [/quote]

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