• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Then there’s pretext, and the leftists get painted as thugs - appropriate targets for more aggressive crackdowns.

        It’s a lose-lose, but protesters will almost never benefit by responding to police brutality with an armed response. Counter-protests are generally a lesser problem.

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      9 months ago

      But from whom? We may never know.

      /R /s