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pmdr 11 hours ago

As long as it's a mostly peaceful prostest, you're also allowed to set a few cars on fire and loot local businesses.

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ceejayoz 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As long as you say "I feared for my life", you're apparently also allowed to shoot random civilians if you're a cop.

Which is kinda why people are upset enough to set shit on fire.

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pmdr 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I was merely hinting at protests being called peaceful by the media when they clearly weren't. Not saying they weren't justifiably so.

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ceejayoz 10 hours ago | parent [-]

They were overwhelmingly so. Millions protested, across the country and even overseas; dozens committed felonies of the sort you describe.

Martin Luther King Jr. was subject to the same bullshit. https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/iia9lq/this_c...

	▲	dhhdhjoe 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
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kg 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When I put the two sides on the scale - the things being protested and the damage done by protesters - typically it's very easy for me to write off a couple burned cars or broken windows, even if I'm not a fan of broken windows or burned cars. Because typically these protests in the US are over things like reckless killings.

	▲	budman1 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All of the US protests in the last 10 years have been mild. Sure a couple of Waymos get burned up, but they are easy to capture :) Get all those folks marching, you aren't going to get good decisions out of everyone. But the expression of the people is hard for those in power to ignore.