I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought....
This changes nothing. Spend that political capital lefties. Lord knows the people in washington refuse to. You couldnt force me at gun point to support the GOP.
Ummm guys I'm not american can someone what the heck is going on?
Trump is using the military to occupy a city that hates him. He wants to deport a lot of people, but the city isn't having it so protests have emerged.
From what I've seen, four self driving taxies was burned (the car on the image) by protestors, while the police intentionally shot a news reporter, used a horse to trample a detained protestor, and has deployed marines to the streets.
A photojournalist was hit over the weekend and is still in the hospital after surgery.
The federal agency ICE is completely captured by fascists. They are arbitrarily staging immigration crackdowns using hastily deputized agents who arrest people off the street while hiding their identity. They came to Los Angeles, a fervently anti-fascist area. It triggered massive but mostly peaceful protests, and some protestors wave Mexican flags like OP's picture.
Trump is using the protests as a pretext to claim this is an invasion, so he can mobilize the federal military against citizens. The protests are getting more chaotic (by design, since military presence is exacerbating tensions), which causes the police violence to increase, in a vicious cycle.
Thank you. I have no idea what happened to LA this past few days, i know there's a protest and there's police violence against protestors and there's chaos, beyond that i'm very much in the dark.
'Captured'
I would say 'founded and staffed', but yes.
The orange turd is attacking American citizens to cause commotion so we can forget that he is named in the Epstein files where he is probably named as a rapist.
Is that a wagon wheel?
Old crow coming to rock it
No, it's the wheel of a burning vehicle that's closer than is obvious.
The hole for the lugs & nuts makes it apparent.
headed down south past north carolin'
Yes, this is definitely a shit post.
That's devinetively one hell of an image. This goes hard.
Plays hard into right wing propaganda.
This is populist violence and outrage that would be better directed in an organised bus-to-washington program that would only attract the politically committed (and ideally more disciplined).
They could be briefed on the bus.
Yeah, the protestors shouldn't be physically stopping the shutzstaffel from taking people to the camps. They should all get on busses for a two week round trip to inform the president that he violated the constitution when he sent in the marines and they would like him to stop now please if its not too much trouble.
When will these fuvking politically incompetent lefties ever learn?
This is the same playbook they use. Russia do it, Germany do it, France do it, Canada do it, Israel do it.
We saw congress representatives ignoring people questions, and sometime not even showing up for meetings.
The whole idea is to represent people, but they ignore your voice.
They take your right, they ignore your peaceful protest, and then criminalize your peaceful protest, then arrest you.
When you try to resist symbolically “Thrown rock at a tank” they escalate the response and claim you are violent.
Then they tell you “should protest peacefully” so they can again ignore you and retaliate silently.
The US history is full with peaceful protest, useful protest did nothing and never done any thing useful.
When the protest start taking rich people income that when we see a quick change.
If lefties could learn they'd be leftists
That bus would have its brake lines cut before Trump's first diaper change.
Could also all be arrested or assaulted on the bus by the gestapo or their KKK supporters
Good shitpost.
Yeah, every Mexican flag in all of these photos is NOT helping their cause any. Just looks like exactly what the GOP says it is, an invasion. I'm not even sure I've SEEN an American flag during all the protest photos going around.
If you weren’t there, what you mean is you haven’t been shown any American flags in the protests.
https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3lr7cw5wlas2j
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/immigration-protests-threaten-to-boil-over-in-los-angeles
Anyone who thinks there needs to be more American flags at the protests is welcome to bring them along with themselves. But sitting here criticizing the people actually off their ass and trying to protect democracy and their neighbors is bullshit.
Further, the right is literally never going to see resistance to Trump positively. Anyone who has been on the Fox News drip for the past 20 years is so unhinged that living in California is a crime to them. Asking people whose neighbors and family members have been kidnapped by the federal government to hide their heritage in their protests because it might offend people that already hate them and want them gone is ridiculous. At least if you want to keep those people as allies.
Muh flag
I'm saying it has everything to do with optics.
Big angry crowds all flying Mexican flags just plays into their agenda. It looks like this isn't Americans fighting back against ICE, it looks like it's Mexicans fighting back against ICE IN America...
Which in turn, just makes it look (to the average American) that they're onto something, and that the Trump team is doing what they say they are.
You are well within your rights to protest using any flag your like. Don't buy the bullshit. It's called freedom of speech
Why the fuck would the protectors wave the flag of the government that is oppressing them?
Why tf would they carry an American flag at a protest. Thats stupid enough for me to assume you are a bot.
Fucking Crayondevourer indeed
The low IQ Republican take who aren't smart enough to get the context.
Haven't voted Republican. So you missed the mark there.
In fact, just seen protestors in person an hour ago screaming that LA used to be Mexico and they're taking it back - so the arguments that they're fighting for American Democracy are bullshit from your ilk as well.
Granted, I know that emotions are pretty high right now - but my point stands.
I've seen a couple. They were getting burned. Nothing about it helps their cause any. They're declaring themselves enemies of America. Brain dead.
You've got little concept of what their cause is. Their cause is "you've pushed us to the breaking point and this society is no longer worth enabling, the social contract is dead." It's not to make the liberals sad, it's to hit everyone who wants to enable the system through disruption until their grievances are acknowledged. That's always been the method of even the most peaceful of successful protest movements. The entire point is to flex political power(and I'm not talking about voting here), not hope some liberal gives them thoughts and prayers.
A dumbass ICE supporter in the wild.
That is probably a good point.
You got downvoted but you're right
He's wrong by default because he fell for the LeftRightism demobilisation memes, but it is true that nearly all politicians work for the preservation of the status above all else. Those that performatively go against the grain, are tokenist politicians, like Noam Chomsky, serce the system by denouncing it. Autoflagellants.
Now the way out of this is "Effective Action", organized, targeted, effective not demonstrative. The demonstration is the warning before action. The proof they mean business with barely contained violence.
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