[localghost3000]

I live in LA and have been here for almost 30 years now. This stunt is a provocation designed to get a reaction. He wants an excuse to crack heads in a city he hates and that hates him back. He probably also wants us to forget about Musk outing him on the Epstein files.

Watching this unfold here is reminding me strongly of the Ghorman plotline in Andor S2: "You need a resistance you can count on to do the wrong thing at the right time."

[yupitsme123]

I don't disagree with you, but after all the damage that was done by riots in 2020, there should be a desire to nip violent protests in the bud.

[johnnyanmac]

As Newsom said, sending military on US soil is escalating violence, not quelling it.

We have some 9000 LAPD and we have sports game upsets with worse destruction than this. This was not only illegal but unnecessary.

[komali2]

If you please, I would find your argument more compelling if I wasn't personally aware that the damage from protests in 2020 was very little compared to normal day to day activity in cities, or the typical damage after a popular sporting event, as well as my awareness that the most famous incidents of damage from BLM protests were from positively identified undercover police officers and white supremacist agitators.

Given these facts, can you justify moving America towards more of a police state (and abdicating more of our liberties) because of... why?

[BriggyDwiggs42]

Why does 2020 fundamentally alter the nature of protest?