This should be raised every time the storm trumpers in Portland are spoken about.

[Soph0571]

Oh my double standards you say? The hypocrisy and the lack of a level playing field is built into the DNA of the republican movement and all that enable them, and the horrors that they perpetuate against minority communities is part of their plan to retain power.
White male far right privilege be like of course the constitution only applies to us... of course they get treated differently, they have spent 400 years making it so - and what is happening right now points completely to why people have to protest in the face of government paid for violence - so that in the future the staggering difference of treatment between co-horts are significantly mitigated.

[gab13by13]

1. So was the post that trump used Erik Prince's mercenaries

Fake news? I see the post disappeared. I mean at Portland. If true that is big news.

[IronLionZion]

3. There was less tear gas and rubber bullets with the last president

[Joinfortmill]

4. Yeah, no shit.

[ret5hd]

5. I will add something to that sentiment:

(not mine, I read it somewhere else and am probably badly paraphrasing it, but you should understand what i'm getting at)

The public seems to judge the overwhelmingly peaceful BLM protestors by the actions of the very worst actors, lumping them all together with words like rioters, thugs, looters, etc.

Yet when we talk about the cops killing people with gleeful abandon, we get told that it is only a few bad apples, etc.

BTW, ACAB and FTP. The very very few good police (truly the exception that proves the rule) that turn on the "few bad apples" are promptly fired, demoted or harassed from their jobs.

[Nevilledog]

7. ...

[ret5hd]

8. Thank you!!! Much more succinct!

[crickets]

9. +1000

[Hotler]

6. No rubber bullets but, there were rubber dicks.

[Flaleftist]

11. I thought they were candy dildos.

[Blue Owl]

10. K&R