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Large crowd vandalizes trains, cop cars and businesses los angeles downtown May 25 (Original Post) Demovictory9 May 2025 OP
Can't have anything nice. What did they get out of this pointless destruction? Wingus Dingus May 2025 #1
Who benefits? trump. lostnfound May 2025 #4
Because of a party shutdown? efhmc May 2025 #2
I believe it's more fundamental than that, the toxic flows downhill. Uncle Joe May 2025 #3

lostnfound

(17,630 posts)
4. Who benefits? trump.
Wed May 28, 2025, 12:24 AM
May 2025

He will use it to stir up support for cracking down on freedom of assembly, and turning public opinion away from current politicians in California. He’ll use it to make liberals look bad, and justify pro-police anti-people policies.

I’m suspicious. The tactic of paying a crowd to engage in disruptive behavior dates back to Kermit Roosevelt and attacking Mossadeqh in the 1950s in Iran.

Uncle Joe

(65,525 posts)
3. I believe it's more fundamental than that, the toxic flows downhill.
Tue May 27, 2025, 01:46 PM
May 2025

So if the top leadership of a nation shows no respect for the law, then the youth of said nation are more likely to be stunted in their development and base their moral decisions on social approval (among their peer group) rather than mature to the point of respecting the law

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