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In reply to the discussion: Police let violent mobs attack UCLA students. This is what lawlessness looks like - The Guardian [View all]jaxexpat
(7,440 posts)36. The scenario changes, reflecting the investments of energies for those to whom anarchy is success.
The current actors are the perpetual interlopers whose identities always fade away upon investigation, but they are at it. Just as they were in Chicago in '68 and 1619 and again in 1815 at Waterloo. They are TPTB, sans the usual camouflage of respectability. They may think they're Trump's army but their orders come from other, actual, people, people they don't even know. Minions are like that, saluting one way but getting their orders from another and they don't even notice the disconnect. It's not such a surprise that the "proud boys" and ""oath keepers" are largely populated by ex-military, people who were trained to take orders. Herded cats (or Democrats/Progressives) make terrible order followers.
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Police let violent mobs attack UCLA students. This is what lawlessness looks like - The Guardian [View all]
erronis
May 2024
OP
Didn't you know? It's all about them being right, all the time, about everything?
AnrothElf
May 2024
#12
When you don't track down and prosecute people making violent threats this is what you get.
onecaliberal
May 2024
#32
Jewish students say pro-Israel violence at UCLA protest camp undercut their advocacy
Celerity
May 2024
#23
The scenario changes, reflecting the investments of energies for those to whom anarchy is success.
jaxexpat
May 2024
#36
Beat me to it. That is a shameful (but hardly surprising) post. The hypocritical cheering on of mob violence
Celerity
May 2024
#34