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Trump to Send National Guard to LA to Quell Immigration Protests: Live Updates

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National Guards to Deploy to L.A. as More Protests Are Planned

Note that the violence, as usual, is almost entirely on the part of the cops

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- ICE rolled in hard and fast with violence first.
  How so?
  
  In the past a guy with a clipboard would walk into a restaurant to talk to the owner about how many fines they would be getting. That should be all it takes. If you want to actually catch people, you set up at the exits before Mr clipboard goes in.
  Rolling in swat style is looking to pick a fight.
- They've won.
He has been looking for an excuse to do this for a long time.
We should fight back
- That’s why we’re here. ICE hit and run a protestor, protestors began throwing cinder blocks and M80s, ICE deployed tear gas, now the National Guard is dispatched.
  Hegseth has the Marines standing by, and the Insurrection Act will be next. This is what happens when we get violent before we have the numbers to fight. We’re fucked because people are acting on emotion and completely unaware that this is Trump’s Reichstag Fire.
  Edit: Please share this.
  
  Fascism will escalate regardless, in the absence of real resistance they will simply lie to justify doing what they were always planning to do anyway, passively accepting their actions will do nothing to help, resistance is the only correct answer and it will absolutely have to be violent
  
  I keep seeing this, but I don't know how much I'd trust another US government entity.
Split up, overwhelm the resources
- Gorilla Protest Tactics.
  
  You probably meant guerrilla protest tactics, but gorilla protest tactics invoke a hilarious mental image and if that's the direction we want to go, I'm behind it.
Will LA be our Kent State? Will it matter?
I stand with LA.
What would happen if someone with a drone flew over and dumped a few gallons of gasoline on the group of ice? I bet they would leave. Pretty fast. Doesn't even have to get lit, once you're drenched in gas, you probably want to go change.
- You underestimate how incredibly flammable gasoline is
  
  I think you misunderstand. I just don't actually care.
- Just gotta take a cigarette first.
We should probably start doing a Lenin and wait on the Canadian border, and make our way in to direct the revolution when shit hits the fan
And it begins.
Remember, three 100-person protests are better than one 300-person protest.
Why wouldn’t he?
Americans will continue to put up a token resistance (at best) and then accept it as normal after a couple weeks.

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