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What History Tells Us to Expect From Trump’s Escalation in Los Angeles Protests

www.themarshallproject.org

A large body of research, spanning more than 50 years, shows that heavy-handed policing and militarized responses to civil unrest tend to make protests more volatile — not less.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250610115623/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/09/los-angeles-ice-national-guard-protests

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Adding fuel to a fire makes it larger? Fuck me this is breaking news
- It happened before the 1960s too, even!
- I really dislike this dismissive attitude towards "obvious" news.
Sounds like a great excuse to declare martial law and suspend the constitution.
- Probably start at this "parade". Just leave the military out there and call it "protection from the liberal terrorists"
  
  You get a parade! And you get a parade! Everyone gets a paraaade!
  Such a stupid timeline. We're burning it all down to feed the ego of a guy who can't be convinced his fake tan looks like it was mixed from a prison toilet.
  
  I suspect the parade was a pretext to shore up defenses around the capital.
- And distract attention from him raping underage girls with Epstein
  
  His creepy shit is old news. Even if documents clearly confirmed it, it wouldn't move the needle.
  Republicans love grooming and pedophilia. They've long advocated youth indoctrination and child marriage. Their only consistent virtue is winning and being the oppressors.
- I think that might push more people to join, across party lines.
Yeah I think that's actually the plan here though
Is this the past that righties want, the subdued public discourse over shooting our own? Cause they can catch shots too.
- They'll only feel more justified in genocide when they catch a few shots. I like to call it the Bibi-Hamas strategy

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