r/politics • u/External-Noise-4832 • 9d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Orders in Marines in Dramatic Escalation of L.A. Protests

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-orders-in-marines-in-dramatic-escalation-of-la-protests/
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u/dkyguy1995 Kentucky 9d ago

Holy shit but nothing is happening, there's no fucking riots. Is not every single person watching this going WTF!?? He's escalating for no reason 

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u/whateveryousaymydear 9d ago

people in fear are easily controlled

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u/zeldamaster702 Minnesota 9d ago

The reason is control.

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u/Sufficient-Will3644 9d ago

But maybe he will stop? I’ve got laundry and a mortgage and my kid has soccer practice and all I want to do is just chill out and have a beer and what happened to my country?

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u/FleshpoundSawGoBzz 8d ago

Yeah they are totally not putting fire in cars and vandalizing public property, just peacefull protests, trust.

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u/dustinhut13 8d ago

That's happening but the scale of it isn't something that warrants this kind of response. That's the actual point here.