This is retarded. Police are letting people do things because that is what the politicians who run California openly want, not because the rioters are secret Federal agents.
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Perhaps. But governments never let a good crisis go to waste. It's going to be used to keep people scared and distracted from an increase in control.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
No, I'm saying this because this is what governments fucking do.
In this example, what California’s government is fucking doing is pretending that nothing is happening, and telling us that the Federal government is bringing violence to peaceful protest.
Is that what appears to be happening?
That's what California and the media on one side are doing, yes. And the other side is trying to sneak in use of new surveillance tech, violating the 4th Amendment in new and perverse ways, while normalizing the idea of a national military presence in local areas.
It's all evil. It's all being used for control and shirking off responsibility and accountability to other people.
That is my conception of it anyway, but I'm also looking to get more info and more perspective. Thank you for your two sats.