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The brainwashing is much harder when its your own community turning out

They care enough that they're trying to talk it down. Having a big chunk of the population turn out to tell off a dictator is a key step in how they lose power

Symbolic actions lead to practical ones — My friend group has been canvassing for Yes on California Prop. 50. Making popular support visible gets more people on your side, so we are all taking a couple hours to attend the rallly.

Basically, if we start shooting, that will result in a military response, and the US military is really good at massacres.

Meat first, money second

The "radical left " had the temerity to object to the hate

Lol no. The point of the pipeline is to enable Canada to sell tar to South America. No benefit for Americsns other than the pipeline owners

A VPN which shares an endpoint with a lot of bots might do it, as will running a "privacy" browser extension which strips the gift token off the URL, or disabling Javascript

Rumors going around that they're planning to fire live missiles at California out of fear of the protests.

Democrats got legislation to end gerrymandering through the House, but there wasn't support for ending the filibuster in the Senate to pass it.

The one I was at did training on how to respond. Remember: people are at a protest in their own community

Yeah, they've got maps of what that looks like in the article