In five jurisdictions reviewed by The Appeal, prosecutors have filed or are considering filing 187 charges against 66 protesters—including alleged hate crimes on cops, mob action, and attempted ethnic intimidation.

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    People writing such biased and one-sided bullshit are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

    Actual hate (and other) crimes happen as part of protests. So does wrongful prosecution for made up infractions to suppress certain opinions.

    As long as legitmate protestors and the media supporting them blindly fails to even acknowledge the possibiltyof actual criminals in their ranks and thus fails to distance themselves they are simply enabling their opposition.

    As for every topic, whether it’s political, social or anything else: If you managed to let it devolve into tribalism you have already lost.

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      Are you a Russian agent? At this point, I assume anyone still trying to stir that part is a Russian operative trying to sew division and discord.

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        Yeah especially considering the context here where the prior administration was engaging in the exact same dystopian activity.

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          How many executive orders has any other presidents used, and how many of those gutted vital agencies?

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            It’s just a different brutality. Those who know their history will find it familiar, only it’s Americans who face it now.

            It’s also not a surprise it happened. People 40 years back could have said that once people in the USA do it to other countries, sabotage the infrastructure, then they or their children could do it to Americans too. And so they did