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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLarge crowd vandalizes trains, cop cars and businesses los angeles downtown May 25
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Large crowd vandalizes trains, cop cars and businesses los angeles downtown May 25 (Original Post)
Demovictory9
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Can't have anything nice. What did they get out of this pointless destruction?
Wingus Dingus
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Wingus Dingus
(8,994 posts)1. Can't have anything nice. What did they get out of this pointless destruction?
lostnfound
(16,991 posts)4. Who benefits? trump.
He will use it to stir up support for cracking down on freedom of assembly, and turning public opinion away from current politicians in California. Hell use it to make liberals look bad, and justify pro-police anti-people policies.
Im suspicious. The tactic of paying a crowd to engage in disruptive behavior dates back to Kermit Roosevelt and attacking Mossadeqh in the 1950s in Iran.
efhmc
(15,488 posts)2. Because of a party shutdown?
Uncle Joe
(61,780 posts)3. I believe it's more fundamental than that, the toxic flows downhill.
So if the top leadership of a nation shows no respect for the law, then the youth of said nation are more likely to be stunted in their development and base their moral decisions on social approval (among their peer group) rather than mature to the point of respecting the law