The recent protests have drawn hundreds of participants but remain far smaller than other mass demonstrations, including the 2020 protests against police violence that spurred Newsom to request assistance from the National Guard.

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    He needs his base to believe Italy’s it is a war zone.

    The propaganda machine is going to make it look like CA and other places are in open insurrection to justify civil war.

    Welcome to Nazi America.

    (Edit to correct an auto incorrect.)

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      Honestly I thought you just meant they’d take footage from a recent riot somewhere in Italy and claim it was Inglewood, manufacturing evidence is certainly in the playbook as we’ve seen from previous wars.

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        I mean, they might do that. Floyd rioters apparently spoke a whole lot of french in the coverage my grandma saw (and sent me.)