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So in protests where there are no police officers getting killed or no civilians being attacked we’re gonna go ahead and deploy the National Guard, but in national weather emergencies we’re not gonna give money to California or Arkansas?  I think that tells me everything I need to know about this current administration.
It's theatre. Plain and simple. They just want the spectacle of unruly violent riots and the whether that happens or not, they will make it look like it happened. Nothing makes a protest look like a warzone like the literal military being there.
This theatre is exactly why it’s so important to fly American flags during the protests. Put away the Mexican and Palestinian flags, so the news can’t spin it as a foreign invasion. Fox News has been cherry picking footage of burning cars with Mexican flags in the background, and going “look how dangerous these Mexicans are! It’s a foreign invasion, and Trump is using the national guard to defend America.” That “foreign invasion” is extremely specific wording, because that’s how Trump is going to justify all of the crazy despotic bullshit.
Make it abundantly clear that this is American troops, deployed on American soil, against American protesters. MLK Jr was extremely particular about American flags being in the crowds whenever he marched. There are American flags somewhere in the crowd, because he ensured that his protests were full of them. He wanted to be sure that history wouldn’t get spun to make it seem like the protesters weren’t American citizens. He wanted the world to know that America was repressing its own citizens, and he didn’t want the government to be able to handwave it away with the “that’s not me” defense.
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I bought 12 so I can share!
What people believe is more important than what actually is.
Also, that time we had a literal insurrection with people threatening to hang elected officials