• ileftreddit@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    If I had to guess, some kind of right wing nonsense, probably done by a Trump supporter. Any truly progressive person wouldn’t resort to vandalism in the first place

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      13 hours ago

      Any truly progressive person wouldn’t resort to vandalism in the first place

      Do you at all think we’re in a civilized and rational world? The best way to prevent your ideology from being harmed by the actions of a few is to not fucking lie or live in delusion. Call it out, reject it. Don’t stick your fingers in your ears and say “OUR SIDE WOULD NEVER” or you look the fool.

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        If the car was instead an AOC campaign office, then yes, I would wonder if this was a Trump supporter, because it would make a pretty decent amount of sense for them to hate her. For a pro-Palestine person to hate AOC makes literally zero sense whatsoever at all.

        Edit: Wait… pro-Mexican person? That’s not the Palestinian flag. What are you even talking about?

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            Why are you arguing that the person burning that police car must be “progressive”?

            I mean, I’m not real into extended arguments about what words mean what things. The main point I took is that this kind of political vandalism is much more commonly the tactic of right-wing agitators, especially when the target is conveniently one of the highest-profile left people in power in government and the grounds for the attack are so flimsy and nonsensical from a standpoint of actually trying for change for the Palestinian people by someone who cares about Palestinian people.

            I agree with that point. If you want to get into extended semantics to distract from that argument into some kind of hair-splitting about particular words, I’m going to take it as you don’t really have any substantive way to disagree with it.

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              2 days ago

              They’re not police cars. They’re self-driving cars, and the photo was taken at the anti-ICE rioting in Los Angeles.

              You have to be a special brand of stupid to set an electric vehicle on fire.

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                Old and busted: Tying burning tufts of wool to the sparrows and cats and letting them loose in the enemy city to set the whole thing on fire

                New hotness: Lighting the electric vehicles on fire and letting them drive through the streets on their programming, and cause mayhem

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                Far as I recall, the electric vehicle’s cameras were (perhaps illegally) used against the protesters for surveillance and identification purposes.

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                  1 day ago

                  They were driverless taxis, cunningly parked up at a taxi rank. The devious bastards.