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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS4/15/2017 5:05:00 pm PDT

re: #171 goddamnedfrank

A good point but I’ve seen other protests turn into police riots with very little provocation. There’s also a disconnect between the fearlessness I’ve seen in leftist protestors when confronting police vs an unwillingness today to really fuck up the alt right neo nazis. I don’t think this is a new status quo however, but will instead devolve further. If the cops don’t demonstrate a readiness to really step in then the future will see the unstable elements on both sides feeling an increasing mandate to show up armed for real battle.

Have to say, they weren’t equpped for a police riot today — face masks, but no body armor or shields. This isn’t 60’s era Berkeley either. (In today’s case, my choice would be to stand well back and let the anarchists and the fascists have at it. A sweeping majority of Berkeley would agree with me.)