• ileftreddit@piefed.social
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    12 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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        12 days ago

        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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            12 days ago

            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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              12 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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                12 days ago

                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.