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The church protest was cringe and garbage. I don't know what those people thought they were doing, but they basically turned even more people against them.

This whole ICE thing is a psychological operation. It's media manipulation and all the people violently protesting are useful idiots falling for it, or they're feds in disguise instigating more violence to turn around and give more crackdowns.

Don Lemon is one of the chosen media elites. He can sexually assault people and nothing happens. He's a terrible human being, but nothing will come from this. It's all smoke and mirror.

Go outside and turn off your phones people.

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It's amazing you'd claim the government is orchestrating both sides of this to gain power and end it with "but please just stop paying attention".

>This whole ICE thing is a psychological operation. It's media manipulation and all the people violently protesting are useful idiots falling for it, or they're feds in disguise instigating more violence to turn around and give more crackdowns.

No, it's real. The media didn't make it up, the people in the streets aren't crisis actors. Sometimes things actually happen. Sometimes what the media reports on is actually real.

Maybe what you are saying is true. But even then, personally, I find it disturbing that the Trump administration recently raided a Washington Post journalist and now they are arresting journalists. When I look at these events alongside Trump always attacking news outlets and how aggressively abusive the press secretaries are in their interaction with reporters, I see a big pattern of undermining the press.

To me this arrest looks like lawfare. It looks like the administration abusing its power to violate the first amendment.

It's exactly what Abraham Lincoln did .. actually he went further and sentenced some news paper owners to death (overturned after the war).

Lincoln was not a good guy or pro-American (anti-speech, anti-due process), but he's viewed positively only because he won.

and as far as the Washington Compost, we know from the Church Committee the CIA likely has operatives in there. So unlike Lincoln, there was no real need to raid WaPo. It was likely just for show.

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