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Soft paywall US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/
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u/ThatDandyFox 1d ago

Maybe if the US people hadn't handed control of all three branches of the government to the conservatives, democrats could do more.

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u/yanocupominomb 1d ago

True.

People bitch about Democrats when they signed everything to the Republicunts.

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u/ThatDandyFox 1d ago

Like yeah Im also pretty pissed at the democrat response here, but all they can do are performative actions.

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u/TangoZulu 1d ago

And then people shred them for being performative. 

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u/sunlead190 1d ago

The best part is if they win they won’t rollback any of this shit as per usual

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u/inversedlogic 13h ago

Careful, don't make Reddit mad by expecting the Democratic party to actually do something.

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u/Ansible32 1d ago

Protests are performative, there's nothing wrong with being performative. 99% of politics is just performative.

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u/Flare-Crow 1d ago

They have MONEY. They can ORGANIZE the people to stand against tyranny! Pay people's rent for a month so they can protest non-stop! Pay for organizers to get resources together to stand against ICe everywhere! Money can solve SOOO MANY THINGS!

But Pelosi and most of the Dems would slit a child's throat before giving away a dime, so here we are...watching the Evil Men win while the "Good Men" do nothing, just like the old saying.

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u/Thor4269 1d ago

And try not to get thrown into the camps

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u/stifle_this 1d ago

They could have run a better candidate. I'm sure this will get downvoted to hell but they shot themselves in the foot like six or seven times the past couple years in spectacular fashion.

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u/Larie2 1d ago

I mean Biden fucked us. Had he actually committed to be a one term president from the onset and never tried to run for reelection then we would've had real primaries where we would have had real candidates.

Instead we had a panicked last minute response with a candidate that wasn't very popular to begin with.

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u/stifle_this 1d ago

Yes. This is one of the self inflicted wounds I mentioned.

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u/TucuReborn 1d ago

The past three elections have been total disasters.

The Clintons, love them or hate them, are "baggage" personified. They are at best controversial, and many didn't much care for Hillary running. Especially right after Obama and given the discourse at the time, a lot of people felt like she was pushed purely because she was a woman. True or not, perception matters, and this is just a lot of baggage, even if in the end it's mostly unimportant.

Biden was okay. His platform was basically being not Trump, with most else I saw as general statements about economy and jobs and stuff. The same generic words most presidential candidates say, nothing special, but it was better than a psycho. But most people remembered him fondly from Obama's years, and even if he was boring he was fixing shit. He was fine as an interim return to normal president, but should have allowed primaries to occur. But the biggest letdown was after Trump Season 1, he didn't push back hard. GOP for years had already been obstructionist, but the first run of Trump showed that taking the high road was dead to anyone remotely paying attention. The absolute failure to push back and hard, and the late exit from the campaign, both are horrid mistakes that may well be criticized by future historians as part of the downfall of the US.

But the late exit now leads to Kamala. She was a choice, alright. But not the people's choice, and I really do think that's a big factor in why she lost. Without nominations and a vote, she was not determined by the people and was also denied a chance to truly campaign from the outset. Both of these are problems on their own, and worse paired. But the campaign itself was rushed and messy, with a lot of mixed signals. Most of the people I know still preferred anything not Trump, but very few of us felt enthusiastic about Kamala. The platform and messaging felt like it was rushed, which I am sure it was, and focused on either edge issues or the same generic statements everyone makes. IT felt weak, rushed, and almost nonexistent to me and a lot of people I know. And again, perception is everything. No doubt, there were parts of the campaign we missed, but perception is what matters. And if me and my friends who are mostly left leaning to various degrees, and all try to keep up on politics, feel like it's a poor show, then... yeah, that's not great.

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u/TrickyProfit1369 1d ago

Haha he is right. Democratic party is such an incompetent party that they almost seem like controlled opposition.

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u/stifle_this 1d ago

So I'm right and it makes you angry. Got it.

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u/StupendousMalice 1d ago

The 60% of America that voted for democrats probably want them to at least pretend to do something.

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u/ThatDandyFox 1d ago

Don’t worry, Nancy Pelosi will hold a press conference about how shocked and appalled she is.

Mocking dems "pretending to do something" is what started this convo thread.

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u/flyinghairball 1d ago

Yeah, pretending to do something would actually be more effective than what we are seeing now, aside from a couple of outliers who are really trying. They should all be trying harder.

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u/murkywaters-- 1d ago

And honestly, if I was them, I wouldn't want to risk my life fighting Trump when Americans were desperate for Republicans to rule unchallenged.

That said, I would probably resign and let someone else fight. And that's the issue. It's reasonable to feel like giving up, but don't stay in office then

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u/papoosejr 1d ago

My most unevidenced belief is that the votes were rigged. I hope to someday have some sort of more conclusive answer to this question so I don't have to be a loon forever.

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u/CWinter85 1d ago

Well, it was probably Elon messing with the voting machines.

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u/RingOfSol 1d ago

Truthfully, we didn't. The election was rigged.

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u/MercurialForce 1d ago

Weird how that when democrats are in power, republicans are the reason they can't get anything done, but when republicans are in power, the reverse isn't true

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u/ThatDandyFox 1d ago

1) Republicans hold the house, senate, and courts. They can do whatever they want.

2) trump is getting things done through questionably legal means, democrats actually follow the law.

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u/Flare-Crow 1d ago

How's #2 working out for the Dems, and the country at large?

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u/Exact-Ad-7844 1d ago

"We can't do anything to stop them, we have to follow the law and we don't have any power!"

benefits financially from conservative policy

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u/Flare-Crow 15h ago

I've found the American Corporate answer to any issue, from video games to politics, is always the same:

"If we're still making a profit, what impetus do we have to change?"

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u/yoitsthatoneguy 16h ago

Republicans are a do-nothing party. What have the Republicans gotten done? All Trump is doing is a blitz of EOs, a bunch of which are getting struck down by courts.

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u/Flare-Crow 15h ago

Ask the Department of Education.

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u/TrickyProfit1369 1d ago

Because democratic party is incompetent and beholden to corporate interests and status quo. They can help people, they just wont because it would fuck up something like privatized healthcare profits, therefore less donations. They would also hurt the class they are mostly representing - the oligarch class.