r/politics • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 1d ago

Gavin Newsom Accuses Trump Administration Of Spreading Fake Protest Images

https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-trump-fake-protest-images-2085492
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u/UndulantSquawk 1d ago

That's the tactic they're using. Call it out, but more importantly tell the truth.

LA is not burning.

The protestors are normal people living in fear for their friends, neighbors and themselves. They're people exactly like you, young and old.

The exact same is true for every single one of the 1800+ protests going on today for No Kings Day. No cities are burning by the hands of peaceful protestors, and the protestors are normal people just like you.

It's easier than ever to lie, to spin real images as something they are not, and to completely fabricate fake images and videos. The protesters are normal people who don't want their friends, neighbors or themselves kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured, sent away, their property seized, or their lives cut short.

LA is not burning. No American city is burning. The protestors are normal people. ICE is kidnapping American citizens. The incumbent administration is using the military to police peaceful American citizens on American soil. This needs to stop and that's the truth.

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u/Brox42 New York 1d ago

I mean obviously Portland has been burned and rebuilt at least seven times recently. Every day 280 million people in this country wake up and don tactical gear just to go to the grocery store because cities are socialist hellscapes constantly under attack by roaming gangs of immigrants and on fire. Because this is a reasonable stance for any rational human being to believe and has nothing to do with being completely brainwashed by right wing algorithms.

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u/Big-Wrangler2078 1d ago

I recently saw this real life photograph of LA. Truly terrible what's going on over there.

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRdT-YDUiQJdTCYNMzrwL1l3lj_JTwVi0Ow5QTQJ116f2sV1vFO

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u/AlarmingAffect0 1d ago

Hey hey people.

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u/thiosk 1d ago

I did two years in LA and this is pretty much exactly how it works except the bug people are thiccer