politics @lemmy.world Blackbeard @lemmy.world 4 wk. ago

DNC protests devolve into farce

www.washingtonpost.com Opinion | DNC protests devolve into farce

For a while, I couldn’t find a single protester outside the convention, much less a Chicago seven.

They said tens of thousands of protesters would be here. They claimed they would “shut down the DNC for Gaza.” Like the Chicago riots during the 1968 Democratic convention, their demonstrations would snarl the city, shake the party and doom the candidacy of “Genocide Joe.”

Then came Kamala Harris — and the protest fizzled.

Organizers anticipated there would be 30,000 to 40,000 protesters on hand for Monday’s kickoff. But only a few thousand showed up; police estimated 3,500

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Yesterday I got temporarily banned from a conservative community for calling them out for pearl clutching about This. Exact. Thing. I told them in a week we'd forget about this. They were peaceful protests. No deaths, no property damage, none of that would add to their message.

Ok, the ban might be for calling out the mod about his name calling but the dude's a full blown fascist so I couldn't care less.
- Ok, the ban might be for calling out the mod about his name calling but the dude's a full blown fascist so couldn't care less.
  
  Lol
Looks like they moved from the DNC to the Israeli consulate:

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protests-today-dozens-arrested-after-pro-palestinian-anti-dnc-protesters-clash-cpd-outside-israeli-consulate/15212456/

200 protestors, 72 arrested.
- At least that makes actual sense.
  
  Yup. Protest the people actually doing the thing you hate.
  
  Yeah I can get behind this, it's incredibly sensible. The Israeli embassy is also considered Israeli territory, so it makes even more sense to protest there.
- There were more than 200 protesters at the consulate yesterday.
  
  200 broke through the line.
IMO doing real damage to the Democratic candidate's chance of being elected would have been the farce.
because most of the "protesters" are just horseshoe theory agitators and professional chaos stirrers
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Burning US flags on Chicago streets will get a response.
- Why not burn an Israeli flag in front of the Israeli embassy instead?
  
  antisemitism is definitely the way to get taken seriously.... /s
  
  Burn any flag you want, but if it's a US flag in a US street don't be surprised with the consequences
- Not really no. You think what, random people would intervene? To save a piece of cloth? Grow up.
  
  Thanks for the advice, but I did see a random guy try to stop such foolishness. A number of the masked assholes overwhelmed him. Next time he might try to level the playing field the Chicago way.

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