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LA protests live: teargas and rubber bullets fired as Trump deployment of national guard branded ‘alarming abuse of power’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago

‘alarming abuse of power’

Not the first and not the last.

[–] oji@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

This is what they mean when they say "democracy is in danger" in the media. Bourgeois democracy of the ruling class, protecting the interests of the oligarchy and the big bourgeoisie. The state, as can be seen in this example, is an instrument of violence to protect the government from the aspirations of the demos.