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As a Minnesota resident, I watched in horror as our largest city burned under the guise of "peaceful protests." I have deep concern about a resurgence of violence in 2024 and the response that would follow. We don't have conservative leaders to manage the air or the ground. We are highly vulnerable to lockdowns or worse.

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To your point regarding lockdowns we are highly vulnerable to permanent martial law as citizens clamor for order. Sadly, if citizens for years had not been so tolerant of aberrant behavior on the local level disorder would not have escalated. But our public is typically insouciant and complacent until the fire is raging in their own backyards leading to a military solution.

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I was just going to say, what action can we take to find out what laws individual states have on the books in order to contact Governors and local officials to ask them to prepare. If we all contacted them with abandon, the squeaky wheel would get the grease. I’ll have to look into the RICO act.

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And two young police officers were deliberately sacrificed despite the exculpatory evidence. Disgraceful and criminal on multiple levels.

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Woke Dem officials will announce another “ Summer of Love “ like there was in Portland where Police Stations were set on fire and City Council stood back and watched without concern. We’ll allow the country to self destruct if you dare think of voting for Trump.

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Actually, that was in Seattle and the mayor who called it a "summer of love." I live near Seattle.

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Thanks for the clarification. I knew it was one of the many locations experiencing the summer of love shit show. 🙋‍♂️

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I sympathize with you. Mpls was my birthplace, and I worked there as a home visiting nurse during the Covid lockdowns and the George Floyd riots. It was hell. I did volunteer organizing for Republican candidates, and I went to city council meetings to try to change things. I finally retired early and moved out of state. I miss my home state and pray for sanity to return.

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I've long assumed a Republican victory in 2024, esp. a Trump victory, most definitely WILL bring the only kind of reaction the misguided, and the rich radical-chic (Pelosi and her ilk) who fan their fury, know how to muster. Hold on to those pussyhats. When they start burning our cities and terrorizing as they did before, we will need to do more than send in the troops (as even many liberals wanted to do in 2020). We will need to send in the tanks.

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Then the accusation of dictator will seem true...

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the corporate media's "Trump-will-be-a- dictator" narrative is everywhere right now,

and it's pure projection.

Dems are afraid Trump will do to them what they have done to him- and to us.

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They are going to lie about 'Worst HITLER yet!!!' Trump anyway. At some stage, there must be diminishing returns on the credibility of such extreme claims, as the boy who cried 'wolf' found out.

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They'll accuse no matter what happens, then use their baseless claims to burn and pillage. Sort of like Hamas hiding behind innocent civilians, they're holding democracy hostage. Only one way to deal with them.

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You cannot ban protests in a liberal democracy but you CAN call them by their right name. "'Protesting' in the Western world is rarely about our cherished 'democratic freedoms', It is usually aggressive, manipulative, power-hungry narcissism.....(with a side order of looting and sexual abuse). Protesting in places like Iran or Afghanistan is noble and dangerous....in the West it is mostly an ugly form of self-engrossment." Conservative politicians and pundits need to etch this mantra (like a broken record) into everything they say about 'Protests' and the riots they trigger.

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Well said

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Thank you. We in the West have - for too long - sanctified this idea of 'Protesting' as an inherently noble thing. This sanctification has done immense harm to our culture and given unbridled licence to the very LEAST 'democratic' people.

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Has protesting ever been anything but war by other means?

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Uh, yes. If you can’t tell the difference maybe you don’t quite qualify to participate in the discussion.

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Can we sue the federal government for certain practices under the RICO statute?

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No mention of Jan 6? Really? Doesn't wash out leftist violence, but it's a glaring omission.

And if you're promoting internet idiots like LibsofTikTok anyway, can you throw me a bone? I'm like Morrissey, but shorter. Your movement's got no rizz, and I alone can fix it.

e: Who knows not this? but what can Rufo do

Against a world, a base, degenerate world,

That courts the yoke, and bows the neck to Cæsar?

Pent up in Florida, he vainly forms

A poor epitome of American greatness...

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In terms of actual damage or lives lost, the peaceful protests of 2020 dwarf J6 by at least 3 zeroes. Chris likely omitted it because there is simply no comparison in magnitude: a speck vs a log in the eye.

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In terms of looking stupid, it was about equal. It was a genuine assault on the democratic process, and it was repugnant fo the average American.

Sorry for telling you the truth, but you goofballs need to hear it - and you need to do something about the currents that led to it, or you will lose this fight.

Remember, you're barely polling ahead of an 80 year old man, with a crackhead son, who's put several cross-sex-therapy clowns in high positions in his administration, and who defends child genital mutilation. You're fucking it up bad, son. Are you all criminally cowardly or just criminally clueless?

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> In terms of looking stupid, it was about equal. It was a genuine assault on the democratic process, and it was repugnant fo the average American.

Objecting to a brazenly rigged election is a genuine assault on the democratic process?

Well, I suppose it is in the leftist world where two plus two is five, black is white, burning down the city is a peaceful protest, and a man is a woman.

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You object by legal means. We have a Supreme Court, which at present has no particular love for liberal shenanigans.

You do not throw a temper tantrum like a fucking child. You respect the Republic and the law.

If the Supreme Court won't help you, sorry Charlie. Find another candidate. If your party depends on one man, you don't have a party, you have tyranny in embryo.

Your pathetic excuse for a Caesar isn't worth the shit on my boot, and the funny thing is, he doesn't think you're worth the shit on his either. It's fucking sad what you've become. You're like a dog slavering for the kicking.

Read Cato; a Tragedy, and don't come back til you're done.

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> You object by legal means.

That presumes we still have a sufficiently well functioning legal system. Evidence for this seems to be rather lacking, see the OP for additional examples.

> You respect the Republic and the law.

The Democrats weren't respecting the rule of law when they engaged in brazen election fraud. Nor when leftist DAs let leftist rioters of the hook.

I my say you leftists' attempts to lecture about the rule of law, in between using said law as toilet paper tend to ring rather hollow.

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Believing in your country means following the rules, even when the other side doesn't.

The Supreme Court is conservative enough right now to pull back from Roe v Wade. You're trying to argue that conservatives don't have legal means of recourse? Laughable - and just pathetic.

What you mean is, Trump doesn't have legal recourse, because John Roberts has no love for Trump. We could get places a lot faster if you just said what you meant. That may be "unfair" - but as I said, if your party depends on one man, it ain't a party.

By the way, I don't defend anyone when they break the law, even if they're on my side.

If John Roberts ordered a DA from "my side" to prison, I would take him there myself.

If John Roberts ordered me myself to prison, to prison I would go.

If you can't say the same, you don't believe in America.

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Oh, and I don't think you did your reading. I'll give you an extension, but in return, you'll have to give me your thoughts on the piece - at least 100 words, please.

I don't like assigning homework, but if the honor system isn't working, I'll have to start.

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You are not making any sense. Why would we listen to your critique? Trump is beating Biden in almost every state. He never had these numbers before an election. His own party does not want Biden to run, and several party leaders are running against him. Four states have confronted voter fraud, and some are dispatching the voting machines and banning mail in ballots. BESIDES THIS THREAD ISN'T EVEN ABOUT TRUMP. I am amazed at the relentless hatred and obsession with him. There was no war with other nations, he cut down on illegal immigration. He warned Putin not to invade the Ukraine. Putin had a healthy respect for him. Guess who the Presidents were when Putin decided to invade. Obama and Biden. President Trump did not abandon Afghanistan. The world can smell America's weakness and laughs at us.

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Caesar too had the people's love, when he crossed the Rubicon. Caesar conquered Gaul & Britain. Caesar found Rome brick and left it marble.

Yet it were better Rome stayed brick, if marble's cost is tyranny. Your arguments of might are vile. You are no Republican, but a disgusting craven cur.

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And as for your debased numbers -

And our huddled masses you bar out -

We've builded Rome's quick-blooded child!

Her faith-begotten truest son!

No holy land so bloody be this,

but Our Eden, great and free!

Worship here nor lord, nor man,

nor two-faced Janus! Liberty!

Her golden door I shall fling open!

Come farmer, seaman, pauper, pilgrim!

Utmost hours need and need!

Gather our children, each and every!

Here e'en Quirinus comes!

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The evidence coming out confirms that J6 was a false flag to entrap Trump supporters and label Trump as an 'insurrectionist.' Classic Color Revolution tactics.

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Can't wait to see that evidence. When's it coming out? :)

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No it’s not. Desperate Rs are trying to grasp at things, that’s all. For once, perhaps, own the fact that Trump’s got a lot of supporters who did some very bad things. Denial just zeroes out your credibility.

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They marched there directly from a Trump rally, you utter goon. I know it's embarrassing, but please, don't tell such flimsy lies.

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So what? There were at least 200 Feds and cops in disguise present, while Antifa types were brought in in unmarked buses and given red hats and signs. This was crowd-control as a form of political theater. Again, classic Color Revolution tactics. J6 was a staged event.

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Honey the crowd marched there from a Trump rally. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. This is just sad

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Tell that to the people whose lives were destroyed by the looting and vandalism.

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Do you mean the 2020 BLM/Antifa riots?

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The left will find a reason for violence. However, it sure would help if Trump withdrew from the race and threw his support behind DeSantis.

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Lucy, the fact that you are correct scares me. We are in dangerous times if we allow the illiberal left to intimidate us to the point we ask our stronger candidate to step aside because the other side is threating violence.

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IMHO, DeSantis would be a much stronger president. Although Trump will likely win because he is a stronger marketeer, DeSantis, once in office, would be a SCK (Stone Cold Killer) and would put us on the right path. IMHO, Trump fails at assembling teams to get things done. Can you say Omarosa or Fauci?

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Thanks for your comment, David. You might be correct, and I would fully support DeSantis if he is the nominee.

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Trump didn’t fail to put a team together- he was subverted from the get-go by the Administrative state and others

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Unacceptable... giving terrorists what they want insures continuation in the tactic. DeSantis is not great presidential material and I would NEVER give him my vote out of fear or intimidation. Americans need to buck up and prepare. We've become soft and vulnerable and our Nanny States have failed us! Time to recognize facts. The Border is OPEN for a reason. The flood is fighting age males. You are not safe and protected and violence becomes a more real possibility every single day. Some of us might be attacked, arrested or even killed or seriously injured. Time to understand, these people are not playing and we need STRONG LEADERSHIP and even stronger laws and penalties.

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From "very fine people", to the "mocking of a disabled reporter" (Trump had used similar gesticulations to mock people caught in a lie before, it had nothing to do with disability), to Russiagate, to the Fed's involvement in January 6th, 90% of opposition to Trump was manufactured by the media. Lie, after lie, after lie.

If we allow them to win with lies and street violence, they'll just turn around and to the same thing to DeSantis and whoever follows him. We cannot allow the normalization and legitimation of this sort of thing, even if people find Trump distasteful.

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So was the meme shaman a Fed too? They're getting real creative with it then. Impressive.

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Who claimed he was a fed? Epps was, most likely, and he was openly encouraging violence. Estimates are that ~200 people there were feds. Although the video was has not been released, reports are that capitol police were in the building with MAGA hats before the doors were opened.

I'm not sure what the teevee told you, but this sardonic stuff isn't cute. People are in prison, and one woman is dead. So if you actually know of anyone who claimed that Jacob Chansley is a fed, please let the rest of us know, rather than gaslighting people by making up nonsense. We've had enough of that.

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Yeah, if somebody tries to bust into the Senate chamber while they are counting electoral votes, I'm gonna say shoot to kill. Sorry Charlie, that's law & order.

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Nobody "tried to bust into the senate chamber while they were counting votes." The House and Senate had already been evacuated due to 'pipe bombs' being 'found' at the RNC and DNC headquarters.

The Antifa-looking 'bomber' was mysteriously never found, despite DC being one of the most intensely surveilled areas in the world. The only evidence provided is low-resolution, low frame-rate, cam footage taken from a bad angle with mysterious gaps, like 1980s gas-station footage. Probably staged.

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I wouldn't recommend trying to bust into the Capitol in, uh, any situation.

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Why did they let them in the door? Why did they fire tear gas into the crowd when they were in front of the capitol? Why did Pelosi deny Trump's request for the national guard? Why was exculpatory video evidence withheld? Why did they lie about Sicknick's cause of death?

I find someone at night in my kid's room, I'm shooting to kill too. The difference is that I'm not going to open the front door for them and show them around the house first.

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Haven't you ever heard "never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake"?

Door might have been open, but nobody made them walk in. Stop blaming other people for what those clowns did of their own volition. Are you really trying to claim they didn't know walking into the Capitol as a mob was wrong? Farcical.

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No way! “Be lovers of freedom, and anxious for the fray”. With your attitude we wouldn’t have a nation to try and defend. MAGA24

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Ron has shown he’s nothing but a tool for RINOs and Wall St.

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Christopher’s foresight, planning and overall vision are treasures for those who espouse traditional values and don’t want to see our culture and society further destroyed. I hope leaders are listening and preparing. We, the people, are dependent upon their actions.

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We cannot sit on the sidelines and hope they take action. We need to contact them in numbers, with abandon, for the squeaky wheel to get the grease. Ours is a government “of the people and by the people” - who participate.

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Absolutely agree.

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Here is one way to use lawfare to fight the coming riots: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/lawfare-vs-revolutionaries

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You are quite correct, Chris, in posing this question. It is clearly evident that the left has raised a loud and large army of activists and agitators to create chaos to civil society who oppose their views. They are funded by very rich elites through NGO’s and government institutions with globalist views and of course the media is all in.

It is shocking. Anyone with their eyes open will see their ramping up of censorship worldwide leading up to the elections. Can we even trust that elections will be honest? Have they already succeeded in creating enough apathy and fear in us to shut us up and make us take a knee to their authority?

Keep up the fight despite my despair I do believe one person can make a huge difference.

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Amen! You have my support, fellow patriot! We can’t do it alone, but one can chase a thousand. Let’s all do something to help make a change! We need EVERYONE pulling. Charlie Kirk said, “Do one thing everyday for the cause of freedom.” -- Contact your representatives, educate those around you, get others involved, form a group, etc. (the grassroots game has power). Above all, do not wrong your hands (not you, the general you), and do not be stagnant. May God be with us!

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At present, we have only our words to mount an attack. We have to use them well and often. After the election, if attacked, we must be ready to survive and to fight back, with words, weapons or whatever the situation demands. Whomever wins, there will be rioting, violence, shortages of supply.

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A couple typos to correct. That should have read...

“do one thing every day” and “do not WRING your hands”

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It's December 2024. The Trump-Biden contest is over. One of these men is president-elect. Imagine the national reaction to each. Trump wins, what is the reaction of the far left? Biden wins, what is the reaction of the far right? Who has the bigger organization? Who has the bigger financial and political backing? Either way, civil war is possible. Not North vs South. Urban/costal vs Rural/heartland. If Trump-Biden is our choice, this country is headed for a crisis of historic significance.

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Steve, things are bad, but beware of painting reality in such a bleak way. Defeatism breeds defeat. Better to focus on remedies. Just my opinion. 🤷‍♂️

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Agreed. Ultimately, the US is going to emerge from the crisis stronger and more united. We have the greatest positive potential of any nation on earth. I remain fundamentally an optimist but worry about a bumpy ride ahead for the next few years.

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Turn your worry into action! :) Research, contact your representatives, whatever you can do to be a part of the solution. Do not just know stuff and watch. ACT, please!

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An astute observation Steve; all that is left is to watch how the end game plays out.

Checkmate!

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lol, racist much?

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Based on the performance of "conservative leaders" so far, either they won't prepare at all or they'll prepare to enable the progressive regime.

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Clarence. Please get back on your drugs.

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Excellent advice. "By failing to prepare, you are planning to fail." Benjamin Franklin

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Well balanced article.

And remember Kamala helped bail out the 2020 rioters! They are the Democrat shock troops.

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That's exactly what a beta male would say.

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There would have been riots last time. I lived in New York and they were boarding up against the eventuality of a Trump victory. The BLM street army in NYC was rewarded with a payout of 20k per person to anyone who had an encounter with the police, so they may be primed for the next time something happens the left does not like. The message will be we can't live under a 'dictator'. I am sure the security forces can prevent this before the riots are necessary.

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Yes, I do believe the marxists make their paid bus migrations every four years.

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What is the ideology of the progressives discussed in this article? Says Bradley Thayer, director of China policy at the Center for Security Policy and author of "Understanding the China Threat": "Communism is not something which exists only in China. It's also present in the U.S. The U.S. is presently undergoing a tremendous ideological upheaval between political liberalism, the traditional ideology of the United States vs. progressivism, which is a type of communist thought." For the details I suggest reading my latest Substack article titled "The Ideology that Captured Our Culture" at https://2026.substack.com/p/the-ideology-that-captured-our-culture

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Many experts on Marxism confirm that the current government of China is communist under the Chinese Communist Party. The ideology of the CCP is Marxism-Leninism, which was imported from Russia and Europe. Past Chinese culture has not been communist, as you point out. A good resource is the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation at https://victimsofcommunism.org. They provide a special section on China staffed by academic researchers and experts.

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This is an excellent article. Thanks for sharing the link. Critical theory is Freudian-Marxism or what we call cultural Marxism today. Marxism constantly mutates into new variants like the identity Marxism (woke) and sustainability Marxism (degrowth) that are the top variants currently.

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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". It would be good to have lots of lawyers that are against riots.

Also, if Trump wins there is a chance that the riots will turn into a full-blown civil war.

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