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And there are protests all the time whenever a controversial decision is made, it's our national sport It is an endearing habit; but to be fair, some of those

And there are protests all the time whenever a controversial decision is made, it's our national sport It is an endearing habit; but to be fair, some of those protests can look a bit "riotey", what with the smoke bombs, water cannon, paramilitary cops with batons etc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfxVY8ltyso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfxVY8ltyso ... to us in la perfide Albion at least, to Americans this probably all looks a bit tame.

krapp 5y ago
>to Americans this probably all looks a bit tame. Americans talk a good game when it comes to riots but if they took their rhetoric about "watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants" seriously every election would wind up with the Capitol looking like it did on January 6th.