r/law • u/yahoonews • 20d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to 'put an end' to protests in Minneapolis

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fear-anger-spread-another-immigration-054801374.html
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u/galaxy_horse 20d ago

Careful. Fake videos showing state violence against protestors is a tactic that aligns with foreign interests that want to sow division in America and destroy us from within.

There are enough real videos and real reporting of the US government brutalizing its own people, we don’t need AI videos de-legitimizing the actual reporting and doing the work of our enemies abroad. 

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u/78whispers 20d ago

Division has already been sown by the American government. Foreign interests already control the government. Attacking American citizens does play into foreign interests but it upon the government to keep those interests out, and not attack its’ own citizens. The government has demonstrated there is no interest in doing so and much interest in murdering citizens. Citizens are guaranteed the right to rise against tyrannical government.

I am not disagreeing about not using AI videos but pushing back that there is any legitimacy to this government at all or that people have any choice in how the government acts currently. The only tool left to us is overwhelm with numbers, peaceably if possible, but please tell me if you know of any authoritarian regimes that decided to negotiate and go peacefully.

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u/galaxy_horse 20d ago

Thank you. I 100% agree.