• DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    A group of masked protesters who had torched a police car outside the town hall were seen breaking windows and entering the building to set a fire, according to witnesses.

    I can hear it now, “The extreme left hate free speech and like to burn things.”

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    No false flags needed here. wp:Reichstag fire.

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      11 hours ago

      It doesn’t even need to be false flag. All it takes are a few pumped up idiots who use the protest as a pretext for getting thrills and dopamine kicks out of chaos and destruction.

      My kid’s school burned down during a protest in a suburb (not in France). The perpetrators were youth from more affluent parts of the city, kicked up on drugs they used the protests and travelled all across the city to try to set fire to preschools, schools and residences.

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        8 hours ago

        Yep.

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        and I forgot to mention the possibility that they might have been/might be agent provocateurs, however unwitting they might be in their vandalism and arson.

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        10 hours ago

        This seems like a bit of a dramatic response to the comment, unless I’m misreading your meaning here.