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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm confused about the "preparing for civil unrest" stories
Reading lots of articles about cities preparing for "civil unrest" on and after the election.
I can't figure out if they are preparing to deal with militia type whackjobs, or preparing to crush the massive protests that will no doubt kick off if Rump refuses to accept the election results.
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I'm confused about the "preparing for civil unrest" stories (Original Post)
orangecrush
Oct 2020
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beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)1. I am not too concern about any of it
pwb
(11,275 posts)2. Two people talking to each other on T V passes for a story
today. It is just talk filler.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,861 posts)3. I'm inclined to think of these stories as a lot like
the ones about how airplanes were going to fall out of the sky at midnight, December 31, 1999.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)4. Clearing out guns and ammo to protect from the upcoming riots and looting, everyone is boarding up