Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign

Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by jacobsenscott on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:56PM (#23942514)

Look at how many heavily armed right wing fanatics show up whenever people remove a racist statue. It isn't so hard to imagine hundreds of them marching into the white house to "protect" the president after he loses the election.

It won't be a matter of a few secret service agents escorting Trump out. It will be a full on armed standoff in the white house with 40% of the country rooting for Trump.

Top that off with a raging pandemic, unprecedented economic devastation, homelessness, shutdown schools, and sophisticated digital propaganda campaigns designed to exacerbate every divisive issue and it is hard to see how US democracy survives.

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Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by iso1631 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @01:56PM (#23951136)

> It isn't so hard to imagine hundreds of them marching into the white house to "protect" the president after he loses the election.

If the secret service can't cope with a few protesters what is the point of them?

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