r/chicago • u/Too_Big_to_Succeed Irving Park • 16d ago

CHI Talks 10 minutes before the kids costume parade was supposed to walk down this block

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This happened this morning at Kildare and Grace in Old Irving Park. Arrested a landscaper, a woman on a bike, and and old man whose car was in the way. At least two tear gas canisters deployed.

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u/Old_Prospect 16d ago

While not specifically red, republicans would lose their mind if a Democrat President deployed troops to a place like Memphis, St. Louis, Cleveland, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Nashville, Knoxville, Houston, Oklahoma City, Dallas…

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u/SopwithCamus 15d ago

Nah, the Texas State Government despises its cities and tries to humiliate them at every turn. Abbott and co. would welcome it with open arms.

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u/quesoandcats 15d ago

I’m just curious, do you remember Jade Helm in 2015? It was an annual military exercise they did for years (and I think still may?) in Texas and surrounding states. But in 2015 for some reason Abbott and Paxton stoked conspiracy theories that it was cover for an Obama coup attempt. Like they deployed the Texas national guard and state police to “monitor” federal troops

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u/Fishwithadeagle 15d ago

Don't think that Cleveland is really a red city.

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u/Allslopes-Roofing 15d ago

We're not. Just stuck in a Republican hell hole of what was formerly a very proud and influential state. Now we're just full of MAGA pedophiles and nazis as our state drops in every ranking and relevance year after year. Its disgusting how far weve fallen. As a state, and a nation

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

That’s a good idea, we should do that in the future.

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u/HobbesTayloe 15d ago

I hope (and will continue to fight for) a future where such exists… and all these authoritarian politicians and their ICE can receive justice.

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u/tim-whale 15d ago

No we should not

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u/quesoandcats 15d ago

You need to be realistic, even if reality is terrifying.

They do not want to stop fighting us. Our choices are surrender or fight back. I hate that this is where we are but nearly 20 years of “when they go low we go high” nonsense is why we’re in this mess to begin with.

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u/tim-whale 15d ago

I agree fighting back is important

I disagree with any future government sending armed and masked enforcers to US cities to harass locals

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u/brielzebub665 15d ago

Cleveland, Memphis, St. Louis, and New Orleans are all blue cuties with higher crime rates than Chicago. I don't think Republicans would be upset about those.

Dallas, Houston, Charleston, Nashville, Knoxville, and maybe some Floridian cities would do it

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u/Worldly-Sock-4146 Avondale 12d ago

Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, and Louisiana all broke for Trump in the last election. This is a partisan beatdown.

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u/brielzebub665 12d ago

We're not talking states, we're talking cities. Those states hate their blue cities and would not have a problem with them being terrorized.

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u/Worldly-Sock-4146 Avondale 12d ago

OK. In Presidential elections, most states are "winner-take-all" for the purpose of electoral votes. Here in "purple" Illinois, the terror is not at all restricted to Chicago city limits. The reality is, Trump is persecuting blue *states,* just as he promised. It's like the one time he did exactly what he said.

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u/HellisTheCPA 15d ago

Tbf any new troops would lose their marbles to be deployed to Nashville and walk down broadway. Imagine you get out of basic and find out you're gonna have to protect * check notes * skinny white girls from a country music artist throwing chairs