A blind eye is given to Antifa in a lot of cases.

I know exactly what happened and why. Have you seen the videos of the burning cars? One of those was approx 200m from my old Kindergarten. Believe me i know exactly what happened.

You know that feeling if you know what is going to happen and then watch it unfold just as you predicted? That was G20 for me.

yes

So, again, *why didn't the police do anything about it?*

the police did actually

Rather, why *were they not allowed* to do anything about it?

the police were only armed to deal with ~8000 people

not the 100,000 that showed up

Why the fuck would the police only be equipped for 8000 people

That's some serious error in judgement

that even aside, if the police couldn't handle it, why wasn't military backup called

the state is supposed to protect the people, not let 100,000 destroy a city

Again... because olaf scholz is an idiot.

Military backup is not possible.

i refuse to believe that at this point,

too many "idiocy" happens around western politicians

The german laws do not allow for the bundeswehr to act inside of germany.

Even though there were 100,000 protesters, they were not all Antifa, either.

damn those germans and their self-damaging guilt!

well you don't have to strike down 100,000 protesters

but atleast have a strong-arm force around to strike down any that start causing trouble

Scholz wanted G20 to increase his profile and basically prepared for first of may.

There's been too many "errors in judgment" when it comes to Antifa.

Too many high-profile cases of them showing up and wrecking everything.

well thats my point about G20, antifa themselves don't even make a secret of their violent tendencies

the first few times, sure i'll let it pass to ignorance/idiocy

but if it just happens every time, then i'm calling bs

Overall... sure... i‘m kot talking about other incidents... but G20 was really just an idiot mayor that thought he knew better.

and i doubt these politicians live in a bubble so small they don't even notice when their neighboring allies say "Antifa is bad mojo"

Especially if you take into account where they've showed up to speeches, such as Ben Shapiro's talks, where the police were allowed to properly secure the area.

Nothing happened.

but maybe i'm just that faithful in humanity that i actually believe politicians to be smarter than that

i'll admit Trudeau has done more damage for my faith in humanity than i thought possibruu

Hamburg is... special... when it comes to stuff like this...

Perhaps, I guess, I don't know. It comes down to knowing other people's intent, and there's no way of literally being inside of their heads.

I like to think people are smarter than that, though.

i'll take your word on that Falko since you seem to know Hamburg personally, so are likely a better authority on it than me

And it just seems like such a cop-out argument.

it is always that thing of the universe just creating better idiots

wait, Scholz is a social democrat

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i'll still chalk it up to "looking the other way" then

Chances of a Mayor in Hamburg being a „social democrat“ are well... lets say there have been 3 that were not since 1946... and one of them stepped in because one of the others stepped down 😁