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What can a city do when neo-Nazis start marching down its streets?
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... yes. You were being sarcastic. Which is what makes that response contradict your current point.
You mock the idea that we should never try to stop something because "We could never stop it", yet, then say, without any sarcasm or irony, "Okay, but it won’t happen so what’s the point of demanding it" on another issue.
Do you... not see the contradiction?
I'm saying arresting Nazis won't happen but changing the laws to make it so that protesters won't get arrested at all is a possibility, especially on a regional or local level.
One relies on the cops cooperating. The other relies on just telling them they can't even be there.
Yes, and you dismiss the idea of attempting it because "it will never happen" after mocking the approach of "It won't happen so why try".
I legitimately don't know how to simplify this any further.
Do you... do you think the cops listen when they're told not to be somewhere and they want to be there? Do you think that's not cooperation?
Yes. I think cops will not go places if they're told they will be facing things like fines if they do. They like getting paid.
And I think it's much easier to do that on a local level than telling them to go arrest the Nazis.
So there's the power to coerce cops to follow the law, but not the power to coerce cops to do their job and ensure others are following the law. Do we have the power to make cops enforce any laws?
You think it's easier to make cops respect people's rights than it is to get them to arrest people they don't give a fuck about.
Okay.
Yes. It's called money.
Yes, if it costs them money.