<story><title>Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone</title><url>https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thu2111</author><text>But then there&amp;#x27;s also this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=medium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=900x900&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve not before seen a summer street festival where armed militias wearing bulletproof vests patrol the streets.</text></item><item><author>gabesk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m also about that far away and walked through there last night. It felt more like a summer street fair festival. I also took a few pictures. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&amp;#x2F;UN8RpwWS5TYAY5Nn7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&amp;#x2F;UN8RpwWS5TYAY5Nn7&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>pera</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The media coverage of it is WILD&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I live 7 blocks away from &amp;quot;the zone&amp;quot; and can confirm, I have never in my life seen anything alike in this regard. The scale of the misinformation being spread in social networks and news media reached a level I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe possible before. Seriously, it&amp;#x27;s beyond absurd.&lt;p&gt;If anyone is interested, I have been taking some pictures of the ongoing protests (including a few of the zone): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.flickr.com&amp;#x2F;photos&amp;#x2F;peramides&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.flickr.com&amp;#x2F;photos&amp;#x2F;peramides&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>conroy</author><text>A friend lives in Seattle and texted me today about his visit last night:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I was there last night and it&amp;#x27;s such a cool pseudo utopian place&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The media coverage of it is WILD&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; People on the internet are convinced it&amp;#x27;s protected by armed guards and people are dying of hunger and instead its...like a music festival campground&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; There are speakers, musicians, art walls. I took a group pic for a bunch of black guys last night and they were so proud of what was built because they felt like they fought for it, which in a sense, they did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>I truly don&amp;#x27;t understand the problem here. Can you tell me what it is that makes these people dangerous and scary, but the similarly armed protestors who showed up at government buildings a month ago — or, frankly, the police — fine?</text></comment>
<story><title>Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone</title><url>https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thu2111</author><text>But then there&amp;#x27;s also this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=medium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=900x900&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve not before seen a summer street festival where armed militias wearing bulletproof vests patrol the streets.</text></item><item><author>gabesk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m also about that far away and walked through there last night. It felt more like a summer street fair festival. I also took a few pictures. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&amp;#x2F;UN8RpwWS5TYAY5Nn7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;photos.app.goo.gl&amp;#x2F;UN8RpwWS5TYAY5Nn7&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>pera</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The media coverage of it is WILD&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I live 7 blocks away from &amp;quot;the zone&amp;quot; and can confirm, I have never in my life seen anything alike in this regard. The scale of the misinformation being spread in social networks and news media reached a level I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe possible before. Seriously, it&amp;#x27;s beyond absurd.&lt;p&gt;If anyone is interested, I have been taking some pictures of the ongoing protests (including a few of the zone): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.flickr.com&amp;#x2F;photos&amp;#x2F;peramides&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.flickr.com&amp;#x2F;photos&amp;#x2F;peramides&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>conroy</author><text>A friend lives in Seattle and texted me today about his visit last night:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I was there last night and it&amp;#x27;s such a cool pseudo utopian place&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The media coverage of it is WILD&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; People on the internet are convinced it&amp;#x27;s protected by armed guards and people are dying of hunger and instead its...like a music festival campground&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; There are speakers, musicians, art walls. I took a group pic for a bunch of black guys last night and they were so proud of what was built because they felt like they fought for it, which in a sense, they did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>latencyloser</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s just a plate carrier, with no plates in it. It won&amp;#x27;t stop a bullet, definitely not a rifle round. Maybe he has some soft armor jammed in there but doubtful based on the rest of his &amp;quot;I bought this from the local gunstore 3 days ago setup.&amp;quot;</text></comment>