It's not, there have been 1000s of priest throughout the entire country.

The question should be why isn't the media covering it

It isn't just California. But Cali is getting all the press because corporate media is state media in an oligarchy.

Every state has a National Guard. I can see how that would be confusing now that you mention it, but they're basically just a reservist military that the governors mostly control outside of an official war.

In any event, they're still federal military, the fascists would just mobilize the real army, like how the shitcan is trying to send 700 Marines.

Because there's National Guard in every state. The National Guard deployed in LA is just the California National Guard. And it's just a fraction of the CA National Guard being used. And most of them aren't doing much (some are guarding federal buildings, most don't even have any orders), it's actually the LAPD that's handling the protests.

You can and should have protests in other cities but do so peacefully. If you spend too much time on lemmy you'll constantly be told we're about to storm the Bastille any day now. This place is full of psychos that are constantly pushing for violence. They are idiots, you should ignore them.

Honestly if I were conspiratorial minded I might think some of the violence was some false flag kinda shit because burning cars while waving Mexican flags is exactly the imagery Trump did all of this to get.