tldr

Next time you don't read something, don't call it bullshit, makes you look like an idiot.

No it doesn't.

Would the police have acted the way they did with Floyd if the members of that community were walking around armed with guns? I’m not sure they would have. — NOS4A2

Lol.

If you haven't seen this classic of what the difference is with a white man carrying openly an AR-15 and a black man doing the same and how different is the reaction of the police, you should watch it. Tells far more than a thousand words.

Why is it happening... — Baden

Thought operates through a process of division.

and what can be done? — Baden

It appears that all the old white people such as myself are in the process of dying off.

And the young white people aren't having as many babies as they used to, so....

No it doesn't. — frank

Yes, it does and it's also trolling. So, let me make it very clear. If you want to respond to anyone's posts here, you're going to need to read them first. Otherwise, stay out of the conversation. Trolling posts will be deleted.

Ok.

Antjuan Seawright, starting at 0:25, explains why violence is not the right strategy, and how peaceful responses in the past to injustice led to changes.

What would the impetus be for such major change if there were no trouble? — Baden

So you encourage looting liquor and TVs from stores? But for the distance, you'd be in the streets burning cars? Why do you sit idly behind your computer when your morals demand throwing rocks at police and stealing from stores?

Imagine thinking voting will solve this. For who? Joe Biden? That piece of shit has done more to entrench black poverty in the US than Trump could ever dream of.

https://www.leftvoice.org/police-brutality-in-a-blue-state

"Both Frey and other Democratic representatives have called for pacifying the protests, equating the violence of the demonstrations with the racist violence perpetrated by the state, of which they are a part. The political class in Minneapolis, in particular, and Minnesota is trying to prevent an escalation of this crisis in order to, among other reasons, protect capitalist interests. Target, which is owned by the Dayton family, emerged as a site of protest and looting. One of the family, former Minnesota Democratic Governor Mark Dayton, served until 2019 and was later succeeded by Walz. Target has benefited from the pandemic with a 141% increase in its digital purchases, according to Axios. The interests of the capitalist parties are increasingly exposed as the pandemic and the economic and social violence against workers and the oppressed advance. Target workers, by contrast, spoke out in solidarity with the protesters."

(The stuff about Klobuchar in the article is wrong - like factually wrong - but everything else is on point).

:up: Thanks.

Imagine thinking voting will solve this. For who? Joe Biden? That piece of shit has done more to entrench black poverty in the US than Trump could ever dream of. — StreetlightX

Biden presents as the person that can do that not just because of his ability to win the African American vote. But there is a sense that he can win over some of those white, working-class voters given his Delaware-Pennsylvania roots. So Biden sort of meets the two prongs of pragmatism. One is, can we trust him to keep our civil rights protections in place? And is he electable. And on both scores, he did better than any of the other candidates that entered the Democratic primary this cycle. — https://www.npr.org/2020/03/10/813922126/why-joe-biden-is-the-pragmatic-choice-for-black-voters

But you know better than black voters what their interest are and how they should approach the current situation. It's quite telling how a protest over racism and police brutality is turned into ranting on the evils of capitalism.

As if black voters vote as a collective block, dickhead. And yeah, when faced with a presidential candidate who tried to sustain school segregation and voted for the crime bill which helped entrench black poverty, frankly anyone ought to wonder if electoral politics has any significance whatsoever - not forgetting that Minnesota is a blue state.

As if black voters vote as a collective block, dickhead. — StreetlightX

I quoted an NPR article, dumbass. But you can go look up the percentage of black folks who vote democratic. 91% voted for Hillary. Bernie lost the primary in part because he wasn't appealing to older black voters. They do like Biden though.

Easy stuff to look up. But you know better.

And any violence was always going to be used to deligitimize the protests. Where does that leave us, strategy wise? Is there any strategy?

Are you telling me the riots are the start of the glorious revolution? — Echarmion

Hardly, but the WhAt AbOuT TaRgEt???? corporatist brigade can all STFU or jump off a bridge - that'd be a start.

And can we not forget that giant retailers like Target almost always destroy local independent shops by way of displacing them? They're a market ecosystem killer, like a pesticide. Targets monopolize and offer poverty wages in retrun - they ruin, not nourish, local economies.

I quoted an NPR article, dumbass. — Marchesk

You quoted a shill piece for a corporatist racist.

You quoted a shill piece for a corporatist racist. — StreetlightX

Was any of it untrue, asshole?

Was any of it untrue, asshole? — Marchesk

Yes, all of it. Biden - a senile corporatist rapist - is neither 'electable' nor can he be trusted with civil rights protection, given his shitty track record.

In any case, my point was not about Biden but about electoral politics more generally. That Biden happens to be the current cadidate is immaterial.

I can't wait for Biden to win in November.

I don't doubt it.

Anyone who cries over looting but had nothing to say over the corporate looting of the American public purse during the recent bailouts ought to lose the right to speak on this topic, permanently.

Care to enforce that?

No, I'm not a fascist.

firing something at innocent person on their porch:

https://streamable.com/u2jzoo

cop appearing to be enjoying himself today:

https://v.redd.it/jjclrdzp8x151

cop shooting something at guy for saying "fuck you":

https://v.redd.it/zepg0b43ly151

cops breaking supplies for peaceful protestors:

https://v.redd.it/v8x8isj0xz151

nypd driving into protestors:

https://v.redd.it/mztm15kh00251 https://gfycat.com/misguidedrecklesscod

cops shoving an old dude to the ground:

https://v.redd.it/bluggpblrz151

police actively seeking out fights compilation:

https://v.redd.it/m82yxl4qh0251

cop driving at people aggressively on a campus:

https://v.redd.it/ngxvkoro60251

cop shooting something at people watching from apartment:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Sarah_Mojarad/status/1266633046591078400?s=09

police shooting the press with something:

https://v.redd.it/o3v8ps7rat151

police arresting a CNN reporter:

https://v.redd.it/yce9bpk8mo151

police doing a drive-by pepper spraying

https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1266193926316228609

photographer being pepper sprayed:

https://i.redd.it/4ix8f3j6dy151.jpg

guy with hands in the air gets his mask ripped off and pepper sprayed:

https://v.redd.it/wlx0gyoe21251

lady who was coming home with groceries who got a rubber bullet to the head:

https://i.redd.it/ns0uj557x0251.jpg

https://mobile.twitter.com/KevinRKrause/status/1266898396339675137

reporter blinded by rubber bullets:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266618525600399361?s=19

reporter describes getting tear gassed:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1266911382613692422

couple getting yanked out of their car and tased for violating curfew:

https://mobile.twitter.com/GAFollowers/status/1266919104574865410?s=19

young woman gets shoved to the ground by officer:

https://mobile.twitter.com/whitney_hu/status/1266540710188195843?s=20

reporter sheltering in gas station is pepper sprayed: https://twitter.com/MichaelAdams317

reporter trying to get home gets window shot out: https://twitter.com/JaredGoyette/status/1266961243476299778

cops come at a guy for filming a police car burning:

https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1266953514242228229

photographer arrested:

https://youtu.be/9wgkGLmphLE

Columbus police assaulting protestors:

https://twitter.com/KRobPhoto/status/1266796191469252610

congresswoman sprayed with pepper spray during protest:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/joyce-beatty-ohio-pepper-sprayed-columbus-protest/index.html

7 protesters fired on by something:

https://v.redd.it/tal1ncha4o151

cops pepper spraying a group of protestors without provocation https://v.redd.it/0dxnkso0a1251

young child allegedly pepper sprayed:

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/video-shows-milk-poured-over-face-of-child-pepper-sprayed-in-seattle-protest

horse tramples young woman, police investigating: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/05/30/watch-video-captures-moment-police-horse-tramples-woman-during-houston-rally/

cop pushes protestor with his bike

https://twitter.com/ava/status/1266797973834395648?s=20

Reuters reporters detail being shot at with rubber bullets:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protest-update/reuters-cameraman-hit-by-rubber-bullets-as-police-disperse-protesters-idUSKBN237050

man pepper sprayed as he watches from his second floor apartment balcony (at 13s)

https://v.redd.it/l0yq3023p2251

swat holds alleged looter with the same hold that killed George Flynn:

https://v.redd.it/i5pj07xrw2251

CNN reporter pepper sprayed after identifying themselves as press:

https://mobile.twitter.com/darryl_forges/status/1266911141088972803?s=21

nurse gives her first hand account:

https://v.redd.it/n6x9ms0h86251

casually pepper spraying while walking by:

https://v.redd.it/1okeo9obn5251

girl getting booted while already on the ground:

https://v.redd.it/1maj0iv475251

more cop car ramming:

https://imgur.com/QTZCPKg

video compilation of most of these links:

https://youtu.be/OIgw1VJJLIM


BuT wHaT AbOuT ViOlEnT PrOtEsToRs??

Stfu.

Police being confrontational has escalated the situation unlike places where they joined the protests. Maybe it would be best at this point to back off and let the looting die down. Show some solidarity with the concerns of the protesters.

A lot of us watching the protests and riots in the US will feel that we’ve seen this before. But there’s an interesting element added to the mix these days.

“Coincidently this week, the Wall Street Journal’s peek at Facebook’s decision making over the past several years spotlighted a 2018 internal report acknowledging that “[o]ur algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness. … If left unchecked [it will show users] more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention & increase time on the platform.” https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/31/a_week_when_social_media_showed_its_true_face_143332.html

USA all over the news right now. Bizarrely to me, it seems like the states is becoming more united.

@StreetlightX

This fall there will be a national referendum on the incumbent; the Devil himself, if he were to take the Democratic nomination from Biden's cold dead hands, will be elected - certainly in a popular vote landslide and probably (at this point) in an Electoral College rout too. You're just chasing cars & barking at shadows ranting against Biden. If Georgia is "in play" by the fall, which I guess it's almost even money now that it will, then I'll have to switch from "safe state" third party to "swing state" lesser rapist - Biden (or whomever the DNC-Obama-Pelosi-Schumer-Slick & Shillary replace him with). Btw, don't count Bernie out yet! (I hope for his sake he doesn't take it because if things get bad enough the old man & fellow progressives, I fear, may be set-up to take the fall).

SCROTUS' only play is some form of martial law (à la the Enabling Act - fuckin' Steve Bannon's wet dream) that most of 'the establishment' will consent to (I can't imagine why they would though) in order to cancel/suspend the election. By historical standards, things just ain't bad enough yet for a banana republican coup ...

“Coincidently this week, the Wall Street Journal’s peek at Facebook’s decision making over the past several years spotlighted a 2018 internal report acknowledging that “[o]ur algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness. … If left unchecked [it will show users] more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention & increase time on the platform.” — Brett

Lol, as if anyone needed this peek so see the obvious.