Is this America?

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FWIW, none of them said burn shit down

 

[extremedave]

You're deflecting yesterday's protest by comparing it to the BLM protests which were 93% peaceful. There's a HUGE magnitude of difference between looting a Target and storming the capital with flexcuffs.

No, looting and destruction of cities should not be celebrated or condoned, but I can't even begin to compare that to storming the capital building of our nation.

Here's your unbiased source of data trying to say a riot isn't a riot if you don't call it a riot. Or something.

'A War of Words.' Why Describing the George Floyd Protests as 'Riots' Is So Loaded

People have had to make choices about how to characterize widespread, evolving unrest. Are we in the midst of uprisings? Rebellions? Riots?

time.com

 

[A Potted Plant]

My main concern is you're entrusting the winner and losers to the government. Which, more and more, does not have the public's interest at heart.

The government does have value, such as imposing regulation when business gets out of hand, like Dupont dumping chemicals into rivers, say. And I'm not saying capitalism is the best way to run an economy. And (getting a little introspective here) growing up with the USSR as the big baddie, and seeing how horrible they were to their populace, my generation considers such an arrangement abhorrent.

I don't have an answer, my perspective is someone has their finger on the scale so another finger needs to go on the weight.

We do it with businesses

 

[extremedave]

You're deflecting yesterday's protest by comparing it to the BLM protests which were 93% peaceful. There's a HUGE magnitude of difference between looting a Target and storming the capital with flexcuffs.

What in the world does that have to do with what I said? I don't condone the destruction of buildings and looting that happened over the summer. Do I work at CNN?

I'm pointing out the fallacy of the thing you just posted?

 

[Cassinonorth]

Here's your unbiased source of data trying to say a riot isn't a riot if you don't call it a riot. Or something.

'A War of Words.' Why Describing the George Floyd Protests as 'Riots' Is So Loaded

People have had to make choices about how to characterize widespread, evolving unrest. Are we in the midst of uprisings? Rebellions? Riots?

time.com

They were calling them protests all day yesterday too. Instead of what it was, an insurrection or coup.

 

[Pearl]

Haha 93% peaceful? Yet over $1 billion on damages, small business owners ruined, government buildings damaged and over run, police cars burned, 19 killed...

Wait they damaged government buildings? WHAT THUGS THEY SHOULD ALL GO TO JAIL

 

[A Potted Plant]

Here's an idea - ride more and worry less about the US government being toppled. Uncle Joe will save the day in a few weeks. If not, move to the UK!

Man your making me so invited I may as well sit tight while we're getting locked out of the rest of the world

 

[rick81721]

And yeah, in focusing immediately on entirely unrelated protests from this past summer you're, at best, minimizing what happened yesterday.

Good point - there really is no comparison between the minor event yesterday and months of violent rioting and destruction.

 

[soulchild]

Rick, do Black lives matter? Just a simple question. I like to know my audience.

 

[Cassinonorth]

Good point - there really is no comparison between the minor event yesterday and months of violent rioting and destruction.

Holy shit.

 

[extremedave]

I don't have an answer, my perspective is someone has their finger on the scale so another finger needs to go on the weight.

We do it with businesses

It's an interesting idea. Really, a law abolishing lobbyists would go a long way.

 

[rick81721]

Rick, do Black lives matter?

All lives matter. Did that unarmed air force vet deserve to get shot dead yesterday by capital police?

 

[soulchild]

Thanks for answering. This is exactly what I thought you would say.

EDIT: I have no knowledge of the person you're talking about.

 

[Pearl]

yeah, this is pretty much the end of this thread

 

[Pearl]

Do you crash strangers' funerals shouting I TOO HAVE FELT LOSS
Do you go to cancer fundraiser going "THERE ARE OTHER DISEASES TOO"

 

[Dave Taylor]

Do you crash strangers' funerals shouting I TOO HAVE FELT LOSS
Do you go to cancer fundraiser going "THERE ARE OTHER DISEASES TOO"

Do you have the back up to support the baseless stuff Trump has been spewing? If so, please send it over.

No but sometimes I go to het my derailleur fixed at the shop and they care of the brake problem at the same time. Yay bikes.

 

[Monkey Soup]

It won't, but at least POTUS won't try to incite violence by spewing lies everytime he opens his mouth.

If you think all of this is because of what POTUS has been saying, then you really haven't been paying attention.

Do you have the back up to support the baseless stuff Trump has been spewing? If so, please send it over.

Huh? I don't have the backup to support any baseless stuff that any politician has been spewing. All politicians do is spew, so if you're looking to any politician to "fix" what's wrong, you better not be holding your breath.

I’m curious, what does Portland or any other riot (Newark, watts, rodney king, take your pick) have anything to do with the people who went into the capital yesterday. I am not trying to be a devil’s advocate, I just want to know, “what the fuck does one have to do with another?“
I keep hearing people saying that. Enlighten me!

You can justify these riots all you want, but all of these riots happen at the expense of someone else's civil liberties or freedom. Rioting is not an acceptable form of protest in this country, and makes us all look bad.

Spell it out homie, there is nothing unamerican about socialism, social security, and Medicare is socialism and among the most popular programs in this country if not the most.

Yet because someone says it socialism suddenly were Venezuela, and that couldn't be further from the truth. Get out of the way of progress and stop considering someone who doesn't agree with you as stupid.

Call me evil that I want kids not to be in cages or want people to have a fair shot at winning without the influence of where they're from or who their money and daddy is.

Why don't you take some of you're own advice. You can also stop playing victim and man-up.

 

[A Potted Plant]

All lives matter. Did that unarmed air force vet deserve to get shot dead yesterday by capital police?

She crossed the secret service perimeter around Mike Pence. She was behind the police directing people out of the stairs. She was attempting to crawl through a broken window of a door as the secret service maintain a gun drawn on her.

No one deserves to be killed, I feel for her children. What she did was stuck a fork in an outlet and got shocked. Her actions caused an expected result. If I charged donald trump I fully expect to end up dead, I hope she understood what she was doing.


If you want the video feel free to text me you have my number

 

[A Potted Plant]

yeah, this is pretty much the end of this thread

Shhhhhhh they've let it go on this long

 

[rick81721]

Thanks for answering. This is exactly what I thought you would say.

EDIT: I have no knowledge of the person you're talking about.

Shouldn't it be everyone's answer? Shouldn't all lives matter - black, white, blue, other? Seems simple to me.

And you didn't hear about the woman killed by capital police yesterday??

PS question for you - you don't post here for years and come back for this nonsense? Why??