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Misconceptions on George Floyd protests and lack of law enforcement

I do not support what happened yesterday.

No, you just support everything that caused it.

How? Are you responsible for all the death and destruction caused by BLM? Or other lefties? You partisans just can’t understand that most people are not as myopic as you. I just hate the hypocrisy.

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The destruction of the Floyd riots was incited by objective and real criminal police brutality, and thus also by those who deny and support it (IOW, you). The terrorism of yesterday was not incited by any real injustice, but by lies about fraud proven not to exist, and thus by those who told and repeated those lies and support the liars (IOW, you).
 
Next time the MAGAs should burn down store fronts and harass police. Then the media would call them peaceful protests.
 
How? Are you responsible for all the death and destruction caused by BLM? Or other lefties? You partisans just can’t understand that most people are not as myopic as you. I just hate the hypocrisy.

ErGPripXAAoMYKk

ErGPrinXIAArMOi

The destruction of the Floyd riots was incited by objective and real criminal police brutality, and thus also by those who deny and support it (IOW, you). The terrorism of yesterday was not incited by any real injustice, but by lies about fraud proven not to exist, and thus by those who told and repeated those lies and support the liars (IOW, you).

Everyone thinks their cause is just. The summer of George was certainly terrorism to those who lost their business and had their neighborhoods go up in flames. But, clearly, those folks don’t matter to you.
 
How? Are you responsible for all the death and destruction caused by BLM? Or other lefties? You partisans just can’t understand that most people are not as myopic as you. I just hate the hypocrisy.

ErGPripXAAoMYKk

ErGPrinXIAArMOi

The destruction of the Floyd riots was incited by objective and real criminal police brutality, and thus also by those who deny and support it (IOW, you). The terrorism of yesterday was not incited by any real injustice, but by lies about fraud proven not to exist, and thus by those who told and repeated those lies and support the liars (IOW, you).

Everyone thinks their cause is just. The summer of George was certainly terrorism to those who lost their business and had their neighborhoods go up in flames. But, clearly, those folks don’t matter to you.

You really don't see the difference between demonstrations instigated by BLM and top government officials, including President Trump?
Tom
 
The media is the difference. It sets the narrative of who may and who may not behave badly.

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How? Are you responsible for all the death and destruction caused by BLM? Or other lefties? You partisans just can’t understand that most people are not as myopic as you. I just hate the hypocrisy.

ErGPripXAAoMYKk

ErGPrinXIAArMOi

The destruction of the Floyd riots was incited by objective and real criminal police brutality, and thus also by those who deny and support it (IOW, you). The terrorism of yesterday was not incited by any real injustice, but by lies about fraud proven not to exist, and thus by those who told and repeated those lies and support the liars (IOW, you).

Everyone thinks their cause is just.


But some base it on objective facts, and some base it on proven lies, which are not a matter of opinion any more the the law of gravity.


The summer of George was certainly terrorism to those who lost their business and had their neighborhoods go up in flames. But, clearly, those folks don’t matter to you.

Whether something is terrorism isn't a feeling. Breaking shit b/c your enraged at being objectively brutalized isn't terrorism. Assaulting cops and trying to smash your way into a room where politicians are, so you can frighten them into tossing out democratic votes is terrorism (as is showing up to polls with guns). And I do care about the people whose property was destroyed, but that's irrelevant to the fact that this summer's property destruction was incited by acts of violence by the police, which were either denied or openly cheered by most Trump supporters.

Grave injustice triggers destructive reactions. When the injustice is real, then those who caused the injustice bear some responsibility for the honest human reaction it triggers. When there is no injustice and just bald lies claiming injustice, then those who lied and supported the liars bear responsibility for triggering the reaction to wrongly believed injustice (like falsely yelling "fire" in a theatre). In both cases, that responsibility is with the right wing, Trump, his supporters, and supporters of police brutality (which are highly overlapping groups).
 
Everyone thinks their cause is just.


But some base it on objective facts, and some base it on proven lies, which are not a matter of opinion any more the the law of gravity.


The summer of George was certainly terrorism to those who lost their business and had their neighborhoods go up in flames. But, clearly, those folks don’t matter to you.

Whether something is terrorism isn't a feeling. Breaking shit b/c your enraged at being objectively brutalized isn't terrorism. Assaulting cops and trying to smash your way into a room where politicians are, so you can frighten them into tossing out democratic votes is terrorism (as is showing up to polls with guns). And I do care about the people whose property was destroyed, but that's irrelevant to the fact that this summer's property destruction was incited by acts of violence by the police, which were either denied or openly cheered by most Trump supporters.

Grave injustice triggers destructive reactions. When the injustice is real, then those who caused the injustice bear some responsibility for the honest human reaction it triggers. When there is no injustice and just bald lies claiming injustice, then those who lied and supported the liars bear responsibility for triggering the reaction to wrongly believed injustice (like falsely yelling "fire" in a theatre). In both cases, that responsibility is with the right wing, Trump, his supporters, and supporters of police brutality (which are highly overlapping groups).

You’re just making excuses because you are sympathetic to the bad actors. When the Einsatzgruppen gunned down Jews in Eastern Europe; when the Soviets starved the Kulaks; when ISIS beheaded the kaffirs; all excused their bad behavior as just and righteous.
 
More than 300 protesters arrested as Kavanaugh demonstrations pack Capitol Hill said:
Nearly 300 protesters were arrested at a US Senate building on Thursday afternoon as crowds of activists descended on Capitol Hill while lawmakers reviewed the FBI’s report on the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Protesters gathered in the Hart Senate Building atrium after US Capitol Police barricaded the front of the Capitol.

In a statement, US Capitol Police communications director Eva Malecki said that at about 3:30 p.m., 293 people were arrested for unlawfully demonstrating.
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So I was curious, are a few tweets now used to broadbrush ALL media coverage?
 
More than 300 protesters arrested as Kavanaugh demonstrations pack Capitol Hill said:
Nearly 300 protesters were arrested at a US Senate building on Thursday afternoon as crowds of activists descended on Capitol Hill while lawmakers reviewed the FBI’s report on the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Protesters gathered in the Hart Senate Building atrium after US Capitol Police barricaded the front of the Capitol.

In a statement, US Capitol Police communications director Eva Malecki said that at about 3:30 p.m., 293 people were arrested for unlawfully demonstrating.
link

So I was curious, are a few tweets now used to broadbrush ALL media coverage?

So then you’ve got the coverage of the media calling these people traitors and terrorists?
 
The media is the difference. It sets the narrative of who may and who may not behave badly.

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No.
The media is not the difference.

Tom

That you swallow whatever the media feeds you would not surprise me.

You clearly don't know me very well.

I'm talking about the difference between a vague social justice organization and the top government officials. I don't need whatever you call media to distinguish between the two.
Tom
 
That you swallow whatever the media feeds you would not surprise me.

You clearly don't know me very well.

I'm talking about the difference between a vague social justice organization and the top government officials. I don't need whatever you call media to distinguish between the two.
Tom

Well, at least that makes one of you who seems to not need media to tell them what to think...
 
How? Are you responsible for all the death and destruction caused by BLM? Or other lefties?
No one voted for them. Trump voters put him in office. Duh. Fuck your hypocrisy.

What hypocrisy?
Your false equivalences are hypocrisy. Your accusation of myopia and partisanship as driving narratives are hypocrisy.
I’m condemning all who engage in wanton destruction.
Until you condemn the prime instigator and fomenter, President Trump, your claim is bullshit.
Care to join me?
When you arrive, I will greet you.
 
I do not support what happened yesterday.

No, you just support everything that caused it.

How? Are you responsible for all the death and destruction caused by BLM? Or other lefties? You partisans just can’t understand that most people are not as myopic as you. I just hate the hypocrisy.

ErGPripXAAoMYKk

ErGPrinXIAArMOi

You're comparing the Kavanaugh protest to yesterday. The Kavanaugh protestors didn't break in, ransack offices, steal, vandalize, and attack police like your compadres did yesterday. They protested in the atrium and when arrested were led away peacefully.

[TWEET]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the Hart Senate Building right now. <a href="https://t.co/1hTQ7MazhP">pic.twitter.com/1hTQ7MazhP</a></p>— Lissandra Villa (@LissandraVilla) <a href="https://twitter.com/LissandraVilla/status/1047936294310088704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/TWEET]
 

Are you unaware that the DC mayor called in the national guard? CNN didn’t report that? *shocking* They simply didn’t anticipate the crowd would head to the capital building.

They certainly should have anticipated it!

And are you aware that the DoD refused to deploy the guard?
 
The media is the difference. It sets the narrative of who may and who may not behave badly.

ErIfkDEXUAQnH-F

So? Most of the protesters were peaceful, but there were some firebugs.

None of the people involved in yesterday's coup attempt were peaceful.
 
The media is the difference. It sets the narrative of who may and who may not behave badly.

ErIfkDEXUAQnH-F

So? Most of the protesters were peaceful, but there were some firebugs.

None of the people involved in yesterday's coup attempt were peaceful.

About 93% of racial justice protests

About 93% of racial justice protests in the US since the death of George Floyd have been peaceful and nondestructive, according to a new report. The findings, released Thursday, contradict assumptions and claims by some that protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement are spawning violence and destruction of property.

About 7,750 of those protests were linked to the Black Lives Matter movement, the report states. Peaceful racial justice protests took place in more than 2,440 locations across all 50 states and Washington, DC—violent demonstrations occurred in fewer than 220 locations, according to the report.

In other words, there were BLM riots in almost 220 different cities. 7% of their protests ended in riots. For the MAGAs, there's this one. And you lose your shit.
 
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