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Re: ...this is America.

Postby Maximus » Sun Jun 07, 2020 10:34 am

Candace owens says people are defy common sense,

George Floyd is an example of a violent criminal With a long record and some people are now makIng a martyr out of him.

Not that he deserved to die in the way that he Did but karma might say he had it coming to him one way or the other.

Then we kill upstanding black citizens while we riot Against police brutality against black people.

Mind blown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtPfoEvNJ74
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Re: ...this is America.

Postby cyprusgrump » Sun Jun 07, 2020 10:49 am

Maximus wrote:Candace owens says people are defy common sense,

George Floyd is an example of a violent criminal With a long record and some people are now makIng a martyr out of him.

Not that he deserved to die in the way that he Did but karma might say he had it coming to him one way or the other.

Then we kill upstanding black citizens while we riot Against police brutality against black people.

Mind blown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtPfoEvNJ74



I wish there was a 'Like' button! :P
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Re: ...this is America.

Postby Kikapu » Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:12 am

Maximus wrote:Candace owens says people are defy common sense,

George Floyd is an example of a violent criminal With a long record and some people are now makIng a martyr out of him.

Not that he deserved to die in the way that he Did but karma might say he had it coming to him one way or the other.

Then we kill upstanding black citizens while we riot Against police brutality against black people.

Mind blown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtPfoEvNJ74

I have already commented on her ranting page 11. :roll:

I don’t think I will be on her Christmas wishes list this year. :D
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Re: ...this is America.

Postby Kikapu » Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:31 am

My choice of “weapon“ against the riot police during demonstrations would be raw eggs thrown at them from a distance as it will stain and smear their helmet visors/shields and their faces as it dries.

Rotten eggs would be preferable. :D
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Re: ...this is America.

Postby CrookedRiverGuy » Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:32 am

Maximus wrote:Mind blown.



Not at all.

This is not a black-white picture (pun intended). It should be possible, very easy in fact, to keep two thoughts in your head at the same time.

1) George Floyd probably had a record and was no saint (even if Trump argues that he is looking down on us now :roll: )
2) George Floyd was executed on the street by a cop. No conviction. No verdict.

Those who protest are mainly people who protest that cops can execute whoever on the street.

Being mind blown over a black pro-Trump activist who has characterized Trump as the savior of Western civilization? Come on, you're not interested in seeing from where this is coming.
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Re: ...this is America.

Postby erolz66 » Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:36 am

CrookedRiverGuy wrote:This is not a black-white picture (pun intended). It should be possible, very easy in fact, to keep two thoughts in your head at the same time.


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Re: ...this is America.

Postby Maximus » Sun Jun 07, 2020 8:54 pm

CrookedRiverGuy wrote:
Maximus wrote:Mind blown.



Not at all.

This is not a black-white picture (pun intended). It should be possible, very easy in fact, to keep two thoughts in your head at the same time.

1) George Floyd probably had a record and was no saint (even if Trump argues that he is looking down on us now :roll: )
2) George Floyd was executed on the street by a cop. No conviction. No verdict.

Those who protest are mainly people who protest that cops can execute whoever on the street.

Being mind blown over a black pro-Trump activist who has characterized Trump as the savior of Western civilization? Come on, you're not interested in seeing from where this is coming.


Yes absolutely,

My mind is blown at the sheer hypocrisy of it all. Not by a black pro trump activist who has characterized him as the savior of western civilization.

With that being said, I do think western civilization does need some kind of savior because it is on a downward spiral. we have a load of delusional false virtue signalling radical plebs that antagonize and get angry at other people who think and believe differently to them.

1_ George did have a long criminal record. not probably but absolutely. If he didn't die, people would just think of him as another "low life" taken in to police custody for yet another offense.
2_ he was not executed, and labeling the situation like this is just sensationalism.

Those that are protesting are mindless hypocritical pawns. Even more so in countries outside of the US and the corona virus will probably deal with them.
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Re: ...this is America.

Postby Maximus » Sun Jun 07, 2020 8:59 pm

erolz66 wrote:
CrookedRiverGuy wrote:This is not a black-white picture (pun intended). It should be possible, very easy in fact, to keep two thoughts in your head at the same time.


+1


Did you black out your profile picture on your social media accounts and tell everyone you cant breath?
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Re: ...this is America.

Postby repulsewarrior » Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:23 pm

...on iHeart radio, i listen to Fox news every night.

The protest are a sub-text, so much energy is put into the rioting and its consequences, as "news", which are horrible. By contrast the thousands and thousands who are being ignored because peaceful demonstration is not as stimulating, to the(se) broadcast viewers. I hate to tell you this but the narrative is a lie. Fake news is when the facts are their, hidden in plain sight, a sound bite less than two seconds, what that President agrees with, the Right to peaceful protest, another nine minute story on what the President is against.

Today i watched Barr defend himself, and the President, on Monday was it, when he walked grandly from the White House to a Church; by pure coincidence he says, as though with peaceful streets Trump would have taken the same walk.

...what message does it send, the sad expectation that we will deny what we see and hear, live in this circumstance. Nothing is planned, and nothing is reasoned; reactionary and populist in nature, this is what we have come to expect.

No President of the United States has invaded so many homes (on their "TVs") around the world, and minds, with such daily attacks and violence. Force, the very thing that makes us weak if we fight among each other, is there, in our faces every day; such is Trump, fighting to keep things the way they are, when America, and the world, is yearning to do better, he fears change itself.

...it would be nice if i was not afraid of the Police, one bad experience is enough to know what that means, but because of my colour and my hair, you may say i was ruggedly handsome when i was younger, fitting the profile of a "nigger", as the Swiss say, not coloured (as in brown) or schwartz (as in Black), easy to profile as not one of "them". In the sixties, just in High School guns were drawn on me, in the seventies more than once a gun was pointed at me, and in the eighties i had the great satisfaction of having a record, not criminal, but to allow me free access to the Prime Minister, and other political figures, in the performance of my duties as a photographer. What satisfaction, once again to be held at gunpoint, a drug bust gone wrong, when the undercover cops apologised to me in front of about fifty people who had gathered in the store where i was literally jumped by them from behind (with a choke hold), originally.

...i don't say that all Police men should not carry guns, i say that not all should carry guns; guns need a reason, and they are to be earned based on merit if they are to be respected for what they are. No difference to Flloyd i suppose because he was not shot, but given the choices these Policemen took it was the arbitrary lethality (carrying guns, as a final weapon) that makes these actions completely unacceptable. Who cares who Flloyd is; did i spell his name right?

...it is as i said, a Police Force worthily working for respect from the community they serve, needs to get on the streets, to be known individually, and to know, individually the members of each household, and store.

It is not what good Policework needs, guns. The notebook is a more essential tool.
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Re: ...this is America.

Postby erolz66 » Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:25 pm

Maximus wrote:
erolz66 wrote:
CrookedRiverGuy wrote:This is not a black-white picture (pun intended). It should be possible, very easy in fact, to keep two thoughts in your head at the same time.


+1


Did you black out your profile picture on your social media accounts and tell everyone you cant breath?


I do not use social media because I think it is more problem than answer. I think it trains us to be less able to think clearly and sort truth from lies. It trivialises that which is not trivial and makes us believe that something worthwhile can be achieved without effort. As I try to live by the mantra be the change I want to see I chose not to use it. So no I did not black out my profile.
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