You think you've got it bad? Here in the U.K. the riots are out of control!
LMAO. Yeah, they've been beating the shit out of reporters too, which of course gives the media a nice shot of the cops faces while they pepper spray the camera men.
This is just lol.
The expression on the pic is just priceless.
This is vey worrying: The death of George Floyd was a tragedy, but tragedies happen. Looting happens, but in the big picture it is negligible, merely a distraction. What worries me is the loss of accountability. The action of the police suggest that they feel that they can act extrajudicially with impunity. In the 1930s the same happened in Germany, and you know the outcome. If you have lived in America all your life this may sound unreal, but the risk is there. The citizens of Weihmar Republic never expected it could happen to them.
I like my local police as well and of course the police are not a uniform block (no pun intended), some are good people some are bad people. What I am saying is that some safeguards have gone missing. ;)
Yeah, but weren't those "4 accused" the guys who kidnapped that woman on the bus and brutally raped her to death?
Edit: What miz said.
“The Hyderabad case centers on a young veterinarian who had parked her motor scooter near a toll plaza on the evening of Nov. 27 and came back from an appointment to find that its rear tire was flat. A group of truck drivers offered to help her, the police said, but she suspected that she was in danger,” according to the New York Times. “The police said that the men had in fact deflated the tire as part of a plot to kidnap the young woman. The police added that the men had been drinking. They dragged the woman, who the police said was in her mid-20s, to a bushy area nearby and assaulted her. They then suffocated her and burned her body.”
Well said. Hope you are right about local elections. Some DOJ oversight would be even better though.
I think it is right that the three others have been charged. At the same time I hope they will be acquitted, because they were basically all new on the job. In many other western countries there is a mandatory trial if someone dies an unnatural death. It would be nice to do the same in the US. I have much more faith in the outcome when there was a proper trial rather than just a DA making up his mind whether to bring charges.
To sum up
I swear I didn't write this first one.
The South may not rise again, but their falling statues are still dangerous.
Apparently Popular Mechanics felt the need to write an article on how to properly topple a statue.
ethics aside, it's pretty fuckin funny that we've collectively reached the point where this magazine for dorks is adivisng people to use homemade thermite on monuments
https://twitter.com/i/status/1278625129514168320 Perhaps the boogaloo isn't over yet. If I can get more laughs out of retarded ancoms getting beat up by policemen it'll be worth it.
https://www.wisn.com/article/jacob-blake-video-shows-shooting-of-protesters-in-kenosha/33807922
What a mess
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/26/us/kenosha-wisconsin-wednesday-shooting/index.html
Apparently this guy was from out of state and so it wasn't his business he was defending. It's clear that he came only to stir up trouble and that's what he did.
Property destruction isn't worth shooting someone over regardless.
I would agree with you up until the point where someone starts destroying my property, then I just don't know if we could see eye to eye. I imagine a lot of other people feel similarly. I guess arsonists and vandals are only justified if they do it when they do it when the owner isn't around, so the owner can no longer shoot them. Looters, arsonists, etc. already prove by their nature that they aren't really interested in the causes they hide behind, you'd really be doing BLM a favor by shooting them. Though, this guy was clearly just shooting at protesters, so the line was crossed to begin with.
I really don't think the court is going to treat him nicely. All signs point to him just being an uppity kid that just wanted to shoot someone. Unless something comes out during the trial, their only motivation to shoot was that they saw protesters out after curfew, and then they tripped.
*tripped and got assaulted by a mob.
Wow what an unbiased impartial source
>That’s an unpopular opinion among the Marxists trying desperately to remold our nation into a hellhole, of course. They’re putting in overtime painting him as Literally Hitler.
Doesn't seem very unbiased to me.
http://chooseyourstory.com/story/lone-star
We're in a very rural area. There's a sharp boundary where the city ends and a vast sea of green that no Florida Man can cross without an appropriately sized landboat begins.
LMAO okay, the local news doesn't wanna cover the whole story but apparently the Kenosha Shooter (not the police one) was a Flatlander (That means somebody (usually an asshole) from Illinois, for those of you from far away places) who was part of a group of "militia" crackpots who like to LARP that they're part of the military reserve without any of the nasty side effects of training or being sent to the middle east. They're pro-police for some reason and offered to come "help" the cops somehow under the assumption that Kenosha Police would be outnumbered by protesters. This 17 year old kid decided to start shooting because this group of people was out past curfew. Kenosha police slowly rolled up and went "Hey kid, be careful, get out of here!" while everyone was screaming that there was a shooter and that shooter was him. He was only arrested later. Police responded to this on twitter with "If they weren't outside after curfew, they wouldn't have been shot" Ah, fuck cities.
Kind of hard to know the exact details since different stories and timelines float around the internet, but it sounds like he was protecting a dealership with a bunch of other armed friends (which the police were apparently appreciative of and gave the kid a water bottle,) but when he got separated from the group he got mobbed/attacked/shot at. And there was another gunman before him, about a minute and a half before he shot the first guy. "While Mr. Rittenhouse is being pursued by the group, an unknown gunman fires into the air, though it’s unclear why. The weapon’s muzzle flash appears in footage filmed at the scene. Mr. Rittenhouse turns toward the sound of gunfire as another pursuer lunges toward him from the same direction. Mr. Rittenhouse then fires four times, and appears to shoot the man in the head." [New York Times]
That wasn't a "shield wall" that was a house of cards. Lol.
Shoulda watched 300 one more time, they almost had it!
Maybe Avery can run an animal themed contest some day, that's all about interesting critters doing everyday stuff in death-defying ways.
His form is weak though. He doesn't go nearly low enough to knok someone down, and just kinda impacts against the shield.
The real chad is the one who goes low to smack the dude in the leg like he's a marauding Gaul clubbing a panicking Roman in the knee.
Antifa shot and killed some guy with a thin blue line patch in Portland, so now they're cheering and dancing about that.
Justice and stuff.
4chan already did their thing and figured out who the shooter (allegedly) was.
He was part of a caravan that was there to stir up trouble
Oh, in that case.
Most of the Seattle stuff I haven't had to worry about since I don't quite live near enough for it to affect me, yet. Closest was a big BLM protest organized (by an uber-woke white person, of course) that my neighborhood had a meltdown over. Some wanted to literally board up their houses, and others wanted to literally take their toddlers to go see the important historic protest - chance of arson be damned. It didn't help that there'd been looting, arson, and window smashing in the area for a couple nights in some nearby businesses, and the circle of rioting was slowly closing in on our little piece of the suburbs. But the wierdest were the people insisting that mobs are perfectly safe so long as you agree with them, businesses could just magically fix themselves so it didn't hurt anything, and if you felt you needed to board your house up then you really deserved to be set on fire. It all fizzled out without anything interesting happening. About a hundred people showed up apparently (mostly woke white suburban housemoms) and all congratulated themselves on Nextdoor after for doing their part to stop injustice, or something. And no more businesses were hit in our area for a while so the topic went promptly back to being ignored in favor of complaints of suspicious vans and missing kitties.
Everyone already knows what the left wing criminals are doing, so no point to rehash vandalism and refusal to comply with lawful orders from law enforcement officers and all the rest.
I get it, the site leans right. I lean centrist so I guess I just can't make up my mind. But at what point do political leanings interfere with the ability to think rationally and objectively? Or are we super internet badasses way to cool to have a truly rational discussion on the topic?
But regardless, if I've learned anything from the internet on this topic the last few months, it's this: if the killer agrees with my political views, then clearly it was self-defense. But if he agrees with the other side, then it is without question murder.
The point that people lose their ability is when they're no longer able to exercise their right to do so. Society is only a thin veneer maintained by a fragile social contract. We can bolster that contract by adding in framework to maintain and support it, but when that framework is dismantled, the fragility of that agreement is revealed. This is why the democratic process is important. When any group is allowed to enact its decisions unilaterally, it will damage that framework and eventually shred that social contract, often leading to violence.
We have to be able to agree to disagree. People tend to regard their truth as THE truth and their morality as absolute. An unwillingness to consider different perspectives is how we end up with this.
All of this is exacerbated by the framing devices of self-interested organizations that are designed to utilize the collective emotions of groups to satisfy their goals.
Until people can let people just be people, no matter how much they disagree, we're stuck with this. Of course there is right and there is wrong, but who gets to decide?
And yes, I am an internet badass.
Of course, if as you say everyone just stayed home, no one would get hurt (although we'd contend with the continued disregard of the Constitution by some police, but by now the message has probably been heard by the various legislators across the country).
honestly, fuck all these motherfuckers
I was and still am sympathetic to BLM, to an extent, but holy fuck this rioting and psychotic iconoclasty is bad. I read some article the other day about a bunch of liberals who want to tear down the Washington monument. Like, justice sure, but erasing everyone's culture and history is nuts. Of course, these freaks exist in Canada today and they just beheaded some statue of John A. MacDonald and I... don't actually give a fuck about John A. MacDonald, but it probably represents bad shit
Madison Protesters Condemned For Toppling Statue Of Anti-Slavery Activist
Here comes the hotstepper.
Same.