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Not a riot

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  • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

    @jon-nyc said in Not a riot:

    And I don’t think they’re high status for the most part.

    Yeah, probably just attorneys.

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    @LuFins-Dad said in Not a riot:

    @jon-nyc said in Not a riot:

    And I don’t think they’re high status for the most part.

    Yeah, probably just attorneys.

    I didn't think any status was lower than attorneys....

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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      Watching the local coverage now. The majority of those being arrested are white. You can tell now, on the fourth straight night, that the cops have had about enough of this. SWAT is carrying assault weapons, not rubber bullets. They were getting on the news crews too.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      • MikM Mik

        Watching the local coverage now. The majority of those being arrested are white. You can tell now, on the fourth straight night, that the cops have had about enough of this. SWAT is carrying assault weapons, not rubber bullets. They were getting on the news crews too.

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        @Mik said in Not a riot:

        Watching the local coverage now. The majority of those being arrested are white. You can tell now, on the fourth straight night, that the cops have had about enough of this. SWAT is carrying assault weapons, not rubber bullets. They were getting on the news crews too.

        We're soon going to see if these crowds are just trying to push the envelope because of boredom, silly liberal activism, whatever, or if they're genuinely pissed.

        It must be said that the vast majority of protesters are being civil, and there are many stories of protesters and officers alike trying to police their own.

        Still, though. Shit. SHOW.

        Please love yourself.

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          Just hoping it doesn’t get uglier than it has. The problem here is there is really little or nothing to be gained by continuing. The cop has been charged. All they are doing now is hardening public sentiment.

          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            It's time to start killing them.

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            • MikM Offline
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              No, its not. Not right after the 50th anniversary of Kent State.

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              • LarryL Larry

                It's time to start killing them.

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                @Larry said in Not a riot:

                It's time to start killing them.

                Cop in (I believe) St Louis was bitched out and almost beaten down by a colleague after he threw a woman down unnecessarily. And here in DC last night, protesters stopped a jackass trying to light a molotov and held him until the police could take him away.

                Fires and smashing windows creates great TV but I don't think that's what most people want.

                Please love yourself.

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                  As I said in another thread, I'm not talking about the protesters. You aren't separating the two groups.

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                    Aqua Letifer
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                    One needs the other to get away with their crimes.

                    Please love yourself.

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                    • LarryL Offline
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                      I think the police are able to tell the difference between a peaceful boy or girl walking down the street holding a sign and a thug smashing windows with a board.

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                        Today on an evening walk with my 2-year old daughter we passed 3 cops in their cars sitting in a Target parking lot. Obviously on standby, although we are a few miles on the other side of the river from DC. I approached and they were very sweet with my daughter, turning on the police lights for her after I told them she loves watching for "wee-oohs wee oohs" (her siren sound). They also gave her a police badge sticker.

                        I told them what I honestly was thinking about today, which is it sucks there's not an easier way to display my support for the officers during these events. I told them they deserve way more respect than they are being shown, but (as expected) they shrugged it off and just said this is how things get sometimes. The good guys. It old them to stay safe, and they joked they just hope the mayhem stays in DC.

                        FWIW, I have someone close to me who's in law enforcement who is changing careers (decided last year, before all this crap started recently) because he's tired of the constant harassment received by many citizens. He doesn't write tickets, and is the nicest guy in the world, yet he has to deal with the scum of the earth (drug dealers, domestic violence, deaths after a car wreck) and what he gets for it is often public ignorance and insults.

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                          Lots of progressives go around saying that unless you're oppressed you can't possibly know the lived experience of being oppressed, and you cannot judge. But I think the lived experience that would be most at odds with people's imaginations would be that of police officers doing what they do every day. I really don't think most of us have any foggy idea about that lived experience and what it takes to navigate it smoothly.

                          Education is extremely important.

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                            That's cool that you did that, 89th.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                            • HoraceH Horace

                              That's cool that you did that, 89th.

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                              @Horace said in Not a riot:

                              That's cool that you did that, 89th.

                              Yeah, good on ya!

                              When I go on my walks in town, I see police cruisers all the time. I make a point of waving to them, and have before all this shit started. I think they appreciate it.

                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                jon-nyc
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                                Just as long as you’re using all 5 fingers.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

                                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                  Just as long as you’re using all 5 fingers.

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                                  @jon-nyc said in Not a riot:

                                  Just as long as you’re using all 5 fingers.

                                  (Cheap) Scotch all over my keyboard.

                                  It's OK, I was gonna get a new one anyway.

                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                    WHAT DO WE WANT!
                                    ??
                                    WHEN DO WE WANT IT!
                                    NOW!!!

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                                    • George KG George K

                                      Suspended account on Twitter, but the internet is, as they say, forever:

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                                      @George-K said in Not a riot:

                                      Suspended account on Twitter, but the internet is, as they say, forever:

                                      alt text

                                      White nationalists posing, says Twitter.

                                      https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/twitter-takes-down-washington-protest-disinformation-bot-behavior-n1221456

                                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                                        Tricky

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                                        • MikM Mik

                                          Just hoping it doesn’t get uglier than it has. The problem here is there is really little or nothing to be gained by continuing. The cop has been charged. All they are doing now is hardening public sentiment.

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                                          @Mik said in Not a riot:

                                          Just hoping it doesn’t get uglier than it has.

                                          Just my opinion, but I dont think it will. My feeling is that the anger is not slow burning for most, just for a few. Many people who are protesting are not really effected by this, and I think that their energy will burn out rather quickly. It takes alot of energy to do this.

                                          There is not a critical mass of people with slow burning anger to make this last.

                                          If you contrast to the recent protests in HK - there they had a million people in the streets day after day after day. There is a slow anger among a critical mass of people that can enable a protest like that to continue for a long time.

                                          I just dont see that in the US. The average white person who goes to protest will keep it up for one day, maybe two or three, but then, they will move on to something else.

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