Police State
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Wall of Mom
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-moms-wall-human-shield-protesters/
After a Facebook post called for mothers to make a "Wall of Moms," dozens wearing white and helmets attended Saturday. They stood arm-in-arm with each other, forming a barrier between federal agents and demonstrators.
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@Horace said in Police State:
You will never convince me this is not all fun and games for those people.
For the moms, certainly. Their getups remind me of the pink shirts women wear for the breast cancer fun runs. That whole scene is disgusting. How can they not take what's happening more seriously?
For the other participants, I'm not sure.
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@Horace said in Police State:
You will never convince me this is not all fun and games for those people.
Beats staying at home under quarantine, where all you get to say you did is not spread the virus to anyone. That kind of Facebook virtue signaling has seriously diminished returns.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Police State:
That kind of Facebook virtue signaling . . .
Good encapsulating phrase!
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Cut off all Federal aid, withdraw all Federal officers and judiciary.
Let them be as weird as they wish and as weird as the state will allow.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Horace said in Police State:
You will never convince me this is not all fun and games for those people.
There is definitely a troubling aspect to federal forces engaging with citizens but no doubt this is also very much a rhetorical was and the left is looking past real anarchists doing millions in damage as if that doesn’t matter.
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It's ok to criticize both those things, Loki.
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I will never be clear about how true the emotions are that people lay claim to publicly when they know those alleged emotions are rhetorical evidence that the point they're making really matters. But "deeply troubling" tends to be a communicable emotional state that doesn't have to be based on anything real, so I suppose the emotions could just as easily be real. Claiming to feel them is really just claiming to have been told by your tribe that you should be feeling them.
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Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in Police State:
Those are the sorts of posts that boil down to you expressing a wish that people shut up about certain things, Cats.
Not my intention. I don't feel anything like that harsh. Rather, Loki sounds like he needs to refresh his soul.
Loki, I was not telling you to shut up.
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@Catseye3 said in Police State:
@Horace said in Police State:
Those are the sorts of posts that boil down to you expressing a wish that people shut up about certain things, Cats.
Not my intention. I don't feel anything like that harsh. Rather, Loki sounds like he needs to refresh his soul.
Loki, I was not telling you to shut up.
I get out often and am quite happy. For all the critical thinking we teach kids in school it just amazes me how much worse the one sided has become. The irony is incredible.
I would prefer we left Portland alone and let the rioters do their thing. That would be the best lesson of all. I thought the CHAZ dystopia would teach people but we need another one in Portland combined with increasing deaths and the bills to come due for all the cities and all the damage done by riots.
Budgets are already being cut as a result. The first victims will be in education and healthcare as the governors are essentially ministers of health and education.
Loss of tax base due to businesses shuttered due to riots, and then the repair bills. If the Moms and Dads want to pay for it through increased taxes I am for that too.
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@Horace said in Police State:
You were telling him that by talking about those things, he betrayed a soul in need of refreshing. You were shaming him for talking about whatever it is that you would prefer people not talk about.
That's how I saw it too.
