Not a riot
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Suspended account on Twitter, but the internet is, as they say, forever:
"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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@xenon said in Not a riot:
Isn’t Antifa like... all white guys?
Go watch some of the videos. More and more of the violence is by whites.
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@xenon said in Not a riot:
Isn’t Antifa like... all white guys?
Go watch some of the videos. More and more of the violence is by whites.
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@LuFins-Dad Seattle was almost all white dudes
@xenon said in Not a riot:
@LuFins-Dad Seattle was almost all white dudes
Wasn't Portland also?
However, in my neighborhood, that's not the case.
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I blame all of progressivism's evils on high status white folk who've fetishized their own moral superiority and aren't self-aware about their own pretension of being at the top of the social hierarchy. I place relatively little blame on the human tools they use as fodder in their culture wars.
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I don’t know how different they are from kids who would have fought with the Spanish Republicans in the 30s or Che’s forces in Bolivia or Angola in the 60s.
Not anywhere near as committed or brave, of course. What I mean by ‘not different’ is they’re just as deluded and have just as romanticized a view of what they’re doing.
And I don’t think they’re high status for the most part. On the contrary, and like most revolutionaries, they aspire to destroy the current order and replace it with one where they are in fact on top of the pyramid, though they are not self aware enough to realize that.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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You think rank and file antifa has a long term goal?
I think antifa skews higher status than, say, the rest of the looters do, and they also skew whiter.
But these categories can get ridiculous since official affiliations with these groups are probably few and far between.
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I don’t know how different they are from kids who would have fought with the Spanish Republicans in the 30s or Che’s forces in Bolivia or Angola in the 60s.
Not anywhere near as committed or brave, of course. What I mean by ‘not different’ is they’re just as deluded and have just as romanticized a view of what they’re doing.
And I don’t think they’re high status for the most part. On the contrary, and like most revolutionaries, they aspire to destroy the current order and replace it with one where they are in fact on top of the pyramid, though they are not self aware enough to realize that.
@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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@jon-nyc said in Not a riot:
And I don’t think they’re high status for the most part.
Yeah, probably just attorneys.
@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....
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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.
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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.
@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.
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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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@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.
