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I watched this recently, and how right you are in bringing it to this boards attention.
“Useful idiots” is such a sublime term and I was enlightened by his assertion that there are no “grassroots revolutions”.
It was also harrowing to hear the correct explanation of the terms normalisation and social justice, especially in the current context of language use such as “The New Normal” and “Alone Together”, “Shielding”.
I thought I was black until 7th grade and was taught all the same BS about the systemic abuse of blacks and poor whites that the scumbags rioting and the idiots protesting have been taught. Unlike the middle class punks in Antifa, I actually had experience growing up with the "poor oppressed" folks they are "fighting" for which cured me of blaming much besides those people themselves. There are outward contributing factors for sure (that affect more than just them), but blaming them for why your community sucks as horribly as it does is like blaming bad genes on why you never even go to the gym. I may never have a 500lb squat because of genetics, but the reason was as weak as i was when I started SS was not genetics, but lack of any real training.
I would never loot or riot. Because I am not a complete piece of shit like the Antifa scum and hoodrat thugs doing so.
I am not against violence being used when necessary, but it should be discriminate and brought to the bad actors themselves with the least collateral damage possible. It might prove wrong to do so (because his guilt is, contrary to knee jerk reactions to optics), but you bring it to the cop himself and then those who defend him IF you are so allegedly pissed at injustice. You don't steal TVs from Target, much less some mom and pop store.
I initially jumped to the conclusion that the cop was guilty of wrongful death or something along those lines based on the brief video. But the fact that the mainstream news has lied literally every...single...time about these cases to the point of deliberate editing of video, left my skepticism intact.
This is hilarious!
I am not of the "our government doesn't do that" mind and I am so disappointed in many of Trump's failures and antics (who I unapologetically voted for) that the idea of him being a sort of Manchurian candidate has crossed my mind numerous times, but you have to have gone full retard to think that a government that thus far doesn't have the balls to label Antifa as a terrorist organization and is hunting imaginary white supremacists in the midst having the most Leftist make up ever is doing covert ops to destroy this movement. If there is anything being done, it is most certainly for that cause, not against it.
A concise guide to understanding the Leftist:
1-All of these accusations are projections of their own sins.
2-All their ideas are self contradictory and self defeating.
They claim an infrastructure in place to squash something about rights while actually being that very thing.
They are winning because conservatives generally want to mind their own business.
Radicals also want to mind our business.
Radicals will not settle for anything short of utopia....no matter the hell getting there causes.
Conservatives don't expect Utopias and know that slow change/small tweaks are generally the best way forward without doing more damage than good.
Conservatives give radicals the liberty to be radicals. They are willing to give everyone enough rope to hang themselves.
Radicals do not return the favor, but they have plans for the rope.
Conservatives need to finally realize that some ideas must simply die.
The current occupant of the barricaded People's (White) House and its underground bunker is saying that the 75 year-old man whose skull was fractured after being shoved to the concrete by police in Buffalo was part of an "Antifa setup." Should the officers who shoved the man be charged with a crime? No. But what to make of the man who whose opinion resembles that of someone for whom the first words he usually hears in the morning are "take your meds, it's time for group?"
Don't get me wrong, I hope your guy is correct but this sounds awfully Pollyannaish; akin to saying there's nowhere to go but up from rock bottom. Unemployment is still at 19%. That number will have to be at least half of that for Trump to have a chance at re-election.
[QUOTE=Matt Jackson;1775513]I totally get you, Matt. For the first ten days or so of the visceral rioting & looting, it consumed me. I was getting so frustrated and angry, or maybe disappointed is the better word. Then I realized, I had chosen to move from America for some time to escape that mess, especially since I have children (especially a daughter!!). So why bring that mess with me over here; why let it occupy so much of my mind? Maybe, if you live in a more exurban suburb, or in a rural area, you could similarly leave this "mess" in the urban areas and cities, where it belongs. I know that's what many people will PHYSICALLY be doing pretty soon, when this latest experiment of the Democrats with "historical change" ends up with another round of White (really, middle class) Flight.
Apologies if already posted. But....
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said at a news briefing from the United Nations agency’s Geneva headquarters. “It’s very rare.”
Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is '''very rare,''' WHO says
So, to play devil's advocate...doesn't the WHO suck? They've been wrong with everything else up to this point.