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Is it just me or are these "black kid dies due to cop , black community pissed" riots getting more severe. If not on the protestor side then on the police response side? I feel like these shootings are too close together to simply pass from public conscience.
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bassguitarhero posted:I saw a meme on Twitter about how police have killed an unarmed black person every 28 hours so far this year. If the protestor side isn't getting worse, the response side sure is because it's looking more and more like the police really want an all-out war. I know people like to cherry pick quotes from tea party types and moan about how white America would cheer on a race war, but I think there's a line the police can't cross without America taking notice/recoiling in horror.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:57
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Alkydere posted:Fair enough, and glad people aren't realizing my posts aren't fully serious (I think it's a bit of a mental self defense mechanism at the horror at this point). The type of person who shoots somebody else to satisfy their power fantisies is not the type of person to care about backlash if they can get away with it.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:50
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My Imaginary GF posted:
In case there is a hint of non-irony in there. That would be a sure fire way to get labeled as terrorists.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:53
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Jesus loving Christ. This poo poo can't go on forever. The police are just adding more and more heat to a boiling pot.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:16
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Stultus Maximus posted:*when faced with actual armed opposition. But Guys! Its no fun if the other side shoots back. Seriouspost: Holy poo poo, shots fired on both sides is very bad news.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:25
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axeil posted:Right now I'd say it's pretty low. If it spreads I'm guessing it'd spread to the rest of St. Louis before it moves into other towns. I think the police have made it evident, in this instance and previous, that they have no idea how to deescalate a situation. They will keep escalating and escalating until the other side backs down because they have the bigger guns. Now whether or not the other side will back down, I don't know.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:30
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How much of America will honestly believe the tale of violent looters and thugs? At the very least minority communities should be taking note and notice of the police brutality. I would wager that more liberal whites also will take the side of protesters. Hell, Occupy wall street was hardly a minority only protest.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:41
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Zeitgueist posted:Minority communities are well aware of police brutality and as you say, Occupy was hardly just black folks and nobody paid attention to that either. Nobody paid attention to that? In just your post you have Minority communities and white Occupy protestors. Those people count. Those people are somebody Popular Thug Drink posted:I'm there too, I'm the guy with my shirt off yelling WORLD STAR What about the other 60%? People don't need unanimous support to enact change.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:44
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tatankatonk posted:Oakland PD shot an Iraq vet in the head with a tear gas grenade and put him in a coma during Occupy, and the rest of the country's reaction was still "Maybe those anarchists shouldn't mess with the bull if they don't want the horns!!" Yes, because loud assholes on the internet make up the opinion of the entire country. Edit:^^^ If I remember correctly LA had race-fueled protests a year or two ago.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:48
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I understand that others don't share my (perhaps undeserved) optimism and hope, but I its important that despair doesn't keep people from trying to change things for the better.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:53
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Spiritus Nox posted:Via @mattdpearce Hey now, I'm sure they had a predator drone or two they kept locked up.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:54
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The first three comments alone say a lot about America: Youtube comments = America, good to know.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:57
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"Hey Guys, uh, maybe we should just, you know, calm down about this whole situation" Come the gently caress on Obama. "Don't shoot kids" isn't something you should have to walk on eggshells about.
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Aug 14, 2014 18:05
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Historically its not all that hard to rally poor people under a common banner, the problem is doing that in modern america, where things are bad but often not quite so bad that people are as pissed as they were during huey long's time. There's also a healthy white middle class that aligns itself with the rich, although this middle class is shrinking.
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Aug 14, 2014 18:36
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Right but there are millions of poor whites not any better off then various other groups. The current powers that be are doing a decent job of supplying just enough welfare and other things to keep people deciding to not jeopardize their jobs and lives and such by going out and joining protest movements. The current powers are neither self aware enough nor smart enough to be doing this intentionally or keep this up.
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Aug 14, 2014 18:41
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WoodrowSkillson posted:My father has straight up called out his fellow right wing upper/middle management friends using the logic of "if you take away too much, we will end up with mobs like like in france" Was this done in the context of "You guys are assholes" or "We can't exploit them too much"? Regardless, that sort of logic has never won out before. The people in power just keep pushing and pushing until they can't push anymore.
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Aug 14, 2014 18:46
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Mitt Romney posted:How in the world could they justify that? No crowd is even around and it's just a bunch of news vans.  Oh my god all this military equipment I have so much power right now.
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Aug 14, 2014 19:51
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Where was that poll taken from?
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Aug 14, 2014 21:53
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