If you take the looting and pillaging off the table, you're going to lose black interest. Like always most were just in it for the free pass for violence and thievery.
If they hate the police, they'll just love Academi. Some of them might even try to hire the likes of The Wagner Group if they are legally able; wouldn't that be a fucking blast??
I think someone just writes down what's happening as it comes through the radio? I dunno, it seems like they're transcribing instead or writing a summary.
So, in one of the discord that I'm in, one girl said this about the riots-
"Hey @everyone ! Today as it was storming (and as it still is where I live), I was overcome with emotion at the state of the world. Both in agony and in celebration of the beauty that comes out of the darkness. I've had lots of people come and cry to me about how they feel helpless. That they can no longer live happily and in peace knowing that the world is not right. As well as seen some people say that the world is not getting worse, but that the veil that sheltered them from reality is lifting. A close friend of mine recently told me while in tears: "I used to say all lives matter. But I can't say it anymore. I can't say it anymore because all lives won't matter until black lives matter." And she isn't the only who has been in tears as they have been forced to see the injustices of the world.
To them, learning this has been agonizing. It has stripped them of their joy. They feel hopeless. The world is too big and there is nothing that they can do. But the truth is that it would truly only be hopeless if we remained blissfully ignorant. It can be terrifying. But change is coming. And a better tomorrow will come from it.
And now, I don't like calling people who are terrified for their lives ignorant or sheltered, because that's extremely fucking tone deaf, in my opinion. Nor do I like the fact that there's morons out here who think anything remotely good has come from this. I've also been stewing with anger over all of the terrible shit that these rioters and looters are getting away with because people are too scared to tell them no.
So I responded.
I mean, I can certifiably say the world is getting worse when you see shit like a 77 year old black man who spent forty years actively trying to improve his community bleeding out on the pavement for defending a store against looters. Shot dead over a fucking television.
And a kid in Ireland being stabbed in the spine repeatedly for the crime of having white skin as his friend desperately tries to shield his body with her own, while multiple people film and laugh at their agony as the kid lays there dying. The cameraman literally yanks the friend away from the kid's body by her hair so he can get a better angle of the kid's battered and bloody face.
And videos of people sobbing as their livelihood goes up in flames, or an elderly disabled black woman weeping and saying she doesn't want to live anymore because people have literally destroyed every single place she was able to go to to get necessities.
And a puppy being tortured on live television and people doing nothing.
And then this sort of bullshit behavior is not only approved of but encouraged by seemingly every corporation and celebrity and social media site.
So yeah, I'm gonna say that the world is getting worse. I'm not crying because I've lost ignorance, because I lost that a long ass time ago. I'm crying because I'm seeing the world I love dissolve into brutal, mindless anarchy and people are cheering it on.
I'm probably gonna get a bunch of people in the discord on my ass, but hey, worth it.
If you take the looting and pillaging off the table, you're going to lose black interest. Like always they were just in it for the free pass for violence and thievery.
So, in one of the discord that I'm in, one girl said this about the riots-
"Hey @everyone ! Today as it was storming (and as it still is where I live), I was overcome with emotion at the state of the world. Both in agony and in celebration of the beauty that comes out of the darkness. I've had lots of people come and cry to me about how they feel helpless. That they can no longer live happily and in peace knowing that the world is not right. As well as seen some people say that the world is not getting worse, but that the veil that sheltered them from reality is lifting. A close friend of mine recently told me while in tears: "I used to say all lives matter. But I can't say it anymore. I can't say it anymore because all lives won't matter until black lives matter." And she isn't the only who has been in tears as they have been forced to see the injustices of the world.
To them, learning this has been agonizing. It has stripped them of their joy. They feel hopeless. The world is too big and there is nothing that they can do. But the truth is that it would truly only be hopeless if we remained blissfully ignorant. It can be terrifying. But change is coming. And a better tomorrow will come from it.
And now, I don't like calling people who are terrified for their lives ignorant or sheltered, because that's extremely fucking tone deaf, in my opinion. Nor do I like the fact that there's morons out here who think anything remotely good has come from this. I've also been stewing with anger over all of the terrible shit that these rioters and looters are getting away with because people are too scared to tell them no.
So I responded.
I mean, I can certifiably say the world is getting worse when you see shit like a 77 year old black man who spent forty years actively trying to improve his community bleeding out on the pavement for defending a store against looters. Shot dead over a fucking television.
And a kid in Ireland being stabbed in the spine repeatedly for the crime of having white skin as his friend desperately tries to shield his body with her own, while multiple people film and laugh at their agony as the kid lays there dying. The cameraman literally yanks the friend away from the kid's body by her hair so he can get a better angle of the kid's battered and bloody face.
And videos of people sobbing as their livelihood goes up in flames, or an elderly disabled black woman weeping and saying she doesn't want to live anymore because people have literally destroyed every single place she was able to go to to get necessities.
And a puppy being tortured on live television and people doing nothing.
And then this sort of bullshit behavior is not only approved of but encouraged by seemingly every corporation and celebrity and social media site.
So yeah, I'm gonna say that the world is getting worse. I'm not crying because I've lost ignorance, because I lost that a long ass time ago. I'm crying because I'm seeing the world I love dissolve into brutal, mindless anarchy and people are cheering it on.
I'm probably gonna get a bunch of people in the discord on my ass, but hey, worth it.
I can't be the only one getting "and everybody clapped" at the end of what she typed, can I? It seems so melodramatic. They were crying over this? How ridiculous.
Insert that one quote; "The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors."
Thanks, Paulo Freire! I think that sums up a lot of what's going on right now.
I wouldn't consider myself on the farm, but i'm pretty far right. I wish more was happening, it's literally driving people to our cause and to our beliefs. But i agree, i hate seeing "normal" people get fucked with, it breaks my heart. (Normal people doesn't mean white folks, it means more apolitical folks, small business owning colored folks, and"normies" as much as i hate that word)
Don't be eager for more action here. The mask is off, let people stare at the beast underneath.
Kiwis ITT have been going off about incrementalism on the left, their slowly taking over institutions and shifting the Overton window, etc. This could be incrementalism in the other direction, as the normal people realize that social justice means a boot on their own neck. You don't need a harsh counter-reaction to drive the point home.
Take a lesson from Trump, who I frequently disagree with, but who played this masterfully so far. He could have played the traditional Republican law & order stern father role, ordered soldiers into the streets, and stomped people who were protesting a legitimate grievance (bad policing) in a destructive way (riots and looting). If he did, he wouldn't be playing to his base--he would have lost the conservatives who are big on Posse Comitatus protections. There were laws he could activate about insurrections, but that would be a morally and legally gray area.
Instead, he talked tough, laid the blame on the mayors/governors, told the army to prepare just in case... but stopped short of action. Then he made a show of strength that was clearly under his legal purview: having the NG clear the street down to St John's church, where he promised more of the same and waved a Bible around (ugh... not a great photo op, but he got the point across). Then he beefed up security only in DC, after multiple beloved monuments were defaced.
Now no one can say he overstepped his boundaries, and no one can say he ignored the issue. The worst they can say is he gassed some protesters nobody cared about because they lit the church on fire the previous night. And if you've been watching the live feeds since the start, you'll notice that the day Trump walked to St John's was the same day the riots turned into mostly orderly protests.
I don't know how this will ultimately play into the election, there's 5 months of spin and narrative to go. But no one can call Trump a fascist who deployed troops to US soil (outside of DC, where he's allowed to). It wouldn't be worth breaking that Constitutional barrier just to save a couple of Democratic strongholds, even if you think they richly deserve it.
As a bonus, Trump seems to have broken the grip Antifa had on the left with a mere 2 tweets. The FBI didn't even get involved yet, but they're being hunted by Mexican gangs and angry black protesters. They aren't gone, but it's a step in the right direction.
If there were seriously no police these "protesters" would be fucked way harder than anyone else. Outside of some of the blacks the majority of the liberals "demonstrating" are among the least physically imposing people in our country, and most don't even believe in guns. I guess the "defund the police" thing is supposed to mean stopping short of completely removing the police, but it still implies the police would have to drop their presence/response time. Its odd how that started getting pushed everywhere all at once, thats not a talking point I have ever heard before the last 2 weeks (maybe its been out there but I have never heard that one).
Its really wild to see how many people on twitter react with horror whenever they see cops deploy the billy clubs. They are such pussies they can't understand that its not dangerous to hit someone in the legs with a stick a few times, they just imagine it would hurt and get all emotional. But these same people react the same way whenever they see the mace, or the CS, or the beanbags, and just imagine the fucking reaction if they actually broke out the hoses (HEY I WAS TOLD IN SECOND GRADE THAT A BLACK PERSON WAS SHOT WITH A HOSE IN 1960, THATS FUCKING RACIST). These people think that fucking twisting someones arm back in an uncomfortable position is a form of brutality, literally any form of pain compliance is unacceptable to them simply because it looks like it would hurt. They seriously act like you have to just let someone go if they resist, what do they even expect the cops to do when someone resists?
I hope the japs brutally squash this nigger for trying to incite shit. Why the fuck people think it's the business of non-US nations to care about this, I still have no idea. Fuck off, Ameri-centric twattards.
A nigger-spic hybrid is currently planning a BLM protest in Osaka, Japan and a lot of Japanese are telling her to stop because of COVID. View attachment 1356973
"foreigners do not have the legal right to protest" damn. I dunno why foreign protests stick with the BLM branding. Xenophobia in Japan is completely non-discriminatory.
Well, maybe a little more discriminatory against Koreans and the Chinese, but still.
I mean yeah an American slaves may live longer than one on a Brazilian sugar plantation. But that's like saying would you rather get mauled by crocodiles or choked to death by a fire. Slaves were still beaten to death by American Southerners.
I'd consider the shitstorm over slavery (that was abolished in the US over 150 years ago) pertinent were it not for the fact slavery is ongoing as I write in North Africa, in Libya. The very country our first black President and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set out to destroy and enabled Arab Salafis to bring back slavery. That's right, a black man and a woman caused slavery to return to Africa where sub-Saharan men, women and children are sold into slavery and shipped to Europe.
BLACK SLAVES ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD EVERY DAY RIGHT NOW IN AFRICA AND SENT TO EUROPE IN BONDAGE.
Nobody gives a shit, BLM doesn't give a shit and Antifa could care less. Spare me the moralfagging.
I still don't get the fucking point here; what exactly is going to be accomplished by defunding the police? It's like they saw one fucker saying it and now everyone is repeating it like a short-sighted, shitty Yak Bak.
It's attractive to local government because a) more money to waste on other shit and b) police can hassle whoever they want and it's somebody else's fault.
Obviously there will still be police, the state government isn't going to allow major metro areas to be completely lawless, so now there will be state police filling that role and before you know it we will have de facto gendarmeries everywhere, like in Europe. Local police will become a quaint notion that only exists in flyover states. And if you think ACAB now, imagine what it will be like when they are all outsiders temporarily stationed in your community.