EDIT: Concerning that mom who got shot in the back, that story is like a week old. How is that not national news? I guess if they can sweep those kids getting shot up by CHAZ guards under the rug they can memoryhole anything...
This is one of those things that leaves one scratching their heads
. While it might not have been smart for a white person to say, "All lives matter," to a black protestor, that didn't justify the response of a fatal gunshot in the back. NGL, that comes off as the epitome of cowardice. "I can't refute your message, so you must die," should neither be acceptable nor be condoned.
It also seems to reinforce the idea that these protestors are so sheltered, coddled, and ass-patted that they truly can't handle challenges to their world view. Previous generations may still have people firmly set in their ways, but they were at least willing to accept the idea that: (1) not everyone shared the same values, and (2) that's inherently not a bad thing without further context.
Ideas such as "diversity" and "tolerance" will be little more than SJW buzzwords until people are willing to accept that opposing opinions don't automatically equate to hate/undesirability.
Why call 911 when you have the list
Somehow, I think Portland United Against Hate would
not accept calls from white people if blacks were threatening them with racial intimidation.
Not to mention how sketchy all mail voting would be if Dems and RINOs succeed with shutting down polling places because of kung flu
Regardless of any concerted efforts to manipulate the election process, the fact that mail service is awful and inconsistent in many locations allows for the possibility that ballots might not arrive at the clerk's office on a timely basis -- and this is before considering the possibilities of incompetence, malice, or gay ops.
Why would anyone do that?
I can't recall if anyone previously outlined the reason for Antifa protesting this when it was first mentioned here within the past 24 hours or so. For now, Antifa protesting just for the sake of protesting something works as an explanation because it's their general MO.
Good news. I had a good vacation disconnecting from the news and reconnecting with family. I encourage all of you to do the same
Wise advice, and I hope your downtime was productive,
@The Last Stand.
His defense is that this "behavior is not uncommon in the LGBTQ+ community".
Anyone that has read any of the Farms' content on J. Yaniv might find themselves agreeing with that statement. Regardless, this certainly doesn't help the efforts for that community to have a better relationship with the rest of society from which they want, need, and demand acceptance.
Conservatives HAVE to start participating in local government if they don't want more scenes like St. Louis and Seattle.
The sad thing is, at least in my district, often there is no reason to vote in elections that are just at the local level, the incumbents often run unopposed (and no ballot proposals).
Then find people to stand for those positions. Democracy without choice is no democracy.
Election years where there's no election for president or governor are notorious for their low turnout. It's not uncommon for the primary election in such a year to get 15-20% turnout tops. Even with changes to my state's absentee ballot rules, I still see these elections having lower participation because people don't find them important enough.
This is unfortunate because local, county, and -- to some extent -- state level elections are probably more important in terms of day to day decisions that impact people the most. A city or county commission's decisions tend to have more impact than a governor's or the president's.
At the same time, however, many of these lower level elections have fewer elections with opposing candidates, which probably drives many to not bother voting for them. In places where write-in candidates have to meet cursory requirements, writing in one's self or someone else truly is akin to not voting as someone else already stated.
No sane person wants the job.
With the increasing polarity between opposing parties/candidates, call-out or cancel culture, and special interests groups drowning out the voices of average citizens, one easily understands why sane people don't want to run for elected office.
Honestly I always was found of a "vote of no confidence" option that if enough people voted for would cause a second election to happen that would require others to run for that office, but in praticle I don't think it would do much benefit
As much as that sounds good in theory, it could easily be used to eliminate candidates perceived as undesirable or as a form of gay ops. There's no easy solution when voters prefer none of the candidates and free for all write-ins aren't possible.
For years, my local election was a dude that ran unopposed. I still voted. I'd write in a name. Sometimes I wrote in my own name. Or my dog's. I wanted it on record that I cared enough to vote and that I was opposed to the person running unopposed.
This sounds like the annual elections for student government when I was a university student. With the exception of president/vice president, almost every other available seat had either one candidate or none -- the latter being the case more times than not. The final year I even bothered to vote, I think I wrote in a friend's name who didn't even attend that university just to show how silly it was to expect students to cast a serious write-in vote for a seat nobody cared enough to want.
Doesn't seem like even Canadian liberals are all that interested in abolishing the cops.
It seems Canadians are more intrigued by #wayfairchildtrafficking, which is curious.
Ok, I'm going to give this a go. I'll try not to sperg out too much.
I think you shared sentiments a number of us may silently share. It's certainly frustrating when long-favored discussion forums that thrived with "No politics, period" rules now seem to bend them, enforce them more laxly, or ignore them even if means threads get filled with too many shitposts
while the overall forum quality goes down the crapper
. Sadly I've observed the same thing where totally apolitical topics devolve in to race-baiting and screeching over white privilege.
What's worse is when people make and act on the faulty assumption that those being silent or taking a neutral stance on political issues somehow support the status quo or everything seen as wrong with world. Attempting to stand up for one's self, however, almost always leads to deplatforming efforts in the name of punishing wrongthink.
The 2052 election cycle is gonna be an interesting one.
