U.S. Riots of May 2020 over George Floyd and others - ITT: a bunch of faggots butthurt about worthless internet stickers

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FatalTater said:
Once upon a time America was at war, had a Republican president, the House and Senate were led by Democrats, an aircraft carrier exploded, there was a huge oil spill off California's coast, the moon was being explored, a teenager died of a mysterious illness, a black-led terrorist group took over a student activist organization, there were riots in the name of gay rights, a cult leader sent some of his followers out to commit murders with the thought that it would start a proper race war, a category 5 hurricane hit, there was a big earthquake, Chicago had riots, the president spoke of the "silent majority," nuclear weapons were being tested, and there were countless other things going on.

That was over 50 years ago, in 1969.

Stay strong
Be kind
But fight back
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I don't like this comparison because they ultimately got what they wanted, even if it took over 50 years for that to become clear. It's like laughing in January 1917 that the Russian Revolution of 1905 was a Dud.
 
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spiritofamermaid said:
Austin had a trial. Even though City Council didn't send a representative, they still had a trial against them, found them guilty of gentrification and racism, and beheaded something.
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a trail that starts in absentia for a capital crime is illegal in the US, but its always good to know if these people ever got power the kangaroo court accusations are true.
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Possible bounty board in Portland for cops
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If true, I hope there is proof, should help with terrorism charges
spiritofamermaid said:
PORTLAND POLICE ON THE SPEAKERS SAID "GO HOME. PICK UP ALL YOUR DILDOS AND GO HOME." :story:
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Archive, I demand an archive of this!
spiritofamermaid said:
I had it too, america was never great yadda yadda ya. What pulled me out was actually this site. Somehow I stumbled onto some thread or another and saw a few videos of the horrific treatment of animals done by Chinese, and knew that this would never be okay in America. It made me realize that there are bad things that other countries do that America purposefully doesn't, which makes America the best country. And while there are some things that America might stumble with, our system is so great because it allows us to recognize and then fix those mistakes.

And that's why I think a lot of the problems come from too. In school you're taught about the bad and good things America did (with emphasis on bad sometimes), but never talked about the bad stuff other countries do. So you think that only America is bad. And if you try to talk about the bad things other countries do, you're called a racist.
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When I took intro to philosophy back in my first year of college the teacher in one lecture was talking about a book written by a Vietnam vet, sadly the author and book have been lost in my memory. In the book he wrote when it was a POW viet cong would talk about all the ills of the US to try and "convert" them to the VC side. The author made the following observation of his fellow POWs:
Those with little education it didn't work on because "FUCK YOU 'MURICA!" attitudes
Those with some education it worked on because it re-enforced the sins of America that they already learned about
Those with high education it didn't work on because they knew all countries have skeletons in their closet.

introvertedobserver said:
Cause it's unconstitutional as fuck for natural born citizens.

States can (maybe) banish from their state and only their state, though almost all either have constitutional provisions banning it or appeals court decisions making it unconstitutional at the state level.

Immigrated citizens can loose their citizenship and be deported, but only for a small handful of offenses based around lying during the process of attaining citizenship.
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Per https://www.usa.gov/renounce-lose-citizenship, and it doesn't seem to seperate natural citizens (citizen since birth) and naturalized citizens.
You might lose your U.S. citizenship in specific cases, including if you:
 
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stupidpieceofshit said:
Per https://www.usa.gov/renounce-lose-citizenship, and it doesn't seem to seperate natural citizens (citizen since birth) and naturalized citizens.
You might lose your U.S. citizenship in specific cases, including if you:
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The only one that's really relevant here is committing an act of treason, and less than 30 people have ever been charged with treason.
 
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Vaclav said:
"Bodies" comes from the writings of Michel Foucault, a French postmodern scholar. Along with Jacques Derrida, his work created some of the foundation for critical theory.

A lot of his work was focused on power, the use of power, unequal power relationships, etc. He would write about different "bodies," both the human body and metaphorical bodies. Like he'd write about "the power of the state impressed on the body" and later talk about the "growth of the body politic."

The postmodern critical theory scholars inspired by Foucault took up his terminology cargo cult style. They couldn't grasp his metaphorical style well enough to truly use it themselves, and instead just started sprinkling "bodies" throughout their papers.

Over time, the use of "bodies" in academic writing has evolved into referring to people as "bodies" in speech, which has taken on a purpose of its own separate from the Foucault fandom. Religious leaders find that people will more readily die for them if they teach them to view their bodies as "containers" or "vessels" which they will discard as their souls rise to heaven. The use of "bodies" seems to mirror this. It also makes it easier to abuse people in the way of the group's goals. That old lady defending her store isn't a person, she's an "oppressive white body" whose presence endangers black bodies.
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I love it when I sleep in, and when I wake up the smart kid already wrote my term paper for me. Thanks!

Adding on: the "bodies" terminology they've been using in the riots has two functions.

One is to reinforce the oppression narrative--even if a black person's mind is their own, their "body" remains trapped in white supremacy, in the form of their home neighborhood, their job, their poverty, their physical limitations, etc. This is where you get the "woke" adjective: to describe an awakened mind trapped within an oppressed body.

(The hippy and New Age movements told you to "free your mind"; intersectional progressives don't think that's good enough, the body is still trapped in reality. In fact, they don't want you to free your mind, they want you to free yourself from "white supremacist" thought patterns only. Once you do, you are expected to think exactly like they do.)

The second function is to enforce crowd behavior. I was riffing on Canetti's Crowds and Power, which is all about how a crowd takes on a psychology of its own distinct from the individual. If you convince people that logic, empathy, propriety, common sense, ethics, and other such mental constructs are less important than the state of your physical body, you can get them to do things that logical/ethical/etc people normally wouldn't consider doing. And that is what a crowd does, naturally, on its own.

In essence, they are using ideology to reinforce crowd behavior, instead of encouraging individual initiative. It's why they chant the same things, endlessly. Why everything is couched in terms of collective action and solidarity. Why they dress the same and rarely use names. The body follows commands of some mysterious mind, it does not think things through and act on its own. They have designed their movement as a collective of bodies, not of minds.

(Canetti writes that people who exhibit individual thought while within a crowd become noticed and are hated as "little traitors". We got a perfect demonstration of that last night. An individual's reluctance threatens the cohesion of the crowd, and cannot be tolerated.)

I wasn't kidding when I said this is Marxist materialism shot through with secular guilt. Strip individuality away and you are left with the class, in classic Marxist analysis. Strip away the mind and you are left with the body. Why should I strip these things away? Because you are guilty, either personally or as a class, of the sin of racism. Your guilt demands penance, and since your mind's penance is not enough, your body must serve "justice" as well.
 
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WonderWino said:
....are these people stupid? like as in literally mentally defective? if anybody tries to get anywhere near the white house in a tank, let alone in a tank operated by rioters who have been designated literal domestic terrorists they will be fired on and flat out killed right then and there. with extreme prejudice. do they think the military doesn't have anti tank weaponry?
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Don't correct the enemy when they make a mistake.
 
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Puff said:
Note that if they try to roll a tank into the White House there WILL be videos of it getting Javlined or whatever man portable missile we use now.
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I'm guessing they won't be able to even start it. That kraut that promised to help them will be paralyzed by fear the moment he lays eyes on his ancestral enemy, the T-34.
 
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>be secret service member
>yankee doodle white
>you were the best with javelin shots
>asked to fire a live one in dc if a tank full of terrorist shows up
>you start doing stunts
>day of the tank arrives
>backflip while getting a direct hit
>land on top of the White House with out stepping on the eagle eggs
 
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LMFAOForgotPw said:
>be secret service member
>yankee doodle white
>you were the best with javelin shots
>asked to fire a live one in dc if a tank full of terrorist shows up
>you start doing stunts
>day of the tank arrives
>backflip while getting a direct hit
>land on top of the White House with out stepping on the eagle eggs
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Somewhere, there is a highly trained 2-man team with a very niche skill that is very disappointed right now.

They still have hopes for Nov 4th though.
 
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The idea of one of these soys trying to drive a T-34 is hilarious. The T-34 was notorious for the amount of strength it took to drive:
Driving a T-34 was a very demanding task physically. Drivers would get utterly exhausted during marches, and one study noted that they lost weight while driving (I suppose they couldn’t build muscles on their diet).

Pedals and levers required that the driver apply very high pressure (30 - 60 kg or 65-135 pounds) on them. If they jammed—and they often did, as the gearbox was more than three meters (10 feet) away from the driver, and the actuators were complex and weak—the strength required to unjam them was insane.

Since the gear shift levers required the operator to release the mechanism with a grip, it would seem to be difficult to get a hammer into this. Drivers did help gear-shifting by pushing with their knee or the bow-gunner lending a hand, though.
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