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

[ColtWalker1847]

Well uh

Eddie

Chicago Police are giving out tickets in Downtown

www.facebook.com

We have something happening in Chicago.

It involves or involves a lot of mexican flags and driving cars on the sidewalk, I'm unclear of the specifics beyond that.

Edit: Mexican independence day parade substitute according to twitter. https://twitter.com/LatinoEnviro/status/1305739765942083585

Mexican Independence Day is the 16th. (Cinco de Mayo is them celebrating beating the French)

Mebbe getting festivities started early?

 

[HarblMcDavid]

The part I started watching from there are none on the sidewalk now, just a car parade. A Mexican/Hispanic car parade of some sort? No idea if it will lead to anything in particular but apparently comments are saying police are handing out tickets somewhere.

Yeah as soon as I posted it the sidewalk speeding stopped because of course it did. I think the cops might have objected to speeding which did appear to be happening sidewalk driving aside.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Don't let the sensationalized news color your perception of reality too much, k? Most everyone is tired of the divisiveness and just want to get along and live our lives. Only a tiny minority is getting all worked up over this shit.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

If you say so. Just sayin' what I see out there in meatspace.

The internet is aflame but it isn't really representative of real life.

 

[Jarolleon]

If you say so. Just sayin' what I see out there in meatspace.

The internet is aflame but it isn't really representative of real life.

Real life is burning so hot that the smoke blots out the sun in the suburbs of Vancouver. But I guess Canada doesn't need subduing, because the closest thing we got to Burn Loot Murder was some Indians blocking a few roads over a pipeline 6 months ago.
Edit: At least my company is small enough to not be holding seminars pushing BLM shit, I did overhear the lone black guy at the company (does finance and sounds Carribean so possibly atypical) saying "Black Lives Matter is not for us anymore, it's been hijacked" on a phone conversation a month ago.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

If you say so. Just sayin' what I see out there in meatspace.

The internet is aflame but it isn't really representative of real life.

I know what I see out there in meatspace. People think BLM is right. Businesses praise BLM. Everyone's workplaces are holding social justice seminars and everything. You either buy into the BLM, anti-Trump stuff at some level or your risk losing your job and worse.

I've never seen this coordinated a propaganda push in my life, This is beyond fucked up.

The internet isn't aflame. The internet is just a big walmart now, and it will never return to the 1.0 days.

We're seeing the new version of the religious right, but it's the left's turn, and however long they last it's gonna be a good chunk of your lifetime.

 

[Standardized Profile]

If you say so. Just sayin' what I see out there in meatspace.

The internet is aflame but it isn't really representative of real life.

The people who are aflame on the internet, and the people who are polite and cordial in real life, are often the very same people.

 

[billydero]

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Off topic - God, I hate her stage name. It’s like a lame gag from “Idiocracy”.

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“Aw, man, how come cops an’ white people always thinkin’ we hostile and wanna commit crimes and shit? Brotha’ walkin’ round strapped don’ mean nothin, where you get the idea we’s dangerous and violent an shit? Is it my upturned jaw an ‘I be potent’ pose?”

I know what I see out there in meatspace. People think BLM is right. Businesses praise BLM. Everyone's workplaces are holding social justice seminars and everything. You either buy into the BLM, anti-Trump stuff at some level or your risk losing your job and worse.

I've never seen this coordinated a propaganda push in my life, This is beyond fucked up.

The internet isn't aflame. The internet is just a big walmart now, and it will never return to the 1.0 days.

We're seeing the new version of the religious right, but it's the left's turn, and however long they last it's gonna be a good chunk of your lifetime.

One of my coworkers and I spoke today and neither of us can say anything at work anymore. Our workplace has gone full woke and every day is another HR seminar on Changing Society or whatever. The coworker lives downtown and crime has skyrocketed, and when he mentioned that in passing in a Zoom meeting HR was Johnny on the spot after to tell him to ‘rethink before he says such as the implications are possibly racist’.

 

[Humble Shitpost Merchant]

The protests seem to be losing steam.
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It's impressive how quickly they fold the moment a sympathetic DA isn't sucking them off. This shit isn't a revolution, it's a temper tantrum. They fold the moment a city stops coddling them.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

The people who are aflame on the internet, and the people who are polite and cordial in real life, are often the very same people.

Yup. People do all sorts of stuff online that they wouldn't irl.

Like, god forbid, shitpost.

Point is it's just stupid words made even stupider because things are stupid now. But in the outside, where we have to get along, things are different.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

Trump using Portland DA Mike Schmidt's endorsement of Biden as an attack is one of the more hilarious parts of the whole BLM/antifa arc of 2020. Did nobody realize this would be a dumb move for the Biden campaign? I'm honestly shocked at how it seems his entire core staff is millennials from Ivies who worked a few years in DC. Between this, their tech fuckup, and their PR guy melting down on Bret Baier's show, it makes me think they're actually more incompetent than evil.

 

[Bartleby]

I know what I see out there in meatspace. People think BLM is right.

You're right about the other points, but how do you know that "people" think BLM is right? That's a pretty vague way of putting it, would appreciate if you can elaborate on this- I'm going to assume you mean that most people that you've talked to, have told you as much. Though even that might not mean much if you asked them about it yourself since they'd likely be intimidated to say they think it's right, even if you asked in a neutral tone. Regardless, I don't get the point of being a doomer about it in general- if the world really is hopelessly fucked for the rest of your life, then might as well enjoy the show, since from the way you describe it, what else is there to do? It's been a while now since you started doomposting too (almost 4 months now iirc). Being a doomer in the end times just seems boring.

 

[Humble Shitpost Merchant]

All I know is that BLM has failed in its primary objective of police reform. Anyone who tries to draw on an officer is going to get gunned down, simply because you can't order a policeman to just let the other guy kill him. On the same day we had the riots in Lancaster, we had three separate police involved shootings elsewhere in the country. And most people did not bat a fucking eye. Donald Trump and Joe Biden are now campaigning against each other to be more pro Law and Order than the other guy, with Biden backpedaling furiously from defunding and instead promising Law Enforcement more money. While BLM will still be useful as a brand and a way to sell t-shirts, BLM and Antifa's objective for either abolishing or defunding the police is dead in the water. While some individual cities have a chance at going full retard, a lot of these city councils are now walking back their big plans with their tails now tucked firmly behind their legs.

And look at this shit.



There's not going to be a revolution or a civil war. Not when these people crumple the moment a DA is fed up with their horseshit. It's possible the White House Siege or whatever might reinvigorate things, but given that even the left is skeptical of it and the Feds would come down on them like a ton of bricks if they try, well.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

You're right about the other points, but how do you know that "people" think BLM is right? That's a pretty vague way of putting it, would appreciate if you can elaborate on this- I'm going to assume you mean that most people that you've talked to, have told you as much.

Talking, but I rarely ask. I overhear, usually they even bring it up. Damn near everyone is into this. Okay, that's hyperbole, but the number of people into this shit is very large.

Though even that might not mean much if you asked them about it yourself since they'd likely be intimidated to say they think it's right, even if you asked in a neutral tone.

We all know this means being afraid to say they're against BLM, not for it. The very fact that you'd expect someone to be too afraid to speak up against it in public already shows they're willing the war of public perception. This only cuts one way.

Regardless, I don't get the point of being a doomer about it in general- if the world really is hopelessly fucked for the rest of your life, then might as well enjoy the show, since from the way you describe it, what else is there to do? It's been a a while now since you started doomposting too (almost 4 months now iirc). Being a doomer in the end times just seems boring.

I'm taking some perverse pleasure from it, but it's not fun having friendships and relationships get destroyed, being unable to be friends with most people who share my interests, knowing that I have to balance being myself with whether I want to be employable in the future, so on and so forth. This shit has infected the arts, it's infecting the sciences, the world around is a world of delusional lies, it's like watching Scientology start to grip the nation.

I've already got my "escape plan" set so I'm not worried about my health or anything. I'm gonna just sort of drop out of the rat race. It just sort of sucks that I can think of so much better of the world than what it is now. This isn't about me, I know many people on KF feel the same. It's part of why we are here, we can't post elsewhere or say this shit in real life, even the tame and not the alt-right shit..

You ask why be a doomer, I ask why not? Everything is going to suffer, from the sciences to the arts. People are fucking crazy, especially Millennials. Everything is just shit. I mean, sure, I enjoy the chaos, but I really don't want to live in this kind of culture.

 

[JohnnyG]

I wouldn't say that exactly. Saving and making investments is what gives lenders the capital to fund that growth and expansion. Stashing your money in an IRA is just as good (if not better) for the economy or "system" as it were than buying a bunch of frivolous shit.

Living within your means is a sensible way of going about things on a personal level. Frankly, I don't think the wider economy gives a damn. It benefits from people taking either strategy.

Though I am one of those no loans, no credit cards, save and pay with cash weirdos so my views might be a bit skewed by it.

If you're investing in startups or at the IPO, sure you're providing the company growth capital. Investing in your IRA/401k on the secondary market doesn't send money to the company (higher market cap can let them buy talent with equity vs. cash, or borrow against it, but this is somewhat indirect).

In a healthy economy this is ok. The average worker doesn't have the capital or risk tolerance to invest in early stage companies, so he goes into more mature companies with less risk but a bit less growth, builds a nest egg, and eventually spends down that savings in retirement. For the overleveraged, infini-deficit Keynesian crowd, this is the "paradox of thrift" that must be discouraged by constantly devaluing the currency.

This is why they love importing populations with high time preferences and a desire for the trappings of wealth: instead of buying things that last, when needed, they'll take on as much debt as they can to finance a new $1200 iphone every year.

 

[CarlosDanger]

It's impressive how quickly they fold the moment a sympathetic DA isn't sucking them off. This shit isn't a revolution, it's a temper tantrum. They fold the moment a city stops coddling them.

Like going from a parent that gives you a reward for shitting on the floor, to the uncle that rubs your nose in it and calls you a retard.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Yup. People do all sorts of stuff online that they wouldn't irl.

Like, god forbid, shitpost.

Point is it's just stupid words made even stupider because things are stupid now. But in the outside, where we have to get along, things are different.

It's not just words on the internet. It's voting. It's financial support. It's holding students' degrees hostage unless they assent to indoctrination. It's rewriting corporate policies. It's deciding who should get a job, or be allowed to go to school. It's a domestic terrorist organization that can seemingly deploy direct action cadres to random podunk towns within hours of an exploitable incident. These are real people IRL, not shitposting on the internet. And they, too, will tell you "It's a crazy year" and change the subject.

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

I was watching a British horror movie from the 60's which had a bunch of British cops chasing a murderer with enhanced strength. They had, like, a dozen cops tottering after this guy like the Keystone cops. They capture the guy, but he keeps escaping and it's at that point when I start to wonder "Why aren't they shooting the guy?" If this were happening in America, this guy would be so full of lead right now that you could tie a rope around his neck, throw him in a lake and use him as an anchor. And that's when I realized "These idiot cops don't HAVE guns." And as much as these tea-chuggers like to portray themselves as civilized humans who wouldn't deign to use a weapon capable of killing their quarry, they just look like a bunch of bleeding heart nitwits who'd gladly let good people (and other cops) die for the chance to smugly look down their nose at the U.S.

Also, Australia (the UK's retarded backwater cousin) is currently turning into some kind of clockwork orange dystopia. But no, it's the GUNS that are evil, not the government. No. Goverments can NEVER turn evil. Why aren't you Yanks throwing away the only things that are preventing the BLM mob from burning down your homes? Why don't you just submit to the government that's already demonstrated that it hates you and wants you dead already? Stupid yanks!

Brits cosplaying as civilized people is Monty Python skit material if you remember what they did in Kenya. And India. And every other country on the planet pretty much.

If your source of income is providing "protection" from others like you, then it's in your interest to disarm the peasants. You don't want them to cut your revenue neither to be able to hurt you when they rebel.

Australians don't have better things to do than handicap themselves? Can't they just nuke all these mutant spiders already? Maybe they ought to make Cleve Blakemoore president?

 

[Bartleby]

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Interesting. I'm curious how many people you've heard bring up support for BLM, more specifically the riots (since it's possible to agree with BLM but blame the Democrats for blacks being in that situation to begin with), and if you have a rough estimate of the number of people who've told you that, compared to those that don't. Though it might not mean much anyway depending on where you live, which obviously is powerleveling so I'll just leave it at that (iirc you said you live in a blue pocket in a red state, so it doesn't seem to be too significant to me in terms of national opinion).

Also I get what you mean with relationships, having gone through that years ago. It seems to be a common theme in this thread, people who were once leftists realising that not only has the left left them, but some of their friends and family too. I don't really have any advice other than look for relationships with people on the right (or at least right-leaning), who are likelier in these times to not pick their beliefs over you. I'm only suggesting this since you seem to not want to get along with anyone on the right, and that just seems like a way to make yourself more miserable imo. Otherwise I'd just be repeating what I said before- if you insist on the world not being salvageable, then might as well take the clownpill rather than the blackpill.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

We're fucked as a nation, aren't we?

Word salad. Fucking what with the word salad?

Trying to translate the word salad screenshot @Tathagata posted into English seems to boil down to: "University of Chicago believes Black Lives Matter. So, we encourage require any incoming graduate students in English to be part of our Black Studies program for this academic year. All others need not apply."

I have no idea if this would be legal at a public university that receives Federal money, but I'm sure the University or its English department can spin the decision to only allow grad students in English pursue Black Studies as a necessity or something that promotes (what they believe is much-needed) diversity.

Regardless, this gives credence to the idea that universities have long ago stopped being places where students exchanged, discussed, and debated opposing opinions and viewpoints and any impact they had on their own world views. Now, universities seem to be little more than facilities for advanced indoctrination.

Edit: Tried looking them up on google maps. About 10-15 minutes away. Also is it normal for cities to just have streets named after numbers. I swear it goes up to at least 125th street. Did they just run out of names and get lazy?

In many older cities, streets with ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, etc.) for names were common as a way to easily let pepole know how far they were from a certain area of the city such as a downtown. For example, 5th street might be five blocks away from either downtown or the main road through the city.
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Glad to see that Lancaster didn't have too much in the way of violence tonight. Let's hope it stays that way and all Kiwis in the area stay safe.