BLM and Protesting

[Lexicus]

However, militias formed to aid national or community defense are totally legal and is a right that I think is completely under utilized by the people.

We agree on this one.

 

[tetley]

Black Lives Do Matter.

Solidarity with black people. I'm not buying the whole marxist BS.

 

[Kyriakos]

How dare you. Red Lives Matter.

 

[innonimatu]

How dare you. Red Lives Matter.

Could settle for anarchist lives?

 

[Kyriakos]

Could settle for anarchist lives?

There's no "only" before "Red Lives Matter" It can be taken to include the entire political spectrum.

 

[Crezth]

In Tujunga, Los Angeles, BLM protesters and fascist Trump militia face off.

LAPD shows up ready to do some violence.

They only policed the BLM side, attacking them and pushing them back several times while Trumpers cheered.

Trumpers also crossed the barriers to spray the BLM protesters with pepper spray and "COVID-19 concoctions." Cops never attacked them.

In case anyone needed to be reminded that "Libertarians" and conservatives are fundamentally anti-freedom.

 

[Berzerker]

those dastardly Libertarians and conservatives running Los Angeles wont let BLM seek reparations from white owned businesses

 

[Bugfatty300]

I know that libertarian has long since become a word for right-wing authoritarians who want to get high and own machine guns but it still tickles me to see them hiding behind their jackbooted thug enemies.

I guess licking boots is easier than eating them.

 

[Berzerker]

cuz the freedom to get high and own machine guns are the hallmarks of right wing authoritarianism

 

[Tee Kay]

Authoritarians usually aren't authoritarian against people they like

The test is always in how they treat those who are other

 

[Kyriakos]

Too bad no one could see this would turn into an x lives matter vs y lives matter, like black and blue in this case.
Oh wait, actually anyone could see this would happen. Still, somehow it didn't matter, so the chance to reform the pigs was lost.
Probably that too was just incompetence, not actual interests playing their usual game.

 

[Berzerker]

Authoritarians usually aren't authoritarian against people they like

The test is always in how they treat those who are other

Like how BLM is fine with looting white owned businesses and Libertarians want to imprison other people for getting high and owning machine guns?

BLM continually let their protests provide cover for criminals, it was inevitable people would respond to defend their neighborhoods.

 

[Gorbles]

Like how BLM is fine with looting white owned businesses and Libertarians want to imprison other people for getting high and owning machine guns?

BLM continually let their protests provide cover for criminals, it was inevitable people would respond to defend their neighborhoods.

[citation needed]

I like how we've gone from an evidenced situation where the police don't police impartially, to random claims about "BLM" as an entire movement. Again.

 

[Crezth]

Too bad no one could see this would turn into an x lives matter vs y lives matter, like black and blue in this case.
Oh wait, actually anyone could see this would happen. Still, somehow it didn't matter, so the chance to reform the pigs was lost.
Probably that too was just incompetence, not actual interests playing their usual game.

Imagine thinking there was a chance to "reform" the police in a country where 40% of the population still thinks Trump is A-OK, and probably wants to be out on the streets lynching people, and looking at this situation and tutting to the Blacks "well you really should have played nice."

Something about Europeans and their enlightened racism I guess.

"Black people could have prevented being shot by the police by being nicer to whites but nobody asked me," chimes hypothetical chronically online-man from thousands of miles away, stroking his stubble and wondering what it is that makes Africans so uppity.

 

[Zardnaar]

American cops are nuts.

 

[Arwon]

If this were a country that had foreign correspondent news stories about it, instead of being a multifacted subject with its own agency, it would now be at headlines like right wing pro government paramilitaries shoot protesters seeking rights for oppressed ethnic minority.

 

[Socrates99]

those dastardly Libertarians and conservatives running Los Angeles wont let BLM seek reparations from white owned businesses

If theres one thing I've learned about the police brutality protests this summer it's that the police are not controlled by elected officials like we thought they were. The people "running LA" likely have less to do with it than you'd think.

 

[Crezth]

If this were a country that had foreign correspondent news stories about it, instead of being a multifacted subject with its own agency, it would now be at headlines like right wing pro government paramilitaries shoot protesters seeking rights for oppressed ethnic minority.

If only the Black people understood that the pro-government fascist paramilitaries would be HELPING them abolish the police if only they didn’t make it about race! Now they have no choice but to slaughter every critic of the state that they see! It’s common sense, at least in Europe.

They should do the proper European thing when fascism appears: roll over and give them most of the continent without a fight.

 

[Traitorfish]

Authoritarians usually aren't authoritarian against people they like

I don't think that's entirely true. In the absence of accountable government, even regime loyalists are ultimately as vulnerable to state violence as anybody else. All they can do is put additional bodies between themselves and the state, they cannot truly shield themselves from it.

 

[Bugfatty300]

If this were a country that had foreign correspondent news stories about it, instead of being a multifacted subject with its own agency, it would now be at headlines like right wing pro government paramilitaries shoot protesters seeking rights for oppressed ethnic minority.

Looks like that lucky militiaman won a free dinner at Burger King.