Jun 5, 2020

 

Jun 5, 2020

I don't see anything wrong with posting it if you are doing something. I personally wouldn't post it even if asked. I would let that person know how I actually contributed to the cause. You shouldn't have to post something on social media that doesn't do anything. Some people put that up just to get likes for themselves

 

Jun 5, 2020

I think it’s gotten to the point where you need to choose a side

 

Jun 4, 2020

He really shows up once a month or whatever just to argue for a few posts, get banned and then has returned like 50 times to do it again? Wonder wtf his attachment is to this place.

 

Jun 4, 2020

I grew up 5 minutes from this police station. In the 90s, SFPD established a g--- task force due to the rising crime rates at the time. These task forces were cruel as h---, harassing browns kids every day going to & from school, even elementary schoolers. I remember my friends & I getting stopped all the d--- time, them searching our backpacks, spilling everything out on the sidewalk. All the kids who experienced that growing up in SF in the 90s/early 00s are now adults. Made marching to this s-----y institution that much better today. Protest was almost entirely peaceful. A couple water bottles thrown but police didn’t react much at all. Curfew was 8pm so I’m sure they’ll be more tension tonight.

 

Jun 3, 2020

Big W today friends

 

Jun 2, 2020

First one is comedy gold not gonna lie lol

 

Jun 2, 2020

who's interested in that as a standard, though? i don't know that your repeated claims that i'm lacking "nuance" really square with using "the movement isn't always 100% pure" as a criticism.

maybe because, as you keep saying, this is an eminem message board, it's unfair to extrapolate the focus your posts on here to the totality of your views on things. but there are millions of americans, including virtually everyone in positions of power within government and law enforcement and tv news, who care/talk about things like a playground burning or a footlocker being robbed incessantly, to the exclusion of nearly everything else. you will get cursory "what happened was tragic" prefaces, but nothing beyond.

is this reasonable? the police have killed an unarmed black man at the protest over them killing another unarmed black man. people are losing eyes and in comas. the breona taylor killing is the kind of thing that most americans think only happens in spy movies. how are these things not the focus––and how do they not create enough urgency to push beyond whatever quibbles you have about tactics? the kinds of people who say "x distracts from y" are often the only ones talking about x.

there are a number of reasons that activists/organizers do not go on tv and apologize/hand wring about things like the playground. think about it:

1. no one is ordering these actions, protest is always decentralized to a degree when it reaches a certain size

2. you know this from, like, the al franken thing: fixating on something and bending over backward to atone only increases scrutiny, does not eliminate it, because the people who are obsessing over it are often not doing so in good faith to begin with

3. again, because the millions of people who hate these protests know, these things generate a TON of news coverage. it is always reasonable to suspect undesirable property damage could be intentional sabotage. am i allowed to see the "nuance" in the boston police dropping piles of loose bricks near windows and sending undercover cops in to agitate crowds?

i'm not saying that you have to agree with anything i'm saying, but i do wish you would at least accept that there are extremely smart and decent people on the other side who have thought through all these things to the same degree that you have. there's no need to cast everybody as, like, mouth-breathing zealots, as i often feel you have in this thread, and i think you can understand that on some level it's just a huge bummer to have people keep harping on this stuff while folks are getting murdered. idk, i'm actually done after this post

 

Jun 2, 2020

@WPG arrested.

but @Grimace still has not provided a live stream.
time to step up

 

Jun 2, 2020

I participated in the protests in downtown Little Rock. I recorded a 20 minute video of people speaking and the crowd on my Facebook if anyone wants to see that. We did the peaceful protest

 

Jun 1, 2020

Where tf is Kanye lmao

 

Jun 1, 2020

that pic is real as far as I know(cop pointing gun at kid), I saw the photographer tweet it out earlier today and say he's most proud of this photo of all the ones he's taken, can't for the life of me find the original tweet now but I'll keep trying.

I don't see what's 'clearly fake' about it, but whatever. never said anything about the gun being pointed directly at the kid, I assume (and did from the start) that he was aiming it towards someone else or the crowd as a whole.

 

Jun 1, 2020

That doesn’t rationalize a thing.

 

Jun 1, 2020

I'm good with wiping out half the humans