Best Posts: America is burning

  1. Oldboy
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    Jun 1, 2020
    Probably lying about all of this
     
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  2. Tone Riggz
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    Tone Riggz There's No Cure For Being A C*nt

    May 31, 2020
    The problem with looting places like Target is that they’re destroying places where the elderly and disabled get their food/meds/household supplies. Looters aren’t thinking about the most vulnerable members of the community. Also, while I despise resellers, looting sneaker shops is a surefire way to get people turned off about the protests. I saw people in Jordan’s and Yeezys stealing Jordan’s and Yeezys.

    I’ve seen police brutality cases my whole life. I remember Baez, Louima, Diallo, Bell and of course Garner. And what I continue to see is the same cycle repeating. Cops k--- someone, Justice isn’t served immediately, people start protesting, protests start turning violent either because of the cops or protestors, looting, then the interest starts dying down until a new case starts it over again. It’s a tired cycle of events. Liberal Whites need to also look in the mirror- if they’re gentrifying neighborhoods, attending protests isn’t going to wash away that sin.
     
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  3. Boos
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    Boos Nova Nation

    May 31, 2020
    I’m not trying to sound like a dickhead when I say this because generally I like discussing s--- with you on here, but it’s just hard for you to understand things in American culture as a person not from here. You’re looking at things through a lens of your country, and things are a bit more f----- up here when it comes to race and police due to our long history of racism.

    edit: and I know this post sounds super f---ing pretentious and I hate it.
     
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  4. Alchemist34
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    Alchemist34 DO MY HEAD

    May 31, 2020
    Some stuff is hard to judge in real time with each little event that happens throughout history because history, events and changes occur over many decades and centuries even more. If you looked at European history (of which USA is a product of) you could trace back chains of events linked to each other that form the present day going back some 2500 years ago. The longest time Europeans haven’t been consistently at war with each other is like 75 years...and that’s being extremely generous by not include the Balkan s--- from the 90s as “European”.

    People are used to the realities of the times they live in. Witnessing a witch or heretic burning at the stake might traumatise most Europeans today but 2 or 3 centuries ago wouldn’t even phase them.

    USA is only like 240 something years old now. Before that it was british colonies for like 170 years. African slaves have been brought in NA since the colonies and into independence USA (I believe?) for about 400 years. Seeing slaves in their conditions being sold in cages, or lynched or burned alive (which happened too btw) would shock us now (h---, might even shock some “modern” racists), but back then it was just a normal part of life people were brought into raised into believing was normal.

    Even if you were against it and thought “ya know, that’s kinda mean ain’t it?”, you wouldn’t be shocked by it if you were around back then. 3-4 centuries of slavery and brutality and racism so dehumanising is impossible to undo by simply “abolishing slavery” as a law some mere 150 years ago. Racism, whether intentional, inadvertent or inherent doesn’t just disappear from society simply because a law passes. Obviously, since lynching was still frequent til the 1930s and there was segregation til the f---ing 60s??? It wasn’t that “shocking” to see those things happening back in those relatively recent times either. even though blacks had already technically been “free” since 1865

    1865 is only recent history if you consider the WHOLE of history and how societies develop and change. Segregation ending in the 60s is like f---ing yesterday in the grand scale of things. Do you think racism (which is a very complex thing and not always conscious or obvious) just f----- off and disappeared into thin air after the civil rights act of 64 or whatever?

    f--- no. And if one of you fa----s mention that Obama was black I swear to god...of course today is progress to the 1600-1800s, I guess? Congrats?

    And who knows about these protests, like I mentioned earlier, random, or seemingly at the time, unintentional or unrelated events (often violent, assassinations, massacres, revolution, rebellions, even non violent things) in history spanning a few or many centuries turned out to be a gradual work in progress to big changes, social or otherwise.

    so yeah maybe history will see the LA and every race riot after that as related precursors to the step towards a greater good and be absolutely revolted at us (or more specifically, you, white Americans, shame on you cucks) for just reacting with “oh my gosh that’s awful, we should do something about that. However, looting is a no-no” at all these cases of cops killing blacks like this then and going about your day. Just like we look at those barbarians of every century in the past

    Or maybe not, who the f--- knows. I personally see those germanic neanderthals who looted and sacked Rome as barbaric f---s. The glorious Empire should’ve slaughtered them all when they had the chance and we wouldn’t have had to deal with that whole bs of the 20th century
     
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  5. Oldboy
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    May 31, 2020
    My n----- kon went through 50 pages like “excuse me and miss me with that noise” ignoring all our arguments and just dropping news and updates
     
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  6. Worm
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    Worm Big Perm Big Worm

    May 30, 2020
    they should have to get a degree. I hate that most jobs you need a degree for, mine for instance has nothing to do with what I actually do, but I wouldn't have had a career without one. But for cops they should have mandatory degrees. That doesn't fix the problem though. Some people educated or not are just pieces of s---. Even with the strictest training you'll have assholes. Plus no one wants to be a cop now. They get paid s--- and everyone treats them like s---. You have to be dumb or really want that 20 year pension to put up with s--- just to retire early
     
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  7. Worm
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    Worm Big Perm Big Worm

    May 30, 2020
    I kinda feel bad. He was supposed to leave that bow to Trent in his will
     
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  8. Boos
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    Boos Nova Nation

    May 30, 2020
    Nah. Cops are f---ing losers. They expect you to do the hokey pokey and turn all around just because they’re in a position of power. If you don’t comply, they f--- you. I’ve been cited numerous times while my friends got away with the same s--- just because I’ve told them to their faces they’re f---ing losers, and didn’t listen to their ridiculous orders. I’d probably be severely injured or dead if I was black and treated those pieces of s--- the way I do whenever I encounter them.
     
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  9. Slyk
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    Slyk God made a prophet.

    May 30, 2020
    i'm late to the party, but looting stores is one of the worst ways to make a statement. I’d much rather see someone burn a full store to the ground than to take items from it. If you’re stealing, you’re just using the chaos to personally benefit...and it’s nothing but theft.
     
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  10. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 29, 2020
    m8... you can’t begin to imagine the stupidity and persistence of american white supremacists. every time jmg logs off i assume he’s at a cross burning
     
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  11. M Solo
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    M Solo Fresh Outta London

    May 28, 2020

    I live in Denver. I appreciate the protests but full disclosure if I need to get to work and they're still in the middle of I-25 I'm going to run a protestor over.
     
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  12. lil uzi vert stan
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    May 28, 2020
    yes i know that. i was there (note: no doce, not saying I SAW IT happen)
    but my point stands. this isnt abstract to me. sports or no sports it breaks families

    why are you trying to hurt me today?
     
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  13. Oldboy
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    May 28, 2020
    Good try fbi
     
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  14. lil uzi vert stan
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    May 28, 2020
    i know where u live, what u do, about ur family and fiance, ur time in maine, ur brothers mental history, ur supposed relationship w joyner lucas. and i remember bistol. and i like, havent researched any of this u this was all volunteered to me.
     
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  15. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 28, 2020
    it's only an "odd take" if you think property is more important than peoples' lives. would you rather the community actually retaliate, and start killing cops?

    property is insured. it's an outlet. the jerk-off american creation myths are all about a protest that destroyed tons of property. to say nothing of the fact target barred protesters the night before when they needed milk to combat tear gas, to say nothing of the fact that you're tsk-tsking people takign things they need to use or sell during the worst economic downturn since the depression. spare me.
     
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  16. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 28, 2020
    sure, ask people to protest “respectfully,” that’s how things get done, right?
     
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  17. Guma
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    May 28, 2020
    That's what pisses me off using death of a man as an excuse to loot stuff.
     
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  18. Zeugma
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    Zeugma thugger thugger my brother

    May 28, 2020
    this is incredible.

    and I don't want to be shocking here, but in a sense, the world feels more meaningful when an actual nightmare and a literal braze follow the absurd murder of a man
     
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  19. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Aug 31, 2020
    He gave a bad oversimplified strawman argument hence why @cpt awesome WPG joint acc didn’t like the post even though we don’t see completely eye-to-eye on this either.

    it’s also totally a red herring. No where did I say “no one cares if a cop gets shot.” That literally had nothing to do with my point. This might be shocking to Michael but...police officers have to put themselves in dangerous situations at times & risk their lives. It’s part of their job. Unfortunately, that means some police officers will die in the line of duty. There’s no avoiding that. If we want to 100% ensure police safety, we’d have to either a) completely remove police from the streets or b) give police officers total discretion when to use lethal force (essentially fascism).
     
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  20. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Aug 30, 2020
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