America is burning

Started by Kon, May 28, 2020, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 30, 2020
    i did go out last night and will again tonight
     
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  2. Oldboy
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    May 30, 2020
    I love that u can literally track @Ordinary Joel current s80 use by what post his likes stopped at
     
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  3. Oldboy
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    Random. Wouldnt the destruction of gov buildings be better if the point is to trigger action? Looting stores seems to benefit the looter even if their primary reason is riot. Why not burn down schools and such?
     
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  4. Oldboy
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    Note that i still dont support any type of violence. Just trying to understand why ppl insist on looting
     
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  5. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 30, 2020
    in minneapolis they burned a charter school; in america charter schools are a pet project of well-off people and leech resources from the public school systems that serve most protesters and their kids.

    in america, the political sympathies of most people in power lie more with private businesses than with public-sector workers.

    it’s important to note here, i think, that target release a statement essentially condoning what happened to their store, so there’s no reason for anyone in this thread to be more in a huff about it than the company itself is.
     
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  6. Oldboy
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    I dont care about the store per say. I just dont like when people use something as an excuse to committ crimes. I dont like the stealing more than the stores or anything

    also yikes at the country caring more about private sectors than school
     
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  7. Chrollo
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    Chrollo

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    I mean... it's a riot. It might feel odd to you as someone who isn't affected and it's easy to judge those people. Right now it's madness, these protestors are rightfully angry and anarchy seems to be the only language the government understands. s--- I don't like stealing either but I know d--- well I would grab that new IPhone and some designer clothes if given the chance.
     
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  8. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    yes, america has extremely f----- up priorities! every elected leader who speaks after these things says something like “we need to protect property.... and life”

    i understand that the optics of stealing stuff are tricky for some people but i do think there are some things to keep in mind. one, this is a brutal recession that could get much worse. two, the wealth has become so unevenly distributed in this country that a lot of people, especially but not exclusively in poor neighborhoods, see these stores come in during waves of gentrification that make their lives materially harder. three, the media LOVES to sensationalize “looting”; late last night i decided to scan news coverage, and msnbc (supposedly a left-leaning channel) was doing this pearl-clutching bit on the los angeles protesters who were “looting local businesses,” and the footage was of people taking milk from a starbucks. a starbucks! one of the biggest corporate chains in the world.
     
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 30, 2020
    no but you can def discredit basically every RTJ song ever now lol
     
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  10. asvdawg
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    Nooooo ily Mike i was hoping I was wrong
     
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  11. Lucy
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    Lucy #1

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    "Obama bombed middle East to glass he's s---"

    "mm yess but ma Trump did more in airstrikes than Obama in 3 specific countries!! Here's 3 s----eating articles that Barely enforce my point at all!"
    Your articles are talking about hundreds of drone strikes dot dot dot
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy


    What a fucken dumb c----
     
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  12. Kon
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    Kon

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    crazy..
     
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    Antifa know how to mobilize, I give em that.
     
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  14. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    only a white supremacist would hear there’s a protest in minneapolis and figure st. paul is close enough

    on a serious note, this has been my point all along: everybody knows a huge group of americans will be against a protest that includes indiscriminate property damage, so that’s what white provocateurs will try to create. it’s why a crowd of community members burns down the precinct and the condo building framework and ransacks target, but why those same community members try to drive out the lone white guy torching autozone
     
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    Boos Nova Nation

    May 30, 2020
    She’s related to the Asian cop the was complicit in the murder as well smh
     
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  16. Kon
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    Kon

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    that last part of the tweet could set up a violent confrontation outside the white house tonight..
     
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  17. lil uzi vert stan
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    Why do you keep saying this? I literally have. Check the receipts gov

    And no I don’t throw hissy fits , don’t diminish me. You and your ilk remind me of the kid that spits at Bill Hader shouting “f---ing pig” in Superbad and gets smacked up lmaooo.
     
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    Lmao if u didn’t already think RTJ s----d idk what to tell u

    (@WPG def has lyrics to “close your eyes” tatted on his lower back)
     
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  19. Oldboy
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    No f---ing way that tweet is real. Not even jmg would tweet that
     
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  20. Oldboy
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    What gets me the most isnt the last part even. Its the “easy”

    how f---ing childish is this moron? He talks like he just sniped someone on call of duty. What the actual f---
     
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